Hip Hop and collaborating

The readings for this week were very interesting to me for multiple reasons. First, I am a huge Hip Hop and rap fan. Second, it made me think about all of the songs I know of that have samples from other artist. The first song I thought of was High Way 85 by Migos. In this song they sample a beat from the group NWA. Not only do they sample part of the beat but they also rap with the same flow that NWA used to rap it. This is only one song of many that has been sampled in the Hip Hop/Rap community. I find it really cool how in the rap community many of the songs created have parts or aspects that are sampled from other artist or music from the past. The other day I was listening to the song "Get Stupid" by Mac Dre. This song has a very catchy beat and is liked by many people. However the beat was not created by Mac Dre, it was made by Dr. Dre. in the song Mac says this "This beats poundin cutty whered you get it? Oh you didn't know dr dre did it". I found it really cool how he gave a shout out to the man who made the beat, so not all credit goes to him.

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Class Compettiton

We started class off today with watching the trailer for the movie Code that we watched before class. In this trailer we were refreshed on the ideas that the movie proposed. The main topic was the gender discrimination within the Computer Science field. "Women are coming into this business being sexually abused and being discriminated against because of their gender". This was a quote from a trailer that came from a women in a interview explaining more about the discrimination in Computer Science. After we talked about that video for a bit we then split up into separate groups in order to compete in a sort of Knowledge Bowl competition. I really liked this activity as I am a very competitive person and thought that it was a great way for me to learn and under stand the things that I do not already. I believe what really made this activity work were the different groups that were created within the class. Having many different groups composed of many different people really lets you hear lots of cool ideas or maybe someone will answer a question and the way the describe will make it click for you enabling you to learn the information.