Styles of Programming - Urban Hip Hop

Urban Hip Hop

Hip Hop is a culture that started in the 1970's in New York. The music is a mixture of rapping and DJing and is more commonly known as just 'rap'.

Examples of Hip Hop:

• The Notorious B.I.G - Juicy
  
• Jay Z - 99 Problems
  
• Kanye West - Through The Wire

 Hip Hop music can be found on radios such as Choice FM, BBC Radio 1Xtra and Kiss FM.

The target audience for my sequence below is people between the age of 15 and 35. It's mostly for males and anybody who is relaxed and likes well worded songs along with good beats.

Music Sequence:

1. Jay Z and Kanye West - Nigga's In Paris
2. The Dream feat. Pusha T - Dope Chick
3. Kid Cudi - Pursuit Of Happines
4. Jamie Foxx feat. Drake and Kanye West - Digital Girl
5. The Notorious B.I.G - Juicy
6. John Legend feat. Teyana Taylor - Bliss
7. Pharrell feat. Jay Z - Frontin'
8. Red Cafe feat. Ryan Leslie and Rick Ross - Fly Together
9. Kid Cudi - Creepers
10. Kanye West feat. Rihanna - All The Lights

My sequence is of interest to my target audience as it features 10 songs from some of the most popular and well known artists in Hip Hop. It features popular music that the audience will like and the sequence starts and finishes strongly. it has a mixture of new music with the popular material and there is a simliar vibe throughout. 

There are three 'extremely' popular songs in the sequence and I have paced them at either end and in the middle. I have included 3 new songs and each one is sandwiched between two popular songs as well as being scattered out in the sequence. I have limited the new material as too many new songs could make the audience disinterested as they like to be familiar with what they are hearing. That is why it's vital to have a balance between well known and new music.