Reppin' Your City Starts A Revolution

Everyone familiar with rap artist Wiz Khalifa knows how he prides himself in being from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His famous song "Black And Yellow" focuses on "repping" or representing his home town. A Top Hit on the Billboard's Hot 100 list, natives to Pittsburgh drew pride from this song, encouraging them to have extreme satisfaction in their city. 

 The song represents the colors of the city, as all of the sports teams and even the city flag are colored black and yellow.

 Wiz Khalifa's pride in his city continues on with the movement of "repping" your home. The controversial East and West rivalry is a prime example of the movement years before. However, the song Black and Yellow became the "anthem" for the Pittsburgh Steelers during the season in 2010 and continued on to be the anthem during Super Bowl XLV. On the contrary, Lil Wayne release his song "Green And Yellow" representing the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV. The idea of representing a team or city through music had created an ego-boost for the teams and players, as well as the fans. To think that a song could inspire so many people in an area to become more involved in their city pride is unbelievable in my opinion. As well as motivating listeners and fans, Wiz Khalifa's song Black and Yellow resulted in many parody videos with other rappers representing their cities colors. For example, The Game and Snoop Dogg collaborated on a song Purp and Yellow, representing Los Angeles, California and the LA Lakers.

Wiz Khalifa's song Black And Yellow started a movement spreading pride in ones city. As it grew in popularity, it started a revolution of city pride through the people across the United States during a time of depression.