Author: Joan Morgan
Date: 1999
Topic: Sexism in the Hip-Hop lyrics
Exigence: The misogyny of rap is bad in the black community it is stressed that it has to be confronted, as well as understood. That it would ascend in attending the pain that it both expresses and inflicts.
Intended audience: To those whom listen to Hip-Hop/Rap and ponder on the reasons why women are put down so often in the lyric.
Purpose: To stop sexism in lyrics, and inform others to understand the reasons behind modern rap/hip-hop music
Claim: Joan Morgan claims that because of oppressive behavior in the black community reflects in their music.
Evidence: " The leading cause of death among black men ages fifteen to twenty-four is homicide. The majority of them will die at the hands of other black men"(602).
Notorious B.I.G.'s debut album Ready to Die; emphasized on the urban soldier and living phat, the hustler's life journey. In "Everyday Struggle": I don't want to live no more / Sometimes I see death knockin' at my front door expresses his pain, regret and depression which led to to suicide in the end of the album.
Rhetorical Analysis
Writer's Strategy 1: Pathos
Writer's Strategy 2: Description as evidence
Writer's Strategy 3: Cause and effect
Reader effect 1: Morgan quotes lyrics to help understand better
Reader effect 2: She uses facts to show how much violence is in these people's lives
Reader effect 3: Personal experience as a black woman to give a different perspective on these issues that affect her life.
Response: Hip-hop/rap is freedom to express thoughts, ideas, anything can be said, nobody can limit us to express our emotions. If you listen carefully to the lyrics, rappers tell different stories in a single song it doesn't focus on one subject, it is different events put together that reflect there struggle or say a night in the presidential suite with nothing but bitches getting drunk. It is truly difficult to understand what they had to endure coming up and I can tell you that all have said fuck this bitch and fuck that ho. But they are not talking about every female as being that, they reflect back to incidents and talk about the women that made them feel that way and I am positive not every female has been with a rapper, although they could pretty much get any bad bitch that they want because of there status on high up in the industry they are; money talks. This is the new hip-hop culture, expressing anger and ignorance, cause the general audience can relate about a one night stand or the time they got hurt by a "bitch"(That is not always a female) or about making a scheme to make money double up and playing girls like a sport, shit, I know I do. Its freedom of expression, why try to limit it because a black feminist thought it was hurting her, it wont stop, this is a new Era, follow the slang..
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