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The Hate You Give Rhetorical Analysis

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Politically driven hip-hop songs often struggle to achieve popularity because American music consumers prefer music with easy accessibility. However, there are cases where politically driven songs race up the charts which parallel situations in the book “The Hate You Give”. Today hip-hop is the most popular genre in the world with trap rap and mumble rap as the most popular sub-genres. Most trap rap and mumble rap songs, do not have a strong political message, instead most focus on drugs, the rapper’s emotions, or the amount of money they want others to think they have. With less of a strong lyrical message in content, political substance in hip-hop is often in the shadows. Nevertheless, there are occasional cases when political songs, in …show more content…

Childish Gambino is musically influenced by fellow Atlanta rappers, The Migos, and used their musical flow. Migos use the triplet flow when they rap by saying three notes in one beat. In “Versace” by Migos, when they rap the word “Versace” it is a triplet. Other popular rappers like Drake, Chance the Rapper, and Kendrick Lamar use the triplet flow. Childish Gambino uses the triplet flow specifically when he says, “hundred bands, hundred bands, hundred bands, contraband, contraband, contraband”. When Gambino uses the flow, it entices a larger crowd of people to latch onto the song as the listener has already heard this flow before, increasing the song’s appeal. Childish Gambino‘s music video made shock waves throughout America with its graphic depiction of …show more content…

This misalignment of the song’s anti-racism message with Eminem’s audience resulted in low record sales. Eminem’s fans shied away from the single because it did not resonate with them, just like Hailey who denounced Starr’s Tumblr posts. Hailey refused to post the picture of Emmitt Till on Tumblr paralleling Eminem fans’ failure to embrace “White America”. Hailey’s refusal to share the photo of Emmitt Till was akin to Eminem’s fans refusal to embrace “White America”. Hailey, just like Eminem fans, were not sympathetic or receptive to the message in one case by refusing to share an image on social media and in another by not buying Eminem’s

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