A Rhetorical Analysis Of Hip Hop Planet By James Mcbride

Hip-hop is important to millennial and generation z students because it is the type of music they grew up with. To them hip hop is more than drugs and violence but about learning to understand others stories and their own. I believe Hip Hop should be taught in our curriculum. In the article “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride shows how hip hop is worth listening to before you conform with all the preconceived notions . “I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I’d ever heard” (McBride 1). The first time McBride ever heard hip hop he thought it was meaningless and didn’t understand why people listened to it. McBride spent most of his life hating hip hop, but over the years as he became more informed he ended up changing his views on it. “Hip-hop culture is not mine yet. Yet I own it. Much of it I hate. Yet I love it, the good of it” (McBride 3). He learned the deeper meaning of hip hop it’s …show more content…
In the article “Rap Becomes a Valuable Tool in Language Preservation” by Shaun Tandon shows that rap is a universal language that has formed different ways people can communicate with one another. “The art form of rap is giving new lifeblood to their languages while reaching unexpected new audiences”(Tandon 1). Rap has influenced and changed the way people speak, it is now a way of communication for most people. The way people used to converse ceases to exist. Rap always has a story and meaning behind it. “With rap, if you have lyrics, you get to write much more, and if you have a story, you can get it very detailed” (Tandon 2). If you actually take the time to listen to the lyrics in different rap songs you will soon come to notice that rap has an important story to tell. The story can be something that someone went through even if its good or bad or an important message. Rap has definitely evolved how we speak over the past few decades from slang to the way we