Hip Hop Rhetorical Analysis

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In your essay, “Hip-Hop”, you express that hip-hop has a big effect on people. I understand that your nightmare of your daughter wanting to get married to a rapper made you write this essay. In your essay you state that “Hip-Hop culture is not mine, yet I own it, much of It I hate, I love it”. It seems that your purpose for writing this essay was to tell us the effect hip-hop has on us. Even though you don't like the sound of hip-hop you see the message in it. Your audience is anyone that is interested in hip-hop or people who don't understand the value of this genera and how it impacts our future. In your essay you had your nightmare about your daughter coming home and wanting to marry a thuggish rapper. Today how things are running that might

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