Kanye West Jesus Walks West Rhetorical Analysis

Kanye West is a hip-hop recording artist and is notoriously known for his unique style of music. He left college in order to pursue his musical career. When he dropped his first album, “The College Dropout,” he rattled the hip hop industry by deviating from popular gangster and club music found in hip hop. In his own music, he is more concerned with the concept of religion, racism, family, and higher education. One noteworthy song that came out of that album was Jesus Walks. In this song, West utilizes biblical imagery, and a variety of rhetorical strategies to convey his argument about how the media should promote more music about religious empowerment, than rap songs that induces violence, drugs, and sex.
In Jesus, Walks West addresses a multitude of problems that can range from personal to a national crisis. At heart, this song is a spiritual jubilation despite it being composed in the key of E minor. West argues that Jesus "walks" or is there for all people even though some may have committed sins throughout their lifetime. West also uses the song as a platform to express his ideals on how the media tends to stray away from music that addresses religious beliefs while appropriating songs that embraces sex, drugs, and violence. West bases his song on his past experiences when he was having a hard time to get signed onto a record label. At the time many executives turned him …show more content…
West begins to climax to his argument by listing reasons why religious music should be aired on the radio. He rhymes, “I 'm just tryna say the way school need teachers/The way Kathie Lee needed Regis, that 's the way I need Jesus”(). By stressing the importance of teachers to schools and Regis to Kathie Lee he emphasizes the value of Jesus to himself. West then gets to his argument and does it in a technical fashion. He