A Rhetorical Analysis Of Tennessee Williams 'Rap Music'

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Williams writes of how the rap music of today is very negative. In the first place, he explains that most of the well-known rappers are choosing to take the worst parts of humanity and make them seem as though they are the best parts of life. Then, instead of lifting up one another and giving words of encouragement, these singers are calling themselves and others the worst words created. In reality, they encourage females to be sexually open with as many partners as possible and to allow their main man treat them however he wishes. They are painting a lifestyle of drinking, drugs, gangs and thugs as the life that people should pursue, especially the young black man. Indeed, these songs, while catchy and often played, are so negative

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