Creation #2- Poem

Yucky,green,stinky and hard,
Like the grinch's poop
I wouldn't eat it in a leotard,
I wouldn't eat it on a stoop.
I do not dip it in blue cheese
I do not have it with pb & jelly,
Contaminated with a disease,
That hurts my poor belly.
JEEZ,that taste is so bizarre,
I wouldn't even it it for a brand new car!
SO please don't mix it into my soup,
because trust me,i will look and snoop
So i hope you believe me when i say
I wouldn't eat it ANY single way!
OH Celery, Celery
Wont you please go away.

Creation #1-Rap

Listen up class and pay attention,
gonna rap for you today and we got a lot to mention
So let me get started about our suite,
we're all clean freaks so you know its always neat
Full of personality,needless to say
come kick it with us,we got jokes for days
Intergalactic,cause our vibes are outta space,
our flavor is beans cause were a different race


SO let me start with Katherine, her walk is mean,
hugs left and right when she comes up in the scene
You can tell she's Boricua by the way she speaks,
she's an educated lady but don't think she's a geek
She has dreams and aspirations,places to go
but she's in no rush she's takin' it slow
Flip the script on ya',in intro to acting
cant pay attention cause her butt is distracting


Suite 322,
you know how we do
Come to class,
we about to school you

Critique #8: There Are Bitches and Hoes

In Chapter 8 of Hip Hop Wars, talks about the use of the words "Bitch" and "Hoe" used by rappers to refer to women. She explained that because of rappers feeling free to call women by these names,in a sense, it gave way to other men calling women "bitches" and "hoes" and even women calling other women that. She also said that this shows how men feel superior to women in a sense because they see them as just someone they can get whatever they want from and then go on to call them hoes because of that. The terms bitch and hoe have become so normal in our present day society because more and more men call women these names and women have just gotten used to it so they don't demand the respect they deserve. Another reason why this seems more acceptable is because women themselves even call themselves bitches and hoes so it just forms a sense of normality around these words. In my opinion it has become so common for men and women to call women these belittling labels that most of the time women don't even feel offended anymore when in reality they should. Also,the fact that in many of the songs you hear now rappers are referring to women by these names does not help change the situation but only strengthens it because it is like an example to the public that makes listeners think its okay.

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imitation #2011: Kanye West,New Day

          And I'll never let my son have an ego
          He'll be nice to everyone, wherever we go

See, I just want him to have an easy life
Not like Yeezy life, just want him to be someone people like
Don't want him to be hated all the time judged
Don't be like your daddy that would never budge
And I'll never let him ever hit a strip club
I learned the hard way, that ain't the place to get love

The lines in this verse by Kanye West are an example of a confessional because he's talking about what type of life he would want for his future son. I feel like its a very personal verse because he's reflecting on his own life and how other people think of him and he admits that he wants his son to be liked by people and have a better life than he does. Throughout this verse you can see every lines has end rhymes because the last words in each line rhyme with the next. The rhyme scheme in this verse is AA.BB,CC,DD. I'm not exactly sure who Kanye is speaking to because it just seems likes expressing his inner feelings about how people think of him. Another possibility is that he can be speaking to his son so in the future if he has a son,his son will be able to hear how his father planned for him to grow up in a better environment than his.

critique #2: Hip Hop Reflects Black Dysfunctional Ghetto Culture

In this chapter of Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose talks about how Hip Hop negatively portrays the black community. Many times in Hip Hop songs rappers describe where they come from and their lifestyles which generally don't tend to be good. Because of this,many people start to relate black people to the lifestyle many rappers rap about,such as bad neighborhoods full with drugs and violence. This poor reflection of black culture is what many people who do not support hip hop use to support their opposition to hip hop. A word directly related to this issue is "ghetto" which is what many people use to describe aspects of a dysfunctional black community. This draws a negative attention to the black community because rappers are publicly exposing the "ghettoes" in which they live in. In my opinion this makes it a lot harder for black people to get rid of that stereotypical image that is directly associated with them,simply for being black.

Imitation #2000: Kanye West,All Falls Down

"Then I spent 400 bucks on this
Just to be like nigga you ain't up on this!
And I can't even go to the grocery store
Without some ones thats clean and a shirt with a team
It seems we living the american dream
But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem
The prettiest people do the ugliest things
For the road to riches and diamond rings"

In these 8 lines of All Falls Down by Kanye West,Kanye is rapping about the struggles some people face to fit in to the higher social classes,specifically African Americans. Specifically in the first few lines he's talking about the pressure thats placed on him to go out dressed nicely even when hes just going to the grocery store. I feel that the message hes trying to get across is how much African Americans have to overcompensate just to be respected. In line 5 Kanye West alludes to the well known term "the American dream" and says that it only seems like they're reaching that goal but in reality they're struggling to keep up.I lines 1 &2,4&5, and 7&8 there are examples on end line rhymes because the words at the end of those pair of lines all rhyme. Also even though line 7 is straight forward, in my opinion it is one of the most captivating lines because it shows that external beauty means nothing when you're a bad person on the inside. I feel as if Kanye is basically saying that even the prettiest people who are idolized to really ugly (bad) things. I believe Kanye is speaking to everyone and isn't directing his song to anyone in specific. I believe this verse is both a confessional and a critique because hes talking about the struggles he faces and is also critiquing those same struggles society places on African Americans to fit in.