Prince EA, an award winning poet, hip-hop artist, and further education advocate has taken a stab at trying to 'make smart cool'.
Aimed at poverty stricken, inner-city youth. Prince EA aimed his 'Backwards Rap' at a younger generation with their values and ideals in a mixed up place, hoping to spark a yearning for knowledge in these troublesome children. By using hip-hop as an outlet for education versus say selling drugs, Prince EA is trying to inspire change in these ill-focused youth.
For poverty stricken individuals, further education is a concept becoming less and less obtainable.
The video starts with lyrics mimicking stereotypical hip-hop lyrics, talking about "Being on the block", etc. By using this style of hip-hop, he catches the precise audience.
By just watching the video, it's impossible to tell the credibility of the rhetor, but upon further research you can find tidbits of information pertaining to Prince EA's past and can see he's spent years acting in the way of the crowd he's trying to reach.
He speaks of hardship, which is a concept virtually all of the audience can relate to, creating a direct link with their emotions.
I really liked short and concise your blog post was, it was straight to the point and you made an interesting narrative of the assignment. I really liked how you explained who Prince EA is and where he comes from as it made me want to read through the entire post from just the first few lines.
ReplyDeleteAs Luke notes, the clarity of your post is wonderful. It's also really good that you've broken your analysis into smaller paragraphs with spaces between them instead of lumping it all together. This makes the reading easier on your audience.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of the Aristotelian analysis, you could be more direct about WHO his audience is (both primary and secondary) along with addressing the Logos a bit more, too. Finally, including the video or a link to it would be helpful!
In short, this is a solid first post, and it makes me excited to see the rest of your posts this semester.
I enjoyed reading your post. I have no idea who Prince EA is but from your post I got quite a good idea about his motivation and project. I would have like to see the video you watched.
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