This nauseating, migraine-inducing background noise would play behind every song, just enough to make you wonder if you are slipping into insanity through auditory hallucinations, or if some evil bastard actually added those sounds intentionally, just to make it uncomfortable; the sort of sound that would purge a cold sweat through the pores of your skin while standing half-naked in a blizzard. ... My musical soundtrack would include a mysterious lack of rap music, and I will explain that now: I find rap music to be the audible equivalent of dollar store beef jerky; filthy, cheap, nauseating, ...

• Word Count: 720
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eminem, a highly respected white rapper, grew up in poverty in a black community. ... However, his successes were not only based off his skills as a rapper, but credit his success to his race and to his record label's intended audience: the white consumer. ... This turns rappers and those who are true to the original culture of Hip-hop from prophets to profits. ... For example, in the documentary "Blacking Up: Hip Hop's remix of race and identity", rapper Vanilla Ice reveals that everything about his career was staged in order to become marketable towards the mainstream a...

• Word Count: 2033
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate