1. Africans in America
For example, many young women choose female rap artists like Lil" Kim and Foxy Brown as there role models. ... It is odd that a black man can make an entire album talking about sex and society approves of it, but let a black female make one song on it and she is a "ho." ...
In this song he defends women in the face of abandonment, beating, rape, and government neglect. He makes a song with the same name as Maya's poem (Still I Rise). ... In another song he was talking about the changes that should be made in order to destroy the wall of racism in the society. ... As a rapper and movie star he lives what he described as "Thug Life" - a life of rebellion. ...
In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. With many instances of descriptive language, narrative techniques, and structural devices, he compares the coolness of himsel...