Teachers’ guidance to the youth plays a vital role to help them understand the real meaning of a hip-hop song. The impact of rap to the urban youth in not only from the ideas of resistance to the violent culture identified by race and class but also the liberation to the people stereotype to the people with colored skin. Giroux, argues that the education on Hip-hop music is very important to urban youth since it contains many messages with social knowledge. Different people interpret the messages in different ways that the information can be read as good or ill. Also, Hip-hop music and lyrics are the good education source to youth that it contains a lot of rhetorical devices, the special tone of a song and perspective (Morrell and Duncan-Andrade, …show more content…
As we can see in the song Express Yourself, in the part of the lyrics that Dr. Dre was talking about people did not express just follow the music he wrote. He was pointing out that people who merely followed the social trends and lost their original to express the truth themselves. Also, some of the lyrics show that a lot of African American chose the pathway for their life by following the society direction. The society at that time focused on the negative part of majority African American, and many of the black people lived in the environment full of criminals, drugs and sexual issues. However, it did not mean that people were living in the same environment that had to become the same kind people. People could choose a different way to express themselves. This song was not only meaningful to the black people at that time, it also an excellent example to teach the youth now since no matter how the ages change, a lot of young people are living with a staggering, unprecedented amount of uncertainty. Express yourself contains education meaning to the youth that to seek themselves not just merely follow other people tell them …show more content…
Dre and Ice Cube, and then the song enters into the first verse that was rap by Dr. Dre. Before entering the following each verse, there is a hook in between, and the hook is sampled from the classic 1971 song with the same name Express Yourself by Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band. The song by N.W.A. does not contain a basic element usually a song has – chorus. Instead of a chorus, the song uses a short hook to fill the gap between each verse. In addition, the song seems like a solo track by Dr. Dre since the whole song is only sung by one emcee. Compare to the other songs of the N.W.A., Express Yourself follows the intention of the lyric wants to call out the people to get back to the origin and be themselves, and the song also gets back the original of the hip-hop genre with one emcee solo track. Other songs of the N.W.A. mostly contains multiple emcees instead of primary