In 2013 R&B songstress Jhene Aiko’s, album Souled Out debuted at number two on billboards. Within a week her album sold 70,000 units that would quickly rise in the weeks to follow. Jhene Aiko later becomes crowned by billboards as top R&B/Hip-Hop albums. With rapid rise in fame, she would go onto work with people like Drake, Big Sean, Omarion, and Chris Brown. Thus, building her ethos of being a well-known artist who today is receiving millions of views and streams from featured singles.
“For My Brother” by Jhene Aiko, expresses her feelings about her brother struggle to survive. Her intended audience is toward her brother. In the first stanza Aiko used personification as a metaphor to describe the unsureness. “Waves of sadness crashing against the …show more content…
You will find Aiko’s logos throughout the entire song as she struggles with accepting her brother sickness. In the middle of the song Aiko begins to realize that things happen for a reason. Even when it’s hard she still has to fight to make things right.
In the last stanza Aiko uses an allusion to tell her brother to tell the angels he is staying. This is where she starts to take a different approach to her logos. She knows her brother cannot physically talk to angels unless he has already passed away. Logically she knows this is not possible, but she still challenges this aspect in the stanza. Pleading with her brother, Aiko uses an analogy stating “I’ll never give up on you, so don’t give up on us;” as a way to get her brother to see that if she can be strong for the both of them so can he. Another flashback is used when Aiko makes a reference to “[…] a dream last night and everything was alright,” to persuade her brother to just keep fighting and then her dream would come