...ocean of material prosperity." By saying this, Doctor King was able to touch the heart of the white community by making them realize how the life of a black was and by making them dislike their actions while at the same time Doctor King was able to reach inside the heart of the black community as well by demonstrating a good use of rhetoric in his speech by touching the heart of two different races at one. As his speech "I have a dream" continues, Doctor King, states that the Negroes must conduct their struggle " on the high plane of dignity and discipline" and must not allow their "creative protest to degenerate into physical violence." Doctor King understood the power of rhetoric and knew how to handle that power. Something that Niggaz Wit Attitudes did not understand. The American hip hop group from Compton, California was known as N.W.A. were considered one of the greatest and most influential groups in the history of hip-hop. The group N.W.A., as well as Doctor Martin Luther king, used rhetoric to connect with their audience. Unfortunately, it is more than impossible to compare Martin Luther king a professional with some gang bangers with low self-steam that only persuade people to be violent at the protest. Martin Luther King uses rhetoric by touching the heart of his followers by making his audience no longer hate Negroes and instead hate racism. In another hand, the N.W.A. only persuade people to hate other people by provoking violent protest....
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...N.W.A was an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes an American hip hop group in Los Angeles California. The group started in 1986 the original members of this group were Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, DJ Yella, The D.O.C., and Arabian Prince. DJ Yella and MC joined later with Arabian Prince and dropped out a little before the official release of Straight Outta Compton. Jerry Heller was an American music manager and businessman. He was best known for being the manager of N.W.A. The record labels that N.W.A. was with were Ruthless Records, Priority Records, Interscope Records, Capitol Records, and EMI records. The record Straight Outta Compton talked about the violence and brutality of gang-ridden South Central L.A. and a lot of people did not like that, and the labels for it were Ruthless Records and Priority Records. On August 1, 1989 the FBI sent a letter to N.W.A saying: “Dear Mr. Manganiello: A song recorded by the rap group N.W.A. on their album entitled "Straight Outta Compton" encourages violence and disrespect for the law enforcement officer and has...
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...By him saying, “even worse I’m black” shows the negative stereotypes have on Blacks that the color of their skin plays a factor in their life and it is something that cannot control. The last line of this quote is similar to other quotes and statement s made by artists and people even today when there has been a rise in police brutality cases and this shows how little progress our society has made. This song also shows how despite the time period there was still inequality between Whites and Blacks and people were still being affected by racism. N.W.A was a group who also addressed similar issues. N.W.A was, a popular hip-hop group who wrote about issues many minorities faced in the U.S with songs like “Fuck the Police”. N.W.A (Niggaz Wit Attitudes) was a hip-hop group based in Compton, California and the members included Ice Cube, Dr.Dre, Easy –E, MC Ren, DJ Yella, The D.O.C and Arabian Prince. The song, “Fuck the Police” by N.W.A was created in 1988 and became this group’s most popular song. Despite the controversy this song caused it shed light to the racism when it came to the police and police brutality. “A young nigger got it bad cause I am brown And not the other color Some police think They have the authority to kill a minority… With a little bit of gold & a pager Searchin my car, lookin for the product Thinkin every nigger is sellin narcotics You would rather see me in the pen Than me & Lorenzo rollin in a Benz-o” (Fuck the Police by N.W.A). In this quotes...
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...appeals to almost all ethnicities and is synthesizing a new culture that goes beyond race, education, and income. Hip-hop has been under continual metamorphosis since its 1970’s inner-city inception. Some of the original artists like Kurtis Blow chose to lament everyday life in the ghettos. Others, Sugar Hill Gang among them, took a more dance inspired approach to the music. But for both these and other artists from the early years of rap through the late 1980’s including KRS-One, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah and LL Cool J, fast beats and socially relevant lyrics were among the primary components of the music. By the 1990’s a new face of rap music emerged. It began with Ice T and later gained popularity with artists such as NWA (Niggaz Wit Attitude) whose first album shocked and titillated the rap world with their obscene lyrical content and unabashed “gangsta” style, since then dubbed by the media as “gangsta rap.” Despite the growing acceptance of Hip-hop within white America and the middle class, Hip-hop is, at times understandable, also under siege. Comments made on rap or Hip-hop by Bill O'Reilly, popular talk show host on the Fox News Channel solidify that: Did you know that in 1999...
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