Journal Entry #3 Hip Hop Matters

5 Comments:

• It took Eminem to change the racial and cultural of hiphop history.
• Eminem showed respect to black music, knowing he was white.
• Often times Eminem raps about his experience in life.
• Many whites enjoy Hip Hop because of its uniqueness.
• Eminen has become a better person through Hip Hop music.

4 Questions:

• If Eminem did something wrong, wouldn't they punish him in some way?
• Did the number of CD' sbeing sold dropped because everyone was buying Eminem's CD's?
• Were others jealous of Eminem because his hits were being sold so quickly?
• Why were teenagers in the nineties attracted to Hip Hop?

3 Words:

• Paradox (pg. 93): a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory
• Defeid (pg. 95): to challenge the power of
• Provacateur (pg. 106): a person who provokes trouble

2 Literary Terms:

• Metaphor (pg. 85) "His meteoric rise to celebrity was yet another idication of how the hip-hop movement was rewriting"
• Irony (pg. 103) "Dre was in the rap game for the music and the money, but not for the mayhem that had become commonplace at Death Row"

1 Sentence Summary:

• In this chapter, it describes how the white race was brought to Hip Hop and how it made a difference in Hip Hop's relation to the world.