Suggestions for Writing

1. McBride argues that hip hop music is a warning (para. 40). Write an essay in which you support, challenge, or qualify his assertion.

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   Chapter 11 - Hip Hop Planet - Suggestions for Writing: McBride argues that hip hop music is a warning (para. 40). Write an essay in which you support, challenge, or qualify his assertion.
2. McBride quotes Abiodun Oyewole, a founder of what he considers the first rap group, the Last Poets (para. 18): “‘A lot of today’s rappers have talent. But a lot of them are driving the car in the wrong direction.’” Analyze Oyewole’s statement, and write an essay in which you support, challenge, or qualify his assertion. Be sure to use examples of today’s rappers who illustrate your argument.

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   Chapter 11 - Hip Hop Planet - Suggestions for Writing: McBride quotes Abiodun Oyewole, a founder of what he considers the first rap group, the Last Poets (para. 18): “‘A lot of today’s rappers have talent. But a lot of them are driving the car in the wrong direction.’” Analyze Oyewole’s statement, and write an essay in which you support, challenge, or qualify his assertion. Be sure to use examples of today’s rappers who illustrate your argument.
3. Listen to the music and poetry of some of the old-school musicians and writers McBride cites, such as Louis Armstrong, Nikki Giovanni, and Amiri Baraka. Write an essay in which you examine their influence on specific hip hop musicians.

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   Chapter 11 - Hip Hop Planet - Suggestions for Writing: Listen to the music and poetry of some of the old-school musicians and writers McBride cites, such as Louis Armstrong, Nikki Giovanni, and Amiri Baraka. Write an essay in which you examine their influence on specific hip hop musicians.
4. McBride suggests that the anger from the 2005 riots in the Paris suburbs found its way into hip hop music, its “macho pose borrowed from commercial hip hop in the U.S.” (para. 29). Judy Rosen, writing in the online magazine Slate, argues that “France, the nation that enshrines conversational grandiloquence as a civic virtue right up there with fraternité, would take to the most blabbermouthed genre in music history,” suggesting that it has remade hip hop in its own fashion. Research rap music in countries such as France, Brazil, and England; then write an essay in which you examine the influence of American hip hop on the music of these countries as well as the influence of foreign musicians on American rap and hip hop.

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   Chapter 11 - Hip Hop Planet - Suggestions for Writing: McBride suggests that the anger from the 2005 riots in the Paris suburbs found its way into hip hop music, its “macho pose borrowed from commercial hip hop in the U.S.” (para. 29). Judy Rosen, writing in the online magazine Slate, argues that “France, the nation that enshrines conversational grandiloquence as a civic virtue right up there with fraternité, would take to the most blabbermouthed genre in music history,” suggesting that it has remade hip hop in its own fashion. Research rap music in countries such as France, Brazil, and England; then write an essay in which you examine the influence of American hip hop on the music of these countries as well as the influence of foreign musicians on American rap and hip hop.
5. Imagine and write a conversation between Henry Rosenkranz and Assane N’Diaye in which they discuss the sources, messages, and benefits of hip hop music.

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   Chapter 11 - Hip Hop Planet - Suggestions for Writing: Imagine and write a conversation between Henry Rosenkranz and Assane N’Diaye in which they discuss the sources, messages, and benefits of hip hop music.