Hip Hop Is No Longer Than Me Analysis

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The article Hip-Hop Is No Longer Cooler Than Me by Paul Kix is a very powerful piece about hip-hop and how the music has changed over the periods of time. This is an outstanding article and Kix’s bravery and courage to talk about this subject really caught my attention. Kix’s goal in writing Hip-Hop Is No Longer Cooler Than Me was to inform people how much hip-hop has changed and how embarrassing it is to call the music we listen to hip-hop. Hip-hop is no longer cool in his eyes.

First, Kix had a very topical article but he had a very weak ethos. Kix was an editor at ESPN and a former editor at Boston Magazine. As a former editor and someone who worked around sports entertainment, I doubt he would know what's cool about hip-hop. Not to mention kix grew up in Iowa as a farm kid and always heard music a year or two after they were important. Kix states he knows about hip-hop and goes on to describe how he used to listen to N.W.A. as a third grader but hip-hop has changed throughout generations and with that being said, Kix had poor credibility.

On the other hand Kix had a phenomenal logos. Kix stated songs such as “Grillz” by Paul Wall and dances such as “Crank Dat” by Soulja Boy that he called silly, infantile, and lazy. I also agree with this because kix provided lyrics of “Grillz” by Paul Wall which were “I got da wrist …show more content…
Kix had no problem holding back any words for example he included N.W.A.’s “Fuck tha Police”(162) and even Snoop Dogg’s “Doggystyle”(162). This showed he probably knew something about the hip-hop industry. Also Kix had no problem saying Soulja Boy is not the only one who’s lacking creativity and the bravery of him saying these things about artist amuses me. Foremost, Kix had an interesting voice/tone too. Kix was being sarcastic throughout most of his article. As Kix talked about Soulja Boy’s rhymes he followed by saying “And the chorus! My God, the chorus” (166) in a sarcastic

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