Hip Hop Music, Spoken Word, and Philosophy Dr. Moeller Exam 2

Hip Hop Music, Spoken Word, and Philosophy Dr. Moeller Exam 2

Your essays will be graded on the writing quality, including clarity and organization, so please treat each as a mini-essay, not simply a string of random thought fragments.

For 10 point questions, 15 word minimum.

For 20 point questions, 30 word minimum.

choose questions that amount to 100 points. So if you select 20 points question you just need to choose 5.

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Question 5 (20 points)

To expose the everyday violence faced by the black people, hip-hop rappers and MCs express in their songs the periodic police killings within their inner cities. For example, a lyrical piece asserts “Another nigga made the news, it ain’t nothing’ new” exposes how white policemen blatantly serotype the blacks by shooting unarmed victims. 

(328 words)