"MY RAP AGAINST RAP" Essay

In Nathan McCall’s essay, “My Rap Against Rap”, he speaks on his influence from outside media in his early years. Many of those influences were, misleading guidance advice that got him to where he is now. In the essay he reflects on his past mistakes that lead him to dangerous situations. He gives examples to the reasons why many people fall short, such as the influences of Rap music has on the youth. In some of his states his personal issues, to reflect and change on. In the essay he made assumptions some of those might have been offended to his audience.

Nathan’s list his reasons for personality becoming the person who he is today. This essay "My Rap Against Rap" is like a personal dis towards Rap for being so negative. He mainly speaks on how, Rap plays a big role in his life, because there are rappers that portray negative views of men that have influence him. Those negative views that Nathan picked up he played out in his life, he allowed them to make his decisions. Those bad decisions were just enough to cause him to almost take someone’s life. After watching “The Godfather” he shot somebody, from feeling the urge to take his anger out on anyone whom was in sight. The “God Father” was a violent movie based on Gangsters and mobs who retaliated on their enemies in violent ways. Nathan respected the movie, “The Godfather”, such as how they handled their business and watching the movie. Nathan also speaks about how impressionable gangster rappers are to the younger generation, because he was once a victim of impressionable rap. Many of his reasons are evidence since they are from personal experience.

Throughout his essay he gives numerous reasons behind how rap has such a negative impact on the listeners. In paragraph fourteen, he makes assumptions about his audience that he is basing off his how he views rap listeners feel. His mistake was when he wrote “The key element is aggression-in rappers’ body language, tone, and witty rhymes-that often leaves listeners hyped, on edge, angry about…something” making it seem as if he did not show any consideration in how the listeners may really feel. Nathan is speaking for a broad audience that he could possibly be offending. The risky assumption is saying how the rappers leave them feeling, just throwing suggestions about how the listeners feel. Especially, when he ended the sentence with “…something”, he could have changed that by simply saying there are many feelings a listener of rap could feel. Instead of the risky assumption, that would have help avoid insulting any of his readers or fans. Even though Nathan McCall’s personal evidence of how he feels about rap, that may possibly not be everyone’s point of view. He has to be very careful of how he uses his words in his essay.

Therefore, Nathan McCall’s essay was overall well written, that I was able to relate to and understand. After talking about his point of view of rap, it explains the reason why he is the person who is today. Rap music once had a great impression on Nathan’s life were he started to immaculate the lifestyle. Now that he is older he is able to point out his problems and solve them by maturing into a positive man. In this essay, he explains to his audience showing what effects Rap music has on people. His goal for this essay, "My Rap Against Rap" was to bring Rap music into the light, so People can be conscious of what they are listening to and not end up the way he did.