Analyzing Kanye West's Song We Don 'T Care'

Like many of Kanye West’s songs, “We Don’t Care” is a song that is pleasant on the ears to listen to, but upon deeper listening one is able to listen to a story that highlights the discrimination in the inner city. In this song, Kanye speaks to the audience directly to get his point across. For example, one of the first lines of the song is “If this is your first time hearin' this You are about to experience something so cold, man”. This line is there to approach people that can’t relate to the experiences Kanye West writes about in this song. “We Don’t Care” is a song that teaches the economic landscape and social customs of living in the inner city. Kanye talks about the economic landscape of the inner city by mentioning the fact that the wealthier people in the inner city had the highest social status. In the song, Kanye sings that

In addition, the only way to get out of this poverty was typically illegal like selling drugs. This is interesting because it unearths volumes of information regarding the economic landscape in the inner city. The chorus of the song is “Drug dealin’ just to get by, Stack your money ’til it gets sky high (Kids, sing! Kids, sing!)” further emphasizing the fact that drug dealing was the only way to surviving in an economic landscape of the inner city. On top of teachjing about the economic landscape, the song also talks about the social customs in the inner