Although McBrides uses a good amount of appeal to the readers emotions, the essay is about politics of race. In his essay, he's doing more explaining of things like slavery and Jazz to explain the development of black culture today. For example, he discusses how hip hop is a result of poor economic conditions rather than explore the emotions related to the situation. McBrides would agree with Brooks to a greater extent. However, the part they would disagree about is the role of rap in violence. McBride doesn’t view rap as a contributing factor for violence, but rather an opposing factor of violence. He sides with rap and hip hop as he views them both as more beneficial to society than negative McBride’s reasoning makes sense. The National Anthem talks about bombs bursting meaning it's just as violence as any rap song out there. Simply because the National Anthem is an official American song, it doesn’t give …show more content…
He utilizes the the two levels of irony to play onto the reader. Additionally, rather than continue to talk about his fear about rappers, McBride chooses to praise the art of rap The first essay is titled, “High Stepping” because McBride has “high stepped” over the genre of rap and hip hop. He uses the phrase in a non literal sense to convey that he never thought too much of rap music. The same word play occurs in other sections; he plays with the word fire in Burning Man, he plays the word wrap and images like a bowtie for The Crossover, and does the same thing for the rest of the sections. McBride transitions through telling the readers about his personal history. Not only does it provide a seamless flow, but also allows the reader to further understand the Hip Hop Planet. Additionally, Aside from content strategies, McBride makes the shifts between tenses to organize the sections from history to actual