Even though the youth of Senegal used rap as a tool to elect Wade during the 2000s with the belief that their socioeconomic status would change it did not. It was found that Wade and his son pocketed a lot of money from the Senegalese people. While Wade was in office his son Karim Wade held government positions in “infrastructure, energy, aviation, and transportation”. Wade’s son was reported to have been in charge of at least “one-third of the entire state’s expenditure”(). When Wade’s rule ended his son was accused of embezzling an accumulated 1.4 billion dollars throughout the years he spent in office. Though Karim’s lawyers denied this he was found guilty of “diverting over $200 million for personal enrichment”(). Abdoulaye Wade also commissioned a 27 million dollar bronze statue of a man, woman, and child which he then claimed one-third of the revenue generated from the tourist for because the statue was his idea (). Instead of trying to better Senegal Wade and his son were taking money from people who already had very little. Because they were …show more content…
This argument is valid especially because other genres of music do not come with political expectations. However, it is delusional to think that rap exists on the same level as other genres of music because it has been shown that anything the African American community puts out is seen as a direct reflection of their thoughts, beliefs and future actions while this same idea is not true for the white community. An example of this is the stigma that rap music contains the most references to drug use. In reality, country music contains 1.6 more references to drugs per song to rap’s 0.8 reference per song (). Yet instead of taking the award as the most drug reference friendly genre country music is considered the most “values-based major American [music] genre” while rap music is demonized and portrayed as the most vulgar of genres