Hip Hop Life

I picked this reading because it was very much part of my culture. I grew up with my uncle and mother listening to hip hop all the time. They listened to it because it had a story to tell about the struggle they were going through at the time. DeSean Robinson Walker said “To me, hip hop isn't a style. It's not the way you walk and talk. It's the way people live...” He brought it back to his life experiences like school systems being bad and magazines have statistics about ghetto neighborhood schools having low rate of getting out. I feel like people use music such as hip hop to help them cope with their situation and try to help make a better life for them, but some cannot get out of this life. At the end he says that hip hop gives hope to those who do not have any and a lot of people give up but some songs of struggle also have stories of how they overcome that struggle to help those who might think there is no way out.