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Analysis Of Streets Of New York By Kool G Rap

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The song “Streets of New York,” sung by Kool G Rap, fits into the three-step process of Blues and talks about the social issues for African Americans during the 1980s. In Understanding Black American Aspects in Hip-Hop Cinema, the Blues music “appeared after the Civil War and reconstruction. Its presence coincides with a time of broken promises of citizenship and with lynching, hangings and burning of Black people by white mobs (Page 4, Sanchez).” This song was created to make people aware of injustices and accept the fact that these problems were happening in the black community in the Bronx. Some of the social issues he talks about include people devoting themselves to drugs, domestic abuse at his apartment complex, gambling, and crooked

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