Hi Trevor Bridge The Gap Analysis

Hi Trevor, the “Bridge The Gap” lyrics in this poem/rap is a good representation of your father experience as an African American man. A representation of a man that stood on the shoulders of slaves and their harmonious survival tactics in the corn fields. As well ass, jazz composers and writers like Duke Ellington, who made it possible within our culture to serenade the sweet song of the horn throughout different countries that he visited. Nas father understood that jazz and blues music was a part of the gospel sound that came from the churches and vice versa. These different genre of music signify his struggle not only as an African-American man in a white patriarch society but an African American father that guided his son from a lyricist