Who Is Kanye West's New Slaves?

Music has been an art form used for communicating artist’s feelings and expressions through words and rhythm for centuries. Music allows artists to express thoughts and feelings using dialect while accompanying the words with a rhythm and beat. Although music is enticing to the audience, music listeners rarely completely comprehend the words and focus mainly on the chorus and dance along with the beat. This is why a blog post is a more effective way of communicating an idea than a song. A blog post allows the author to elaborate more on the ideas that would only be stated briefly in a song, and provide more details and factual evidence that will benefit their statements. Music listeners only like a certain few genres of music, and many people don’t listen to rap music at all, therefore they don’t even get a chance to hear what musicians are trying to portray to their audience. Blog posts on the other hand, give the writer a broader audience because there is no beat or music to distract or classify the reader; the only focus is on the authors words. A blog post is a more effective way of communicating and displaying an author’s idea than a song.
Although the song adds powerful emotion to Kanye’s ideas and lyrics, a single song isn’t large enough platform to fully describe or argue a point to his audience. A blog post, on the other hand, would allow Kanye ample amount of space to fully develop his ideas and thoughts to his audience. One line in a song, could turn into paragraphs on a page, allowing Kanye to elaborate, adding details and factual evidence that couldn’t be accomplished in a song for fear of disrupting the flow of the song. These added words would help to strengthen his message, therefore reaching not only more people, but displaying a clearer and more developed