1)  Select a hip-hop artist (e.g. If you do not listen to hip-hop, any other music genre will do) to investigate. How does h/she establish ethos with his/her audience?

I think that one of the most famous main stream rappers of today is Eminem. He always raps about his life his family and problems he had in the past, he also raps about the things that brought him up from where he was in the past. In his past he has lived through hard times and has had a very troublesome home life. I think that if he raps about this it is very credible because he has been through things most of us have not had to deal with. He also raps about how he loves his daughter even though he cannot be there all the time. He raps about things that he has been through and things that he thinks are right and don’t rap about sex, drugs, money, or killing people. When most rappers rap they only rap about things that are nonrealistic in real life, but Eminem has a way of raping so that it is a real life feeling and a real feel that he has actually experienced all of these things. When I want to listen to a real rap song I go to Eminem because I want to listen to something real instead of listening to something fake about things I will never own. I want to listen to someone that will tell me a story of real event that could happen or could possibly happen in real life.