Hip Hop Satire

Hip Hop is the great American paradox. A culture encompasses art, politics, and all things intertwined with urban life, and gives a platform for the populace of American poverty. Hip Hop is a blurred culture in the sense that it distinctly represents a social and ethnic class, and also indistinctly perceives a negative stereotype of these classes to a detached or unconcerned bystanders, that brandish Hip Hop as a dysphemism; an expression so substituted and contemptuous of themselves and to the greater society. The music video I will be discussing is from a 1990’s Hip Hop group named De La Soul, and the song is titled “Stakes is High”. The music video for this song illustrates Elijah Anderson analysis of inner city deism and examines the micro and macro circumstances that entail the philosophy of “The Code of the Streets”. This code that Anderson describes are the unwritten laws of urban neighborhoods—the norms that reflect the extensive social and economic complexities of many of the nation's inner-city urban inhabitants.
Elijah Anderson’s“The Code of the Streets” is an article about that examines inner-city street rituals,violence and mentality and
Inner-city ghetto culture and Hip Hop culture, both focuses on short-term survival tactics despite the threat of long-term consequences. Anderson and De La Soul both share a concern about the portrayal of stereotypes and longevity of their cultures; Anderson is concerned about inner-city ghetto communities, and De La Soul is also concerned about the well being of African American poverty and the state of Hip Hop