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In class, I believe that we covered a lot of good topics about “Cop Killer.� First of all, I do believe this article was giving a racial aspect because it does have to do with the rap genre and the fact that the white community looked past the lyrics and saw a black person talking about it, so therefore it must be worse. For instance, not everyone is gong to interpret the lyrics the same way because everyone comes from different standards of living. It might be more common that a black person is beat up; nearly to death than a white person. Therefore, a white person will not understand where the lyrics are coming from. We discussed that these lyrics should have a universal meaning, but I don’t believe that they do. As an example, nearly 60 percent of white people and only 34 percent of black people said that they were angry at the lyrics of “Cop Killer.�
Another topic that I found interesting was the reference to ‘accents.’ Before this article, I simply referred to accents as a different tone of speaking, such as different countries, but it may also refer to races’ speech. As the lyrics went through different accents, the meaning of the song became distorted and there was no longer just one meaning. I don’t agree that people should be so quickly to form opinions about songs and the background of the song, especially when they don’t understand the experiences that the artist went through. I found it frustrating that Ice-T had to explain his lyrics repeatedly to white people because they continuously interpreted it wrongly. Language accents change perception, and it wasn’t fair that Ice-T had to justify himself to people who didn’t know where he was coming from.