In the hook of the song Kendrick reassures his audience, African Americans, that, “We gon’ be alright” This quote is so powerful because us African Americans have gone through so much for so long that it feels good to hear someone be optimistic about it all and inform us that we will survive and prosper. This entire song can be looked at as an appeal to ones emotions due to the fact that it stands as a cry or plea for the police brutality against African Americans to cease. In order to promote the message of survival, Kendrick Lamar uses the rhetorical appeal of Pathos. Initially, I thought the song was catchy, I knew that it was a message to all African Americans, however, after a deeper analysis, I found that Kendrick Lamar uses pathos, personification, assonance, and allusion in order to convey his message that regardless of our current struggles, pain, and suffering in the end we will survive. This song also plays as a reminder that the Devil is always out get us and bring us down however, if we have faith in God, then the Devil will never win. This song plays as an affirmation to us African Americans, reminding us of all of our struggles that we have overcome and informing us that this too shall pass. There has been a numerous amount of innocent Black lives taken at the hands of the ones that are supposed to protect us the police. I would define our struggle as an ongoing battle between police officers and African Americans citizens, which African Americans consistently lose. I believe that he is reassuring us that the struggle that we are going through as of now will be alright, due to our faith in God. Officers should listen carefully to this song, because Kendrick is portraying the way African Americans feel about institutionalized racism within the criminal justice system through song lyrics.
This song, in my opinion, is a message to all African Americans and police officers.
The text I have chosen to analyze is the catchy yet powerful song “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar.
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