Full textual analysis- Sound of da Police (KRS-one)
Full textual analysis- Sound of da Police KRS-One released the song Sound of da Police in 1993 and fall under the genre of political hip hop or conscious hip hop. The overall message behind the video is to bring awareness and to criticize police brutality and systematic oppression which forms the basis white privilege. In the opening seconds of the song, you can hear a ‘whoop whoop’, this is instantly connoted with police and then is further reinforced by the lyrics ‘that’s the sound of da police’. Not long after that he personifies the police as a ‘beast’, these are creatures which are often associated with evil things and is more often or not used in pop culture to denote something as the bad counterpart to something good for example Beauty and the Beast wherein the beast is meant to be feared by children watching it. It could be said that this link drawn between the police and a ‘beast’ will be positively viewed by the black community in particular as they are the de...
Fantastic analysis, Rosie! The details is fantastic. Is there any intertextuality or inspiration you can use in your own production? Ms Cope
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