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Cole's Rhetorical Analysis Of '4 Your Eyez Only'

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Lastly, Cole closed the show with “4 Your Eyez Only” which sums up the entire album. In the track Cole’s friend serves as a metaphor for death within the black communities. He addresses the effects of mass incarceration on children, which made a lot of fans see it as an affirmation. It’s hard for people to make it out of these communities when they are expected to grow up aspiring and expecting nothing greater than climbing the ladder of “hood politics” of drug and territory. He sends out a powerful message to the audience towards the end and speaks on the influence of Rap and Hip-Hop in these colored communities, and how every audience builds up different perceptions. If you listen to violent music then you will have that mentality which is

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