Come Get Her: Rae Sremmurd and the Art of Seduction

Rae Sremmurd’s “Come Get Her” lyrically indulges in the seduction, intoxication, and submission of an unidentified woman then placed into use for sexual exploitation.  The song immediately begins with the male figure’s identification of the woman as sexually appealing, one of the rap duo stating “Somebody come to the floor, it feels like we’ve met…

Young, Free, and Meek?

In paragraph one of page 30 of Chapter II of The Souls of Black Folk,Du Bois employs the archetypal phrase “the meek shall inherit the earth” in order to convey a stark message on the reality of the young freedman to live up to his youth and the “free” in his title.  Such phrase is…