Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rhetoric (an article about Hip Hop)

I believe that the article might be interesting to me because it does not talk about all rappers but it gets specific and discusses one gangster rap group known as Public Enemy. Unlike other articles that are always written about Hip Hop artists, “Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rhetoric in the Music of Public Enemy,” goes into discussing their music. Even before I read the first couple of pages of the article (from just looking at the title), I felt that I would enjoy it, because it would not be an article that I was used to seeing, engaging in an argument about Hip Hop. The article appears to address something that a lot of critics of Rap and Hip Hop take for granted. It feels like to me, that critics seem to only like to discuss the lifestyles and images that are attached to, and surround the Hip Hop genre. They do not appreciate the actual work that comes from Rap and Hip Hop.
Robert Walser, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles wrote this article in 1995. His specialty is in jazz and other popular music of America. He was the chair of the musicology department and has won the Irving Lowens Award for Distinguished Scholarship in American Music two times. Not only has he written this article which discusses Hip Hop, he has also made publications on music types such as Heavy Metal and Jazz.