Using the comparison of these two tests as your starting point explore the media issues and debates which they raise.

Rap music is a growing music genre within the contemporary society of today, the genre can not be categorised into one categorary such as only a music genre but has stemmed to globalising many other instituions such as fashion, print and last but not least the taking over other record labels. Nowadays the issues and debates presented within the genre are about a luxurious and lavish lifestyle, having the dream girl and having a lot of money however when the genre started out it promoted black unity and also asked questions on why black people are represented a certain way. Text one 'The Revolution will not be televised' by Gill Scott Heron is about black peoples representation within the media and text two 'Your revolution' by DJ Vadim ft Sarah Jones is about black womens rights and critcising the black media.

Black people in the media and society alone have had alot of grief groups such as the Civil Rights and far out groups such as the Black Panthers have protested and tried to challenge certain stereotypes that the hegemony present to us. In Verse 5 of Text one Heron speaks about a change and the aspect of black people being respected and things will be better 'There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers in the instant replay'. Pigs is referring to the police, in the genre of rap music the police are known as many things such as 5.0 and PoPo, the reason for this is because of the respect the black people recieve from the police- at times it is unjustice and unfair. Heron, is emphasising on the fact that the revolution will change and the police will not pick up the gun and pull the trigger at every black person.

Text 2 is a parody and mocking of black people in the media- within the media there is a lot of competition between individual and groups of black people to be the best. Sarah states ' I'm Sarah Jones/ Not Foxy Brown'. Foxy Brown, is a female rapper who at times is quite a provocative rapper having produced a controversial album called 'Il Na Na' which proved to have explicit messages. Sarah Jones in her song is proving that she does not have to be the trophy on the man's arm but, is going to spread the word of black people and how people are seeing them in the media, by what they produce and broadcast on the television.

The comparison between the two texts is that they are sung and possibly written by Black people.Sarah Jones presents a feminist revolution and feminists but womens rights and Gill Scott Heron is speaking about how black people are pursued and also, at times referring to theorists Staurt Hall's theory of the black person being three things in the media which are: victim, entertainer and savage. Around the time Gill Scott Heron's song was released there was less black media involvement and therefore, they were shown as Hall's theory and in 1998 the media devlovped black people started to shine and the culture of being 'black and proud' was shown in Sarah Jones song however, she is mocking it at times.

Just like Sarah Jones, Gill Scott Heron mentions famous people but who are white 'Not sung by Glen Campbel, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the RareEarth'. It seems as if Gill Scott is showing how the white society is a dominated area in the media and therefore everything is conducted by them but, there is no black person alongside them to amke a difference instead they are ' trying to slide that colour tv inti a stolen ambulance' - as seen as theifs. There is a real juxtaposition of class and ideologies between black and white people within this song because it seems if white people can be high media mogals but, black people have not reached that level yet until the revolution does not change.

In conclusion Text One shows a more critcal and possibly a stronger message of how black people were represented however, during the years the sterotypes have changed but some may say that they have altered slightly. Text two shows a more materialistic aspect towards the black culture which can be seen as a good and bad thing because they are starting to get jobs and earn respect in society and the other hand as sarah jones jas pointed out they are being materialistic.