The intended audience of Snoop LionвЂ™s music was young inner city male and females. It brings each individual incident of gun violence into one video to make it clear that itвЂ™s a problem in not just our country but around the world. Listening to that as part of the song makes the message very powerful that gun violence needs to end. You get images of people crying and sounds of gun shot filling the air and children screaming. In the video for No Guns Allowed Snoop stops the music and shows actual news feed from the Columbine shooting, Sandy Hook shooting, and the Dark Knight Rises shooting. The song No Guns Allowed was in response to shootings that have been happening around the country lately.

Me don't want to see no more youth deadвЂќ prove that Snoop and his daughter Cori B are done seeing youth added to a list of casualties due to gun violence. Me don't want to see no more innocent blood shed Lyrics such as вЂњ When the bodies hit the ground, there's nothing left to say, ay, ay Their message is clear that they donвЂ™t want to see anymore gun violence. Snoop Lion and his daughter Cori B come together on the track to talk about the horrible tragedies that have happened in school shootings across America. The situation for No Guns Allowed is set after all the recent school shootings that have happened such as Sandy Hook, and Columbine. A rhetorical analysis of the song No Guns Allowed will prove that Snoop is trying to spread a positive message and change his ways. When he converted religions to Rastafarian he changed his image and renamed himself Snoop Lion upon his so called reincarnation he changed the music he was making to give a more positive message to the youth. Being a self proclaimed pimp and being in gangs and living a lifestyle that was dangerous for a long time, once he got older he realized that his music was promoting violence and expelling hate. Shortly after graduating high school Snoop Dogg was arrested for possession of cocaine, and for the next three years Snoop was in and out of prison. He was a member of the RollinвЂ™ 20 Crips gang in Eastside of Long Beach. Turning over a new leaf and spreading love and peace is all about what this song preaches.ДЄs a teenager Snoop Dogg was frequently in trouble with the law.

With his album reincarnation he is trying to make a more positive message to the youth. Snoop Dogg now known as Snoop Lion was no exception to that for most of his music career he rapped about violence and drug use. Hip-hop usually depicts violence and promotes it with verses that talk about drug use and guns. Rhetorical Analysis: Snoop LionвЂ™s No Guns Allowed

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