A Critical Textual Analysis of a Rap Song Corpus inRelation to Social Relations in the Ideology of the Five Percenters

Rap spread all around the world in the 1980s, and during this process various ideologies developed in it. One of the first of these ideologies was the doctrine of the four elements of hip-hop, which was developed by Afrika Bambaataa, and soon afterwards other ideologies emerged within the genre. In this article we will use critical discourse analysis to show how two ideologies, namely hip hop and the Five Percenter ideology, are manifested in rap music through intertextuality and allusion.