My Brother's Affinity Group

I didn't even realize when I started our assignment of experiencing someone else's affinity group. I just went up to my little brother's room to study because he has heat in his room and mine is freezing. I started to complain when he turned on Jay Z, even though it was his room.
“No, we’re going to listen to Jay Z.” he said. And that was the end of that. I could either listen with him, or I could leave. And seeing that I enjoyed the cozy warmness of his room, I decided against the latter.
As I made an attempt to like my brother’s music while I did my work, it dawned on me that I was listening to music outside of my affinity group. “Hey Bruce, what’s the name of this album?” I asked. “Kingdom Come.” He said. “Why?”
“Why do you like Jay Z?” Apparently this question warded a look that clearly said, “Are you out of your effing mind?” because that’s what he gave me. And he immediately began to ramble all of the things that make Jay Z a wonderful music artist.
“He’s not hot headed,” he said. “And his words actually make sense. He makes good albums. Not good songs, good albums.”
So I listened closely to the lyrics of the songs. And despite the horridly atrocious grammar I did enjoy some of the lyrics. I especially liked the song Minority Report. These were my favourite words:
“People was poor before the hurricane came
But the down pour poured is like when Mary J. sang
Every day it rains, so every day the pain
But ignored them, and showed ‘em the risk was to blame”
My little brother then shared with me his other favourite music artists. His top five were:
1) Nas
2) The Game
3) Jay Z
4) Kanye West
5) Eminem (And I actually love Eminem too)
I like a wide variety of music, but rap is probably one of my least favourite genres. That isn’t to say that I dislike all rap music. I am a very big fan of Eminem and I absolutely love some of Ludacris’s stuff. But my when I listen to my brother’s music I am most definitely listening to music outside of my affinity group. And although I did enjoy listening to Jay Z’s album with him, it is very unlikely that I would invest my own money into such music or listen to it on my own.

Mission accomplished

~Nadia