Rhetorical Devices In Runaway Love

Christopher Brian Bridges is an African American rapper that goes by the alias Ludacris. His genre of music is mostly Hip-Hop and R&B. In 2006 he released his fifth album called Release Therapy. From that album he released his third single called Runaway Love. He wrote the song with Douglas Davis, Jamal Jones, Richard Walters, and Keri Hilson. The song featured Mary J Blidge, and Keri Hilson who assisted with the background vocals. Mary Jane Blidge, mostly known as Mary J Blidge, is an African American singer. Her genre of music is mostly R&B and soul music. She assisted in the song by singing the chorus in Runaway Love. The song was recorded at the Ludaplex and Right Track/Sound on Sound. The Ludaplex is in Atlanta, Georgia, while Right Track/Sound on Sound is located in New York City. Ludacris released his video over the internet, in 2006 on November 29 on Yahoo! Music. It then premiered on television on B.E.T's show 106 and Park. It also was aired in New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The song is four minutes and forty-one seconds long and tries to send out a powerful message to everyone. During the song Ludacris and Mary J Blidge try to communicate with the youth

He does this by making an appeal, giving examples and providing evidence. The song contains pathos. The song appeals to your emotions and makes you feel angry, sad and also makes you feel pity. The examples he gives during the song are scenarios. They are scenarios of what the kids his organization and the other organization are trying to prevent from happening and make people aware of. Mary J Blidge also has authority to sing about the situations in the song because, she has actually been in similar predicaments and has seen hard times as an adolescent just like they have. Some examples of the hard times she experienced in her youth are molestation, drug abuse, and being