There are a few strong connections between Kevin Youngs writing titled “Final Chorus”, and Labennet Oneka’s “Histories and “her stories” from the Bronx: excavating hidden hip hop narratives”.  One of the main connections I see in the two is that they are both speaking on how people are being portrayed in hip hop.  Things such as how women are portrayed and how black people are brought up are two connections I make.  In “Final Chorus” the author says, “Hip Hops focus on both its poor roots and its inevitable rich future knows this: one raps of being rich in order to become rich” (315).  He is stating that the things people rap about may not be true, but they are rapping about it to hopefully become true one day.  Not everything a person says is going to be true in hip hop.  The link to rapping about money and thinking that makes a man a man is what he is talking about.  Well in the other article Oneka states, “With women’s roles erased and women’s narratives stifled, one might listen to the “official” creation story of hip hop and think that it is therefore no wonder that hip hop developed into an overtly masculine cultural form”.  Both of these quotes and articles pinpoint that there is a common theme of hip hip, masculinity.