Fog Index

I submitted this last month for our profile assignment. According to the book I calculated a fog index if 13. Which would mean a person would at least need to pass freshman English to easily understand my writing. This is five years above the recommend fog index so I guess I need to keep that in mind and get my sentences shorter. I actually have a sentence that has 39 words. Wow! That is pretty long winded.

DAT MENACE

Underground hip-hop in the Bay Area is a surging scene. I decided to this profile on an up and coming San Francisco star.

Dat Menace was born and raised in San Francisco. He started writing and rapping at 16. His inspiration for becoming a rapper was his older brother J-Rolla. His style is influenced by Tupac, Hot Boyz, Master P and Lil Wayne. He has met some famous rappers such as San Quinn, Rappin 4 Tay and Sef the Gaffler. When asked what it takes to make an album he said, “Money and experience.”

Dat Menace currently has three albums out; he is working on one that will be available in the upcoming summer, Playa Mac. He loves to rap and one of his goals he hopes to achieve through his rapping is to reach young people who may have gone through similar experiences he expresses through his lyrics.

He has had great experiences— like working with Cold Blood, Sef the Gaffler, and San Quinn (all well known bay area rappers), on their albums. He has also had some bad experiences, his worst was when at a Juneteenth Audition he suddenly got so shy that he froze— causing a gaffed performance, which ended in him and his group not being picked to perform. Since that time, he has been working on his image to show a more mature person, some one a young man can learn from. Dat Menace admits that life as a rapper is hard, but if you have real passion for it can be not only fun, but also rewarding.