Whats one way you’ve seen hip hop culture being co opted by mainstream culture

Read these sentences from the excerpt: i would sometimes say to them, i wished i could be as free as theywould be when they got to be men. "you will be free as soon as you aretwenty-one, but i am a slave for life! have not l as good a right to befree as you have? how does the use of a rhetorical question advance the author's purposeof showing that all people deserve freedom? it shows the reader that douglass is unsure of hisstatements. it indicates that douglass believes he deserves freedom. oit demonstrates that douglass is questioning his beliefs. it reminds the reader that some questions areunanswerable

What is the cause of romeos despair?

In the excerpt above, what can be inferred by the statement, "the dillingham had been flung to the breeze during aformer period of prosperity.?