The song I chose that relates to “Vietgone” by Qui Nguyen is called “Hit em up” from Tupac, on page 11 Quang starts rapping his freestyle he entitles “Blow em up”. When I first read the title it automatically brought me back to one of my favorite diss tracks of all time called “hit em up”. The resemblance between the two names are uncanny, especially when you start to listen to what the two songs are about. It was hard not to choose “hit em up” as the song that reminds me of this part of the book. In Tupac’s, “hit em up” he starts to rap and diss Biggie Smalls and the whole east coast. Tupac held a grudge against Biggie because of a shooting that Tupac believes Biggie was behind, so he goes after him in the best way he possibly could by expressing himself through music. Quang also talks about going to his adversaries with death in mind, for example, Quang expresses his patriotism in this passage “.. Shot up by the Viet Cong they stole my peeps freedom so I’m coming to kill them call me their arch-villain can’t stop me I’m willin to die for this vision..”, he describes his feeling towards his enemies and also gives insight into why he hates them, very similar to how Tupac speaks about his. Tupac speaks about bringing drama to the city of New York and he does not care who stands in his way as does Quang. In Quang ‘Blow em up’ freestyle, he does not hold back in admitting that he wishes to bring harm to his enemies including shooting them up. Quang has his sidekick as Tupac had his outlaw posse. The Viet Cong is Tupac “Biggie Smalls/Bad boys”. Both “Hit em up” by Tupac and “Blow em up” by Quang part from the book have too many similarities and there couldn’t be a better song that fits with Quang’s description from his freestyle in my opinion.