preamble at first glance dookie seems like a song about poop at second glance dookie may even appear to be a nod to punk pop band green days third album dookie dookie is neither of those things grounded in the ethos of antonin artauds famous quote where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of life dookie is a subtle indictment of kitsch art and marketing that chops and screws from a trap song into a hardcore metal song the five master terms of kenneth burkes pentad make many of the implied tacit notions within the text more accessible and easier to tease out and parse together of the master terms the agency stands out the most and foregrounds the text act on the surface dookie is free of a plot but a closer reading of the text reveals the plot in everything from the alarm sounds to the bass buildup and breakdown the song has only one full verse this terseness conveys a sense of urgency robert raimon roy says that he thanks his parents for this science experiment life and apologizes for embarrassing them when he uses vulgar inappropriate language like the term dookie the lack of detail leaves room for interpretation on the part of the listener or reader scene culturally dookie occupies a unique space in the hip hop canon its a song that was recorded two years ago but was only officially released last year one would expect it to be dated in a way that many other hip hop songs that have been out for two years are but dookie isnt dated making it harder to periodize moreover dookie as a disjointed nonlinear melding of hip hop and metal does not lend well to hegemonic framing christian hegelian or otherwise its lack of datedness can be attributed to the fact that the song isnt laden with references to a specific time place or thing it exists simply and thus the only scene to speak ofthe scene wherein rob talks about his philosophy about life being this foul thingis a very sparse scene agent dookie is the agent signifying the world and nature robert raimon roy raps my philosophy in this bitch i call it dookie and my religion just as stank think i call it dookie meaning dookie is ingrained fundamentally in the practices of daily life dookie is thus an ontological concept conveyed in a juvenile whomever smelt it dealt it way ontology is at the root of dookie for dookie concerns determining the necessity and fundamentality the be it should be noted that there is no mention of morality moral systems or idols in dookie dookie is life in the simplest of terms agency the agency of dookie is grounded in its sheer simplicity dookie stands in direct contradiction to marketing which is a complicated and concerted effort see dookie know whats dookie aint no hyperbole or kind of surgery to rearrange the surface even dookie doesnt display the common trappings or anatomy of a hip hop song nor does it utilize the same tropes and devices or pander to commercialism with consumer cues roy in that sense is not selling selling is a huge component of contemporary hip hop and a large part of how our culture narrativizes and creates structures of feeling hip hop music and popular music in general is inundated with messages about how we should feel about things values cachet and a host of assumptions are ascribed to otherwise insignificant things materials feelings fuel our consumer culture and whether were aware of it or not were told through relentless advertising how to feel about entire eras products and even peoples this is marketing the purpose of marketing is to elicit desired emotional responses to sell commodities to manipulate music does this alone and to add a secondary layer of manipulation is to complicate music and deceive the listener dookie doesnt complicate or deceive purpose dookie serves three main purposes to convey a philosophy and to subvert and critique the rap music industry its meaning is subtle and thus implied so it doesnt necessarily fail or succeed at this a close examination of the text leads one to believe that robert raimon roy is averse to pretty and polished verses hed much rather wax poetic in a vulgar way and be polarizing than to conform to conventions he is critiquing1