In “New World Water”, the rapper uses repetition to explain how we have affected our water supply, the ocean, because of consumerism. In the song “New World Water” by Mos Def, he talks about the overuse of water and how the people don’t realize it saying “you can laugh and take it as a joke if you wanna”(Mos Def line 13). Mos Def uses a lot of techniques but one that I find the most prominent is the use of repetitions. He uses the phrase “said it's all about getting that cash(money)” ( Mos Def 63) after saying that the water “got the fish looking cockeyed/ used to be free now it cost you a…