He reached the top (but then had to stop). And that's what's bothering me. I wanna be just like other men. I'm tired of monkeying around.

I dare you to work that into your Gender and Identity essay. Sara wrote a paper a long time ago about masculinity and unemployment that drew heavily on Wham Rap, alongside lots of interviews with people in job centres, which was published somewhere quite posh (too old to be on the publisher's website, but lots of references to it here). So you'd have a precedent.