Transforming My RAP to Commonplace Material

A few days ago, I read one of the Commonplace articles. Coincidentally, the article that I picked out was fairly similar to the RAP that I wrote. It was about the effects that hip-hop videos have on the perception of African American women. It gave me a little boost of confidence about being able to successfully convert my paper from an academic piece of work to something more relaxed, laid back, and less academic.
I honestly feel like my paper is ready to go onto Commonplace with minor changes. I think that in order for my paper to fit into the audience that Commonplace seems to draw, I would have to make my paper less academic. I would take out all the citations that are in the paper. I also know that there is at least two or three sentences for starters that I would like to take out of my paper.
I imagine my readers being other college students and possibly college professors. I think that if I "rewrite" my paper and gear it more toward my peers, the college professors reading my paper would also understand the way that we write when we are relaxing our writing; almost like writing prose or a poem.