Dolla "Lets Make a Toast"

Dolla “Make a Toast” Roderick Anthony Burton II, better known by his rap name “Dolla” was born on November 25, 1987 in Chicago Illinois. He was born as a twin but his brother ended up dying during birth, leaving him the only boy with two sisters. In 1991 his father moved their family to Los Angeles, California for a new life but noticed that times were tougher here than in Chicago. When Dolla was five a big tragedy occurred in his life when his father committed suicide by shooting himself in front of him and his sister Divinity. After his fathers suicide his mother decided to make a move down to Atlanta, Georgia to create a new life for her family. But again financial burdens occurred and by the age of ten Dolla had to help support his family, even if that meant breaking the law. Still through all the struggle he had one dream, and that dream was to become a rapper. To pursue his dream he started writing raps in his elementary school classes. One of my favorite rap songs ever, “Make a Toast” is the second and final single from rapper Dolla 's debut album A Dolla and a Dream. The song was produced by Julian Bunetta and has an upbeat, triumphant feel to it, even though Julian Bunetta sung the background vocals on the chorus he was not given any credit for being in the song, other than being the producer. “Make a Toast” is from the twentieth century, it was officially released to radio and iTunes on November 4, 2008, but the song had been leaked to the internet long before its official release. The song is three minutes and fifty seconds long and also features “the best rapper alive” Lil Wayne. It was a very popular song topping off on the U.S. rap charts in 2008 at number seventeen (Wikipedia). The pitch of a song is the frequency of the vibrations in a note. When “Make a
Toast” starts the beat has a high pitch, with the song beginning with a “ding ding ding” sounding beat. This is probably to give the song a sound to get the listeners attention, to kind

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