Religion and Hip Hop analysis
Davon Brown
11/25/13
Hip Hop is a cultural art form whose elements like MCing, breakdancing, graffiti, and DJing are utilized by participating members to illustrate their life experiences and the world around them. Hip Hop artists and most songs display religious aspects like communicating to a supernatural, grappling with existential questions, and the articulation of subjectivity. One song that illustrate different religious aspects is Lord Knows by Ace Hood. Ace Hood is viewed as an underdog lyricist who found the spotlight by entering the rap game and talking about his life and trying to draw connections between his life stories and his listeners.
Lord Knows is one of a few songs from Ace Hood's album entitled ”Blood, Sweat, and Tears”. That album title means the shedding of blood through all the sweating from hardships and releasing tears from minor setbacks or failures. Ace Hood's song Lord Knows is about Ace Hood expressing to God his hardships that God already know. In his song, Ace talks about his hardships of the eviction letter his mother had, his mama about to lose her house and he still put her through a lot of stress, having no food, and wondering will he be fit to be a father for his upcoming daughters. Ace Hood deliver this songs as a prayer to God to see will he answer him and guide him in the right path to freedom of these hardships.
In Lord Knows, Ace Hood communicates to God by saying "Dear Lord, I understand all the problem I'm about to express to you, Are things you already know, Well here goes nothing". This set of lyrics is like an open letter where Ace feels it is necessary to air out what he is feeling deep down inside. With the closing line of the intro, Ace means that God already knows what problems he encountered so he is going to tell him regardless because he don't have nothing to lose. Additionally, Ace says "My God what I'm goin do now? So stressed that the day go by, Devil on me and I don't know why, beg mama just please don't
11/25/13
Hip Hop is a cultural art form whose elements like MCing, breakdancing, graffiti, and DJing are utilized by participating members to illustrate their life experiences and the world around them. Hip Hop artists and most songs display religious aspects like communicating to a supernatural, grappling with existential questions, and the articulation of subjectivity. One song that illustrate different religious aspects is Lord Knows by Ace Hood. Ace Hood is viewed as an underdog lyricist who found the spotlight by entering the rap game and talking about his life and trying to draw connections between his life stories and his listeners.
Lord Knows is one of a few songs from Ace Hood's album entitled ”Blood, Sweat, and Tears”. That album title means the shedding of blood through all the sweating from hardships and releasing tears from minor setbacks or failures. Ace Hood's song Lord Knows is about Ace Hood expressing to God his hardships that God already know. In his song, Ace talks about his hardships of the eviction letter his mother had, his mama about to lose her house and he still put her through a lot of stress, having no food, and wondering will he be fit to be a father for his upcoming daughters. Ace Hood deliver this songs as a prayer to God to see will he answer him and guide him in the right path to freedom of these hardships.
In Lord Knows, Ace Hood communicates to God by saying "Dear Lord, I understand all the problem I'm about to express to you, Are things you already know, Well here goes nothing". This set of lyrics is like an open letter where Ace feels it is necessary to air out what he is feeling deep down inside. With the closing line of the intro, Ace means that God already knows what problems he encountered so he is going to tell him regardless because he don't have nothing to lose. Additionally, Ace says "My God what I'm goin do now? So stressed that the day go by, Devil on me and I don't know why, beg mama just please don't