Mr. McBride‚ you established that “...despite all attempts to exploit it‚ belittle it‚ numb it‚ classify it‚ and analyze it‚ hip-hop remains...” (McBride 8). Numerous artists artists are using this voice you described like J.Cole and Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar says in his 2010 song‚ “Ignorance is Bliss”‚“No sympathy‚ ain’t no love when you in these streets just get something/Protect ya neck cause they coming for sets”. He is not performing this song based on
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internal conflict Notorious B.I.G. raps a verse about terrible things he could do then backtracks due to their immorality with the refrain‚ “Big‚ you’re dead wrong”. Scene (Bloody Hands) “U” by Kendrick Lamar- After Macbeth has killed duncan he is filled with regret and self hatred. In “U”‚ Kendrick Lamar criticizes his own shortcomings from a third person point of view‚ and drowns in the regrets of his own misdoing.
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still very much alive and is continuously igniting feuds and controversies. Recently‚ during a Kendrick Lamar concert‚ a Caucasian woman was asked to join the rapper in his performance of "m.A.A.d. City". Lamar is notorious for his focus on racial injustice and life as an African American male‚ so the explicitness of his lyrics should be far from shocking. Not very far into the fan’s rendition of the song‚ Lamar stops and chastises her in front of the crowd for not censoring the ’N’ word‚ which was prevalent
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Kendrick Lamar’s February 2015 hit “The Blacker the Berry” was released in the wake of a slur of racial killings acted upon the black community. Most notable of these killings was the death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman. This murder is seen as the catalyst for a number of movements aimed at that the goal of achieving justice and equality for the black community such as the social movement “Black Lives Matter.” In “The Blacker the Berry”‚ Lamar tackles topics such as racial hatred
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creative‚ visually appealing‚ and symbolic. A symbolic shot is a split screen of Kendrick and a woman looking elegant with her hair slicked back into a bun‚ wearing a diamond necklace and makeup. Her and Kendrick switch sides and as she walks from the right side to the left of the screen. As she changes sides her makeup‚ clothes‚ and hair change into a bare face‚ natural hair and a plain white tank top but Kendrick remains looking the same. He raps‚ “I’m so fuckin’ sick and tired of the Photoshop”
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Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant. Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked is a good song choice for this book for may reasons. The song parallels the struggle people in the reservation go through to get money. I think the song message about how poverty affects people gives a nod to poverty and lack of resources in the Spokane Reservation and how Junior sees that affects people’s mindset. Also‚ the light situational humor of the song matches up with the humor found in Sherman’s book Rose
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Rap and hip-hop are two of the most popular genres of music. Rapping is a form of art‚ that lets any person express their views of life from whomever or wherever they may be‚ rich or poor. Their history traces back to the schoolyards and ghetto neighborhoods of the South Bronx‚ with young children just putting a beat to the stories about their lives and hidden truths of the world. Now‚ rap and hip-hop top the Billboard charts‚ and have emerged as two of the most influential cultural forces of our
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King Kunta derives its suprasensible beauty from its underlying tones of romantic ideals‚ and Kendrick himself as the embodiment of the Romantic hero. As Eco explains‚ the Romantic hero prevails through his ability to unite the oppressed and lower class of people against the aristocratic world. “The common denominator linking people who were often very different from one another and who only later were to cohere into a homogenous social class sharing similar tastes‚ attitudes‚ and ideology was
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The term music reflects the mood of an age often used by many people who are attempting to decipher what exactly is occurring in the world today. In the past‚ we had all kinds of music created such as jazz‚ bebop‚ Rap‚ and R&B that has paved the way for the musical creations we enjoy today. Often we look into the past at huge artists such as Aretha Franklin‚ Shaka Khan‚ Prince‚ and James Brown who all broke barriers and made fantastic music in their eras‚ and wonder what went wrong. Although the
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and that he had abusive parents and his siblings sold drugs and were in the streets. He also raps about women and sex but he does this to expand his fanbase and have some of his music in clubs to dance to. Many rappers do this like‚ A$AP Rocky‚ Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Those are just a couple of rappers. Most of their music has lyrics that don’t talk about sex and drugs‚ but most people only notice the songs that
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