Song lyrics: looking through the window of cultural texts… If you took the time to listen to the lyrics of a song instead of mumbling uselessly to the catchy melody‚ you’d notice that some bands and musical artists are informing their audience of present-time themes and issues. In today’s society‚ song lyrics can be used effectively to find fault with many dominant values and attitudes‚ somewhat protesting against social issues and the preconceived ideas that stand tall on the stage of democracy
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Chris Jacobson Miss Lindquist English 101 15 November 2010 Fearless Rhymes To gaze into the lyrics of both Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur is like living in the ghettos of New York City where violence never stops. Both of these artists grew up seeing and living a life filled with violence. Gunshots and drive-byes‚ death and murder were a daily occurrence. Although the lyrics of both artists are simply telling their life stories and how hard it was to grow up in their “hoods” they contain
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time ago‚ when the famous rapper‚ Tupac‚ was alive‚ he had a beef with the Notorious B.I.G. They both were quite close‚ but one day‚ when Tupac got shot at a New York recording studio‚ the Notorious B.I.G. and P. Diddy were present there. (RappingManual) Tupac had suspicious on the Notorious B.I.G. and then‚ they started their beef. He thought that Biggie planned to kill him in order to eliminate him and claimed to be the most famous rappers in the United States. Tupac tried all his best to destroy the
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his flows and rapping‚ he made it into the big game. He was rapping with Diddy‚ Tupac and all the most famous and legendary people. His songs were going off the charts‚ he was making a living and a great one at that. From going to nothing in a crappy neighborhood to making it big time with the cash‚ to his nice cars to luxurious house and cars. He was living the famous life‚ until his scandal with his best friend Tupac became. He knew that his wasn’t going to be the end of it. They fought the east
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When reading the two poems ’The rose that grew from concrete’ written by Tupac Shakur and ’Mother to Son’ by Langston Hughes‚ you will notice that they both have several distinct similarities and contrasts. The First poem written by Tupac Shakur talks about a rose that grows from a crack in the concrete all on its own with determination‚ and the central idea is that the hardships we face as children/teenagers don’t have to shape our future in a negative way. The second poem by Langston Hughes is
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3/3/13 VICTORIA JUSTICE LYRICS - Everything Can Change "Everything Can Change" lyrics . Like 0 Share MP3 VICTORIA JUSTICE - Everything Can Share Email Share Print VICTORIA JUSTICE LYRICS Send "Everything Can Change" Ringtone to your Cell "Everything Can Change" (with Tammin Sursok‚ Nolan Gerard Funk‚ Simon Curtis) Do do do do do do There’s no easy way to figure out Why everything we planned gets turned around Nothing accidental‚ got it down to a "T" So why do things
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Tupac Shakur was born June 16‚1971 in East Harlem New York. He died at the age of 25 on September 13‚ 1996 in University Medical Center of Southern Nevada Las Vegas.The cause of his death is a drive-by-shooting .Tupac is also a rapper and write poems. His stage name is known as 2pac and Makaveli. Shakor sold over 75 million records and make it the best-selling music artist. In my poem I was unable to find when the poem was published. There is two stanzas in the poem. This don’t have set patterns
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than wasting time here on earth. Jean explains his story by using a type of music that will get to young people without making them feel like they are being scolded. He also relates his verses to famous people such as Kanye West‚ Notorious B.I.G.‚ Tupac‚ Sean Bell‚ Left Eye Lopez‚ and an innocent 16 year old girl; by using this type of song writing style‚ young people will listen to the song and learn from it rather than avoiding the topic. The first verse of the song is allduding to Kanye West having
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Shakur was in serving time on a boom charge. Tupac was rasied in the Bronx and where he learned and participated in theather at and early age. When he was 13 he had his first performance at Apollo theatre where he performed in a stage play of the rasisin in the sun for Jessie James 1984 presidential campaign. During tupac’s youth and adolessece the shukur family moved around a lot‚ This was mainly due to Afeni drug addition and spoty arrest record. When Tupac was 17 he attended the Baltimore School
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Byron Johnson Professor Briggs Music 24B 3 December 2014 Stop and Listen to the Music “War‚ what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.” These are the lyrics from the 1969 smash hit titled “War.” Edwin Starr wrote this song in protest to the Vietnam War and it expressed many peoples’ feelings towards the war through a catchy melody. Music can have a profound impact on social politics‚ and can serve to connect people. Many of the songs written in the late 1960s captured the American public’s discontent
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