“Player’s Ball” and “Ms. Jackson” are played by the same hip hop duo, OutKast. This American group is both universally acclaimed and commercially successful. Because these two songs are performed by the same artists, they share similar styles - a funky and positive style. Both songs are also true to life, reflecting artists’ real life. Unlike traditional Southern rappers, OutKast’s lyrics do not contain much aggressive and violent content. Their lyrics pursue deeper meanings, and their melodies are more tuneful and flowing. However, these two music are performed in a slightly different way. The songs also rely on different signifyins: “Player’s Ball” represents the overall society, whereas “Ms. Jackson” describes a more detailed problem that …show more content…
They do not make up good but unreal pictures in order to obtain acclaim, follow mainstream, and make money. “Ms. Jackson” portrays the problems of breakups and divorces, and the impacts to family relationships brought by those separations. The song discusses the ending relationship between Benjamin, one of the rappers in OutKast, and his wife Erykah Badu. Also, Badu’s mother is unhappy and angry with her daughter’s husband, Benjamin. In “Ms. Jackson”, these lyrics “I 'm sorry Ms. Jackson, I am for real, Never meant to make your daughter cry, I apologize a trillion times” appear for eight times. Benjamin really apologizes for “a trillion times”, and even repeats lyrics in order to emphasis his apology . He is honestly reflecting his real life struggle with his wife and wife’s mother. The lyrics clearly state their conflicts. For example, “I 'm sorry Ms. Jackson, I am for real, Never meant to make your daughter cry, I apologize a trillion times”. What’s more, “I love your mom and everything, but see I ain 't the only one who laid down, She wanna rib you up to start a custody war, my lawyers stay down”, Benjamin says that he shows enough repost towards Badu and her mother. However, they still have an argument on the kid’s …show more content…
Jackson” and “Player’s Ball” share some similarities, they also differ from each other. They have similar styles, but they are performed in slightly different ways. In “Ms. Jackson”, there might be a guitar sound. In my opinion, it also contains various sounds of nature, such as wind-bell, thunderstorms, fire, and etc. Wind-bell may represent love and hope that Benjamin has towards his wife, Badu. In addition, sounds of bad weather and fire correspond to his stormy conflicts with the grandmother about the child. The kicking and powerful flows, along with the repetitive lyrics also attribute to their deteriorating and intense relations. On the contrary, “Player’s Ball” is high-tech, accomplished with some live instruments. The background music of this song is melodic and powerful. However, the entire music sounds more lively and bright, compared to “Ms. Jackson”. Thus, even though the styles of these two music are kind of comparable, they have different performance and
In the article “ From Fly to Bitches and Hoes” by Joan Morgan, she often speaks about the positive and negative ideas associated with hip-hop music. Black men display their manhood with full on violence, crime, hidden guilt, and secret escapes through drugs and alcohol. Joan Morgan’s article views the root causes of the advantage of misogyny in rap music lyrics. In the beginning of the incitement her desires shift to focus on from rap culture condemnation to a deeper analysis of the root causes. She shows the hidden causes of unpleasant sexism in rap music and argues that we need to look deeper into understanding misogyny. I agree with Joan Morgan with the stance that black men show their emotions in a different way that is seen a different perspective.
In Adam Bradley’s “Rap poetry 101” he shows us how rap is more than just songs being sung, it is poetry; it is something that has an empowering ability to make the familiar unfamiliar.In this chapter Bradley creates a new viewpoint too rap. Bradley shows us how rap and poetry has become a very similar piece of art that should be further appreciated. In the chapter poetry 101 Bradley describes how rap is a form of public art, and how rappers have become our greatest public poets. The importance of rap as poetry is shown throughout Bradley's book as well as the evidence behind the reasons rap is poetry.
Michael Jackson is one of the most widely beloved entertainers and profoundly influential artists of all time; he leaves an indelible imprint on popular music and culture. Commonly referred to as the “King of Pop”, Michael Jackson continues to earn millions of dollars beyond the grave- earning over $700 million in the years since he passed away in 2009. As the pop genre derives from an abbreviation of “popular”, the King of Pop maintained record breaking popularity for extended periods of time. Pop music, is typically short and simple commercially recorded songs oriented towards a youth market; the King of Pop challenged stereotypes and the viewpoints of his audience with songs like “We are the World”, “Man in the Mirror” and many more.
Hip-Hop became characterized by an aggressive tone marked by graphic descriptions of the harshness and diversity of inner-city life. Primarily a medium of popular entertainment, hip-hop also conveys the more serious voices of youth in the black community. Though the approaches of rappers became more varied in the latter half of the 1980s, message hip-hop remained a viable form for addressing the problems faced by the black community and means to solve those problems. The voices of "message" hip...
An author’s contributions to the world of literature are many times welcomed as a brilliant piece of work or a genius accomplishment. However, during the life of Shirley Jackson, her stories were many times received poorly due to their dark nature or their pedestrian humor. Even her most famous work, “The Lottery”, was met with outrage and criticism by Americans and literary critics. During her time, horror and humor were seen as minor writings that no one took much notice of. In Janet M. Ball’s analysis of Shirley Jackson, she states that, “Because Jackson chose to handle unusual topics, such as psychosis and ghostly apparitions, some literary critics relegated her to minor status.” (1). Even though she was disregarded during her own time,
There is one universal language: the language of music. Music has a special quality and ability to bridge both social and cultural divides. A proposed theory by Dr. Gray, Founder and Director of National Musical Arts’ BioMusic Program; describes music has been around longer than human-beings have. Music is the one thing human beings from various backgrounds can relate to. Every living creature would agree. Music is heard everywhere not just among humans, but in nature as well, through the twitting of birds, winds blowing, the soft sound of raindrops against a windowpane, the ocean waves moving back and forth and the hum of the ocean rushing in a sea shell. There is no escaping it; music lives in and surrounds us steadily. While there are countless songs which confer social or cultural consciousness, this paper will analyze and address the dynamics of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes”, video. Stylistically, the paper will examine the artist point of view, the unique use of lyrical analysis and sound description in relation to its historical, social, political and/or cultural context. This essay will also trace the lyrical analysis and sound description of song and discuss how the elements (visually, sonically, and lyrically) interplay with the theme of immigration and/or violence.
life, as well as in the lives of the other Jackson’s, there seemed to be so much pressure for success, but they all seemed to lack self-esteem.
George covers much familiar ground: how B-beats became hip hop; how technology changed popular music, which helped to create new technologies; how professional basketball was influenced by hip hop styles; how gangsta rap emerged out of the crack epidemic of the 1980s; how many elements of hip hop culture managed to celebrate, and/or condemn black-on-black violence; how that black-on-black violence was somewhat encouraged by white people scheming on black males to show their foolishness, which often created a huge mess; and finally, how hip hop used and continues to use its art to express black frustration and ambition to blacks while, at the same time, refering that frustration and ambition to millions of whites.
Hip-hop music is the best base form of music to invoke change because songs can be written quickly by rappers to address their communities. Hip-hop started in the early 1970’s in minority-filled neighborhoods that were surrounded with poverty, crime, and drugs. Over time, hip-hop has been changed to express different messages. At its beginning the message was positive addressing the problems of poor neighborhoods and now the message is flashy and unclear. With this change
1. In the Jackson’s case the District Court’s judgment was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on the ground that termination of electric services did not constitute state action. The Metropolitan Edison Co. was a private entity and was not subject to the due process requirements of the 14th Amendment based on the State Action Doctrine. Moreoever, in the Jackson case, Metropolitan Edison Co. was a private entity that did not receive any federal funding. In the Simkin’s Case both the hospitals, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and Wesley Long had received millions of funds through the Hill Burton Act and hence they were subject to the Constitutional guarantee of equal protection. Therefore, subject to the protections from racial
An icon for decades, legend for an eternity, Michael Jackson’s impact on the world continues to thrive as a silhouette amongst pop culture. His music has influenced many people to "Xscape" from the deceptions of all the "Dirty Diana[s]. " Yet, his talent has encouraged people to "Scream" through all the "Thriller[s]" they receive as his stardom illuminates the stage as the "Smooth Criminal" of performances. His songs vary from selections that you can "Jam" to, those that promote tough love and adornment, while some are advocates for equality. Jackson is and will remain one of the most profound superstars of his time and one of the most dynamic artists in "History."
Hip hop has multiple branches of style and is a culture of these. This essay will examine Hip Hop from the point of view of the following three popular music scholars, Johnson, Jeffries and Smitherman. It will delve deeper into their understanding of what hip hop is and its relation to the different people that identify with its message and contents. It will also identify the history of Hip hop and its transition into popular music. In particular this essay will focus on what hip hop represents in the black community and how it can be used as a social movement against inequalities faced by them. This will then open up the discussion for the how this has influenced society, and the impact it has had in terms of race issues which hip hop itself often represents through music.
These six words in many ways defined the late 1980s and 1990s, encapsulating the rise of hip-hop, NIKE, Michael Jordan, and the racial-class narratives embedded in each of them. The problem of such ethos are highlighted in a music video from Seattle’s very own Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
Napoleon and Tabitha Dumo’s “Maya Angelou’s Harlem Hopscotch: Official Music Video” uses dance and rhythmic music to express the social, political, and cultural issues that are ailing American society. Dumo’s video describes the state of racism in America from Harlem to Hollywood. In Maya Angelou’s poem “Harlem Hopscotch” she incorporates the children's game hopscotch with the everyday life of the African American’s in harlem. While the poem is directed towards Harlem, the music video is aimed at all of American society.
The differences in the two song show that there are many differences between music in the 1980s and 2000s, especially, if the two music is not from the same genre. Although these two song differ in persuasion and the moment in which they were written, they are all meaningful for their audience that appreciates their