When most people become famous they are sometimes idolized by their fans. In the song “Pain” by Herbert Wright, also known as Lil Herb, he tries to explain that he wasn’t born famous and he had with great difficulty a hard time becoming successful. I chose this song because it shows how lyrical he can be when he’s speaking from the heart about his personal experiences. This song represents another style he can rap, something that isn’t explicit. I do believe the meaning of this song is that Herb had to grow up fast because of the lifestyle he was forced to live due to his circumstances. He has experienced peer pressure, love, and of course pain. In the very beginning of the song he starts by denying the fact that he wasn’t born a star. “1995, fall night, October 8th, most people would say a star was born but nah, that's when I was born. And I wasn't born a star, nigga I wasn't born on top” (1-3). He sets the mood for the song to be relaxed and calm. He starts to recall his childhood when he has to walk places because his mother didn’t own a vehicle. “I remember walking cold from school when …show more content…
The other person featuring in his song, J Tsunami, describes what he went through was the same as Herb. “Understand that I can relate to everything that you sayin, because I grew up just like you” (52). He was forced to having a hand in raising his younger siblings. “Three years old thats when moms and pops relationship was torn, Them not f*ckin' with each other made me father my lil brothers” (60-61). As a child, he was forced to move from place to place and how he barely had a meal to come home to. “From the city to the burbs we was goin back and forth. So I was in and out of schools, lived everywhere but West and North, Eating pork and beans and noodles not by choice but more so force, Til one day I told myself I can't continue on the course” (62-66). This is also an example of how rhyme is used in the
Using pathos, he expresses his feelings and shows sympathy towards his mother for all hard times that she had trying to raise him as a single mother on welfare. “I shed tears with my baby sister over the years we was poorer than the other little kids”, gives the audience reason to believe that he was ashamed of not having as much as the other little kids in his community. The chorus of the song is another example of pathos. It shows the never-ending love and appreciation that he has for his mother. No matter how much they fight or how hard life was for them she’s always there to pick him up when he’s down. “I reminisce on the stress I caused it was hell hugging on my mama from a jail cell”. This shows the people who are listening that he regrets putting his mother through all the hell that he did by being a rebellious teenager and not appreciating the little things she did for him. In the beginning of the song Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur explains how she was pregnant with Tupac while she was in jail thinking that she would have him and never be able to see him. She was lucky enough to be released a month before she had him, from then on she had big hopes and goals for him. Later on when Tupac found himself in a jail cell at a young age he says it was hell that he never thought would happen. The last example of pathos is this verse “I wish I can take the pain away if you can make it through the night there’s a brighter day”. This verse is powerful only because so many people can relate to feeling like nothing in their life would ever change. It gives hope to people who are going through similar struggles and have no one to encourage them to keep pushing forward it will eventually get easier. When you don’t have anyone to motivate or push you, you begin to ask yourself if it’s all worth it. One image from the video that strengthens this rhetorical strategy
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It begins with anaphora by repeating the phrase “I aint”. By doing this, he emphasizing all the ideas associated with him that he never did and directly points out the stigmatism he had to overcome, while also bragging about who he became. It is important for him to emphasize these points because these are activities that he could have easily gotten into and people would expect him to do. But yet he made it out of the struggle without stooping down to that level which is a major accomplishment. He then goes on to name some of the greats he grew up on and some of the greats of today. His audience will automatically know who these people are and they will know the level of respect they have as rappers. But, the last few lines of the song end with “but check your birth date nigga, you aint the God/ …nigga Cole the God” (lns. 64, 66). This epigram makes this line the pentacle of the song. Even after naming all these important people, he’s saying that they might be great but they’re not him. He has something that sets him apart from anyone before or after
IDENTIFYING INFORMATION: Raven Wright is a 13-year-old adolescent female seen today with her mother for a 90-minute outpatient psychiatric assessment.
Poetry is a form of writing that is commonly used to express feelings. There are many famous poets, from modern and past times, that are famous for the expression of their feelings through poems. One of the most famous rappers of all time is Tupac Amaru Shakur. Tupac Shakur was not only a Rapper, but also an actor, and a poet. One of his most famous works is “When Ure Heart Turns Cold”. In this poem, he talks about his loss of emotion caused from his experiences. Tupac’s work was very famous in his time because he was a unique poet; He talked about things nobody really spoke about in his time. In his poems and raps, Tupac expressed his thoughts towards police brutality and personal experiences, using figurative language, unique diction, and
A lot of times, people find music a great way to express how they feel. Perhaps they cannot find the words to explain how they feel but a song can put it perfectly. Songs can tell a story, give a message, or simply be a nice beat to dance to. In the song, “Same Drugs” by Chance the Rapper, he tells a story of someone he grew up with who has since changed now that they are adults. Talking about the simplicity of when they were kids and now they are adults. Comparing their relationship to the story of Peter Pan, he uses the lines, “When did you change? Wendy, you’ve aged,” to express them growing up, aging, and changing (Chance The Rapper). He compares his old childhood friend to Wendy and compares himself to Peter Pan. Although it is easy to believe this song is about drugs, this song is not about drugs. Not only is this song enjoyable to listen to, but listening to the story allows people to relate. Using Peter Pan to compare to
It starts by describing a young woman in college, stating, “she has no idea what she’s doing in college, the major she majored in don’t make no money, she won’t drop out, her parents will look at her funny (West).” By doing this the song establishes that this woman wants success but she doesn’t know how to obtain it since she was basically pushed into pursuing a career in college that she was unsure of in order to obtain success. The song furthers the story of the woman when she states that she gives up and goes on to say that her tuition money is enough to buy a few pairs of new shoes. The desire for success and frustration of not being able to achieve it, is what essentially leads the woman to take this shortcut of dropping out of school to acquire material possessions in the “now” instead of the slower, more standard route of finishing her education and finding success through that. Kanye West then describes in the song his addiction to material possessions when he began to acquire wealth from his music career.
Raised as an only child, Dwayne Micheal Carter Jr or more commonly referred to as Lil Wayne, was born September 27th, 1982, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Carter’s mother was only 19 years old when he was first born. He was being raised by both his mother and father until his father abandoned them while Dwayne Jr. was only two years old. After being abandoned by his biological father, his mother was forced to take care of him on her own and survive in the crime infested community of Holly grove, New Orleans. Even though he divorced his mother and remarried, his father forced the two live with his own mother and came by to abuse Lil Wayne’s mother on a consistent basis.This situation went on for three years until Lil Wayne’s mother eventually remarried and relocated to a different part of town. Growing up he did very well in school. He was actually enrolled in his school’s gifted program at a point and received top grades. He got into music at a very young age and wrote his first rap song at the age of eight. Lil Wayne had the drive to be the best and successful at his craft since he first began. At the age of nine he was challenging others twice his age and older at rapping. He would consistently go to neighborhood parties or events to rap and most of the time he was better then whatever adult he was going against. As a testament to this, at the age of nine he start receiving attention from one of the two co-founders of his future label, Slim Williams. From Slim, he then received other co-founder, Bryan Williams, phone number and what he did with it after that was truly caught the Bryan’s attention. He continuously called the number over and over leaving rap songs on the voicemail of Williams until he agreed to meet him in person...
In this song, she sings about events that have oppressed the African American people and other ethnicities in the United States for many years. In the song she states (line 60) “Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma trying to own a piece, of the "American Corona”, The Revolving Door, Insanity every floor, Skyscraping, paper chasing, What are we working for? Empty traditions, Reaching social positions, Teaching ambition to support the family superstition?” In this part of the song she is saying that everyone today is trying to be successful and trying to accomplish the American dream. She says that trying too hard to be successful is toxic and it will mess with one’s traditions that he or she does. She also is saying that in some ways it will mess with one’s social abilities with one’s family and friends. Success is only good if one is doing good and feeling good in the end. It is not good when there is no good in involved. Therefore, that’s why she calls it
Puff Daddy, born Sean Combs on November 4, 1969 in Harlem to Melvin and Janice Combs, began his life of violence at a young age. When Sean was two years old, his father was tragically murdered. This forced Janice to move to a safer environment in Mt.Vernon, NY where she had to work three jobs in order to provide for her family. One can see that Sean’s broken home and the violence that constantly surrounded him influenced his lyrics and style of music throughout his life[I1] . His angry lyrics and shouts of aggression in his individual tracks certainly support the argument of his childhood having a big impact on his style of rap.
In “Changes” he raps about how his community needs change and he is the one to address the problem. Tupac’s lyrics go as follows, “We gotta make a change… / It 's time for us as a people to start makin ' some changes. / Let 's change the way we eat, let 's change the way we live / and let 's change the way we treat each other” (Shakur). In these lines he sets out what needs to happen in Harlem to make it a better place to live. Older rappers and rap groups like as N.W.A, Tupac, and Biggie are leaders that started change for their cities. Biggie Smalls was an iconic figure of this era as well. The song, “Sky’s the Limit” shows that he is trying to send the message that even though he came from a family of poverty, he did not let that bring his life down. “Take a better stand/Put money in my moms hand/Get my daughter this college plan, so she don 't need no man/Stay far from timid/Only make moves when ya heart 's in it/And live the phrase Sky 's The Limit” (Notorious B.I.G.). “Sky’s the Limit” gives the audience the hope that if you are born at the bottom, you do not necessarily have to end up in the same place. The biggest thing the Biggie Smalls is trying to say is that you can always have what you want, but it only matters if you be what you want. Biggie Smalls is drawing attention to
As the jury, you all have come to the conclusion that my client, Minnie Wright, is guilty of murder, but this crime was not premeditated, it was a crime committed while Minnie was unaware, and in a psychotic episode. Minnie Wright was a lively and carefree spirit before her husband John Wright entered her life, and everything changed for the worse. He kept her from her friends by moving her to a more isolated location, and kept her from calling people, because John Wright did not approve telephones due to the noises they made, and lastly he even went as far as killing her main source of social interaction, her little canary. These factors affected Minnie’s mental health, and she soon broke into a episode of insanity, unknowingly killing her
...things do not change. The last part of that lyric is pretty sad. Sounds like his friends were constantly dying due to the violence in his neighborhood.
Tupac Shakur was a black African American rapper who lived his life with poverty, violence and drugs. The songs ““Hellrazor””, “Me and My Girlfriend” and the poem “In the Event of my Demise” reflect the tragedy and pain which was Tupac’s life. All his poetry relies on vivid imagery and violent language to create a very realistic picture of how terrible life can be living in the ghettos of America.
This song doesn’t only deal with sensory description; it also deals with figurative language. One example of figurative language is used by Ludacris when he says "I don't know, but you gotta stop trippin." The word trippin doesn’t actually mean tripping and falling, it means you have to stop worrying. He uses this word to relate to the different kind of people who listen to this song. Ludacris also uses figurative language when he says "Used to play back then, now you all grown-up like Rudy Huxtable." This figurative language is a simile, because he is comparing growing up to Rudy Huxtable, using the word like. Finally the last piece of figurative language is used by Usher when he says "Got me fiendin' like Jodeci." This also is a form of a simile, because he is stating that he has and urge like Jodeci by using the word like. That is part of the definition of a simile. Songs do not only deal with sensory description, but also figurative language.