Nas Daughters Analysis

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One of my favorite songs of all time is “Daughters” by Nas. It was created in 2012 by Nas who in the hip hop community is known to be a socially aware rapper. The song is based around the significance of the relationship between a young lady and her father. Not only do I love the lyricism of the song I also really love the messages that he presented. I think it has a big cultural importance in relation to the taboo of black fathers in their kids’ lives and the power that they essentially have in their children’s lives. It is also important on a social basis based on how women without their fathers tend to live their lives looking for their father in the wrong places. A father is important to a family no matter what is a person’s race or orientation. …show more content…

Even some of our music and movies praises the idea of young African American men leaving their responsibilities as a father. Yet Nas as an African American man himself says with this song how it is necessary to be a part of your children’s lives. Nas raps about how his lack of being there has resulted in his daughter going down a bad path. I think that it is socially important for the African American man to know the power that they have in their families so that they will be less likely to take their responsibility lightly. They could see that it is better to be their themselves as an alternative to just giving the task to someone else, anyone else. I honestly think that if there was a stronger father presence in these communities that as a race we would be in a different position. How can we expect these kids to go out into the world and be successful when they are missing a huge part of themselves? Instead we have these kids running around with little direction trying to be raised in large by single mothers trying to make ends meet. With more fathers around, they could pass down the important things that they know and to give their kids the confidence that they need to conquer the world. Even though women play a huge role in their families so do fathers and families that lack them are significantly …show more content…

The world began to radically change economically in the 20th Century and with that came a big change in the structure and function of the family with a consequent shift in the authority of the father. A father’s influence was increasingly seen as minor and his importance was defined by how well he provided for the family. If a man felt that he couldn’t provide for their families they felt less than. To them it was only essential for a man to provide for his family not for them to be there to embark lessons of life on them. In truth having a positive male role model helps an adolescent boy develop positive gender-role characteristics; and ensures that adolescent girls are more likely to form positive opinions of men and are better able to relate to them when fathered by an involved father. By having them not experience the validation of their importance in the general parenting it has made fathers much more unconscious of their value and, in turn, leads to their greater non-yearning to be involved. This was a grave mistake that began what essentially lead to the fall of the father and his

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