Which one do you prefer?
Snoop Dogg has been in the rap industry for the past twenty years. Snoop Dogg is a renown Grammy award winning rap artist for best album of the year two times in a row. Snoop Dogg is a rapper and actor. For many women it has been a fantasy of theirs to be with a famous rapper like Snoop Dogg standing at six feet four inches with a slender built physique with his finesse style of rapping he has sex appeal about himself. Snoop Dogg is a gangster rap artist. Occasionally Snoop Dogg likes to change from being a gangster rapper artist with a high bass to a more disco, melodic style of rapping. That is what Snoop Dogg did with his hit single “Sensual Seduction”. Just as Snoop Dogg has a more serious vibe
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to him, Mike Epps has a more comical vibe to him. On the other Hand, Mike Epps is a comedy. Mike Epps is a comedian. He has been in the comedic industry approximately fifteen years. He is slim build and about six foot in stature. Mike Epps is not only a comedian but an actor, writer, rapper and director. He has won the NAACP image awards. Mike Epps is best known for his acting role in the two thousand two fi next Friday as “Day-Day”. Since then he has started in many movies playing many different roles. He is also known for doing standup comedy. Mike Epps decided to do a parody to Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction”. The title of the parody is “Sexual Harassment”. While Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction” original rap song contain more of a retro, high tempo, disco sound, Mike Epps’s parody song of the original “Sensual Seduction” has a slower paced low tempo sound also at the same time Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction original version an Mike Epps parody are great songs to listen to it just depends on the audience preference because, both songs have a similar sexual theme to them however their songs have a different context to them such as lyrics, song context and credibility. Snoop Doggs original song “Sensual Seduction” evokes a feeling of sexual arousal and Mike Epps parody does not. Snoop Dogg’s original song is filled with lyrics that will increase sexual thoughts. He has lyrics like “If you don’t know by now doggy dogg is a freak I keep a bad ass with me seven days out the week.” These are provocative lyrics that would evoke an emotion of arousal. He continues on saying “I was all in the club havin’ a drink, blowin on a sweet when I peeped this little freak out I was all on the bar when drifter shawty red came on then she hit the floor”. Snoop Dogg continues on to describe how he seduces his women by say “With a see through dress, long hair, light brown eyes lookin’ like miss Bo peep And a playa know if I take her home with them real thick hips, you so right I’m gon’ beat. Snoop Dogg continues to evoke knowledge on how to pick on a women in a club with these lyrics “So I approached the chick with the real pretty face nice cures on her with a lil bitty waist I whispered in her ear “ill momma, what you drink I know that you’re a freak but you know I aunt gon say shh” see my game is outrageous I got her into the crib and exchanged some sex faces but it wasn’t no need for me to rush to bust one ‘Cause I wanted her to have an eruption”. Not only does Snoop Dogg lyrics differentiate for the parody his context does as well. The context on Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction” original version is about picking up a woman that you are attracted too, taking her home and giving her a sexual experience that she never forgets. Snoop Dogg plans to give her a sexual orgasm as he describes in his lyrics “I’m gonna take my time she gon get hers before I I’m gon take it slow I’m not gonna rush the stroll”. These lyrics have a bigger message behind them he is practically saying he wants to be the pleaser in the sexual encounter that he gives to women. He wants to fulfil the needs of the women that he has sex with. Not only does Snoop Dogg context differentiate for the parody his credibility as a rap artist does as well. Snoop Dogg has been in the rap industry for the past twenty-two years. He has sold out stadiums like Madison Square Garden. Snoop Dogg has been nominated for approximately ninety-seven awards and won seventeen different awards for songs like “beautiful” and “drop it like hot”. Snoop Dogg has over 30 albums such as “ Jin and Juice, Dogg style, More Malice and Death Row just to name a few. The overall message behind Snoop Dogg credibility is that Snoop Dogg is a legend in the rap industry and he has fans worldwide. Snoop Dogg’s music speaks for his credibility in the rap industry with songs like “Young wild and free “that will never go out of style. In comparison to Snoop Dogg’s original song “Sensual Seduction”, mike Epps parody of the original “Sexual Harassment” has different lyrics, context and credibility. Mike Epps parody of the original version “Sexual Harassment” evokes an emotion of happiness. In the beginning of the song Mike Epps it says his rap name is “Horn Dogg’. His rap name “Horn Dog compliments the parody he is rapping. Mike Epps makes the audience laugh with lyrics like “I go to work on time she get hers before I, I’m gonna rub her slow now watch how I rush the stroll so she can get a sexual harassment, so I can get a sexual harassment, so we can get a sexual harassment, We up in a meeting but I’m sneaking a peek all that I ever do is Xerox my cheeks”. Then Mike Epps says “ I was all on the job sippin a lil Hennessey, smoking a lil drow when I peeded this lil hoe out I had to do it to her ”. Threw out the entire song Mike Epps repeats the hook “Sexual Harassment”. Throughout the entire song there are people laughing in the background. This song is not meant to offend anyone. Overall, Mike Epps parody of the original song is meant to be a joke. The big picture behind the lyrics are meant to evoke happiness and joy. Not only does Mike Epps parody of the original song “Sexual Harassment” lyrics differentiate from Snoop Dogg’s original Song the context does as well. Overall the lyrics are similar to the original version but the context of the parody is different because the original song is talking about doing a sexual action in a sensual way and the parody is taking about doing a sexual action in a forceful manor.
The context of the parody is very explicit with lyrics that describe sexual context. The context of the parody’s video is different from the original song video. In the parody the video is in an office setting with women that are dressed in office clothes attire. The professional clothing that the women are wearing is tight fitting to their thin build feminist physique. In the parody Mike Epps is walking around the office grabbing women on their butt, lifting up their skirts and looking under their dress. He is setting the video up to look like sexual harassment in the office. In the original songs video, the women are wearing lingerie clothes like bra, panties and thigh high socks. Snoop Dogg’s video has a club setting with a dancefloor and women dancing. However, the original song has a natural sexy appeal to the video, while the parody of the original song video has a creepy appeal to …show more content…
it. Mike Epps has done many different parodies of songs an even tried to make some original songs but his credibility as a rapper is not greater then Snoop Dogg.
Mike Epps has been in the rap industry for approximately five years. Mikes Epps doesn’t have any records sold. He doesn’t have any albums the he made. He doesn’t have any credibly when it comes to make a hit song. He is a comedian. His fans take him as a joke not seriously. The reason his fans take him as a joke I because, he is funny with everything he does that’s the image that he portrays to the public. Overall, Mike Epps credibility is not greater than Snoop
Doggs. In conclusion, Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction” original song was about meeting a young beautiful lady at a night club and taking her home to give her “what he thinks,” is the best sexual experiences of her life. In contrast, mike Epps parody of the original song “Sexual Harassment” is about sexual harassing women in the workplace. While both songs are unique in their own way it just depends on the song lyrics, context and credibly for which best suites its audience.
The song is not only expressing his love for girls, it’s also a metaphor for his love Hip-Hop. This is another example of Lupe’s Fiasco lyrical skills.
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