English 101 28 September, 2012 Lyric Analysis of "Swimming Pools" by Kendrick Lamar Rap music has changed dramatically over the years. It went from a strong lyrical aspect expressing a tough childhood or life on the streets to a repetitive set of sentences repeated over again and in different ways. Today, we have rappers like Lil Wayne, Tyga, Drake, and etcetera, who copy each other's beats and change a couple words in the lyrics. An upcoming artist, Kendrick Lamar, has released a new song that when listened to, one can hear the meaning and the history behind the song. "Swimming Pools" is a dark and depressing song that sends the listener on a ride through Lamar's childhood, reasons for drinking, and becoming an alcoholic.
Baca later states, while being in jail, “All the fights I’d won to prove I was a man didn’t matter; nothing mattered expect what I was going to do now. The longer I postponed the inevitable showdown, the more it looked like I was afraid and the stronger it made him.” (Page #) When Baca says him he is referring to the black man who comes off as threat to him so something has to be done before the worse comes to him. Being put in this predicament he has to prove he’s a man so he can feel accepted from the society in jail. Along with masculinity, Baca has a hard time dealing with abandonment. As a
By him giving the world his life story really toughed the streets of poor black and white people that had witness things he would rap about. Now on the flip side Lil Keke would rap about the affluences and fame he struggled to achieve. Now Country Western gives you that but I get mostly the love and emotion out of it. Garth Brooks give me insight of loving one another. Which is great and he have a great story to tell every time he opens his mouth.
But every time David would tell or come close to a teacher, or another student about anything that happens at the “House” his mother would beat him again. Anything from belts to locked in a bathroom with Clorox and Ammonia. Life was hard for David as he tried to get away from his Mother and Father, who was rarely around. A Child Called It was person vs. self and The Lost Boy was person vs. person. When David was just a little boy his daily routine was to wake up, do his daily chores, and if he didn’t do one task right he suffered by being beaten by “Mother”.
That is why Lil Wayne isn’t a role model like he says he is. The greatest speaks for the people, that is how the Hip Hop culture works, regardless of what anyone says any genre or median the greatest always speaks for the people. Tupac would always show his love to the people and would include his fans to his music videos. Public Enemy a rap duo would express their feelings towards police brutality, violence, and drug abuse. Lil Wayne raps about the opposite that the Hip Hop pioneers would rap about in the 1990’s.
He displaced his family an spent years forging relationships with individuals who many would describe as the underbelly of society in order to produce his unprecedented ethnography. Issues discussed Some of the issues discussed in “The Hold Life Has” and “In Search of Respect” appear to be quite similar. Through each of the books, there are the major themes of drug use. Though in terms of this particular theme, the similarity stops at that. Allen’s study of the Runakuna illustrated that their use of coca is a very spiritual act.
Super Fly is well known for its style and impact that it had on changing the views of others towards Priests lifestyle. Ron O’Neal stars as Priest in the movie, a drug dealer from the streets of Harlem that is looking to get out of “the life” of dealing. By doing this he wants to make one last big sale to end it all and live off the rewards he gets from it. Priest is the type of guy that you do not want to get in his way or he will give it to you straight without a worry. The main part of the movie where he expresses this attitude is at the end where he says, “You better take real good care of me.
His mother spent time in jail, she was an excessive drinker, and she often abandoned a young Manson to go out. He was soon placed in public institutions, and beginning at the age of nine, he was caught up in many petty crimes and sent to boys reformatories. Manson was said to do good work at school, but only when he could see there was something in it for him. He showed many sociopathic tendancies as a young child an teen, and a psychiatrist said he would one day become a "fairly slick institutionalised youth". Later in his life, Manson was found to have raped another boy whilst holding a razor to his throat, he spent a good part of the 50s and 60s in prisons.
He has a very recognizable voice and the lyrics he writes are usually over the top. I think he probably gets high and just spits out the words whether they make sense or not. He repeats his lines a lot and if he wrote them down, he probably wouldn't do that, but no matter what, he spits out the rhymes like it's nothing. I like the fact that Lil Wayne raps about real life. He raps about the hottest clothes, cars, partying, and women.
In a recent article in “Hip Hop,” they discuss the reasoning behind the vulgar language and the term “nigger” used in rap in the mind of a famous artist, Snoop Doggy-Dogg. “People gotta see the pain and sufferin that we African Americans gone through. Ain’t no one gonna see anything if we