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Robin Thicke’s music video to his song “Blurred Lines” avidly contributes to the patriarchy, while portraying sexism, gender standards, and beauty standards. His music video can be analyzed from a feminist theory approach, as it’s evident that his song and video contribute to a patriarchal society and its inherently sexist and sexualized ideologies. The ideology behind the song and music video is purely sexual and about male dominance. The lyrics to the song and actions in the video exhibit extreme over sexualization and objectification of the women. Analyzing this piece of popular culture through a feminist approach opens up a provoking conversation about how popular culture functions in a patriarchal culture. Analyzing pop culture though a feminist theory can allow for a larger variety and more in-depth analysis about the social aspects and political agenda within popular culture.

Kanye West produced the popular song “All Falls Down” in 2004. He is well known for creating many wonderful tunes but this one stands out above the rest. While his other songs contain bass-heavy instrumentals and contain lyrics about money and women, this one is strays away from the previous structures. “All Falls Down” catches the attention of youth, with its mellow melody, to send a strong message concerning the overemphasis on money and education and how it can be harmful through the lyrics. The issues contained in the message are highly focused on the idea that money and education will not always be there

Today many people feel compelled to buy anything or everything with an expensive price tag. This includes Expensive designer clothes, latest gadgets, expensive vehicles and many other similar things. This form of consumerism has embedded itself in today’s society; where it's encouraged to invest in such materialistic possessions. Kanye West is an African-American rapper, producer, and entrepreneur, who articulates his struggle with consumerism and the struggle for those around him in his song “All Falls Down.” West, utilizes puns, rhyme, and juxtaposition to highlight the issues surrounding materialism that can be interpreted differently by different listeners such as African Americans and White Americans.

Summarizing: This essay about Biggie Smalls and Frank white who bring a unique, unmatched and unparalleled style to the hip-hop community and to the world of music. Biggie Smalls tells the story exactly how he sees it. Frank white shares what he envisions and what he hopes to see. Armand Powell-Archie explains that “People fear what they don’t understand/hate what they can’t conquer guess it’s just the theory of man”(251).They give a clear insight into the daily and everyday struggles of somebody living in the inner city.

In 21st century North America, there is a strange, seemingly-unanimous idea that, to fit the norm, one must be white, Christian and male. While, over the course of the latter 20th century and in the past decade, this has changed, the norm is very much still Christian and male; African-Americans now fit into the “All-American” stereotype, for the most part. However, there are, of course, outliers – deviants from the standard norm; these outliers make one wonder what the norm truly is, why it is so, how did it get to be that way, and what the norm will be in the future. Kanye West's 2004 single titled “Jesus Walks” is written as a ode to Jesus helping him and every other Christian through hard times in their life. Sampling

Aubrey Drake song uses a powerful use of emotions and words to get the readers’ attention of what is going on in his life. The song “The Calm” stresses in Drake’s life, and it also refers to an apology towards his mom. Despite it all, the song has unusual phrases, imagery and feelings making the reader feel what he was feeling. Through these elements he shows the theme of confidence and forgiveness.

Anmol Singh Ms. Debbie Lichtman English 11CP February 10, 2015 Kanye West Through the lyrics of Kanye West, this popular and controversial hip hop and rap artist spits about his life, conflicts, and slavery in America. The song New Slaves written and sung by Kanye West which made a lot of controversial talk in the public which the song was reflecting on times of Jim Crow where whites and blacks had everything they did was on separate sides. The song New Slaves which refers to the 50’s and 60’s time of an era of segregation where during that time there were “separate water fountains for white people and African-Americans” (Birchmeier). The lyrics “my momma was raised in the era when Clean water was only served to the fairer skin” (Kanye West) meant that where white and black people had to drink from separate water fountains.

I chose the song “Stronger” by Kanye West to write about in my essay. This song highlights a lot of the negativity that we encounter in our society, and the way that specifically Kanye himself deals with it. Throughout West’s entire life he was told by people that he wouldn’t make it big and that what he was doing would not build a solid future for him, however, they were obviously wrong as this song alone was a top ten single in ten countries, topping the charts in four of them, including the United Kingdom. He refers to the people who doubted him as haters and takes a shot at them by saying “New gospel homie, take six, and take this, haters” (West). However, the overall meaning of the song will vary to the person as this song can be interpreted in a number of ways.

When the genre of rap music comes to mind, many people think of vulgar music containing explicit language and fast paced lyrics. Every once in a while, rap artists may find solace in writing a slow, yet meaningful song. Although very rare, these songs usually become personal to the artist and attempt to relay a message to the listeners. While artists produce slow tempo rap songs for various reasons, songs such as “Ultralight Beam” leave the listener inspired and motivated to change. Kanye West and various artists combine church gospel vocals and different styles of lyrics with long pulsing chords of music to describe his trust with God, creating an uplifting piece of music.

There have been many impactful songs made in the hip hop era. The amount of great songs made from different artists in the past are innumerable, but only a few have come to stand out and are known for changing the whole hip hop culture. One such impactful track, “Forever,” was produced when four legendary rappers worked together and revolutionized the sound of hip hop. Prior to this collaboration, the rap fan base had a preconceived notion that great artists should not team up because it would take away their ‘street credit’ and make them appear as sellouts. The rap ‘hall of famers’ who created this song are Eminem, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and Drake.

Kimberly Fernandez Analysis essay Wrt 101-CRN 21436 Lupe Fiasco – Words I Never Said Modern rap music plays a big role in our modern society as all music does. Most rap song lyrics consists of women, drugs, and money which makes many believe rap music gives a negative influence to people. In fact, a famous song made by the rapper Lil Wayne actually has the name “pussy, money, weed” dedicating an entire song to the theme of women, drugs, and money. While not all songs have titles as explicit as this one, many have similar themes within them. A song that highly catches my attention is a song by Lupe Fiasco called “Words I Never Said”.

Well, there is one scene in particular that changes the mood completely due to the music rhythm and that one scene is when butch and sundance kid are getting chased in Bolivia and the music in the background is so like hyped up. It’s a song that you’d typically hear in a cartoon, I think it made the scene funny and unique. Reason behind that is because think about, they’re getting chased and like the music in the background should be like dramatic, the song they used was just funny. Another scene is when sundance kid and that girl rode the bicycle and then that happy music was playing, if they were just laughing and like talking it would’ve been boring. That happy rhythm changes the mood and puts you in a happy place, makes you think wow that’s

In his Grammy award winning song “Stronger,” voice of our generation Kanye West eloquently raps “I know I got to be right now, ‘cause I can’t get much wronger.” Though his statement in context refers to his longing for love, it can be interpreted in a way that emphasizes a blind assumption of correctness. In his words, West speaks in a contradictory fashion, in that he, as a person, cannot get “much wronger,” so he must be “right.” In doing this, West blurs the line between socially constructed definitions of “right” and “wrong,” raising the question, “are humans truly capable of being able to differ between these two concepts?” Related to the ideas posed by “Stronger,” Don DeLillo’s White Noise delves into this sort of moral ambiguity, a gray

In June 2010, Kanye West, along with Roc-A-Fella Records LLC, and UMG Recordings INC were sued by Vincent Peters claiming that Kanye copied parts of his song from 2006. Both songs are titled “Stronger”. The lawsuit asked for Kanye to stop reproducing/selling/ distributing/ and publicly performing the song. It also asked the court to force Kanye/Roc-A-Fella Records/UMG to destroy all copies of the song and give up all profits from the record (damages sought were not specified). As an up and coming hip-hop artist trying to make it in the music industry, Peters wrote his “Stronger” and believed that it was his ticket to making it big in the industry.

The use of creative utterances encompasses most of Jay-Z and Kanyes’ lyrics. They refer to the car as a “whip” (56). There appears to be an association with a fast whipping action and the car alluding that the car is also fast. A common utterance appears in line 59, “I’m about to kill it,” an expression that is used by many people. This phrase translates to be great at something and excel. One understands that he means this rather than actually about to murder something. People often say to wish them luck by expressing, “hope you kill it,” or “knock them dead.” This example is full of evidence f how language has changed and is changing every day.