I Listen To Music Tupac Analysis

Millions of people in the world listen to music for all different reasons. Most people all over the world listen to different genres of music in order to relax, but not too many people pay attention to the actual lyrics of a song. If you listen to the lyrics of a song you will realize that many songs have important messages or themes to them. An example of this is the lyrics of the song “Changes” by Tupac Shakur. If you listen to this song, you will realize that Tupac raps about not only the problems that African Americans face from society, but also the struggles that poor people in society have to endure and overcome. Many

The song ¨Changes” is written and performed by Tupac Shakur who was born June 16, 1971 and was shot down September 13, 1996. Tupac was quite successful and was known to be a gangsta rapper as well as a poetic rapper at the same time. Changes seeks the best out of both these worlds and addresses the issue of poverty and poor treatment by police that the African American community face often on a day to day basis.

Similarly in 1992, rapper Tupac Shakur released the song “Keep your Head Up” addressing the issues of colorism and sexism within the black community while attaching his own version onto the meaning of the African American proverb. Tupac’s interpretation emphasized the value of dark skin and quotes “Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice, I say the darker the flesh, the deeper the roots.” Tupac calls for a deeper understanding of this saying namely that being darker skinned means having a closer association with the African American heritage. As the son of Billy Garland and Afeni Shakur, members of “The Black Panthers”, the ideologies of the “Black Power” and “Black is Beautiful” movements were part of his upbringing, thus, the

Music has an important role in children and adolescent’s life. Mainstream music is heard almost everywhere whether it’s on a laptop, phone, radio, cd, etc. The accessibility allows anyone to hear it at any place and situation, alone or with friends. The lyrics can have a big impact on everyone’s life’s differently. Lyrics have become more explicit in their references to misogyny, drugs and violence particularly in certain genres, like rap. I used to love to listen to rap all the time, never paying attention to what the rapper was saying. According to the dictionary rap means “Words (that) are recited rapidly and rhythmically over a prerecorded, typically electronic instrumental backing” I used to listen to rap because

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Music has a big impact on my life, it is one of my favorite things in the world. My music library is so diverse, so it is hard for me to pick my favorite genre, from hip hop to rock to country. I find it all tasteful. If I had to say may favorite though it would be alternative rock, mostly because my favorite band is the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their bass lines are amazing, and their music has so much heart and emotion in it, it’s something that everyone can jam along to. My least favorite would have to be screamo, an off shoot of metal. It is just too angry and you cannot understand anything the singer is saying, it isn’t something that is easy for me to appreciate. The Hobbit is my favorite book, the ore behind it keeps me interested and the way it is written is a completely different style than today’s writing. The writing style almost seems archaic but it has an elegance to it that is extremely difficult to achieve.

Music is a cultural journal that expresses the realities and emotions of life in a poetic way. For the African American culture, music has always been a statement for many controversial topics such as racism, religion, politics, education, crime, and violence. In the 1990’s, Hip-Hop became the newest cultural and artistic voice for the African American population. Genres such as jazz, blues, rock-n-roll, and gospel that once dominated the musical culture of African Americans slipped into the background, and Hip-Hop rose to power and defined a generation. The inspirational and influential Tupac Shakur stormed onto the rap scene in 1991 with an emotional style that changed the rap game forever.

The artist I chose for this paper is Tupac Shakur. A lot of his music has to do with cultural differences with african americans. His genre of music is rap and his songs have to do with drugs, the difficulties of life in the ghetto and police and how they treated african american. Specifically, I picked the song changes to talk about.

Music is my life when I was little my dad introduced me to all types of music. We listen to hip-hop, reggae, old school, country, and jazz. We believe that as long as it has a good beat and a message that what makes that a great song.Being that my dad is from New Jersey I have this Northern flavor to my lifestyle. It is truly present in my taste in music. Many people say that I'm a little weird when they listen to the type of music I listen too.

In conclusion to sum up everything in the essay I wrote poverty in the African American society is a big problem, change needs to come to give the women of our generation the respect they deserve for being strong. The respect level for women is undeniably strong and many people do not care or give little effort to fix it. The song “Keep your Head Up” shows me that Tupac can see most of the American society abusing women. The women goes through so much when a man get up and walk out of her life and especially if there is a baby in her stomach or in other cases a baby already born. A woman goes through so much, but men and other people will never know the pain, but at the end of the day the best thing you can do is pick your head up and keep

Music is everything. It's what gets people moving, without music I could honestly say that the world would not be the same. It's a form of art that almost everyone can get if they actually listen. Music that relate to me are, Lil Uzi Vert- Ronda (Winners), Lil Durk- Can't Go Like That, and Lil uzi Vert- Hi Roller.

Tupac is probably one of my favorite artist or the best artist to every live. I started to like listening to Tupac because of my uncle he was a big fan of him and used to listen to all his albums he has made. The first time I listen to Tupac he really caught my eye the things he used to talk about in his music really caught my attention. I used listen to his music while cleaning up the house. The things I really used to like about his writing is he used to talk the less fortune and people who was struggle and the drugs and the gun violence. For most kids growing up in this in these type o this type of places they could relate to him and understand where he coming from. He was talking about how felt like he had to grow up to fast and to become a man at an early age. As growing up in certain condition I could relate to some of the things that he is saying throughout the things he says in his songs.

When I listen to music I always look for a rhythm. The rhythm is important because it makes the song flow. Besides the rhythm I also listen to all the other important elements of music such as the beat, melody, and tempo. I always listen to these elements in music because they're essential parts of a song. Additionally, without rhythm there wouldn't be a song. Moreover, I also listen to the tempo because it determines the pace of the song and the tempo controls whether or not the song is fast or slow.

The inspiration to spark a change in the African American communities has been an ongoing issue from generation to generation in the United State. People of color have tried to inspire others within their own communities with several different forms of art. The African American people born in the last couple of generations has used hip hop music to relay a message to their communities. Whether the message is either good, bad, or indifferent. Many of these hip-hop artists use various rhetorical techniques and devices in their lyrics to persuade their audiences. Rhetoric is defined as the effective use of words to persuade or influence an audience. In this case the audience is the African America communities throughout the United States. Tupac’s song “Changes” and Outkast’s song “Git Up, Get Out” employs three rhetorical devices logos, pathos, and ethos to persuade the African American communities throughout the United States to identify their struggles and perpetuate change in their communities.

Committed to find out why fans listen to this music genre, even though the content may be completely unrelated to their lifestyle, I had to resort to my last resource: the internet. I googled Hip-Hop genre and searched for anything that could help me gain a new perspective. After some research, I have collected two articles, “Hip Hop and Rap as Art, and as an Agent of Change for Social Justice and Political Reform” and “Six Reasons You Should Let Your Child Listen to Hip Hop.” I have also gone into depth with YouTube videos “Does Rap Music