Jay Z's New Song: A Care In The World

As I sat in my fourth grade English class listening to my teacher tell me "you have a book report due in just two short weeks" and I thought to myself how am I ever going to do this? I have never been a good writer and I have no idea where to begin explaining the book "Little House on The Praire" and presenting it in front of the class without being embaressed as all get out.The day went on as I thought about it more and more the bell rang. I ran out to my mom's car and stated "Mom I have a book report due in just two short weeks and I cant do it. She said "why not honey" I said " Im just not s good enough writer" She said " yes you are and yes you can and you will do a fantastic job at it. That is when I realized I am a writer.

Sometimes when you put off doing something, you get hurt. The end of last week I had so much homework piling up, but it didn’t seem to bother me. I came up with multiple excuses and reasons for why I “couldn’t” do my homework for my Student Success class. Thursday, the 21st of July, I drove straight to the airport after my professor dismissed class. In the meantime, while I was waiting for my flight I went on a search for something to eat so I would be fully energized and focused when doing my homework. I made a promise to myself that the second I board the airplane, I would do all of my homework on the way to Atlanta, Georgia. I concluded that if I didn’t get it done before I arrived to the city, that I wouldn’t do it at all because I planned

Throughout Kanye West’s prolific career, he has possessed an intricate sound that has separated him from his hip-hop counterparts. After the immense praise he received on his breakout album, College Dropout, it was no surprise that Kanye West would perform at the same level on his second album, Late Registration. West presented an innovative and soulful sound to the hip-hop industry, earning individuals’ ears and hearts.With lyrics that discussed themes of poverty, drug abuse, and domestic issues and samples that provided a sense of nostalgia, Kanye West was steadily transforming into a political icon far beyond the means of his hip-hop artistry. With such empowering and sincere lyrics, Kanye West served as the voice of historically marginalized people, whose voices were seemingly unheard before. In the song “Drive Slow,” West’s guidance and empowering message remained evident, as he joined forces with GLC and Paul Wall to create a soulful song that offered assistance on how to overcome barriers in life. Through the use of suggestive details, figurative language, and vivid storytelling, West utilizes the automobile culture to assert how individuals can achieve success of every field of human endeavor through constant efforts in the right direction. In addition, he also attempts to convey that one must “drive slow” in a car in order to appreciate the environment that consists outside of the automobile. West creates a double entendre of the word “drive slow,” expressing that

One of Jay–Z’s most iconic songs from the album The Blueprint is “Song Cry”– in which he chronicles the beginning and ending of a serious relationship. Rather than focus on trying to fix the relationship or put all the blame on the other person involved like most breakup songs, “Song Cry” allows Jay-Z to accept the tragic end and reflect on his own mistakes that lead to it. In a way, “Song Cry” allows him to admit to being responsible for the lasting pain of a failed relationship while at the same time catering to his pride by deflecting his own emotions. Levitin supports this idea on page 177: “ We write them to encode lessons that we’ve learned and don’t want to forget, often using metaphor or devices to raise the message up to the level

Shoot! I thought. I didn’t want to wake up Darry, he looked so peaceful. More peaceful than I have seen him in years. He only worked one job now so he could spend more time with Sodapop and I. The judge said that he would take care of some of our expenses so Darry could be home to help me get better. It really worked. My grades in school improved as well as my attitude. I worked really hard on my English grade, I wanted to make my teacher proud. I wrote a story for extra credit about this past year and it began like this: When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home…“It was really scary.” I started. “One of those boys was pushing Johnny’s head into the freezing cold

Originally from Marcy Houses housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City,[9] Jay-Z was abandoned by his father Adnes Reeves and shot his brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry[10] when he was twelve years old.[11] Jay-Z attended Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn, along with rapper AZ, until it was closed down. After that he attended George Westinghouse Information Technology High School in Downtown Brooklyn, with fellow rappers The Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes, and Trenton Central High School in Trenton, New Jersey, but did not graduate.[12] He claims to have been caught up in selling drugs, to which he refers in his music.[11]

The writing of my college essay was quite a process. Normally for me writing comes rather easy, I do not struggle putting my ideas on paper. At first I thought that this essay would be simple to do and not be very stressful. It turned out to be quite the opposite in fact, just brainstorming was a struggle for me. It was difficult for me to think about my life and how it is special. To me, the events that have shaped me do not seem that relevant, at 18 I had never really payed much attention to how certain things affected me, I just lived my life. eventually , with the help of Mary, I came to the realization that having my summer taken away from me due to a broken foot had really changed my life philosophy, it truly changed who I was and my outlook on life.

In August, our first day in the college class, Mrs. Garth talked with the class about what this semester was going to be like. She spoke to us as college students and not little children. She told us that Comp. was all about writing. As a class, we knew there would be more writing than we were use to, but the very first paper that Mrs. Garth told us to write was unlike any other paper I had ever wrote on my own. We were told to write about our favorite foods, our not so favorite foods, or a tragedy that has happened to us in our life. Of course, I wrote about the tragedy, my paper was written on the note of my grandmother passing away. I used very descriptive details in my writing about what the days were like for me and how I felt after she was gone. While writing the paper, I thought to myself

Tears stung in my eyes as I gazed down at the dreaded product of neglect, already feeling a cold weight tug at my heart. Looking at my practice log, I determined that within the twenty-four hours remaining before it was due, I needed to make up the eight hours of practicing I had been lazily putting off. After informing my mom of this impossible feat, she told me that I would not be staying up past midnight to practicing as a meager attempt to salvage my grade. The next day I turned in my log with a hint of discouragement as I awaited my grade. I didn’t fail the class, but I still had to live with the knowledge that I could have done better. I tried to justify what happened by saying I wasn’t used to Jr. High with its additional seven classes,

When we see successful people, everyone adores over their power and what they have done, although people do not know if those successful people truly wanted that power or they were handed it. Biggie’s emotions restricted him from enjoying the power he had in the rap industry and all the money he was collecting. In his debut album Ready to Die talks specifically about these emotions and in the song called ‘Everyday Struggle’ “the chorus revealed that “Big Poppa” was plagued with guilt, regret, and depression”(535). The song shows that he had no power before, he had yet discovered his skills of rapping and he fell into the wrong crowd and his life had already begun going downhill until he discovered his ability to rap, leading to him becoming

Rap in its earliest manifestations was a form of social commentary on the racial, political, economic and institutional struggles of Black communities. Mixed in were party anthems and love stories that speak more about when times are good, even if only momentarily. Today’s rap, or rather hip hop culture inclusive of gangster rap, maintains lyrical prose of the artists’ realities centered around the various hustles that are part of urban life, but even more so the material gains acquired through that artistic discourse, containing frequent references towards gluttonous consumption of top of the line fashion, automobiles, jewelers, alcohol, and even women, as everything is for sale. Conspicuous consumerism is an issues that I feel threatens the

Next, I will be talking about Kanye West’s album College dropout. College dropout was Kanye’s first debut album with his record label Roc-A-Fella Records, this album was released February 2004. Kanye spent the years 1999-2003 producing this album, College dropout also won grammy award for album of the year, American music award for favorite rap/hip-hop album, and lastly billboard music award for top R&B album. Kanye’s album did a lot of things for the hip-hop/rap world with this album. This album changed hip-hop’s direction, bridged hip-hop’s gap, it also embraced autotune, it also helped build hip-hop’s leading visionary. Kanye is very outspoken in this album because he lacked having a filter. On this album he “discussed” victims of hurricane

Hi this is a writer's notebook for my teacher, Now I don't know if you have a ELA teacher that makes you do this but I do so let's get into it. At first i didn’t really know what to write about… Scratch that I never knew what to write about. The only way I am writing this now is because I thought that “Hey if I can’t think of anything and I hate doing this let's write about how I go this idea”. So yeah that's what happened in my head and now my teacher is reading this thinking to herself that this isn’t a writer's notebook! But, I asked her what I could write about and she said that I could do a moment in my life. So here it is a moment in my life writing this prompt. Now after this I still have to do another and actually as I just wrote that I just figured out that I have a 57 in ELA and now with 2 more prompts

All throughout my years of schooling, I’ve had just about, one paper that was about one page long, due every year. My papers never had to be more than one page in length. Therefore, I did not have to do much writing or do many essays. Surely not enough to remember any of the assignments. Writing has never been something I enjoyed doing, so I never bothered to many any memories of my writing experiences. I did not think it was necessary to remember any of them since I only had to do them to get a grade. The only writing experience I remember was the first assignment I had in this English 100 class about a writing experience. All week long, I sat there thinking about what to write about, but nothing came to mind as a topic. Then, one thing came to mind, but it was so very vague, I could not write the length that was needed for the assignment. I could only think of a few sentences to write for it. After sitting for a few moments longer, I thought, how about I write about how difficult it was for me to write this essay before it was due.

Some critics get right to the point and label the song “tra$h” (Exton). Others elaborate and claim, “[It] makes me cry....its so horrible” (YouTube). In general, criticism of “TiK ToK” has centered around made-to-sell lyrics that foretell a bleak, talentless future for the music industry. However, this criticism does nothing more than graze the surface of the pool of know-ledge Ke$ha hides beneath a façade of drunkeness and partying. In fact, based on her statement that she wants her “music to be fun, unapologetic…and interesting, but with substance behind it,” Ke$ha presents justification for literary exploration of her lyrics rather than simple face-value acceptance (“Bio $tuff”).