Love Is a Mixtape Analysis

He thinks of how difficult it will be to rebuild a life with another person more than 50 years after the first encounter. It would be a huge challenge to do the things that they did initially (Copeland, par. 1-5). For example, during their life at the college, the two of them frequently quoted literary works of classic to each other. They also sneaked into each other’s dormitories rooms to make love.

“We Found Love” is a popular song produced by Calvin Harris and features singer Rihanna. “We Found Love” reached the number one spot in the top charts in multiple countries in 2012 and the music video became popular very quickly after being filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The music video features a young couple living in an impoverished council estate in West Belfast. Both characters portrayed in the music video are in their twenties and of mixed race, one parent being black and the other being Caucasian. Their relationship is distinguished by domestic violence as the couple is seen yelling, pushing and hurting one another, along with stealing from convenience stores, gambling and abusing drugs and alcohol together.

Ludacris does a remarkable job of portraying his message about the struggles that some adolescents are faced with. “Runaway Love”, by Ludacris, featuring Mary J. Blige (2007), represents the theme of struggle through hip-hop and rap music. It is about little girls who are “stuck up in the world on their own.” They have to take care of themselves because the people they are around do not care about them. They range from nine to eleven years in age, and their goal in life, at such a young age, is to run away from home. Ludacris is trying to get the listener to realize the struggles that even children have to face because adults are not the only ones who have problems, like most people believe. He is very successful in

Tom Tykwer 1998 film, Run Lola Run and street art ‘I love you’ by Banksy both explore distinctively visual elements though various film techniques and visual techniques. The two texts aim to manipulate the way in which we explore and interpret the images we are exposed to in our world. One main reason these pieces interrelate is because both texts utilise various techniques in order to create distinctively visual elements which explores the basic aspects of life-love, time and chance. Banksy’s street art, ‘I love you’ expresses the notion that there is a time restraint on love, this is similar to how Tykwer conveys the importance of time, chance and destiny and its impact on the individual though his unique tripartite structure and film techniques. Both the film and street art manipulate aspects of construction to create distinctively visual texts.

The Black Power Mixtape follows significant events during the 1965 and between 1975 it is directed by to Swedish directors which is very important in the layout of the film it involves that took place during the Civil Rights Movement included leaders such as Stokely Carmichael Angela Davis, Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers. This was also at the time of the Vietnam War the Nixon Administration, and the Lyndon Johnson Administration. It includes world-renowned artist such as Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, and historians. Including the author of our classes' textbook, Robin Kelley the film opinionated it is unbiased fact-based. This is a pivotal time in American history from through the eyes foreigners this is my first encounter with a form perspective of the United States during the Civil Rights Movement. Coming up in school no one ever exposed me to any other perspective the American perspective in this part of American history. There’s no way possible they could compile events of ten years into two hours, but they did include information that I have never read before. The Black Panther movement was followed the most.

Alison Bechdel uses her graphic memoir, Fun home, to explore her relationship with her father. She uses the book as a tool to reflect on her life and the affect her father had on her. She discovers how her fathers closeted sexuality affected her childhood and her transition into adulthood. His death left a powerful mark and left her searching for answers. She clearly states this when she says, “it’s true that he didn’t kill himself until I was nearly twenty. But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him.” (23). This feeling drove her to look back on their relationship and find what binds her so strongly to a man she never understood. She discovered how her fathers closeted sexuality affected her childhood, her sexuality, and her relationship with literature.

"It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together." Serving in the Vietnam war was never easy for Tim O 'Brien, he had some very interesting things that happened to him.

“Good-Bye to the Sunset Man”, in Lee Smith’s, Dimestore, is written as a tribute to bidding her only child, Josh, farewell. At the age of thirty-two Josh passed away after his fearless battle against schizophrenia. Smith reminisces on her past life, exposing the reader to all the pain inflicted on her, but also insuring that it is possible to see the beauty in those moments. Life’s moments will not always result the way humans would prefer, but that does not mean those moments are not worth holding onto. I will illustrate how the central theme, the gift of life, will tie into various elements of Lee Smith’s essay, “Good-bye to the Sunset Man”.

Tonight (August 17, 2015) on 'Love and Hip Hop Atlanta' it started where it ended off. Jessica Dime had Margeaux perform "Start A War" at the show, Mimi put together but things did not go well after the performance. See clip below.

Jay-Z’s “December 4th” was the first song on his Black Album, which was released in 2003, during one of the many peaks in the rapper’s career. The song includes his mother talking about his childhood in-between verses and is a very autobiographical song in the sense that he talks about his life up until he formed the persona that is Jay-Z. Although “December 4th” is thought to have been about the rappers’s presumed retirement, the song does not allude to an end to his rap career, instead,the “December 4th” is about the artist 's transition from Shawn Carter to Jay-Z. He tells the story, not of the end, but of the beginning of Jay-Z and he does this by separating himself from his former self, Shawn Carter; examining the importance that Carter played in the story of how Jay-Z was born and continues to live. This song is very indicative of a speaker who is narrating and advising his former self and showing the importance of accepting and how one came to be.

When Earl Sweatshirt’s first commercial album Doris was released in 2013, its style really threw me off. Lyrically poetic and occasionally amelodic, it refused listeners the lyrical thrills of his debut mixtape Earl, which was released three years earlier when he was 16 under LA collective Odd Future (OF). Instead, Doris came off as complex, understated, and disconnected as he tried to commit to a sound.

Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features "ordinary" people over professional actors. After a couple of shows I became interested in the reality television show Love & Hip Hop Atlanta around 2014. After watching one episode, I was addicted to the show like it was a drug. Ever since then I have not missed a show. I heard about this reality television show from a friend at school, but I just didn't think that I would want to watch a show about men in the music business and the women who surround them. The targeted audience for Love & Hip Hop Atlanta is females, especially African Americans, ranging from ages 18-49 years old. According

to music critics Jackson’s album Thriller seemed to be inspired by “a mixture of several genres

Les Murray’s poem “Widower in the Country” is a mixture of a physical and emotional journey which traces a mindless, daily routine of a grieving widower. Les has presented his idea that a physical journey can mask a deep

The song “Where Is The Love” by the Black Eyed Peas is a very heartfelt prayer for the healing and suffering in the world and society that we live in. I feel like the song is about exactly what the title is asking. Where is the love? Sometimes we have to stop, look around us and think about the relationships we have with other people. Are our relationships built on foundations of true love, compassion and kindness? Although the songs was originally released in 2003, most of the issues the song focuses on are still relevant today, in 2017. Which really makes me wonder, where IS the love? Surely after 14 years, things would have changed. Hate and war have existed since the beginning of humanity. Crime is an enormous part of our society, in the past and in the present. Imagine a world that is crime free, the perfect utopia. A world where everyone accepts their neighbour for the person they truly are, without racism, without judgement, without oppression. “Where is the love?” recognizes chaos in a broken world, intoxicated with violence and hate.