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In 2006, Ne-Yo made the famous song “So Sick.” Ne-Yo made this song to talk about the relationships and the downfalls of them. He told the listeners how he was feeling and why he was feeling that way. Ne-Yo wanted to appeal to listeners who have been going through tough times in their relationships and who had the same feelings as he expressed in his lyrics of this song. Pathos and Ethos are both used in this song. In this song, Ne-Yo’s style was full of repetition as he kept repeating his lyrics to get his point across. For instance, “I’m so sick of love songs.” Pathos is being used in this song because Ne-Yo is trying to appeal to the audiences’ emotions because it is such an emotional subject that he is touching on in this song, and wanted

The song expresses how people are not living up to society's values and norms. It suggest that the socialization is at fault and that they contribute to improvement of self being. The song implies the way society goes against values and norms by one of the very first lyrics in the song. The lyric goes, “What’s wrong with the world, mama, People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas…” (lines 1-2). This makes one aware of the lack of values in one's family. Values is the belief or an idea that a person or group has to determine is correct or not. Another verse of how the band shows one disobedience of the values and norms comes toward the middle of the song. “People killin', people dyin’, Children hurt and you hear them cryin, Can you practice what you preach, And would you turn the other cheek…” (lines 50-53). These verses show of society has failed to act stable and logical way that society once viewed as correct living. These actions show that citizens have not lived up to the expectations of society. Social norms are likes the laws of society. Laws are things that are illegal behaviour and norms are like behaving in a way society wouldn’t like. For example being in gangs, like the bloods, or the crips, or a big group that goes against society's norms like racial groups. An example of a racial group would be the KKK.

In the 2015 kendrick Lamar song “u”. Kendrick describes the feelings that constantly haunt his heart and the guilt he carries everyday. Reflecting on his darkest moments, lingering pain and the details of his depression. The song “u” by kendrick uses literary tools like Soliloquy and Conflict to show how built up guilt leads to his prolonged depression.

In recent months, a new song has surfaced, “Everybody”; the composer, Logic, is a well know biracial rapper whose song are typically based on politics or social issues happening presently; this new song is not any different. The basic concept of the song is about how neither “whites” nor “blacks” consider him part of their culture, and he counters this with the chorus that generally says people are people and when broken down cry, bleed, and want the same things (Logic). Many allusions and references are made throughout the piece; for example, “Now picture little Bobby just a youngin’ runnin’ round with his mans, hammer in his hands, feelin’ like a man…before the popo get the gun, put it to your brain,” (Logic). These lines speak about recent police brutality against young black men and especially the Trayvon Martin case. The first line of verse two uses imagery as well as simile to convey that he is like a Jehovah witness trying to spread his truth and beliefs (Logic). He thinks that society does not want to “face facts” and admit the injustices that going on all around, so he is here to educate and enlighten (Logic). Logic also references his

The song incorporates a lot of harmonic dissonance. At the beginning, the music is consonant and monophonic in texture (0:12). However, once a piano and chimes are added, the music becomes dissonant and has a polyphonic texture (0:30). Dissonance is usually used to represent disagreement. In this case, it represents the disagreement between supporters and haters of people with different sexual orientations that exists in the world, as suggested by Macklemore. This musical element of harmonic dissonance is used to connect back to the lyrics. This specifically connects to the lyrics about hate and religion in which Macklemore illustrates the cognitive dissonance between how people use religion for hate and how religion is supposed to be inclusive of everyone. The harmonic dissonance of the music provides a good connection to the cognitive dissonance of the lyrics. The music also makes use of crescendo to build anticipation and emphasize important points. One example of this is when Macklemore says, “The same fight that led people to walk-outs and sit-ins, it’s human rights for everybody, there is no difference,”(2:43). This is an explicit example of how the music helps support the lyrics. When the lyrics are making an especially critical point, the music increases in volume to draw the audience’s attention. The music also uses

Cultural phenomenon, rapper Kendrick Lamar has embraced a growing minority centered culture in America through his album “To Pimp A butterfly” this album conveys themes of hardship for minorities and cultural uprising. One of the singles on this album “Alright” simply tells black audiences that with faith everything will be alright. He uses the Lyrics “Alls my life I has to fight, nigga .Alls my life I...Hard times like God. Bad trips like: ‘God!’ Nazareth, I 'm fucked up..Homie you fucked up..But if God got us then we gon ' be alright” These lyrics simply tell suppressed minorities that despite hardship there is hope within our communities. . Months prior to the release of Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” several attacks from white police officers happened in the black community. A common case in this uproar was the “Mike Brown case”. In this case a black man was shot dead after allegedly robbing a local gas station. Kendrick simply responded to these seemingly racial attacks with his album to “Pimp a Butterfly”. To pimp a butterfly simply means to use your influence to the best of its ability to make a meaningful impact. With tracks like “Alright” Kendrick Lamar does just that. The Primary themes and issues conveyed in this song are white supremacy, racism and black uprising

While this song does convey a large and important message, what gives it its power is the situation our society is in right now. It is not hard to reflect on Macklemore’s song and realize all of the things he described are still very much in our world even today. People still hold physical possessions at an untouchable esteem, and practically worship brands.

Macklemore’s song, “Same Love,” with Ryan Lewis, featuring Mary Lambert, tells the younger generation about discrimination against gays, homophobia, and inequality. The song calls out people who want freedom, where our country came from, and what are religion says to show how if we don’t accept gays, there is a lot we can never have. Macklemore is disappointed with the way hip hop and rap talk about gay people without realizing how difficult they are making gay’s lives. It is also great when Macklemore practically asks religious people how exactly they do not support gay rights, and why they believe it is wrong because God is supposed to love everyone. Macklemore gives his honest opinion on how he feels everyone should be equal, and there are no “buts” or “ifs.” I stand by his opinion about love being love no matter what. Macklemore’s song, “Same Love,” he talks about societies false ideas of gays, the way the term “gay” is used in hip hop music, and that we are not equal until we allow gay rights with a huge change at heart.

He says, “no freedom ‘til we're equal, damn right i support it” (Macklemore). What this line means is that justice and freedom is only fair when everyone is equal. He supports everyone being equal. “Whatever god you believe in we come from the same strip away the fear underneath it's all the same love”(Macklemore). He is saying everyone is equal and should have liberty and freedom. Lastly he says, “its human rights for everyone, there is no difference.” (Macklemore). He believes everyone should be treated the same no matter what.

"There's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East, instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me, and I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do." These lines represent how the government is not resolving poverty, but instead tackling drugs in the Middle East and because African Americans are deeply involved with the use and trafficking of drugs, blacks are easily targeted. In the last line of those lyrics, Tupac refers to himself for never committing a crime unless he was forced to because he needed to get by as stated before African Americans don't have the same opportunities or fair chances in society as other races. Even though the white race mistreats, targets, and does not care for the black race, Tupac also points fingers at his own race for a lot of the hate and anger they are surrounded by. In addition to this, he raps "I got love for my brother, but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other. We gotta start makin' changes, learn to see me as a brother 'stead of two distant strangers." He knows that his own people are at blame because they have jealousy towards each other and they're more about individuality than unity. Again Tupac is trying to inspire his people to quit the selfishness and take a stand to help configure a

Riot is full of metaphors for example “Because it’s a game of cat and mouse and you gonna bleed silent”and also in that metaphor there was personification “you gonna bleed silent” blood can't scream or talk so that's personification. The theme of this song is deep it's about racial equality and black prejudice. There are certain lines in this song where it talks about different events. For example

In my opinion, Kendrick Lamar, an award-winning rapper and songwriter, has one of the best abilities to describe his distressed and abused lifestyle in Compton, California. He is not your original cliché artist who does not speak about anything meaningful. Kendrick, also known as K. Dot, is one of the most well known and most respected rappers in this era. Not only does he speak about his gloomy past, but he also speaks about his fortunate future. His ability to give detailed representations of his struggles and his story telling allows me to, metaphorically, enter the mind of Kendrick Lamar.

Plagiarism is defined as, “An act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization” (“plagiarism”). Plagiarism is unacceptable, it is the intentional act of stealing something that someone else has put time and effort towards. This means that in music and poetry there must be a fine line between what it means to plagiarize and what it means to sample. However, since there is a fine line, sampling at times comes close, but is not plagiarism. Although sampling is the use of someone else’s work, it is used in a way that passed down the original artwork to future generations, proper sampling respects the original artist by using creativity to enhance the sample,

This song was first debuted in 2013 by Brad Paisley from his album Wheelhouse. There was a lot of controversy about this song because of its ‘racism’ theme. This song portrays the lack of unity and togetherness amongst the people of the world. There is a feeling of racism, lack of respect and discrimination that is reflected in this song. The main concept of this song is for the song writer to convey a message that cultivates moral value in the mind of the reader or listener.

The first verse of the song discusses the effects of poverty observed in the majority of predominantly African American places of living. Historically, Black poverty had been an unresolved issue that persists even today. An NY Times article during the time had provided studies done by Richard P. Nathan, a professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, which revealed that in the past decade (1980s), the African American poverty rate in the 50 major U.S cities had risen to 18% more than its previous numbers, coming in at an estimated 3.14 million. With this in mind, Tupac starts the verse in the perspective of a poor Black person, fed up with the lack of progress in their society,