The Song Analysis Of 'Where Is The Love'

For the lyric analysis essay, I chose to analyze the rap artist NF and my top six songs by him to help get a better understanding of what he has been through in his life and how he has gotten to where he is now. I like these particular songs more than his other ones probably due to my ability to relate to them on some level as well as the rhythm of the song, most of them are more focused on the lyrics rather than having loud background music or singing them fast paced. My favorite song of from the list above is “Wake Up” while my sisters’ is “All I Have” and she is the one who introduced me to this particular rapper. NF uses common themes and touches on social issues in lyrics. The reason for this is that he is a Christian hip hop artists making his name in mainstream hip hop, he has to be transparent and relatable to his listeners.

This song is a wakeup call for America to set a better example for the next generation. People are hurting other people. Some are paranoid of what will happen next. Life should not be scary, but there are people afraid to walk out and be among the chaos. Everybody is against one another, and they are not willing to compromise. “It’s time we stop” and look at what we are doing and what has become of us. There are wars for ignorant reasons, there are people hurting, there are innocent children watching, WAKE UP AMERICA! The riots and wars are not worth all of this pain and suffering.

The song implements on the hardships a mother will face for the growth of their son because love is what keeps them going. The love a mother will have for her son means that even though they don’t have a father figure around to show them how to grow up, they will always have their mothers to teach them the way of life through a woman’s perspective. In the song, “Dear Mama”, Tupac mentions, “For a woman it ain’t easy trying to raise a man, you always was committed” and he is able to foreshadow the hardships his mother had to face while Tupac was growing up without a father. At the age of seventeen Tupac, was always caught up in drama with his mom. Since Tupac was young he got involved into the hustle and was left in the streets where he basically had to risk he life every day. He never realized that being pushed into the streets would make him think about his mother or even worry about her. Tupac reflects upon the behavior he had during the time and how much stress he would add on his mother’s shoulders, but little did he know that his mother would be there for him regardless. Tupac Shakur’s mom was committed to his son and no matter the troubles he caused and faced she would be there for him to either help him out or at least hear him when he was not feeling good. She was a single mother on welfare, but she always tried

“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.

The song “Where is the Love?” has many sociological concepts put into the lyrics. It is the first song that popped up in my head when seeing this assessment and if you have ever heard the song then you would know why I chose this specific song. The band in this song expresses the the world's issues and they express their view on the world and the actions others make. The main idea of the song is concentrated on the reality and how the world is changing.

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

In the article, “I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die,” the author, Louis M. Profeta, argues that the American society today treats the dying as if their life is meaningless. He furthers his argument by using reminiscence to remind everyone how the elderly used to be treated. There was a woman who only had a few more days until her time was up, “[s]pent with familiar sounds, in a familiar room, with familiar smells that gave her a final chance to summon memories that will help carry her away… that’s how she used to die. We saw our elderly different then” (Profeta). When the elderly are dying, most of them want to be in a place where they are comfortable, so that they can die in peace. They want to remember all the times that made them happy

This song is concentrated on the social construction of reality, which talks about about how “Ideas about reality also change over time” (Newman, 53). We can see this expressed in lines 32-33 in the song : “It just ain't the same, old ways have changed/New days are strange, is the world insane…” (lines 32-33) The band states how the world’s views and attitudes have changed and how there is uncertainly for the future. The band is questioning the values that they once lived up to. “Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity/Whatever happened to the fairness in equality/ Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity/ Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity…” (lines 71-74). They imply that individuals are swaying away from their values, as a result changing their reality.

T: The title of the song is "Hey Mama" by hip-hop artist Kanye West. The song deals with being thankful to his mother for overcoming every hardship when raising Kanye as a single mother. - P: Kanye West is giving thanks to his mother Donda West for everything she did for him as a kid. He's giving her thanks for supporting him even when he made the wrong decisions. He is embracing the strong love he has for his mother through these lyrics.

Throughout the emotional lyrics of Tupac Shakur’s song “Dear Mama”, he constantly reveals trial and tribulation. Shakur sympathetically expresses the obstacles he endures due to the undying support of his mother who displays sacrificial love. He explains the abnormal circumstances in which his family undergoes such as poverty, single parenting, and even feelings of hopelessness. Shakur characterizes his mother as a heroic figure, who outshines the negative aspects of his life by providing the essentials only a mother could both physically and morally instill in her child. The artist brilliantly captivates his audience by revealing personal information from his childhood in which many can relate to.

The song talks about how how no one is doing anything good, and how everyone is just hating on people who are not like them, while showing the importance of the good

Experienced trombonist Bob Ferrel was not only a valuable member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra (conducted by Mercer Ellington) but also backed up amazing jazz singers such as Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nancy Wilson.

Shannon Loughlin MCY 131 October 20, 2015 Youtubeography: Theme/topic: Unrequited Love/Break-ups 1. Glass Animals- “Gooey” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIA1XQnAv5s This unique song starts off with just the piano, and the vocalist singing in B-minor. The vocalists tries to retain a positive quality by rooting the song in a minor key yet using predominantly major chords.

This sonnet is a remarkable pastiche of the song "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay, which has been modified by Erik Didriksen. The poet "rewrite[s] pop songs as sonnets" in "[a]n exciting and fun project that demonstrates the ongoing appeal of the English sonnet" titled as Pop Sonnets (David Hadbawnik). Seeing that the poem is written as a Shakespearean sonnet; it is consisted of 14 lines that are grouped into three quatrains: 4 lines, and one couplet: 2 lines, and is written in an iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ababcdcdefefgg, which is called cross-rhyme. All the quatrains are end-stopped, which is "the opposite of enjambment, punctuation ending the sense with the lines," however, the quatrains have internal enjambments (Lennard

The song “Kote” which literally means ‘a policeman’ is basically about men who cheat on their wives and how the police must treat them. With lines like Koti mepa wo kyɛw bo me kunu no ma me ei sika a yɛbɛdi no, ɔde akɔ ma ne mpena , Tripple M is basically asking the policeman to beat the husband because he has gone to give the little house keeping money to his girlfriend. To intensify the hatred for such men, Triple M ask the policeman to slap the husband very hard because he has made their lives miserable. I find this song really interesting because considering the time it was released, cheating on wives was no “big deal”. As a result, there was gross marital infidelity on the parts of men. No wonder this song became a hit as women especially those in these situations found their voices in the song.