... chronicle the disintegration of an eleven year long love that slowly turns to loathing. On the other hand his declarations of devotion in "Hailie's Song" might catch some fans off guard with it's sincerity and soul. However his strongest feelings of hate and rage are still reserved for ... indulging in unprotected sex. Suddenly after a careless night with a promiscuous woman the threats of AIDS and pregnancy become a startling reality. With the hip hop song,"Drug Ballad" he tries to illustrate the horrors of drug addiction. The chorus bemoans the fact that, "I don't wanna, but I gotta s...

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... an ode to the woman who raised him; he omits a reality check on the self indulgent narrator (118)." White continues, "Absolution is the secret song to the song's success, but by ignoring his mothers" failure, Tupac also avoids understanding her complexity Yet it wilts when it could have soared by leading to a hard ... -learned Oedipal or social truth (124)." Tupac spoke of the need for change also. The song Changes acts as a social critique of life as a young man in the ghetto and the need for change. The need for the stop of Black ... that guns are given to people in the inner city by ...

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... Tupac watch his mother crumble to something that was created to destroy us, after she perceived as a revolutionary activity for the good of their communities. In Tupac's song "Dear Mama", he says "And even though you were a crack fiend, Mama you always was a Black Queen" (CD: Me against the World, produced ... baby". Tupac said "I read an article in the newspaper story about a twelve year old getting raped, by her cousin, and threw her newborn in an incinerator". The song starts off with, "I hear Brenda's got a baby well, Brenda's barely got a brain, a damn shame tha girl can hardly spel...

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... chronicle the disintegration of an eleven year long love that slowly turns to loathing. On the other hand his declarations of devotion in "Hailie's Song" might catch some fans off guard with it's sincerity and soul. However his strongest feelings of hate and rage are still reserved for his ... of indulging in unprotected sex. Suddenly after a careless night with a promiscuous woman the threats of AIDS and pregnancy become a startling reality. With the hip hop song,"Drug Ballad" he tries to illustrate the horrors of drug addiction. The chorus bemoans the fact that, "I don't wanna, but I ...

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... first album. Right off the bat, he constantly made references to his death, burial, and funeral. In his fourth album "Me Against the World" in the song "Death Around the Corner" he explicitly predicted his death and funeral. He had been shot five times before his "death", in a robbery at a New York ... resurrection" or coming back? On the inside of the cover, it says "Exit 2pac, Enter Makaveli" implying that Tupac is taking on another identity. In the song "Bomb First (my second reply)" which is track one of this album, right before the introduction starts, you can softly but surely hea...

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... essay I announced that the album "All Eyez On Me" was released on the 13th of February, however I didn't draw attention to the fact that in his song "Ambitionz az a Ridah" he sings "Blast me, but they didn't finish, didn't diminish my powers so now I"m back .I"M BACK REINCARNATED." This again suggests that ... 'n and planin' on schemes..." maybe Tupac is suspicious that people know or will find out about his plot to get away from the media. Later in that song he quotes "payoff tha block, evade tha cops, 'cause I know they comin' for me, I been hesitant to reappear been away for years now...

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... opinions and thoughts on today's society. One of his most talked about and thought about songs that I would like to analyze is Tupac's song titled "Changes". This song was released roughly 2 years after his death and is found on the album titled "2Pac's Greatest Hits". I feel that Tupac's real message throughout ... noticed that things such as racism, stereotyping and oppression have not changed since he could remember. I think that by him writing and singing this song, he is trying to make people realize that things need to change or else problems with these issues just may get worse. I...

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... bad vibes against police officials. The Chronic, an album by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, has many explicit lyrics and unnecessary foul mouthing. In one song they say, "that if f--- with Dre you f--- with death row...", more or less saying that if anyone messes with them they will have to worry ... about everyone that is with Death Row Records. In the same song they tell a woman, referring to her as a bitch, to yell-187 (police code for someone that has been killed). In another song they ask anther black man why he has been talking crap about them, he says ... . Records had provoked a...

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... their emotions. He expresses himself thoroughly and completely, while using a broad vocabulary. His expression in his vocal and the music itself evokes emotion. His emotions are clearly depressing in the song Thugz Mansion, yet, in all of his lyrics a light of hope shines through. This is why he is and always will be known as a Messiah of the music industry, in ... a 19 year old female Canadian R&B singer from Edmonton Alberta. This girl writes her own songs, but needless to say, has nothing to write about. Her hit song, "No Means No- is a pathetic excuse for a song. This song has absol...

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... part, was based on a life filled with debauchery as demonstrated his lyrics. The difference of tone in his music can be exemplified by the song "All Eyez On Me,"" which was released shortly before his death. His music, at certain points, were filled with expletives and resentment which ... mechanism. This is a key point in conveying certain vulnerabilities Tupac had because it provided an explanation for his tough exterior. The mistrustful tone in this song continues and gets more specific in each verse. As he continues, he says "Say money bring bitches, bitches bring lies/One nigga's ge...

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... repetition, ad libs, and scat. Like blues, raps are usually 12 to 16 bars. Both generally keep the same flow and rhyme scheme throughout the entire song. Rappers and blues singers are usually interactive with their audience during a performance. Chester Arthur Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf, and Tupac are two music ... used in Southern culture to describe a man who sleeps with married women while their husbands are gone, then slips away, usually out the back door. In the song "Back Door Man" Howlin Wolf sings about how he is sneaks in mens' house when they aren't around: "Well the...

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... between some songs one the recording, listening to various sounds effects throughout the recording, listening closely to the lyrics of the first song Bomb First, the fifth song - Blasphemy, and the last song - Against All Odds, reading the un-coded message inside the CD/Tape cover, reading the words on the CD/Tape front ... CDs you hear his voice say, "Suge shot me- if he did die, this could not have been added; maybe he was foretelling something (Alive 5). In another song he raps: "Payoff the block, evade the cops, cuz I know they comin for me. I be hesitant to reappear, been away for...

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... way to expressing his feelings, it's not against the law, and it's the truth. Tupac uses a lot of profanity, and his lyrics are inappropriate for kids. The song "Hit em" Up" starts off with vulgar language and has negative content. "First off, *censored* your bitch and the click you claim West Side when we ride ... through his music. That's a talent that not many people have. Here is a sample of how he expresses his views towards all the injustices in life. In his song "Changes", he raps about prejudice and all the sick aspects of the world. "I see no changes all I see are racist faces M...

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... Gang, The Fatback Band, and Grandmaster Flash were among the first to gain popularity. In 1982, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released the first popular politically based rap. Grandmaster's song "The Message" deals with life in the inner city, and the stress of being around violence and drugs. It included such lyrics as, "Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat ... language of these lyrics may be offensive to many, but if a buyer or a retailer is discouraged because of the warning label, listeners might also miss out on a song like "Alive on Arrival." In this song Ice Cube des...

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DOES RAP MUSIC NEGATIVELY INFLUENCE YOUNG LISTENER"S BEHAVIOR? MICHELLE MACK The infamous rap artist, Tupac Shakur has a song entitled, "Bury Me a G," off his album, "Thugs Life, Volume 1". One collection of lyrics in this song states: "I got nothen to lose sos I choose to be a killer/ Went from bangin" to slangin"/ Now I"m a dope dealer/ All ... on March 24, 1998 (Pelley 1). The lyrics in the songs spoke frequently of killing people and using guns and other weapons to harm people. The song, "Crept and we Came," by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony consists of about 40 murder images in it alone (3). This c...

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... was then that Death Row Records contacted Tupac about a record deal. Tupac accepted and in 1995 he released his first album All Eyez on Me which featured the infamous diss song "Hit Em' Up" ("Tupac Shakur." The Biography Channel website). "Hit Em' Up" was major for the rap community because Tupac, as one of the pinnacles of ... 50 Best Diss Songs" (Barber "Top 50 Best Diss Songs"). Also the album on which it was featured got (Simon & Schuster "Tupac Shakur Biography").This song did so well mainly because of its honesty. Tupac's fans admired how real and up front he was about the situati...

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... said before and after his death, actions done before and after his death, and other reports. "I got a big money scheme, and you ain't even wit" it," 2Pac states in the song "I Ain't Mad At Cha." 2Pac certainly earned a lot of money by faking his death. His LP All Eyez On Me (1996), rap's first 2 disc album, shot back up to the ... shooting, he discussed how he wanted to stop rapping, being a gangster, and step out of the limelight. Approximately one month before the shooting occurred, Tupac recorded a new video for the song "I Ain't Mad At Cha." In this video, 2Pac walks out of a Las Ve...

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... ; of Hip-Hop. It was the epitome of pathetic and quickly became the butt of all the music related jokes. Look no further than artists such as Carman, who produced a song titled "The Resurrection Rap" in 1993. The beat was horrible and the lyrics, while they may have been trying to send a good message, are made impossible to listen ... and the terrible rapping job. In the early 2000's, perhaps the most popular Christian Hip-Hop was being made by a man called KJ-52. He is most widely remembered for a song about his Mtn. Dew addiction. At that point in time, popular Christian artist TobyMac...

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... defend women on welfare"Keep Ya Head Up" after he knew that nearly 2,000 women were arrested during the LA Rebellion. In this song he defends women in the face of abandonment, beating, rape, and government neglect. He makes a song with the same name as Maya's poem (Still I Rise). In it he describes himself from when he was still a seed of semen ... then raised a question "Now, what was I to be?" He went on answering his own question on how he survived the harsh living by turning to an illegal lifestyle. In another song he was talking about the changes that should be made in order to des...

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... Rikers Island Maximum Security Prison. The biggest event in Tupac's life was, by all accounts, a shooting in 1994. While awaiting trial on the sexual abuse charge he went to record a song at his close friend's recording studio. In the lobby, four robbers approached him. During the robbery, Tupac went to pull his gun from his belt. However, before Tupac could get ... and last CD would also go quadruple-platinum. This album contained much more thought and contained many songs that talked about religion in a modern day viewpoint. For example, in the song "Hail Mary", Tupac whispers, "They ...

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... some progress towards the equal rights for women. Not all famous men are bashing women, some praise and worship them and write songs about their beauty and strengths. In a rap song written by Tupac Shakur called "Keep Ya Head Up- Tupac writes: Since we all came from a woman Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman I wonder why we ... up (lyricsondemand) Tupac is idolized by people, men and women alike, so for him to write this is putting men on the right track to anti-violence again women. This song is one that makes women stronger and to believe in whom they are. Although wo...

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... throne of rap, and of course, his lyrics are highly controversial. "97 Bonnie and Clyde" appeared on the Slim Shady LP, and was about Eminem killing his wife Kim. The song was recorded when they were separated, and it was a way for Eminem to express himself through music and not actions. He said, "The pain that I felt at that time was ... so real that I really actually wanted to do that. That's why I just don't listen to the song anymore" (Croal). Rap is an art form that reflects life. Rap lyrics and violence are overvalued by today's society. The real problems are in the urban American...

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... hip-hop was a man named Kool Herc. He innovated previous turn-table techniques into new-school recording and play back machine, that kept the beat going through-out the whole song. Kool Herc's real name was Clive Cambell. In 1955 he was born in Jamaica. He moved to N.Y.C. in 1971. Reggae music highly influenced his beats, but native New Yorkers did ... two rappers had been feuding for some time, but it reached a boiling point when Tupac accused Biggie of being involved in the shooting and robbery of Tupac. Tupac then made a song mocking Biggie called "Hit em up," in which he had claimed...

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... they want (Jenkins 625). In my opinion the quality of music has really declined over the last several years. Most rapper now days are supplementing their lack of a talent and song writing ability with a huge amount of violence. The artists have to do something to keep you interested in buying their album. If it is not making good music it is ... the more desensitized we become. Once we become desensitized to what they are saying the media and the artists must raise the level of violence in their news stories and song lyrics to arouse any kind of emotion out of their audiences. ...

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... Herc became increasingly popular throughout the rest of the decade, single-handedly clearing the way for later acts such as The Sugarhill Gang, whose song, "Rapper's Delight" is considered to be the very first commercial success with a Rap song. The presence of Hip-Hop's popularity continued only to gain momentum well into the 1980's, with the birth of such acts as, RUN ... ...

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