Thursday, April 30, 2009

Song Analysis #3

Drake- "Best i ever had"
You know a lot of girls be thinkin my songs are about them
but this is not to get confused This one's for you
Baby you my everything, you all I ever wanted
We could do it real big, bigger than you ever done it
You be up on everything, other hoes ain't never on it
I want this forever, I swear I can spend whatever on it
Cause she hold me down everytime I hit her up
When I get right I promise that we gone live it up
She make me beg for it, til she give it up
And I say the same thing every single time I say
You the f***in best[x4]
You the best I ever had Best I ever had [x3]
I say you the f***in...
Know you got a roommate
Call me when there's no one there
Put the key under the mat and you know I be over there
I be over there, shawty I be over there
I be hittin all the spots that you ain't even know was there
And you don't even have to ask twice
You can have my heart or We can share it like the last slice
Always felt like you was so accustomed to the fast life
Have a ni**a thinkin that he met you in a past life
Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin with no make up on
That's when you're the prettiest I hope that you don't take it wrong
You don't even trip when friends say you ain't bringing drake along
You know that I'm workin I be there soon as I make it home
And she a patient in my waiting room
Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume
And until them girls prove it
I'm the one to never get confused with cause
Baby you my everything, you all I ever wanted
We could do it real big, bigger than you ever done it
You be up on everything, other hoes ain't never on it
I want this forever, I swear I can spend whatever on it
Cause she hold me down every time
I hit her up When I get right I promise that we gone live it up
She make me beg for it, til she give it up
And I say the same thing every single time
I say
You the f***in best [x4]
You the best I ever had Best I ever had [x3]
I say you the f***in...
Sex, love, pain Baby
I be on that tank shit
Buzz so big I can probably sell a blank disc
When my album drop, bitches will buy it for the picture
And ni**as will buy it too and claim they got it for their sister
Magazine paper, girl but money ain't the issue
They bring dinner to my room and ask me to initial
She call me the referee cause I be so offical
My shirt ain't got no stripes but I can make ya pussy whi-stle
Like an andy griffen theme song
And who told you to put them jeans on Double cuff love
You the one I lean on Feelin for a fix you should really get ya fiend on
Yea, just thought my condo was the crack spot
Every single show she out there reppin like a mascot
Get it from the back and make ya fuckin bra strap pop
All up in ya slot until a ni**a hit the jackpot I'm sayin...
Baby you my everthing, you all I ever wanted
We could do it real big, bigger than you ever done it
You be up on everything, other hoes ain't never on it
I want this forever, I swear I can spend whatever on it
Cause she hold me down everytime I hit her up
When I get right I promise that we gone live it up
She make me beg for it, til she give it up
And I say the same thing every single time
I say You the f***in best [x4]
You the best I ever had Best I ever had [x3]
I say you the f***in...

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

social/ political analysis 2

I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
is life worth living should I blast myself?
I'm tired of bein' poor & even worse I'm black
my stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
one less hungry mouth on the welfare
First ship 'em dope & let 'em deal the brothers
give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other
It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead
I got love for my brother but we can never go now
here unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin' changes learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers
and that's how it's supposed to be
How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
but things changed, and that's the way it is
Come on come on
That's just the way it is
Things'll never be the same
That's just the way it isaww yeah
I see no changes all I see is racist faces
misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under I wonder what it takes to make this one better place, let's erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight
and only time we chill is when we kill each otherit takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
And although it seems heaven sent
We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh
It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
But some things will never change
try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game
Now tell me what's a mother to do
bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you
You gotta operate the easy way
"I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way
sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid,
"Well hey, well that's the way it is
We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace
It'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
But now I'm back with the facts givin' it back to you
Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up,crack you up and pimp slap you up
You gotta learn to hold ya own
they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone
But tell the cops they can't touch this
I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this
That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool
my mama didn't raise no fool
And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped&
I never get to lay back'
Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
some buck that I roughed up way backcomin' back after all these years
rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh

In the song Tupac talks alot about racism. H etalks about how black people were juged and yes they have freedom but it doesnt stop peopole from sterio-typing them. He says that "both black and white are smoking crack tonight." Its an exmple to show that even though black and whites do pretty much the same thing the black guy still gets tortured or blamed for it. He also says that "although it seems heaven sent we aint ready for a black president." This song is older, but at the time people in some ways were scared, not expecting that to happen and thought it would be a bad thing. Tupac is saying that he just wants everyone to be equal and have certain people change there bad ways of leaving ("Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other.")

social/ political analysis 1

Mosh- Eminem.

pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation under God
Indivisible with liberty and justice for all...
It feels so good to be back
I scrutinize every word, memorize every line
I spit it once, refuel, re-energize and rewind
I give sight to the blind, my insight through the mind
I exercise my right to express when I feel it's time
It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as
I say to fight, you take it as I'mma whip someone's ass
If you don't understand, don't even bother to ask
A father who has grown up with a fatherless past
Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has
Or at least shows no difficulty multi-task
And in juggling both perhaps mastered his craft
Slash entrepreneur who has helped launch a few more rap acts
Who's had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half
Of his career typical manure moving past that
Mr. kisses ass crack, he's a class act
Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back
Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel
We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march
Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors
All the people up top on the side and the middle
Come together lets all bomb and swamp just a little
Just let it gradually build from the front to the back
All you can see is a sea of people some white and some black
Don't matter what color, all that matters we gathered together
To celebrate for the same cause don't matter the weather
If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better
They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever
They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home c'mon
Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel
We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march
Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors
Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is God just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin'
How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists
Now this is our final hour
Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six...Teen million people,
Are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach alqueda through my speech
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you know why,Cause I told you to fight.
And as we proceed,
To Mosh through this desert storm,
In these closing statements,
if they should argue
Let us beg to differ
As we set aside our differences
And assemble our own army
To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction
That we call our President, for the present
And Mosh for the future of our next generation
To speak and be heard
Mr. President, Mr. Senator
Do you guy's hear us...hear us...(Hailie)

This song by Eminem is protesting against Bush being president. Eminem is trying to say not to follow Bush and his beliefs because they arent good as if we were being "brain-washed." He is kind of also saying that if we, people that dont have much say, want to let Eminem speak for us through his songs and get the mesage across that way because alot of people here them considering they are on the radio and t.v, and he will join them; "And mosh for the future of our next genreation to speak and be heard." Eminem wants the troops out of the war and thinks its wrong they are there. He says "Stomp, push, shove, mush, F- - - Bush, until they bring our troops home." He just wants the troops home and until that happends he will continue to protest about it and make a big deal of it.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

imagery

angels and airwaves- love like rockets

Imagery in purple

I held my head as I left the Ground
The belts grew tight as the Blast grew loud
The loving wish whispered in my ear
Please leave with grace, all the best my dear
Yeah, Its like I held your hand as
I pulled you in Your lips sealed tight
ready to begin I kissed you first then you kissed my ear
If I ask you once will you ask me every year
Do you feel alive? (Imagine Imagine)
Do you feel alive? (Imagine Imagine)
The sun would set in the night time sky
The stars they'd cast and grow upon my eyes
The art its self a burning ball of light
Yeah, Its like Our first love was ignited late that night
Do you feel alive? (Imagine Imagine) Do you feel alive? (Imagine Imagine)
The Stars in your eyes, light up the sky with gods light, fire and sound
The Stars in your eyes, light up the sky with gods light, fire and sound
Do you feel alive? (Imagine Imagine) Do you feel alive? (Imagine Imagine)



Eve- love is blind

Imagery in blue

Hey, yo I don't even know you and I hate you
See all I know is that my girlfriend used to date you
How would you feel if she held you down and raped you?
Tried and tried, but she never could escape you
She was in love and I'd ask her how? I mean why?
What kind of love from a nigga would black your eye?
What kind of love from a nigga every night make you cry?
What kind of love from a nigga make you wish he would die?
I mean shit he bought you things and gave you diamond rings
But them things wasn't worth none of the pain that he brings
And you stayed, what made you fall for him?
That nigga had the power to make you crawl for him
I thought you was a doctor be on call for him
Smacked you down cause he said you was too tall for him, huh?
That wasn't love, babygirl you was dreamin'
I could have killed you when you said your seed was growin' from his semen
Love is blind, and it will take over your mind
What you think is love, is truly not
You need to elevate and find
I don't even know you and I'd kill you myself
You played with her like a doll and put her back on the shelf
Wouldn't let her go to school and better herself
She had a baby by your ass and you ain't giving no help
Uh-huh big time hustler, snake motherfucker
One's born everyday and everyday she was your sucker
How could you beat the mother of your kids?
How could you tell her that you love her?
Don't give a fuck if she lives
She told me she would leave you, I admit it she did
But came back, made up a lie about you missing your kids
Sweet kisses, baby ain't even know she was your mistress
Had to deal with fist fights and phone calls from your bitches
Floss like you possess her, tellin' me to mind my business
Said that it was her life and stay the fuck out of it
I tried and said just for him I'll keep a ready clip
I don't even know you and I want you dead
Don't know the facts but I saw the blood pour from her head
See I laid down beside her in the hospital bed
And about two hours later, doctors said she was dead
Had the nerve to show up at her mother's house the next day
To come and pay your respects and help the family pray
Even knelt down on one knee and let a tear drop
And before you had a chance to get up
You heard my gun cock
Prayin' to me now, I ain't God but I'll pretend
I ain't start your life but nigga I'mma bring it to an end
And I did, clear shots and no regrets, never.
Cops comin' lock me under the jail
Nigga whatever my bitch, fuck it my sister
You could never figure out even if I let you live
What our love was all about
I considered her my blood and it don't come no thicker.

3OH!3- richman

Imagery in green

I mean what can I say,
pretty babies in the backseat singin' to you,
Hey Dj, won't you play that song for me,
And my hom- and my homies all singin' to it,
3oh...3oh!3,
I ain't callin' for a close-up,
No clubs, no cars, bitches with the nose jobs,
No dubs, no stars,I'm 'a do it how I always have;Whiskey in a 40 bag,
Pissin' in the alleyway out back where the party's at,
I'm 'a spend it on a new whip, new hat, new kicks,
Bitches with the huge tits, new gat, new slips,
I'm 'a do it how I always do;
Sleep until the break of noon,
Wakin' just to make it through another night of shakin' you
I mean what can I say,
pretty babies in the backseat singin' to you,
Hey Dj, won't you play that song for me,
And turn it up on your radio,
I got 200 seconds and I'm ready to go,
I mean what can I say,
Three babies in the backseat singin' to you,
Hey Dj, won't you play that song for me,
And turn it up on your radio,
I got 200 seconds and I'm ready to go,
I ain't signin' on a new lease,No cooks, no keys,
Models with the nose bleeds,White lace, gold beads,
I'm 'a run it like a marathon;Party 'til I'm 50,
Wake up on my parent's
Them cops still out to get me,
And I ain't sippin' on a mixed drink, pinkie out, lips pink,
Talkin' to a rich skank filled up like a sperm bank,
I'm 'a go where I always go;
Drinks are on the house,
Whiskey's on the rocks while your sister's on my mouth,
I mean what can I say,
pretty babies in the backseat singin' to you,
Hey Dj, won't you play that song for me,
And turn it up on your radio,
I got 200 seconds and I'm ready to go,
I mean what can I say,
Three babies in the backseat singin' to you,
Hey Dj, won't you play that song for me,
And turn it up on your radio,
I got 200 seconds and I'm ready to go
And if I was a rich man,
I've never been to sea,
Could I take you anyways,
Would you come with me, baby?
And if I was a sick man,
I never meant to be,
Would you love me anyways,
And would you marry me?
I mean what can I say,
pretty babies in the backseat singin' to you,
Hey Dj, won't you play that song for me,
And turn it up on your radio,
I got 200 seconds and I'm ready to go,
I mean what can I say,
pretty babies in the backseat singin' to you,
Hey Dj, won't you play that song for me,
And turn it up on your radio,
I got 200 seconds and I'm ready to go,
I mean what can I say,
pretty babies in the backseat singin' to you,
Hey Dj, won't you play that song for me,
And turn it up on your radio,
I got 200 seconds and I'm ready to go,
I mean what can I say,
pretty babies in the backseat singin' to you,
Hey Dj, won't you play that song for me,
And turn it up on your radio,
I got 200 seconds and I'm ready to go

Red jumpuit ap.- face down

Imagery in red

Hey girl, you know you drive me crazy
One look puts the rhythm in my hand
Still I'll never understand why you hang around
I see what's going down
Cover up with make-up in the mirror
Tell yourself it's never gonna happen again
You cry alone and then he Swears he loves you
Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now
As she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you, my friend
One day, this world's going to end
As your lies crumble down
A new life she has found
A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect
Every action in this world will bear a consequence
If you wade around forever you will surely drown
I see what's going down
I see the way you go and say you're right again
Say you're right again
Heed my lecture
Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now As she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you, my friend One day, this world's going to end
As your lies crumble down A new life she has found
Face down in the dirt
She said this doesn't hurt
She said I've finally had enough
Face down in the dirt
She said this doesn't hurt
She said I've finally had enough
One day she will tell you that she has enough
It's coming round again
Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now
As she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you, my friend
One day, this world's going end
As your lies crumble down
a new life she has found
Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now
As she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you, my friend
One day, this world's going end
As your lies crumble down
a new life she has found
Face down in the dirt
She said this doesn't hurt
She said I've finally had enough