Critical Analysis Hip-Hop pt 2

Positive Song

Heard 'Em Say

[Kanye West]

Uh, Yeah, Uh, yeah, uh, yeah, uh, yeah

[Piano drops]

And I heard 'em say, nothin ever promised tomorrow today.
From the Chi, like Tim its the Hard-a-way,
So this is in the name of love, like Robert says
Before you ask me to get a job today, can I at least get a raise on a minimum wage?
And I know the government administered AIDS,
So I guess we just pray like the minister say,
Allah o Akbar and throw em some hot cars,
Things we see on the screen are not ours,
But these people from the hood so these dreams not far,
Where im from, the dope boys is the rock stars,
But they can't cop cars without seein' cop cars,
I guess they want us all behind bars.
I know it.

Uh, And I heard 'em say, nothin ever promised tomorrow today.
(ooooooooo)
And I heard 'em say, nothin ever promised tomorrow today.

[Kanye]
They say people in your life are seasons,
And anything that happen is for a reason,
And people guns a clappin and keep to squeezin',
And Gran (Grandma) keep prayin' and keep believin',
And Jesus and one day that ya see him,
Till they walk in his footsteps and try to be him,
The devil is alive I feel him breathin',
Claimin' money is the key so keep on dreamin',
And put them lottery tickets just to tease us,
My aunt Pam can't put those cigarettes down,
Now my lil cousin smokin those cigarettes now,
His job trying to claim that he too bad now,
Is it cuz his skin blacker than licorice now?
I can't figure it out...
Im Stickin around....

This song is positive to our society because when people hear about getting on drugs and Kanye West was trying to explain in this passage that you should keep believing and praying because people should get some where far in life. This song is trying to convey that tomorrow is another day and things just won't be promised. This song has an influence on life because when people hear this song their going to think that its wrong to take drugs and one day thing just might go positive, and change the life they're living in. This is what this song means to me.

Critical Analysis of Hip-Hop

Negative Song

DEAD WRONG By: Biggie Smalls

(feat. Eminem, Puff Daddy)
[Puff] Bad Boy baby
[Big] Yeah.. yeah..
Junior M.A.F.I.A., yeah..
[Puff] Yeah.. B.I.G. 2000
B.I.G. 2000 Born Again.. c'mon..

[Notorious B.I.G.]
Relax and take notes, while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke
Throw you in a choke - gun smoke, gun smoke
Biggie Smalls for mayor, the rap slayer
The hooker layer - yo say your prayers
Hail Mary full of grace.. smack the person in the face

I think this song by Biggie entitled "Dead Wrong" has a impact this society because people might listen to his songs and say "I might want to be like him when I grow up". This song is about how Biggie was growing up, as he turned into a negative impact on the society. People in our past life probably took it hard or struggled because of selling drugs or difficulties in life. Kids like us these days may do the same thing Biggie might have done when he was around the age of 13. This song is very negative and knowing that theirs people who act like him is just wrong to the people who wants to do good in life. Biggie use to do good, it all change when he was went in a gang and started using and selling drugs for money. People are going to think its alright to do what Biggie did because he did bad thing for a living and people will start to look up to him because of all the money, which he made from just one thing, drugs. I looked at the Biggie movie entitled "Notorious Biggie" and it was horrible meaning that the things that were said and how Biggie treated his mom was heart broking. This movie really may catch people attention because it really has negative things and because people may do the thing on their because they might want to make money and become a rapper like Biggie. People only follow thing that may come from television or even on the streets in real life. Mostly all people who sell drugs and smoke might not care about how that were in the past meaning that they did the right things before they started hanging on the corner of a broke down street. This is a bad influence on this society because they: people don't care about their present or future just drugs. It may not be drugs only people might go out and violate other strangers property for the fun of it. Biggie was a hateful person to some people and it should stay that way forever. This is what I think about Biggie and the song.

Rites of Passage

The Rites of Passage ceremony was very interesting and fun. The teachers who were mainly running the ceremony was Mothuri Mukasa and Mothura Kaneesha. The rites of passage ceremony was to show that we students were on the road of becoming a young man and a young lady and become more confident. Mothuri Mukasa discussed to the parents the things we go over or discussing in our rites of passage classes, as to Mothura Kaneesha who talk about the young ladies in the class. A few parent came up to tell a little about how grateful they were to have they're child. Later on we were blind folded and our parents talked to us about how they loved us and they meant their world to be with us boys and girls. When we got back to our seats, we did our virtue and lightened candles. My virtue was patience and that's what I wanted to work on. After the ceremony we went to eat at the cafeteria where we had a delicious dinner by the Black Olive restaurant. We all was having fun and talking to new people. My experience during the ceremony was good because we got to discuss the virtue and our parents were able to tell us how they felt being in their lives.

ROP Homework

Shack, what my oldest known ancestor lived in. This was back in the 1800's. My mom said when she went down their this photo looked like what Daffany Coe shack looked like. This shack she lived in was in South Carolina.


This is a photo of slaves picking cotton in the fields. Daffany Coe worked very hard in the fields and she probably had a break in between, but if she didn't I would be very proud raising twelve kids and working.