By Corey Copeland:
Music is one of the most common things that all people can relate to. Music has the power to change one's view of the world and the situations in one's daily life. Describe a moment in your life when you listened to music and the music caused you to look at a situation differently. Name the song if possible, and feel free to quote school-appropriate lyrics.
Music changed my view of a situation when I was moving to the neighborhood bedford stuyvestant.At first I didnt want to move there I wanted to stay where I was.Then I started tio listen to the rapper Christopher Wallace also known as Biggie Smalls. He talked about his life growing up in the stuy. How it was tough on him but it was some good things about his neighbor hood. One song that really inflenced me was the song every day struggle.Here is a snipet of the song :
ReplyDeleteI don't wanna live no mo'
Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front do'
I'm living everyday like a hustle
Another drug to juggle, another day another struggle
I know how it feels to wake up Pockets broke as he**, another rock to sell
People look at you like you're the user
Selling drugs to all the losers mad Buddha abuser
But they don't know about the stress-filled day
Baby on the way mad bills to pay
That's why you drink Tanqueray
So you can reminisce and wishI remember I was just like you
Smoking blunts with my crew
Flipping oldies 62's
'Cause G-E-D was it B-I-G, I got P-A-I-D
That's why my mom hates me
She was forced to kick me out, no doubt
You wasn't living so devilish. This snipet shows how he feels about his neigborhood.Another song that influenced me was the song Juicy.
Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me
I'd never amount to nothin', to all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustlin' in front of that called the police on me when I was just tryin' to make some money to feed my daughters, and all the guys in the struggle, you know what I'm sayin'?Uh-ha, it's all good baby bay-bee, uh.Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke, man I couldn't picture this 50 inch screen, money green leather sofa
Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur
Phone bill about two G's flat No need to worry, my accountant handles that And my whole crew is loungin' Celebratin' every day, no more public housin' Thinkin' back on my one-room shack
Now my mom pimps a Ac' with minks on her back
And she loves to show me off, of course
Smiles every time my face is up in The Source
We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us
No heat, wonder why Christmas missed us
Birthdays was the worst days Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay Uh, damn right I like the life I live Cause I went from negative to positive And it's all... (It's all good).This shows how his neigborhood was tough but when he made it to the top he felt. Therefore I listened to these songs and it changed my view on moving to bedford stuyvestant.
a song that change my view on women is tupac keep ya head up becuase i believe women is not suppose to be treated like a dog or a slave so a man can just get a nut of and leave they need to treated like a queen becuase i came for a women ....i give a holla to my sisters on welfare tupac cares if nobody else care and uhh i know they like to beat ya down a lot when you come around the block they like to clown a lot but please dont cry dry your eyes never forgive but dont forget keep ya head up and when tells you you aint nuttin dont believe him and if he cant learn to love you you should leave him cause sister you dont need him and i aint tryin to cash up i just call it how i see it you know it makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be unhappy and since we all come from a women got our name from our women and our game from our women i wonder why we take from our women why we rape our women do we hate our women ?????i think its time to killfor our women time to heal our women be real to our women and if we dont we,ll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies that make the babies and since a man cant one he has no right when and where to crate one so will the real men get up i know you,re fed up ladies but please keep your head up .....i believe tupac is a man of wusdow
ReplyDeleteWhen I was young there where many times I had listen to music. The time I actually started listen to music was like around 6 years told when I was in Guyana. The type of music I would listen to is like dancehall music for the fact that what we all had listen to at that age. Where I was living the type of music was from beenie man or so. Those music was the hype ones but as a young child I didn't understand that well. But when I started Geting older and coming to American I actually had listen to more music than I even know about. From the music my sister use to play was Michael Jackson and destiny Childs be because those music was mostly talking about relationship and loving someone or how love feel. I mean that when I came here n every morning for school that what my sister would play I mean I never actually sat down and listen to them. All I know that the beat was hot and I really like it. Now let's move on now at this age I listen to like kanye west, BOB, J Cole, Q-tip or Lupe Fiasco so the. Person who actually got me into this was Jamal because he made me see a difference in music the. Listen to them other music who don't put noting in your head. The song that I actually listen to by lupe fiasco name of the song is I'm Beaming this was the songs I will always listen to because the main one Jamal wanted me to see life in a better way. This songs talks about life and how people try to let you go down a wrong path and let your life gets mess-up. " My future was dark you see me now look around am beaming" I started listen go this song last year in 10th grade because so much things was going wrong in my life which I didn't want such as my mom tryan to talk me down everytime. When ever I put this song in my head I have to block those people out my life because I don't want noone talking me down and clearly I needed to find life in a better way then just her telling me am not going to make it what not. I view this song as important in my life because any songs lupe fiasco make sence and he talks about what goes on in his life or maybe others. The moment or experience was seeing how well my mom treat me different from my sister. Like half the time she don't care. The only thing I turn too is these music that what I believe in. I Also can say that it influence me alot to do better in life and no matter what comes my way I fight it off or work my best to reach it. All I can say that music can have an impact on your life if you listen to the ones that make sence and know what they are saying .
ReplyDeletemusic has many affects on me it makes my life feel like a movie listening to certan songs and thinking of happy times to go with the song having flashbacks.
ReplyDeletea time when music help me look at a situtation differently is when i moved to queens from brooklyn i was listening to bob marley everythings going to be alright and i thought let me give this area a try and i grew to love it and know being back in brooklyn i want to go back to queens because it was more quite and calming it wasnt so rild up
Music makes me think. Sometimes it makes me sad and then at times im jumping for joy. Usally I can relate to almost any song. One song I can relate to is "16 At War" By Karina Pasian. Im sure alot of 16 year olds realted to this song when it came out. "Ain't no Daddy's where I'm from it's just mad mothers And eyes that still seem they can't look past color. Why am I disrespected by someone I should call brother. And why girls feel pretty and constantly hate each other" I could repeat the lyrics in my head over and over. When First heard this song I was in the state of mind that 'hey im 16 i just wanna have fun. and still confused why most peolpe did the things they do and act the way they did. It just seemed like 16 was the worst year of my life.
ReplyDeleteI'm 16 and I shouldn't have to feel like this
I'm 16 every Young boy out here wanna kiss me
I'm 16 and me and my momma going through it
16 on the Block 16 on the Block
I'm 16 ( at war) I'm 16(at war) I'm 16(at war) I'm 16(at war) I'm 16(at war) I'm 16 (at war)
I'm 16 on the Block 16 on the Block
Oh this song is so true. I still can relate to it even though i'm 17.
Like many others I often come to a moment in life when I feel like I have no one to turn to. I began to feel like the only person in the world that understands me is myself. In these times of anger mixed with other emotions I often turn to music as my stress relief. One song in particular that calms me down and stops me from going crazy is Tupac’s ‘Me Against The World’. I think the reason I can relate to this song so well is because this song personifies everything that I’m feeling at that time, it’s just me against the world. My favorite verse of the whole song is verse three. In verse three Tupac says :
ReplyDeleteThe message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essence
The power is in the people and politics we address
Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic
And when you get stranded
And things don't go the way you planned it
Dreamin of riches, in a position of makin a difference
Politicians and hypocrites, they don't wanna listen
If I'm insane, it's the fame made a brother change
It wasn't nuttin like the game
It's just me against the world
This verse motivates me to continue on with my daily life , all the stress I go through will pay off when I accomplish my dreams and ambitions and I’m successful. I also enjoy the outro of the song when Pac says :
I know it seem hard sometimes but uhh
Remember one thing
Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that
So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out
Keep your head up, and handle it
MY MOST GENERAL MUSIC SONG THAT RELATED TO MY SITUATION WAS DESTINY CHILD-EMOTIONS BECAUSE IF YOU REALLY LISTEN TO THE LYRICS AND THE SONG DEPENDING ON YOUR SITUATION WELL THIS SONG IS FOR AN EMOTION THAT CHANGES BUT NEVER REALLY CHANGE 100% EXAMPLE RELATIONSHIPS. THE LYRICS THAT COUGH ME WAS
ReplyDeleteIN THE WORDS OF A BROKEN HEART ITS JUST EMOTIONS TAAKING ME OVER CAUGHT UP IN SORROW, LOST IN MY SOUL BUT IF YOU DONT COME BACK COME HOME TO ME DARLING. DO YOU KNOW THERE IS NOONE LEFT IN THIS WORLD TO HOLD ME TIGHT.NOBODY LEFT IN THIS WORLD TO TELL ME GOODNIGHT.
Shaafiy simpson
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid growing up I never was involved in Christmas. I just treated it like another day of the year. The reason why I thought that this holiday was so pointless was because I felt that it only appealed to the white American families. Every year I had to deal with images and holiday cartoons with only white people in it, so I guess you can say that the subliminal message that only white people could afford to have this big luxurious Christmas finally got through. I would have to say that the thing that really seared the message into my conscious that black people were too poor for Christmas was the fact that I have never even heard a black singer or rapper make a Christmas song. When December came in my school I had to go the whole month listening to the typical holiday “jingles”, that some white person made up and even at such I young age I just couldn’t accept that reality. It wasn’t until I was eleven or twelve years old when I heard my first Christmas song written and produced by three young talented black artists. The song was entitled Christmas in Hollis by RUN D.M.C. After hearing this song for the first time I was for lack of a better word relieved to have just discovered that before I was born black culture has long been entwined in holiday music. My favorite line in Christmas in Hollis was when D.M.C. said,” It's Christmas time in Hollis Queens Mom's cooking chicken and collard greens Rice and stuffing, macaroni and cheese And Santa put gifts under Christmas trees.” My first reaction was laughter because for a moment I reminisced my grandmother cooking all the food that D.M.C. listed and more. This finally proved that black families were also able to afford getting together with family and having a good time during Christmas and ever since then I took part in family events during the holidays. That is how music changed my view on a more personal situation I’ve had during my childhood.
one song that changed my life was dear mama by 2pac because at one time i felt like my mother was my worst enemy and this song made me realize she is the most caring person and she loves me very much. nobody is going to love me the way she does and its always going to be like that. in this it showed how things would get if i kept being rude and bad. i dont want to end up like this so i changed up because only your mother knows you best When I was young me and my mama had beef
ReplyDeleteSeventeen years old kicked out on the streets
Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face
Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
Suspended from school; and scared to go home, I was a fool
with the big boys, breakin all the rules
I shed tears with my baby sister
Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids
And even though we had different daddy's, the same drama
When things went wrong we'd blame mama
I reminice on the stress I caused, it was hell
Huggin on my mama from a jail cell
And who'd think in elementary?
Heeey! I see the penitentiary, one day
And runnin from the police, that's right
Mama catch me, put a whoopin to my backside
And even as a crack fiend, mama
You always was a black queen, mama
I finally understand
for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man
You always was committed
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it
There's no way I can pay you back
But the plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated
Lady...
Don't cha know we love ya? Sweet lady
Dear mama
Place no one above ya, sweet lady
You are appreciated
Don't cha know we love ya?
Now ain't nobody tell us it was fair
No love from my daddy cause the coward wasn't there
He passed away and I didn't cry, cause my anger
wouldn't let me feel for a stranger
They say I'm wrong and I'm heartless, but all along
I was lookin for a father he was gone
I hung around with the Thugs, and even though they sold drugs
They showed a young brother love
I moved out and started really hangin
I needed money of my own so I started slangin
I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks
It feels good puttin money in your mailbox
I love payin rent when the rent's due
I hope ya got the diamond necklace that I sent to you
Cause when I was low you was there for me
And never left me alone because you cared for me
And I could see you comin home after work late
You're in the kitchen tryin to fix us a hot plate
Ya just workin with the scraps you was given
And mama made miracles every Thanksgivin
But now the road got rough, you're alone
You're tryin to raise two bad kids on your own
And there's no way I can pay you back
But my plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated
[Chorus]
[Verse Three: 2Pac]
Pour out some liquor and I reminsce, cause through the drama
I can always depend on my mama
And when it seems that I'm hopeless
You say the words that can get me back in focus
When I was sick as a little kid
To keep me happy there's no limit to the things you did
And all my childhood memories
Are full of all the sweet things you did for me
And even though I act craaazy
I gotta thank the Lord that you made me
There are no words that can express how I feel
You never kept a secret, always stayed real
And I appreciate, how you raised me
And all the extra love that you gave me
I wish I could take the pain away
If you can make it through the night there's a brighter day
Everything will be alright if ya hold on
It's a struggle everyday, gotta roll on
And there's no way I can pay you back
But my plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated
[Chorus]
Sweet lady
And dear mama
Dear mama
Lady [3X]
and with this i learned that mothers just want whats best for you and believe me mothers do know whats best.
-dashaun dickerson