Summary Of The Revenge Of Autobiographical Rap By Kendrick Lamar

All across the United States, people go through a time of struggle. Sometimes, the specific type of struggle is minor, and could be easily fixed, while on the contrary, some types of struggle is severe, and could cause life-threatening issues. Either way, these times of struggle affects a person or people emotionally, mentally, physically, and socially. However, even though these dark and depressing times are obviously not a good part of life, it inspires musical artists to write a song or multiple songs about their struggling times. Musical artists like Drake, XXXtentacion, Kendrick Lamar, Youngboy Never Broke Again, and Joyner Lucas tell about how they struggled through environments of hate, and poverty.

Millions of people in the world listen to music for all different reasons. Most people all over the world listen to different genres of music in order to relax, but not too many people pay attention to the actual lyrics of a song. If you listen to the lyrics of a song you will realize that many songs have important messages or themes to them. An example of this is the lyrics of the song “Changes” by Tupac Shakur. If you listen to this song, you will realize that Tupac raps about not only the problems that African Americans face from society, but also the struggles that poor people in society have to endure and overcome. Many

On April 14th, 2017, proclaimed artist, Kendrick Lamar, released his fourth studio album, titled Damn. This fourteen track album was possibly Lamar’s most personal and most in-depth project yet. However, no song on this album, perhaps, reaches the personal level of the fifth track titled “FEEL.” In this song Lamar gives a super in-depth look at what he believes his biggest issues are and allows the listener to realize your own by confessing his. The purpose of this essay is to conduct a rhetorical analysis of Kendrick Lamar’s “FEEL.” and his effective use of the rhetorical devices ethos, pathos, and logos.

Kendrick Lamar’s third studio album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” sheds light on the struggle of achieving rich and fame and the trials that come with. Rolling Stone and Billboard praised the album awarding it the best album of 2015. The album depicts the difficulties of fame by putting the trials and tribulations on display; the inability for those to adjust to their new lifestyle and the potential temptations that creep in. “To Pimp a Butterfly” has been both a divisive and uniting factor in its emergence in popular culture.

They drew graffiti on sides of buildings and created their own music, which made their hardships into works of art. These troubled kids began to create music without instruments. Instead of using instruments they used words; it was entirely vocal music. This music depicted the hardships of the city at the time and the way the kids felt. This was the beginning of Hip Hop Rap music. Many of these harmonies, internal rhymes, and lyrics became expressions of the emotions that they were feeling at that time. It was the anger, the despair, the emptiness, the poverty, the sorrow, and the loneliness they felt for the times that they lived in. The history of Hip Hop Rap music proved to McBride that it does tell a story and reflects life as it is lived by young people who felt trapped in the ghettos of New York City. It also proved to him that even rap music takes true artistic ability and expresses real emotions of real people when they feel a certain way.

Think of a poet. Who came to mind? Was it Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Ralph Waldo Emerson? What about Eminem or Jay-Z? They are both poets too, but in a different way. They go by the title “rapper”, basically a synonym for poet, and Hip-Hop is their form of poetry is. Kevin Coval amusingly says that rap “dusted poetry off, took it out the closet, put Js on its feet, and told it to speak to the people, all the people,” and that hip-hop saved poetry from becoming “classical music,” meaning that rap prevented poetry from becoming an old, out-dated art form and renovated it for the next generation (20). Coval’s book, The BreakBeat Poets, says the creation of hip-hop music was by “latchkey kids in the crack era, left to their own devices to experiment wildly and make language and art new and meaningful,” and goes on to say its purpose is to, “move the crowd, relate to the crowd, and save the crowd,” and Kendrick Lamar does these things perfectly (18). Through the use of clever wordplay and rhyming skills mixed with great story telling, Kendrick is bringing rap music back to its “roots” while introducing a “style” of his own, which is why one can argue that Kendrick Lamar is the “savior” of the rap game and its listeners.

For many years, the youth have been known for singing along to their favorite song and taking that song as whole and using it as their motto for life. It may seem that sometimes these kids do not know what is being said in the music but this shows that they do know what the lyrics are saying. According to Franklin B. Krohn and Frances L. Suazo in their article “Contemporary Urban Music: Controversial Messages in Hip-Hop and Rap Lyrics,” many teenagers and minority groups view rappers as their spokesmen because of their ability to speak in street language and bluntly express their frustration (Krohn, 1995). Unfortunately, hip hop lyrics usually tend to talk about drugs, sex and violence leading kids to think that everything they hear is okay and that is how they have to live their life. Yet, there are artists out there who take their lyricist skills to give positive lyrics and messages in their music, but these songs are not often played in the mainstream.

The influence of rap on black urban youths has become a major part to the modern day music industry. Berry uses the article to show that through rap music, low income black youth are able to develop empowering values and ideologies, strengthen cultural interaction and establish positive identities. This is done by describing different components of urban black culture associated with rap which enhances the struggle for black significance in pop culture. His beliefs are supported by using rap artists and their music to show how significant it has grown to be a dominant form of expression but also a controversial issue for urban black youths. The thesis that rap music as cultural expression is

People around the world have different ways of expressing their emotions. Many people use music as a way to release the emotions they feel inside. When listeners analyze a song sometimes they can understand what an artist might feel or better understand their perspective. Many African American artists sing about how African American communities are dragged into a never ending cycle of poverty and criminal activity. Some artists many have a different perceptive on the future of these communities where they grew up in. Gang Starr’s “Code of the Streets” and 2Pac “Changes” exposes the experience of living, being raised in a poor community expressing different emotions in the song.

A lot of people who listen to hip-hop know that most artist come from poor rough communities, the person who I’m about to introduce you to is an artist by which hip-hop had change his life from a negative place in life to a positive place in life. The rap artist is The Game, if you’re not familiar with him he is also from Compton. The Game was involved in a lot of gang violence growing up, in his A and E Documentary “The Streets of Compton” it talked about how hip-hop changed The Game’s life. The Game was a well-known gangster who ran with the Bloods a notorious gang in Los Angeles. The Game had no other choice but to join the gang because he needed money and had nothing else to do. The Bloods were always feuding with the Crips which is another violent gang in LA. But one day when The Game was in a hotel some Crips came and shot him in the chest multiple times, he was later rushed to a hospital and he was in a coma for a couple of months. When he woke up he soon realized that he needed to change his ways or he would die for real. So, The Game had decided that he wanted to become a rapper and express his feelings about how he felt about his life. The Game had believed that him being alive today was a message from god. The Game had begun to teach himself how to rap and eventually he turned it into a career and laughed his first album “The Documentary” in 2005. This album had changed his life and made him realize that being a gang member can affect your life. The Game had mentioned that if he never would have done rap he would have probably gone the wrong path and probably would have ended up dead. The Game is one of many rappers that hip-hop had a positive impact on him. I personally believe that if he didn’t choose to become a rapper he would have ended up in a casket. This is one good example on how hip-hop had a positive impact on him. Not

In her essay “Redeeming the Rap Music Experience”, Venise Berry explains her strongest points on how rap has made an impact in music; not only for being a necessary genre of music but also having effective form of communication throughout the black society. Rap has been known to be a communitive process in which their culture can express their thoughts and feelings. To Berry, rap represents itself as a symbol for those who write rap songs as if they were telling their own story about sex, violence and even racism and how they had become involved with either one. The words of rap music, such as “Nommo” for example, often express the writer's lifestyle and belief that “Nommo” has the power to change their attitude and bring other African American’s

Hip Hip is one of the most amazing things that has happened to the African American culture. Hip hop is a way of expressing ourselves to the world, it's our music, our dancing, our lyrics, and our style. For those of us who really understand hip hop, it is often more than just a fun beat you can nod your head to, there is always a story behind it. In one of Tupac Shakur's songs ¨Brenda Got a Baby¨ he spoke on how a 12 year old child in the ghetto was molested by her cousin and ended up having to turn to prostitution to take care of herself and her baby. Tupac's record label, at that time, didn't want to release this song because it was too real, and ¨nobody wanted to hear it,¨ but the people who understood the message actually loved the song.

Music is a magnifying glass on society. Listeners get a glimpse of race, gender roles, wealth, love, and more from a specific time period. Take current rap songs streaming on the radio today. Behind the curse words and what seems like gibberish is actually insight on the current world and what issues the artist is going through. For example, Kendrick Lamar’s hit “DNA” may seem to many like a explicit waste of words, but when studying the lyrics, one sees that Lamar is actually reflecting on his black heritage and on the ecomonic and racial struggles he has had growing up in Compton.

Intro: Kendrick had hard times and good times in his life. Also this biography is going to show you how his life was. Another thing is will show you how he changed the world and the rappers he rapped with.

Throughout history, music has been used to express the feelings of people or groups whom may have no other outlet to express themselves. The best example of this occurrence would be the lower class of America’s use of rap music. Rap music started out as a fun variation of disco with the purpose to make people dance and enjoy themselves, but it later transformed into one of the best outlets to express the struggles of poverty in the United States. The genre gained popularity when the song “Rapper 's Delight” hit the charts in the early eighties; rap evolved into a plethora of different styles from there, Gangster Rap formed with NWA in the late eighties, and rap really hit it’s zenith in the mid nineties. Modern rap began in the early starts of the twentieth century. Because of the storytelling that rappers do in the music, it gained notice in the inner city where the demographic could relate. Many young teen in the inner city environment built dream to be famous rappers just like their own favorite artists . Rap connects to me by its style, its purpose, and its political incorrectness.