Charlene Thomas is also known as Miss Me, is a female rapper out of Sacramento, California. The subject matter within her lyrics is deep, truthful, controversial, and on occasion, just plain silly. Writing and rapping about reality is Miss Me’s favorite subject. BiggMann has often said, “Once she is in tune with the music, there is no stopping her.” Her music and lyrics are highly influenced by rappers like BiggMann, Marvaless, and E-40. Listening to these artists inspire her to write music in a way that only she can pull off. Stepping outside of the box has never been an issue for Miss Me. She sees beauty in art when art is truthful. If there is no truth in that art, there is no beauty. She says what she wants, although, she does not talk …show more content…
She is not a factor of the typical rap crowd. She spends a great amount of her days working on her various crafts and avoiding the bottle-popping scene, as of lately. Miss Me does not do music to collect a profit, as she would rather tell her story to the masses. She uses her ill sense of humor and truthful lyrics to captivate listeners new and old. Her listeners inspire her to write. She frequently asks for inspiration through prayer. Miss Me takes advantage of her creativity and manhandles it like a ragdoll. Miss Me recently dropped a free mixtape titled, “Burnt”. Her mixtape consists of raunchy, yet, truthful lyrics. Shock value is her niche. She is currently in the creative process of her upcoming EP. Miss Me considers her mixtape an accomplishment since it was self-released. Miss Me has been played on local radio stations at the beginning of her career. She also appeared on a show titled, “The Geddog Show”, which aired regularly in the Bay Area. Miss Me’s goals include working with one of her favorite artists, who she will not speak on at this moment. She would like to become a fully independent artist and carry her skills over to the administrative aspect of the entertainment industry. Miss Me would like people to learn from her mistakes. Take from her positive and learn from her
Since then her music has been featured on various TV shows including her video “Catch Me If You Can” being featured on The Family Channel, airing in winter
This song dominated the charts, “The No. 1 R&B track, again co-written by King, relied on a pointed bass line and ethereal, tender vocals, reaching the Top 5 on the pop charts as well. ”(Clarence 5). With King’s vocals and lyrics, this song appealed to both genres and brought together two different music
“The goal isn’t to live forever, but to create something that will” Selena Quintanilla started her singing career at about the age 8 to help support her family. Selena’s family didn’t have much money to begin with but her father saw her potential. The family business had failed and caused them to go bankrupt. They lost their home and moved in with relatives in Corpus Christi. Since losing the family business there was no income and Selena and her siblings singing was their only income, Selena lost many days of school because of the band and she dropped out after finishing 8th grade.
HIRSCHBERG’S PROFILE JUSTIFIED “M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop”, a profile by Lynn Hirschberg, New York times is a critical portrayal of Maya Arulpragasam, also known as M.I.A., who is famous for the rap songs with controversial lyrics. In this profile Hirschberg gives and impression of M.I.A. being a hypocrite . Maya was born in Hounslow, United Kingdom moved to Sri Lanka when she was six months old. Maya’s father was one of the founders of the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students (EROS), because of which she was closely related to the war like situation between the Sinhalese Government and the tigers in Sri Lanka. M.I.A. tried to bring light on the issues in Sri Lanka in front of the people by her music.
Selena Quintanilla-Perez was a talented Mexican-American singer, songwriter, spokesperson, and fashion designer. On top of her career, she had respect, and was admired as a great role model by Mexican Americans. The “Queen of Tejano” music, her contributions to music and fashion made her one of the most celebrated Mexican-American entertainers of the late 20th century. Billboard magazine named her the “Top Latin Artist of the 90s” and then “Best Selling Latin Artist of the decade”. Selena ranks among the most influential Latin artists of all time and is credited for catapulting a music genre into the mainstream market.
Her songs had a very heart breaking melody. Damos songs seemed to be composed this way to express her feelings of how her country has ignored her and other woman from Mexico. Her songs are not only for woman though. Her main focus is to have music give people's strength. For people to not only remember the past, but make a difference as well.
In “Prophets of The Hood”, by Imani Perry, she discusses and expresses her thoughts on the complexity of politics and poetics in Hip Hop. The novel describes Perry’s true meaning of Hip Hop. Throughout the novel, the author reveals four elements that make Hip Hop “black american music”. Two out the four elements that were discuss are political location of black americans and black oral and literary tradition. I agree with Perry’s idea that political location of black americans and the discourse of english in african americans creates black english/ebonics in hip hop that makes it their music.
Her way of writing is very straight forward and she backs up what she says with history. Talking about the different time periods and how people thought at the same time. She compared different artists, male and female to one another, so that a total picture
Taylor was not a one-hit wonder type. Her album parlayed record- breaking singles including “Teardrops on my guitar” and “our song. ”Girls all over the world were falling in love with her music, they could resonate with the love stories (taylorswiftplanet). In the same way, her songs are mostly related to stories. In the song “You belong with me”The catchy hit single from the album fearless topped country and pop charts.
Although she is done singing she is still active in the entertainment world. A few years ago she was on several late night television show sharing her past stories in
Though, over the years, he'd strike my feministic sensibilities with divergence as well. His contributions--most I firmly believe were unintentional--to discussions about gender politics, sexuality and music are convoluted and conflicting. As some songs have egalitarian tones and portray women as divine and supreme beings, others are problematic and aren't so progressive. Further, his involvement with and management of his string of ingénues and protégés have continued to be a point of analytical debate. It all begs the question, can you feed and slay the beast simultaneously?
After hiatus, she came back in the year 2008 with her third album ‘Safe Trip.’ It was then followed by her fourth album called ‘Girl Who Got Away.’ These might not be as successful as her earlier year but it was told that she’s currently on the works for her fifth album. As to when it will come to materialize, let’s wait and
Because the lyrics of many rap songs tell stories of an artist’s personal experience of their everyday lives growing up, urban youth can relate and connect to the lyrics because they see and experience very similar things. Listening to the artist’s lyrics about their own experiences can teach the listeners to not make stupid mistakes and if they continue to follow the right paths, they can achieve more and be successful like the rappers. Hip-Hop literacies can be applied in and outside of the classroom. Students can identify themselves through Hip-Hop culture. In the article, “You Don’t Have to Claim Her”, the author and English teacher Lauren Leigh Kelly, explains that women of all ages can use Hip-Hop to identify themselves despite the genre
Some people dream to be a successful and famous public speaker. Others want to be a millionaire or a billionaire. Singers as well as actors wish to be successful in their career and become famous. Teachers may hope to succeed in imparting knowledge to their students. Many students simply would like to pass examinations or have good grades in school.
Most children grow up cultivating dreams of becoming doctors, actresses, police officers; of becoming mothers and fathers; of traveling the world. However, for the students of Hailsham in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go”, aspiration exists as a completely foreign concept. Where most schools teach students the importance of planning for their futures, Hailsham informs its students of their lack of futures. For the students of Hailsham, ambitions and goals hold no significance because society has already predetermined their fate.