In A Boy Named Sue, Cash sang, “I grew up quick and I grew up mean. My fists got hard and my wits got keen.” This suggests that he was ridiculed because his name was Sue and he grew violent. Johnny Cash also suggested this when he sang, “some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head.” “In the Ghetto” is much more intense in terms of violence. The young boy grows up roaming the streets with negative influences. “He starts to roam the streets at night and he learns how to steal and he learns how to fight.” are some of the lyrics Presley used to describe the violence in the song.
Bob Marley’s song ‘I Shot the Sheriff’ and Ice-T/Body Count’s song ‘Cop Killer’ both deal with aspects of antiauthoritarian behavior towards law enforcement. This attitude has been seen and popularized throughout modern culture in both hip and hop and reggae music. But in order to understand the varied reaction to this kind of material, you have to evaluate the historical and social context behind both songs. With ‘I Shot the Sheriff’, The song is about a man who admits to killing the local sheriff, and claims to be falsely accused of killing the deputy sheriff. He also claims to have acted in self-defense, as he says the sheriff tried to shoot him.
Essay on Geto boys Mind playing tricks on me By Viktor During the golden age of hip-hop, where most rappers focused on the social conditions, the Geto boys´s song “Mind playing tricks on me” instead focused on crime. However, not just crime more the psychological consequences of it. Scarface, who suffered from manic depression when he was a kid, and used drugs by the age of eight, wrote the song. There are two other rappers in the song and they are Willie D, who had an abusive mother while growing up and raps the second verse, and Bushwick Bill, a dwarf who also lost his eye because his wife shot him during a fight, raps the fourth verse. The song consist of an intro and four verses, the rapper varies from verse to verse, but since Scarface wrote the lyrics, he is properly the most important rapper to focus on.
He rapping about heart break. Lupe is a real rapper. When I say real rapper I mean that he has that lyrical flow and originality. . People can relate to his music in all kinds of ways because his music is an image of others struggles .A lot of artist lack that but Fiasco does not.
The song “Formation” is a rap song by hip-hop icon Beyoncé Knowles-Carter in which she brings awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement, third-wave feminism, and the injustices against the black community. The Black Lives Matter movement was founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi in 2013, after the George Zimmerman trial. In 2012, Trayvon Martin was killed unjustly killed by George Zimmerman.At first, he was let free, however, people protested and eventually he was tried for the death. He claimed self-defense, however, Martin was unarmed and posed no threat to the man. Black Lives Matter organizes protests around different police brutality cases such as the shooting of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice.
Bob Marley’s song ‘I Shot the Sheriff’ and Ice-T/Body Count’s song ‘Cop Killer’ both deal with aspects of antiauthoritarian behavior towards law enforcement. This attitude has been seen and popularized throughout modern culture in both reggae and hip hop music. But in order to understand the varied reaction to this kind of material, you have to evaluate the historical and social context behind both songs. With ‘I Shot the Sheriff’, The song is about a man who admits to killing the local sheriff, and claims to be falsely accused of killing the deputy sheriff. He also claims to have acted in self-defense, as he says the sheriff tried to shoot him.
Saying that it was encouraging “Violence against and disrespect” for law enforcement officers . Greg Jones said that the letter wasn't to put pressure on the group, or have people to stop playing their song. That in the letter wasn't to just target them but to just stop the hate and negative feed on the police. They had a tour in Detroit that the police came to them and said could they not perform that song, but they did anyways. Later in a interview with Ice Cube, who wrote the lyrics, said that the song is documentary on everyday living in Compton not to create violence.
Rap artists are using incidents like what happened to Michael Brown to speak about in their music. In his song, “Don’t Die”, Killer Mike raps “I woke up this morning to a cop with a gun, who told me that he looking for a ni**a on the run” (Charity, Diaz, Drake). Rappers are using their music to speak out about how minorities are treated, specifically blacks. Rap has also had a positive impact because it shows the extent discrimination really goes to. Rappers have been known to address police brutality (Leah).