Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Ari's poetry/song lyrics assignment


Song Writing Intro Paragraph

            In the two songs, N.W.A; Fuck The Police, and Jay-Z; 99 problems, there is a common theme that makes listeners aware of the importance of their message. This theme is racism.  In Fuck The Police they talk about how police mess around with them and arrest them because of their color, especially if they have money.  “A young nigga got it bad cause I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority”
In Jay-Z’s song he talks about how the police harassed him and tried to search his car because he was a racial minority and he was young.  And I heard "Son do you know why I'm stopping you for?"
“Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hat's real low.”
The two songs have an intense and harsh way of expressing that message, but it has definitely worked by making people realize how racism makes other people feel.
In the two songs, you can tell that racism is brought up in a lot of different ways.  In fuck the police they have the police actually saying it, and in Jay-Z’s song it just has him saying that the police are racist.

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