Analysis Of Hip Hop Song

Superior Essays
A hip hop song writer, like any other song writer, has to go through the same kinds of steps that lead to a completed song. There are no fixed ways to get a complete song, only the steps are the same, the order in which one goes about them is an individual preference. Mostly the first step is the Title, because in that one line the writer is able to decide what exactly they want to talk about via the song. Once the title is done it's a simple matter of getting down the lyrics to explain what the title is all about.

This can be difficult for a hip hop song writer, who is maybe not so confident in their in writing skills and are unsure of whether the lyrics they write will be able to properly portray to the audience what they want to say. In

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    When Anthony Elonis’s wife divorced him and left with their kids, he began to write and produce songs to express how he felt about what he was going through. He wrote,“There’s one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you… I’m not going to rest until your body is a mess soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts.” Elonis was doing what many people do when they are going through a tough time, finding a safe outlet such as writing.…

    • 1083 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1) McBride argues about / describes / criticizes a nightmare that made him re-evaluate his perceptions of hip-hop he said here about the first paragraph where the nightmare gets deeper,because before he know it he heard the the pitter-patter of the little feet, their offspring,cascading through his living living room,cascading through his life,drowning him with the sound of his hypocrisy. 2)About the hip hop Mcbride said music seemingly without melody, sensibility,instruments,verse,or harmony,music with no beginning,end, or ,middle,music that doesn’t even seem to be music. 3)James McBride tells us his views on Hip Hop Rap and shows us how difficult it was for him to come to terms with this new music. James grew up in the Bronx, which…

    • 1603 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Surprisingly, some of the best articles I have read were very casually written. A fitting description for the article “Lil Wayne I Am Not a Human Being II” by zcamp. It is loose in style and flows easily, reflecting that of a conversation between friends. The author writes confidently about the number of phallic metaphors Wayne uses in his songs, noting that he sets the world record, and makes a joke of his own renaming one of the songs as “Penis Colada”. Of course, even in a conversational tone, the author shows a great deal of effort in researching not only the number of songs contributing to Wayne’s world record, but also taking the reader through a brief history and progression of the artist.…

    • 1702 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Black Power Mixtape is a historical documentary that shows footage shot by Swedish journalists who were examining the evolution of the Black Power Movement in America from 1967 to 1975. Their mission was to “[show] the country as it really is.” The documentary examines the movement year by year, highlighting important black leaders and historic events that have shaped our nation into what it is today. The footage they showed was very insightful. Interviews with black people living at the time showed their point of view in a way that textbooks cannot.…

    • 555 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In chapter three of Prophets of the Hood, Imani Perry analyzes Hip Hop music by recognizing certain aspects of songs. Perry believes that the most critical feature of a song is its figurative language such as metaphors and similes, which make the song more interesting and create a feeling or expression related to the song. She emphasizes the importance of the lyrics of a song and its ability to tell a story. Perry details the four formats of the stories of Hip Hop songs: narrative, exhortation/proclamation, description, and battle. In addition, Perry focuses on the realism of Hip Hop because “it tells us something about the political, artistic, and philosophical ethos of the music” (Perry 86).…

    • 572 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I think the song “F**K Tha Police” by N.W.A has a lot of similarity with the reading. In the song, it talks about the mistreatment of African Americans because of their skin color. N.W.A talks about how many African Americans are sent to jail because the police abuse their power. In the book “The New Jim Crow” talks about that a number of poor African Americans are send to jail because they are targeted by the police.…

    • 95 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The brilliant lyrical mastermind Kendrick Lamar has put out fantastic work in the past few years. This review is focusing on his first album titled Section 80 that made a tremendous breakthrough in his career. The album released July 2nd, 2011 with a tracklist that consists of 16 tracks that features various artists. The album was based upon a political point of view with a dash of spiritual and astronomical vibes that show his versatility. Section 80 is one of Kendrick Lamar’s most influential projects ever and the best work he ever put out.…

    • 601 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Fugee's Song Analysis

    • 198 Words
    • 1 Pages

    I realized that the subject didn't have much to it. These are just songs about other songs that just so happened don't exist. I've looked into the making of each song and have been going band by band to find anything of interest. Nothing cracked hasn't covered before.…

    • 198 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Hip Hop Planet Analysis

    • 543 Words
    • 3 Pages

    In writing music you are able to express your feelings in many ways. Many people may relate to to the song and say to themselves I have the same situation as the hip hop writer. It isn’t based on any kind of culture anyone of us individuals can express our feelings through hip hop songs. Many hip hop writers may express their love life or even a break up song. Each hip hop writer has there own topic on what the song is about.…

    • 543 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Annotated Bibliography

    • 1090 Words
    • 5 Pages

    1. I like the thesis sentence of this essay, because the sentence has clear avenues of the overall research paper. After reading the thesis sentence, “Children being exposed to violence on the media experience negative effects such as aggression on children, harms them, higher crime rates, and developing mental health issues,” I was able to realize that topics which are explained in the following body paragraphs. Also, each body paragraph clearly explains about each topic, so I could understand the whole essay without confusion. 2.…

    • 1090 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The song I chosen to analyze for this assignment from Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” is the album’s second single “The Blacker the Berry” featuring Assassin. The song title is a reference to The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life by Wallace Thurman in 1929. In the novel, the main character faced several struggles due to her dark skin and both the song and the book title serves as positive affirmation to African American. “The Blacker the Berry” was produced at a studio in Los Angeles, even though most of the people involved in the production were not from the city. The song’s beat was produced by Boi-1da and KOZ, both from Canada, along with Terrace Martin who is a Los Angeles native.…

    • 767 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the song “The Blacker the Berry” by Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick seems to be showing his anger and frustration towards white people. He also takes a stand protecting his roots because he feels like it’s being taken away from him. Kendrick states some stereotypes that white people have placed on African-Americans and the friendship that the whites and and African-Americans now have. There is a lot emphasis on the fact that even though they are in a free and equal country, equality is still not there.…

    • 735 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In J.Coles “She Knows” he uses a juvenile young man to demonstrate the life of a average suburban family and the struggles they go through. By looking at the the two scenes spoken about in this essay, we can see what exactly J.Cole means in his title “She Knows”, which most viewers don’t see; this is important because J.Cole changes the meaning of “She Knows” through the entire music video. The first important scene starts with the young man being dropped off by his mother and father on his way to school. This scene is significant because previously before the young man left the house he stole money from his parents and the young mans mother gazes at him in the car as if she knew what exactly he had done. The second important scene starts with…

    • 1189 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Hey Ya !: Song Analysis

    • 368 Words
    • 2 Pages

    OutKast, a popular rap group throughout the nineties and early 2000s, has a renowned song entitled “Hey Ya!” which features the smooth flows of Andre 3000 and hard hitting rhymes of Big Boi. The song has been a huge hit for years and is virtually known by every American under the age of thirty. When the song was released in 2003, I was just three years old, but had already adopted my dad’s love for music and I frequented the kitchen tile as my dance floor whenever music was playing. OutKast’s song “Hey Ya!” holds a different weight than most other songs I grew up around because it is one of few memories I remember vividly about my childhood.…

    • 368 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Many artists these days tend to sample other authors work into their songs to add a greater purpose or meaning to their music. Although this technique is not used in a lot of genres and appears mostly in hip-hop music, forms of music sampling have been around since the late 1900’s. Artists like Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar are known for sampling other artist’s music or speeches and incorporating them into their songs to enhance the message or theme that is trying to be presented. Kendrick Lamar uses a sample in his song “Alright” to help illuminate what life is like as an African American and the struggles that they face due to their skin color.…

    • 1294 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays