Analyzing Watsky's Challenges

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Rappers today are seen as the best there ever was. Every time a popular rapper comes out with a new album, everyone seems to love it. It seems that most people don’t even care what's on the album, they just like it because it’s from a popular rap artist. It feels like all those popular rappers rap about the same thing. I know, everyone who doesn’t like popular rappers says that all the time. However if it’s said all the time then doesn't it make sense that it's true? For me, the best and most underrated rapper is Watsky. This is only my personal opinion though, I am not writing this to force people to like his music. I am writing this because I feel he deserves much more recognition than he has now. The things I will be talking about is the …show more content…
A lisp is where letters of words are pronounced like other letters. For example, a “s” may be pronounced like “th” in the word thing. This can be be very difficult in just regular everyday talking. Now imagine trying to talk very fast on a beat with that same lisp. He has learned to overcome his lisp. I’m not saying it's inaudible, but to compare it with his older music to his newer, it probably wouldn't even be noticeable. Another obstacle Watsky had to leap, was the girl he was in love with played him. I know, it’s not that big of a deal, it happens to a lot of people. However this girl ended up playing not only him, but playing his friend too. She used both of them for her benefit only. Watsky then moved on from her, but then when he got on tv she insisted they get together sometime. She then proceeded to stand him up on one of their dates. He actually wrote a song about this called “The Girl Next Door” on the album “Watsky”. Those things are somewhat common or have happened to people before. The next thing I’m going to talk about is something not as common. That thing is seizures, Watsky had struggled some seizures in his lifetime. A seizure is like a sudden attack of an illness, which can cause someone to convolute or have spasms. According to Watsky himself he has 4 seizures in his life. He assumes things that trigger them are caused by aerobic exercise or long distance running. Some of these seizures have also been recent, as …show more content…
He then had a moment of glory. He got on tv for a video on Youtube that gained more than 20 million views. He gained fans and eventually came with his first album. On that album he rapped about the personal struggles he had and how he overcame them. Watsky now has 6 albums, his newest one came out in 2016. Watsky is one of the most underrated rapper of his time. He’s not known as well as others because he’s different. Watsky started as a slam poet with a lisp and seizures. Now Watsky is an underrated and an extremely talented artist with a lisp and

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