“03’ adolescence”, by J. Cole concerns 0a young teen growing up in a rough neighborhood. He gets caught up in the wrong crowd. This crowd includes gang members, drug dealers, and thieves. He wants to be apart of this crowd but one of his close friends, a drug dealer, tells him that his life amazing and makes the speaker appreciate life more. The speaker uses imagery and interior rhymes to show these morality circumstances. He also uses these devices to talk about how he grew up.
In this song his long stanzas give good stories on how his life is going. The stanzas usually start with the rhyme scheme abbc, aabc, abba, and abcc, these rhyme schemes also have interior rhymes that follow the first, these rhyme schemes are used to portray the main …show more content…
He underappreciated his mother and the things she provided him.The speaker uses a lot of swear words, slang, and drug references in the slang. He uses these three to paint a picture in our heads and give his situation a more modern look. The common slang is gear, fly, and slangin’ (5,26,55). The drug references are “Dime for a dub”(32) meaning a dime bag of marijuana for 20, “Kept the dimes there in the locker, with some reggie miller with more brown hairs than Chewbacca”(29-30) he is no talking about how his friends kept the bags in his locker and talked about the cannabis flowers fuzz. The tone starts off somber then ends in a rejoiceful and revengeful kind of tone but the music always has a somber feeling to it. This somber tone gives the song somber but soon grateful feeling. The music was sampled from Sonia Roses “Rainy Day” this song was made about a woman who was happy then had her heart broken. “03’ adolescence” took a different path and reversed it. His life was spiraling down and he …show more content…
Cole uses imagery and interior rhymes to show his morality circumstances and how he grew up. The rhyme scheme of the song constantly shows the theme of appreciating the life you have. The speaker's life isn’t going the way he wants it to go so he results to mixing with the wrong crowd and begin selling drugs but his friend does not let him and shows him how to appreciate his life. This songs goes from a somber tone to a more appreciative and revengeful tone, yet the music is alway the same. The speaker uses slang, swear words and drug references to give the song a more modern feel and relatable flow. These words also help to give the listener images of how he is not happy with his current life but these words also help show the teenagers change in
In this song his long stanzas give good stories on how his life is going. The stanzas usually start with the rhyme scheme abbc, aabc, abba, and abcc, these rhyme schemes also have interior rhymes that follow the first, these rhyme schemes are used to portray the main …show more content…
He underappreciated his mother and the things she provided him.The speaker uses a lot of swear words, slang, and drug references in the slang. He uses these three to paint a picture in our heads and give his situation a more modern look. The common slang is gear, fly, and slangin’ (5,26,55). The drug references are “Dime for a dub”(32) meaning a dime bag of marijuana for 20, “Kept the dimes there in the locker, with some reggie miller with more brown hairs than Chewbacca”(29-30) he is no talking about how his friends kept the bags in his locker and talked about the cannabis flowers fuzz. The tone starts off somber then ends in a rejoiceful and revengeful kind of tone but the music always has a somber feeling to it. This somber tone gives the song somber but soon grateful feeling. The music was sampled from Sonia Roses “Rainy Day” this song was made about a woman who was happy then had her heart broken. “03’ adolescence” took a different path and reversed it. His life was spiraling down and he …show more content…
Cole uses imagery and interior rhymes to show his morality circumstances and how he grew up. The rhyme scheme of the song constantly shows the theme of appreciating the life you have. The speaker's life isn’t going the way he wants it to go so he results to mixing with the wrong crowd and begin selling drugs but his friend does not let him and shows him how to appreciate his life. This songs goes from a somber tone to a more appreciative and revengeful tone, yet the music is alway the same. The speaker uses slang, swear words and drug references to give the song a more modern feel and relatable flow. These words also help to give the listener images of how he is not happy with his current life but these words also help show the teenagers change in