Crooked Smile Analysis

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In the image is everything world that we live in today, it is refreshing to hear a song that speaks to what America likes to call one’s inner beauty. J.Coles’s commercial hit "Crooked Smile" written by Cole and Meleni Smith has a profound meaning that delivers a refreshingly ground breaking new message. In the uplifting song, Cole uses his own crooked smile as an example of how not to view an imperfection as a flaw but as a symbol of originality and individualism. Instead of dwelling on the crookedness of his own smile, he focused on the inner qualities that would help him move forward. He raps, ‘My s**t is crooked but look how far I done got without it.” J.Cole reached his dreams of personal achievement which is rapping in spite of his

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