Consciousness
I am a white millennial in 2016 taking a college course on African American rhetoric and oratory, and this has been a time to learn about the importance of consciousness in every aspect of life. There’s a rap song on the radio, do you pay attention to how conscious the artist is and do you understand the lyrics? Walking into class I am not thinking about which artist has the best pace, to me it is about the consciousness of the words. It is about books such as Prophets of Hood and Cant Stop Wont Stop that bring understanding to the world of consciousness of the hip-hop world. And at the end of it all, we all ask ourselves, does rap make you conscious? To make changes, you need to be conscious in your actions. Artist Tupac did …show more content…
It is a conscious understanding in the differences in other’s backgrounds and not disrespecting others on their aspects of life. Author Dan Charnas stated in his novel The Big Payback, “It was hard to imagine another American business where White executives could reject Black suppliers and customers on the basis of race. That was what radio did everyday, with programmers regularly and unabashedly declining to play artist because they were “too Black,” (The Big Payback page 296). The race of a person should never define whether a person gets a job, gets a say in something, or gets their song played on the radio. Every person in our class has the right to speak their opinion just like how every artist has the right to have their song played on the …show more content…
It opens eyes, makes you feel something you would not have other wise, and helps you understand. Jay-Z used his own personal knowledge to create songs and write his own book about his songs. In his novel Decoded he relates to people from his art form and stated, “Where im from, on the streets i’m describing, all you had was your word-it was everything. If you pretended to be something you weren 't, your card would get pulled quick. The legit world has a million ways to slip out of the truth; ironically, the underworld depends on a kind of integrity,” (Decoded page
I am a white millennial in 2016 taking a college course on African American rhetoric and oratory, and this has been a time to learn about the importance of consciousness in every aspect of life. There’s a rap song on the radio, do you pay attention to how conscious the artist is and do you understand the lyrics? Walking into class I am not thinking about which artist has the best pace, to me it is about the consciousness of the words. It is about books such as Prophets of Hood and Cant Stop Wont Stop that bring understanding to the world of consciousness of the hip-hop world. And at the end of it all, we all ask ourselves, does rap make you conscious? To make changes, you need to be conscious in your actions. Artist Tupac did …show more content…
It is a conscious understanding in the differences in other’s backgrounds and not disrespecting others on their aspects of life. Author Dan Charnas stated in his novel The Big Payback, “It was hard to imagine another American business where White executives could reject Black suppliers and customers on the basis of race. That was what radio did everyday, with programmers regularly and unabashedly declining to play artist because they were “too Black,” (The Big Payback page 296). The race of a person should never define whether a person gets a job, gets a say in something, or gets their song played on the radio. Every person in our class has the right to speak their opinion just like how every artist has the right to have their song played on the …show more content…
It opens eyes, makes you feel something you would not have other wise, and helps you understand. Jay-Z used his own personal knowledge to create songs and write his own book about his songs. In his novel Decoded he relates to people from his art form and stated, “Where im from, on the streets i’m describing, all you had was your word-it was everything. If you pretended to be something you weren 't, your card would get pulled quick. The legit world has a million ways to slip out of the truth; ironically, the underworld depends on a kind of integrity,” (Decoded page