Love Yourz
Life is a gift. Many people in the world wish they could trade lives with someone who has more luxuries. A significant part of life is experiencing hardship. One way to motivate people into embracing hardship is through music. Music leaves a powerful message and makes people feel good about themselves. One hip-hop song in particular leaves a strong message for its listeners. In the music video “Love Yourz,” J. Cole empowers his viewers to love life through the struggle by rapping about his own life of hardship. Jermaine Lamarr Cole, formally known by his stage name J. Cole, is an African-American hip-hop artist from Fayetteville, North Carolina. He first rose to stardom when he released the song “Work Out,” it achieved great …show more content…
Does all the pain he brought you still linger in your mind?” His father left the family before J. Cole was even conscious and his mother was left to take care of her two sons by herself. J. Cole felt afraid for his mother because she was the only Caucasian woman living in a black neighborhood. I think many people can relate to J. Cole because there are many single parents raising children by themselves. In an interview with Complex Magazine, J. Cole says that he plans to let families with multiple children live in his old home rent-free every two years. His reason for this is because he wants the families to be in a better financial position without them having to worry about paying …show more content…
Cole addresses a line in “Love Yourz” to people out there living in debt, that “being broke was better” for him and that he was once in their shoes. He used to fantasize about a life without stress but did not feel grateful for it after becoming successful. In the video, a scene of his silhouette can represent how he isn’t comfortable about his own life and hides himself. The static in the background can symbolize a projection of his mind and how he cannot get his life straight or learn how to be content with his current life. He says that there is always going to be someone with a bigger house, better car, or nicer clothes but you will never be happy until you love
Life is a gift. Many people in the world wish they could trade lives with someone who has more luxuries. A significant part of life is experiencing hardship. One way to motivate people into embracing hardship is through music. Music leaves a powerful message and makes people feel good about themselves. One hip-hop song in particular leaves a strong message for its listeners. In the music video “Love Yourz,” J. Cole empowers his viewers to love life through the struggle by rapping about his own life of hardship. Jermaine Lamarr Cole, formally known by his stage name J. Cole, is an African-American hip-hop artist from Fayetteville, North Carolina. He first rose to stardom when he released the song “Work Out,” it achieved great …show more content…
Does all the pain he brought you still linger in your mind?” His father left the family before J. Cole was even conscious and his mother was left to take care of her two sons by herself. J. Cole felt afraid for his mother because she was the only Caucasian woman living in a black neighborhood. I think many people can relate to J. Cole because there are many single parents raising children by themselves. In an interview with Complex Magazine, J. Cole says that he plans to let families with multiple children live in his old home rent-free every two years. His reason for this is because he wants the families to be in a better financial position without them having to worry about paying …show more content…
Cole addresses a line in “Love Yourz” to people out there living in debt, that “being broke was better” for him and that he was once in their shoes. He used to fantasize about a life without stress but did not feel grateful for it after becoming successful. In the video, a scene of his silhouette can represent how he isn’t comfortable about his own life and hides himself. The static in the background can symbolize a projection of his mind and how he cannot get his life straight or learn how to be content with his current life. He says that there is always going to be someone with a bigger house, better car, or nicer clothes but you will never be happy until you love