Protest music is music that artist make to voice their options on world events, and protest music helps artist voice his/her opinion on a serious issue in society, protest music gives artist platforms to get lots of people to listen and learn about problems in society. The song “Hands up” by Vince Staples is a good example of protest music because this song informs people on police brutality towards innocent African Americans. Listeners can gain insight into the song “Hands up” by Vince Staples by carefully examining and analyzing its occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, and tone
The song “Hands Up” By Vince Staples revolved around a time when police brutality toward African Americans started becoming more frequent The song hands up by …show more content…
I say this because In the song "Hands up" Vince Staples talks about three incidents were police officers killed African Americans. Vince says "Deangelo Lopez and Tyler Woods Just a couple they gunned down around the hood." In verse two and he also says "Yeah, put your hands in the air" on the hook of the song. Deangelo Lopez and Tyler Woods were two African Americans that were killed by police officer in Compton in 2013, and Vince Staples is referring to the Ferguson riots rally slogans in the hook for Michael Brown. I also believe Vince staple is trying to persuade African Americans to Stand up for their rights in this song because in verse two Vince says "Raiding homes without a warrant Shoot him first without a …show more content…
The youngest of four, Vince Staples was raised between Long Beach and Compton California. The area in which Vince grew up in exposed him to gang culture and violence at an early age everyone in his family was where gang members.Vince's mother raised Vince and his siblings as a single parent because his fathers would constantly be in and out of jail. "Attempting to stay out of trouble, Vince selected majority-white Mayfair High in Lakewood. He was a skate kid who hooped and played football.His goals were clear: play basketball, go to college, and then on to graduate school. But when he got caught with a stolen phone as a freshman, school authorities used it as the pretext to target a black kid with gang ties even though multiple witnesses, including the child who owned the phone, claimed that Vince was innocent. Vince was charged with multiple felonies, including aggravated assault, threatening a witness, and armed robbery, but both the school and police agreed to drop the charges if he left Mayfair which made Vince drop out of school.In the song "Hands Up" there's a line where Vince say "LBPD, no they ain't 'bout sh** LAPD, no they ain't 'bout sh**
LASD, no they ain't 'bout sh**".Vince Staples is saying that The Long Beach police department, The Los Angeles Police Department, and the Los Angeles school District are not significant. Vince is saying this because The Long Beach
The song “Hands Up” By Vince Staples revolved around a time when police brutality toward African Americans started becoming more frequent The song hands up by …show more content…
I say this because In the song "Hands up" Vince Staples talks about three incidents were police officers killed African Americans. Vince says "Deangelo Lopez and Tyler Woods Just a couple they gunned down around the hood." In verse two and he also says "Yeah, put your hands in the air" on the hook of the song. Deangelo Lopez and Tyler Woods were two African Americans that were killed by police officer in Compton in 2013, and Vince Staples is referring to the Ferguson riots rally slogans in the hook for Michael Brown. I also believe Vince staple is trying to persuade African Americans to Stand up for their rights in this song because in verse two Vince says "Raiding homes without a warrant Shoot him first without a …show more content…
The youngest of four, Vince Staples was raised between Long Beach and Compton California. The area in which Vince grew up in exposed him to gang culture and violence at an early age everyone in his family was where gang members.Vince's mother raised Vince and his siblings as a single parent because his fathers would constantly be in and out of jail. "Attempting to stay out of trouble, Vince selected majority-white Mayfair High in Lakewood. He was a skate kid who hooped and played football.His goals were clear: play basketball, go to college, and then on to graduate school. But when he got caught with a stolen phone as a freshman, school authorities used it as the pretext to target a black kid with gang ties even though multiple witnesses, including the child who owned the phone, claimed that Vince was innocent. Vince was charged with multiple felonies, including aggravated assault, threatening a witness, and armed robbery, but both the school and police agreed to drop the charges if he left Mayfair which made Vince drop out of school.In the song "Hands Up" there's a line where Vince say "LBPD, no they ain't 'bout sh** LAPD, no they ain't 'bout sh**
LASD, no they ain't 'bout sh**".Vince Staples is saying that The Long Beach police department, The Los Angeles Police Department, and the Los Angeles school District are not significant. Vince is saying this because The Long Beach