Song Analysis Of Hopsin

Hopsin, a rapper known for having abstract songs that loudly express his opinion. Recently released the song “Fly” which overall is about his dislike of todays market. He explains marketing techniques and tries to voice the way the system takes advantage of the average person. He even gives personal examples saying that all his teachers told him education is the only way to make it and gives the reply “then how did I get so much in my savings”. Overall through his song Hopsin explains multiple economic techniques and devices.
In the beginning of the song he says “the best type of marketing is marketing that doesn’t feel like marketing” talking about how when corporations market us, the goal is to make it not feel like an advertisement. They …show more content…
But through his speech it cuts to a group of old businessmen sitting in a office playing a video game. In the video game the three businessmen are playing tug of war with a man representing the average person. As they play tug of war they start throwing clothes and shoes on the ground and the average man’s grip loosens as he tries to grab them. Eventually the rope gets tugged away because he was grabbing the outfit. As he looks down at his new outfit, the businessmen rip it out of his hands and hold the rope, clothes, and shoes and laugh as he looks at them.
“Fly” is a good representation of todays economy and its corruption. Also, even though its not talked about it the song I think it represents the control by a small group of people. A lot of the type a few very large corporations will own most of the smaller corporations in the same type of business. For example, ninety percent of television media is owned by GE, Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS. Hopsin main goal to the song was to encourage people to think for themselves. Overall through his song Hopsin explains multiple economic techniques and devices and it helps the listener open their