Furthermore, the same artist wrote about another issue to society. J-Jon’s song “Statistics” is a piece of music that tells two sides of a story were two people who no longer want to be together have a baby and the outcome was another statistic a single father and a single mother. The mother’s side of the story tries to inflict the idea that she works all day just to put clothes on her baby’s back. she says, “I'm putting food in your child's tummy and clothes on your child's back/ And I can never do nothing nice for myself/ Cause every dollar I get is spent on everything that your child has”. (Lines 35-37). The mother states that all her money go to the baby and nothing goes to herself. She says fights for her child unlike the father of her child. The dad’s part of the song says that he works every day for his child and the only reason why he is not around
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The father says that the child is perfect and that the mother is just crazy. the father says, “I'm tired of how you dam manipulate me now/ How every time you get mad I can't see my child/ It ain't your business if my new girl going to be around” (lines 83-84). The father of the song replies in anger about how when the mother is angry she does not let him see his child, but when she needs money the child is his. He says that the mother needs to stop worrying about his life and focus on her own. He so angry he also says, “This pressure that you putting on me got me on a mission/ Like I should do some illegal shit just to get it/ If I write this from a jail cell you know why I did it”(lines 96-98). The moral of this song reflects on the child and, how he will grow up living. The child of these two will grow up in a bad environment and it ads on to the statistics of single parents.
Additionally, Joyner Lucas’s song “I’m Sorry” is a touching song about him losing a friend to depression and suicide, the song in its efforts tries to impact the idea that suicide is not something to take lightly,
The father says that the child is perfect and that the mother is just crazy. the father says, “I'm tired of how you dam manipulate me now/ How every time you get mad I can't see my child/ It ain't your business if my new girl going to be around” (lines 83-84). The father of the song replies in anger about how when the mother is angry she does not let him see his child, but when she needs money the child is his. He says that the mother needs to stop worrying about his life and focus on her own. He so angry he also says, “This pressure that you putting on me got me on a mission/ Like I should do some illegal shit just to get it/ If I write this from a jail cell you know why I did it”(lines 96-98). The moral of this song reflects on the child and, how he will grow up living. The child of these two will grow up in a bad environment and it ads on to the statistics of single parents.
Additionally, Joyner Lucas’s song “I’m Sorry” is a touching song about him losing a friend to depression and suicide, the song in its efforts tries to impact the idea that suicide is not something to take lightly,