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Macklemore, relevant music and latest track ‘Growing Up’ Known for chart-topping and megalomaniac hits Same Love and Can't Hold Us, rap artist Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis is set to keep the ball rolling again with a new song to be released entitled Growing Up. After being low on the radar for the past two to three years, Macklemore and Lewis would be heard again via the said song which shouts of the former's recent penetration to fatherhood. Macklemore's latest hit would definitely be…

Who Is Kevin Gates? Kevin Gates is a Down- South rap artist born in New Orleans but raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to Kevin he grew up living with his grandmother because he was too much for his mother to handle. Kevin wasn’t the best kid growing up being in and out of jail since he was 13 but was still able to get his Masters in Psychology while incarcerated. Not like other rappers Kevin doesn’t consider his music rap but rather “Reality Music”. Dealing with different cases of…

“Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It”, popular lyrics sung by Will Smith, represents one example of success in the rapper’s life. This song exemplifies the way Smith lives life by moving and dancing without any fears of tomorrow. Will Smith, a zealous actor and songwriter, has gone through life experiencing substantial adversity. But, in the end Smith persevered from these challenges and transformed into a sage man. “I love living, I think that’s infectious. It’s something that you can’t fake,” Smith describes…

Laura Carpenter EH 422 1 December 2015 Clune, Michael. "“You can't see me”: rap, money, and the first person", American Literature and the Free Market, 1945–2000. Cambridge University Press. 2010. 127-195. Clune breaks apart the components of what has become known as American rap by arguing “that the two elements of the rap form are integrally related, in that the opposition between “I” and the generalized “you” provides the context in which the meaning of the money is established” (127).…

I can, Be what I wanna be, If I work hard at it , I'll be where I wanna be” -NAS The quoted lyric above of Nas’ I Can is the chorus of the rap. The song opens with a children's choir singing the lyrics “I know I can, Be what I wanna be, If I work hard at it , I'll be where I wanna be”. From there Nas beings to uplift and advise the youthful choir members about the struggles of the world. There is great significance to Nas using a children's choir in this song. The video visuals is set in a urban…

Do you know of a rapper who tends to write about their personal life? Aubrey Drake Graham is well known for doing this. Aubrey Drake writes about all kinds of things that have happened to him. He writes about his family, his successes, and other things that he has been through. Aubrey Drake also likes to entertain and inform people with his music when he is performing. Based on his research, he was born on October 24,1986 (“Hip-Hop Biographies Drake” 6). When he releases his first mixtape he…

After the first couple of days of the hip hop artists Drake and Future’s new mixtape being out, (What a Time to be Alive) the downloads went through the roof.This caused the duo to change the free mixtape into an ten-dollar album, which made them over three-million dollars. But this album is making money for them and for the seven-hundred-billion dollar company, Apple. Drake and Future have teamed up with Apple making it so that the only place you can buy the album is on iTunes, which is owned…

I chose to listen to Stevie Wonder’s album called, “Innervisions” since it is known for its adulation. In order for me to fully assess the song, “Too High,” I must google the lyrics. After I examine the lyrics, it made me conclude that I will not like the song based off the lyrics. I tried to relate to some of the lyrics that are being said such as, I'm too high but I ain't touched the sky.” I only feel this way when I am dunking a basketball; you feel as if you jump so high, but you did not…

It’s been a prolonged absence from Wiz Khalifa in the hip-hop world. All is well after his latest release, “Laugh Now, Fly Later.” One thing that irks me is when people say, “Wiz Khalifa isn’t the same.” It’s not even just him. People say the same for Kanye West, Jay-Z and many others. Music changes so much that it’s unfair to wish for music the artist made years ago. The artists mature and different things influence them and their music. For the most part, I️ feel like Khalifa has maintained…

The eighth largest country in the world, second largest in Latin America, subdivided into 23 provinces and one autonomous city, is home to approximately 43,417,000 Argentinians holding the world’s largest population of Italians outside of Italy and the second largest population of Jews in the Americas, outside of New York. The name Argentina comes from the Latin word for silver, Argentum, and they chose this name because the original European settlers thought the country was full of silver and…