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In Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric” black people have been put through many tragic experiences. The Black culture has been stripped of many opportunities to be successful by the white people. So YouTuber Hennessy Youngman depicts a way for the black people to be successful in the art world. The African American race is seen as entertainment in the art and music industry by the white people to keep them occupied, but the black people use the white people to build their way to become…

What Makes A Top Hip Hop in 2018? Hip Hop is a style of popular music of US black and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing. Hip Hop is the most listened to music in the world according to Spotify’s analysis. While analyzing the top hip hop songs of 2018, I found that all of them have three things in common that may make them a hit, songs singing about gang-related actions, love or some type of romantic relationship, and having catchy repeating phrases make the charts, such…

DEBORAH Like hell you do, Charles! Did your father tell you, he never fired a gun in Korea? He gave the army a pathetic excuse that he had a bad back. Don’t be a coward like him…instead be everything that he is not…someone capable of great feats of bravery. What’s more, it’s your Christian duty to destroy those atheistic communists. EDWARD You have archaic attitudes, which are incompatible with the generation to which I belong. Everything new and radical, according to you, mother, is…

“Citizen: An American Lyric” is a book by Claudia Rankine it details various struggles and happenings happening to African American in the United States. The book is composed as poems in various chapters, while in others she details the struggles of certain people, and in lastly some are short little stories or tragedies that have happened to people in the African American community. The book in the end is just a collection of what Rankine deems important are issues happening to African…

In Claudia Rankine’s American Lyric, Citizen, Rankine enhances invisibility emotionally, physically, and socially through daily interactions. Although invisibility is illustrated to not be physically seen is false. The woman in the subway was not harming anyone. Innocently waiting for the train to come with her son when Suddenly, “a man knocked over her son in the subway” (17). Fortunately, the son was okay, however, the audacity to push the innocent boy into the tracks is what matters. Being…

Should Music Lyrics be Censored for Violence and Exploitation The first word that comes to mind when you think of America is freedom and being free, but what they do not know is that America plays a major role in which censorship is a key part of everyone’s everyday question. Asking should music lyrics be censored for violence and exploitation. For the longest time music censorship has been the elephant in the room. Music censorship is not a very big issue, but it is still in the back…

Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is the largest Opera Company in New England, founded in 1976. It is a nonprofit organization that relies on extensive donations from many supporters to produce and perform a great deal of programs on the stage and community (Boston Lyric Opera, n.d.). Its partners are divided into two parts, one is public support and another is organizations and institutions. The mission of Boston Lyric Opera is to produce excellent productions, inspire audiences to appreciate opera, and…

little cuts.” Elonis was doing what many people do when they are going through a tough time, finding a safe outlet such as writing. However, prosecutors are now specifically searching out lyrics from rap songs to match them with crimes and use them as motives. The courts are allowing admission of rap lyrics as evidence and by doing so, allowing juries to judge a person’s moral character by his art. If it becomes the norm to convict a suspect of a crime based on…

Growing up, I walked by Michael Jordan countless times at school, the park, Chuck E. Cheese etc. even now I see Jordan at least a couple of times a day. And of course, I am talking about Michael Jordan’s logo, the Jumpman on his signature shoes. Macklemore, a staple rapper in the field known for most likely his comical hit song, “Thrift Shop” recorded a song called “Wings”, and is probably the strongest punch in his album in my opinion. Even though “Wings” is about “just a pair of shoes”…

[Verse 1: Jim Colerick] Well I wrote this song for the Christian youth I wanna teach kids the Christian truth If you wanna reach those kids on the street Then you gotta do a rap to a hip-hop beat I gave my sermon an urban kick My rhymes are fly, my beats are sick My crew is big and it keeps getting bigger That's cause Jesus Christ is my nigga [Bridge: Jim Colerick] Oooooooo [Verse 2: Jim Colerick] He's a life-changer, miracle-arranger Born to the virgin mom in a manger Water to wine, he's a…