Students will create a blog post describing, analyzing, and... Students will create a blog post describing, analyzing, and evaluating a popular media text of their choosing. This can include a song or album, tv show, movie, comic strip, book, advertisement... be creative. As long as you can write about it as a cultural text, using the concepts that you learned in the course material .

Students will create a blog post describing, analyzing, and... Students will create a blog post describing, analyzing, and evaluating a popular media text of their choosing. This can include a song or album, tv show, movie, comic strip, book, advertisement... be creative. As long as you can write about it as a cultural text, using the concepts that you learned in the course material .

Music Blog: 2Pac Changes

"Changes is Prophet Pac's timely meditation on race, class, and politics. The beat is

sampled from "That's The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby and the Range".

One distinction that is

easy to see is not only the different genres but also the nationality of the two men one African

American younger and the other older white Caucasian male.

"Bruce Randall Hornsby (born

November 23, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.

He draws from

folk-

[1]

rock

,

jazz

,

bluegrass

,

folk

,

southern rock

,

country rock

,

jam band

,

rock

,

heartland rock

,

and

blues-rock

musical traditions.

His recordings have been recognized with industry awards,

[2]

including the 1987

Grammy Award for Best New Artist

with

Bruce Hornsby and the Range

, the

1990

Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album

, and the 1994

Grammy Award for Best Pop

Instrumental Performance

"

.

These two men came from very different backgrounds, but both

liked the same beat and wrote songs around that beat.

This is when you realize that no matter the

background of an individual the two can cross paths in many different parts of the world and

cultures.

When most people think about rap music the first impression, they envision is vulgarity

and explicit words they bleep on television. But when you listen to rap and other genres the

words you hear have two distinct worlds that experience the same scenarios but express them

differently.

The inspiration behind most of the songs that Tupac wrote were to inspire change in

some way in many of the individuals that listened to his music https://youtu.be/M8Wj6-gPY0g.

The way and the words may be non-traditional, but the meaning was the same in any language.

In the line, Tupac wrote, "We

gotta make a change It's time for us as a people to start making

some changes Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way

we treat each other You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do What we gotta do to

survive".

Today when you think about what they call Generation Z where most of these

individuals are making life changes in food intake and exercise.

There is a shift that each person

should have compassion and empathy for everyone regardless of nationality. Both groups have

the same idea just different ways of saying the same words.

Sometimes it is good to listen and

see what the lyrics are saying before determining if a certain genre is bad just because of what

others may think.

There are certain situations where you need to investigate or form your

opinion about a situation or class of nationality.

Rap music to me would be one of those

situations or genres.

For many people change in itself is a deep conversation "

I would like to leave you with

the following questions: Does music have a skin color or race? Is there a distinction between

"black music" and "white music"? Should human beings focus on racial integration or racial

separation? Is our world still divided along racial lines?

As my maternal grandmother used to

say: "Red, yellow, black, and white, we are all holy in God's sight".

"

I see no changes, wake up

in the morning and I ask myself Is life worth livin'? Should I blast myself? I'm tired of bein' poor

and, even worse, I'm black

.

Cops give a damn about a negro Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a

hero

".

This same scenario also can apply to how Caucasian males think about corporate

American but is expressed differently.

It may be the same opening lyric, but I am rich but poor

in the ways of friends or a real family.

Instead of cops shooting him they may say he needs to be

admitted to a mental institution so that he can think clearly.

The words that Tu