With his out spoken lyrics, he talked about real issues in the world, which are not the usual topics of many rappers. ... In his fourth album "Me Against the World" in the song "Death Around the Corner" he explicitly predicted his death and funeral. ... Anyone who listens to his lyrics can clearly see the proof of that statement. ... When she asked him if he knew that she loved him, he squeezed her hand, proving that he did have some level of consciousness. ... Why would not his loved ones adhere to his wishes if this were the case? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I heard the original for the first time on the soundtrack of Halloween and it has stayed with me ever since" (www.joinhim.com/menu.html). ... The most incredible aspect of the album was Ville's lyrics and his indescribable voice that told the authenticity about how dark love really is; Ville's voice, with the help of the other band members, brought about an imminent change in music in general. ... They also claimed that the intro to "Join Me" was a rip off from a 1980's pop hit. ... The most notable track on Razorblade Romance, "Join Me," is about how two people fall in love wi...

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She writes about several different themes including good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, friendship, and death. ... Our cultural knowledge and values that are central to the blues form the thematic and rhetorical understanding of The Bluest Eye, as the narrative's structure appears to follow a pattern common to traditional blues lyrics. Morrison moves the different aspects of the culture in a pattern that can be compared with traditional blues lyrics, starting with an initial emphasis on loss and concluding with a resolution of grief through motion. Moses allows us to unders...

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The waitress, a would-be mother without a child of her own, jokingly told my Mom she'd buy me from her. ... The waitress set up the beer; Mom stuck around long enough to finish it off and left the place without me. Several days later my uncle had to search town for the waitress and take me home."" ... This could add up to a fairly slick institutionalized youth, but one is let with the feeling that behind all this lies an extremely sensitive boy who has not yet given up in terms of securing some kind of love and affection from the world."" ... The first one being, love bombing. ...

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This school is what started Tupac in his love of poetry as well as music. Tupac also began writing his rap lyrics here. ... Through Tupac's poetry he let everyone know that he was sensitive underneath, you just had to look hard. ... This time in John Singleton's film "Poetic Justice," in which Shakur played a single father and Janet Jackson's love intrest. ... Soon after "All Eyez On Me" was released. ...

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Higgs was as conscious in his actions as in his lyrics; these included publicly espousing the unmentionable, radical subject of Rastafari, which was growing by quantum leaps among the ghetto sufferahs. ... Him was always irie to me, even as a kid coming from school. ...

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And what kills me, what people don't know, is that breakin' died in 78' in the Bronx. ... That's how it happened with me. ... He went on to explain to me how Lee went on to learn how to break real good, and ended up battling and getting served by Crazy Legs, approximately two years afterBeat Street came out. ... Wiggles schooled me on the what went on behind the scenes, that resulted in the evolution of the B-boy culture on both coasts. ...

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Narratives gave way to lyrics, above all to 'impressions', capturing the sensation of an immediate scene or moment; a development paralleled in the 'Impressionist' painting of artists like Sickert and Whistler. ...

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