- really enjoy intro and beat
- very good imagery
- very socially conscious
- allusion to Mike Jackson
- talks bout kids being able to do things like play games but are losing out on schooling nowadays
- minimum wage forces ppl to go find different hustles to make money
Talib Kweli-Hell
- Questions religion heavily
- false thoughts about muslims
- like mix of poetry/ rap
- People hate people of other religions
Lauryn Hill-Motives and Thoughts
- I feel like shes questioning authority
- being being pleasured distracted them from what needs to be done
Tupac- Changes
- Doing anything necessary to make money
- Corruption of Police
- crack put into black neighborhoods
- black on black violence and treating each other as strangers
- institutionalization- things are so hard to change when put into a certain mindset/situation
- changes in how black ppl act
- speaks on how life in communities like this is and youre pretty much stuck
N.W.A.- Express yourself
- the way of expression for blacks was looked down upon and got them locked up
- be yourself express what you like to do
- dont change for other ppl
- people conforming to society's standards
- people didn't want to hear reality in their music with curse words and such
- "the knowledge is growing like a fetus"
- really just about being yourself and staying true to who you are
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