… It can touch our deepest emotions with such an intensity or it can be in the background and hardly noticed. There isn’t anything in the world that is as strong of an expression of who people are, what they love, and what they represent. Music begins…

… “Redeeming the Rap Music Experience” Rap music has been getting a bad rap from parents, legislators, and other authority figures ever since it first hit the American pop music scene in the early 1980’s. Adults tend to see rap as having a…

… just enough for the city wasn’t enough for a dreaming kid, born Shawn Carter. The battered brick asbestos asylums just didn’t offer the type of sophistication conducive to a Cristal sipping lifestyle. Working some simple grocery-bagging job fourteen…

… in a small Western Tennessee town. Growing up without television in a "two stop light" town, Bell's primary entertainment as a teenager was listening to the 500 vinyl albums his older brother won from a Memphis radio station. Although both…

… bands such as the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, and the Beach Boys. These gurus of modern music drew a larger crowd at each show, eventually leading to the most listened to music in the world. Rock and roll started with rock, it then led…

… wherever he goes but that hasn't stopped him becoming one of rap's biggest stars. Call him what you want but he is one of the most successful rappers in today’s rap industry. The critics fail to see that he is making these lyrics because…

… movin, body movin, A1 sound, sound so soothing Body movin, body movin, We be getting down and you know we're crush groovin Let me get some action from the back section We need body rocking not perfection Let your back bone flip…

… Connection to the 1960’s The late sixties were a time filled with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. A huge part of American culture at the time was focused around these three things. Musicians possessed a tremendous amount of social influence, and like…

… Nesta Marley) was born on 6 February 1945 in Nine Miles in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica. His father (Norval Sinclair Marley) was a English marine-officer and his mother (Cedella 'Ciddy'Malcom)was a native Jamaican who lived in Rhoden…

… will happen in the future”. Most readers would balk at the poems within Songs of Experience being described thus. Afterall the collection is meant as a contradiction to Songs of Innocence – the latter showing life through the eyes of innocent children,…