From a personal perspective, it is so very difficult to condone the usage of music to face real life fears and threats with no actual defensive sustenance to reinforce such idiotic ideologies in necessity to save ones self from bodily harm. But to be fair, at least a resource was utilized to overcome an obstacle. The event quoted by Coates, while told from another’s perspective, one has to critique and analyze the situation for which it possibly could have been or was. Now this is not to degrade the perception of the victims sense of reality, but it is imperative to imply a secondary perspective to such ideals, for it is a well known fact, that people over state and over react to situations more often then none, especially when under dire stress…show more content… Thankfully, this situation resulted in false bravado and not Mr. Dylan’s Racial Hate Terrorist Act of Mass Murder in South Carolina. But I digress.
Let’s start with the Rap Machismo Master, Rakim. When addressing such matters of musical influence, one has to look into the past and present of the artist and the musical catalogue in chronological order. This will not only give the idea of what songs were produced, but when they were produced, what audience they were targeted for, what purpose they served, and what other artists they influenced.
“Born on this date in 1968, William Griffith Jr. aka Rakim Allah is considered the greatest emcee to ever touch the mic. His debut album along with DJ Eric B., Paid In Full, is a necessary piece of Hip-Hop’s creative history, used as an instructional tool to many up and coming emcees and deejays as a style and sound to emulate. There were a few emcees who cashed checks sounding like the “R”, so since it’s said that mockery is the best form of flattery, TheSource.com put together this list of Rakim sound-alikes who owe the God some recognition for borrowing from his style.” (Pologod)
1. Grand Daddy…show more content… But to be fair to the two-point perspective audience, Dr. Ben Carson also came from nothing and has been the world’s leading Neurosurgeon for the past 20 years. While no one person has the same environment and realities, one still has to wonder as to how definitive your environment shapes your future. Nonetheless, in this case, music takes another victory in the pursuit of progression in America for another “black”
