Sunday, August 29, 2010

Jay-Z and his lyricism

We are just going to jump into the first and most obvious song that Jay-Z has under his arsenal which is "D'Evil." This song talk about the question "is God going to really save me?" and he answers with "illuminati wants my mind, soul, and my body." In this story of his life, up to the point where he was at the time he made the song, he talks about how he grew up absorbed by materialistic things such as "diamonds and Lexuses." Throughout this song he tries to tell us that getting into material things, like cars and jewelry for example, can lead you in the wrong path, and the fact is that 31% of children ages 13-19 send out an average of 100+ texts per day. Materialism is a person valuing material possessions, such as cars and phones, more important that spiritual value. Only 20% of teens are spiritual active while 61% don't care and are disengaged. The other 19% never even cracked open a bible, let alone go to church at all. This whole song relation to us, really gets to us, and we may not realize but a catchy song can be a catchy message, and maybe for all the wrong messages.


Jay-Z does way too much with these lyrics, and this illuminati thing that he has going on has a big impact on this new song called "Empire state of mind" which is a song about life in New York. He says in one of his lines "If Jesus is playing Lebron, I'm paying Dwayne Wade." Why does Jay-Z have to put Jesus in a song about New York and glamour. Deeper meaning is that Jay-Z is against God in what he does, and then he goes on with his lyrics to say "3 card ceelo, 3 card marley." Which is another reference to the 3 classes of the illuminati. All of these actions or lyrics that he says gives us the impression that he is making this song to almost show off his road to glory starting out in the projects and slowly working his way up New York, which is a symbol for making it big.

Next time: Deeper meaning into the Illuminati

1 comment:

  1. Brandon A. Villiados: This kind of creeps me out. What is the fascination with musical artist's perversions. I'm not sure what you hope to achieve through this discussion. Is it all based on hearsay? Are there sources you can site that discuss these aspects of their songs? Are they anti or pro religion? To what extent? I'd like to talk with you about this, so come see me soon. You are certainly detailed and thorough, but I'm not going to assign a grade yet.

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