rap has the best lyrics is American music culture

First I would like to say my reason for breaking down the song was to make sure that me my opponent and the voters are on the same page about the song. I am sure we can agree that the lyrics and meaning in a song can be viewed differently depending on the listener. I am trying to make sure that my opponent and the voters can see my reasons for why I would pick the song and why I would feel it's lyrics are better then others found in other genera's. That is why I broke down the lyrics for my first song and why I will for my next. It is not not because think the readers can't "read or think" like my opponent rudely put it my oppenets first song is "the virus of life" by slipknot. the song seems to be about the virus inside him. the virus seems to be a metaphor for love. this virus gives him feelings that bring out his dark side, at the beginning of the song he appears to be sain and likes this women saying she's amazing, and because he likes her he trys to suppress these feelings "I've been with you all day I'm trying to stay calm I'm impatient and it's really hard to breathe" because he knows that if he lets the virus consume him he will become more violent and want to "break" this women and have the virus infect her to and bring her down to his level The first problem with the songs lyrics is they are to vague. is this virus love? like the way I saw it or is this virus him? like a split personality is this a side of him that he hides from the world and he knows will come out no matter what. is this song just a story of one experience with this other side of him. or maybe this virus is in all of us, maybe this is referring to the demons in all of us and he has so many he cant hide them so he try's to bring her demons out as well so he doesn't appear to be as bad of a guy. Because the lyrics are to vague it doesn't have as much of an impact. you can never feel the full impact of a song, and while a slipknot fan maybe able to know exactly know what he's talking about the casual listener can easily get lost in trying to figure out the songs meaning and there for not get the full impact of the songs emotion The second problem with the song is it is not necessaries relatable to a listener. if my interpretation of the song is correct then the feelings he gets when in love are definitely relatable to the average listener. when people are in love the describe feelings of happiness,fulfillment, etc. but this artist is describing feelings of anger. he describes it as a knife and while being be trade by some one if love can easily be described as a knife. most people would not describe love as the feeling of a knife. because these lyrics are not relatable to the average person the song loses its meaning. if the listener can not connect if they can not relate the third problem is there is no attempt to have the listener to be able to relate. the lyricists explanation as to why these emotions come up in the first place. for example there's no line saying maybe an ex cheated so now how's become bitter and angry towards these feelings. if there had been an explanation then the listener could have been able to relate. the listener would be able to put them self's in there shoes and see why the artist would feel that way, but because there is no explanation the listener is left to wonder why he would feel this way and so the song loses mean. with my rap song the artist describes his past and present to help to the listener be able to understand the way he feels. he uses similes to describe his emotion to help the listener feel what he is feeling to deepen the impact of his words. for these reasons my sad song compared to his has better lyrics because there is no misunderstanding you know what exactly what he is talking about. with my artist song there is no lack of connection because my artist make sure to use words to help us under stand his emotion and there for feel his emotion. I will not address the second song because we had agreed to just one sad song in round two. thus making his second song irrelevant now this is my happy song. "celebrate" by common [Hook] "Everybody home, ain't nobody gone And I got all my people around It feel good, don't it? Getting hood on it And I got all my people around I got a couple minutes in town A couple hundred models around So baby gonna get us a round Cause I got all my people around Celebrate" in the chorus he is talking about how he is back home with all the people that love and care about him, with the little amount of time he has in his life he wants to celebrate the fact he's back with the people he loves [Verse 1] "We partying, yeah got body in Exotic broads lobbying, Spanish, Somalian" talking about the beautiful women he is partying with "Fly, we live it 'til we die We living in the night, toast looking in her eye On our paper 'til we get it like Dubai" here he is talking about getting money and celebrating like their in the Arab city of Dubai which is known for it's riches "Chi ni**as stand up, plastic cups Girls with the drastic butts, that ask for bucks It don't stop here" Telling his people from Chicago to raise there cups celebrate and ignore the women who are only after money "Bottles of Veuve pop here And we gonna get around like 2Pac's here Celebrate like it's new year Some bomb rocks coming, type nuclear Yeah, it's so ridiculo Lit the medicinal, passed it give-and-go Backwards liquor store Celebrate" he's saying drink the champagne, party like its new years with the pretty girls pass the weed like it's a basketball. it's getting crazy so celebrate. also the second line is a reference to 2pac's famous song "I get around" [Hook] [Verse 2] "In my Paul Smith like an alcoholic" Paul smith is a type of clothing and also a famous indie rocker who was a known drunk "My guys I used to hoop with, is now who I ball with This raw b**ch came in looking flawless" "Tonight she'll be giving conscious, headlights!" he's saying the people who have been friends with him his whole life are now living the life he lives. common is know as a conscious rapper who's know to show respect for women. so he's joking about that by saying a girl is giving a conscious rapper oral sex "Beaming from the Beemer that her momma bought her I got to act right for her like I'm an author" it's a play on the right/write homophone because common is a author and a actor so he's trying to be polite to the good looking girl with the good car "Look where drama brought us, look where karma brought us Married to the game, like Usher we was caught up Now we got some R&B broads we can call up You ni**as come around keep the wall up Smoke blowing out thinking of tomorrow and the simple things Hustlas from the go, how far we done came Celebrate" karma and drama got him caught up caught up in hip hop and he's never left it like he's married to it. because he's been in hip hop for he's got connection with famous r&b women he can invite to the party, and while there's people dreaming about what the could be the people who are living their dreams are celebrating [Hook] [Verse 3] "Ah, another night, we love the night For the life, getting bugged tonight Wait 'til I get my money right Told you it's gonna be on like the Benzes that we lean on Put my team on, get our heat on Ah, I knew her when she strip, her name was Chardonnay My ni**as move work even on a holiday We come from porches and alleyways I'm the big ticket, don't need no one to validate You celebrate" it's time for his friends and family who don't have his type of money to celebrate like they do. he's giving them the chance to take a break from life and just have fun [Hook] http://www.youtube.com... I got the lyrics from http://www.killerhiphop.com... I would have gone more in depth with the lyrics but I ran out of characters