Struggle in Reggae music

Oar was formed in early 1996 by Marc Roberge and Chris Culos. They later recuirted Richard On and Benj Gershman and after high school the four of them moved to columbus ohio to attend Ohio state unversity. At first there hit songs like “crazy game of poker” and “city on down” were only spread by word of mouth and some small shows. After a while there exporsure to the public made them grow and their songs began to show up all over the billboard charts. The song I chose to look into closer is “crazy game of poker”.
The song “crazy game of poker” is littered with many literary devices throught out the the whole thing. The song itself, a crazy game of poker, is actually refeering to a metaphor about life and how a long crazy journey it is.The line “well then dude walks in black hat on top, what a mop” is a metaphor to this dude being a dirty long haired bum like looking guy. Another poetic device used is a hyperbole as portrayed in this line “I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me”. This is a hyperbole because the bourbon cant actually drowned beside him. In my opinion this is a very good song and it really says what OAR is really about.

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April 29th, 1992 Lyrics

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(I don't know if you can, but can you get an order for Ons, that's O-N-S,
Junior Market, the address is 1934 East Anaheim, all the windows are
busted out,... if he wants to)

April 26th, 1992
There was a riot on the streets
Tell me where were you?
You were sittin' home watchin' your TV
While I was participating in some anarchy
First spot we hit it was my liquor store
I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford
With red lights flashin', time to retire
And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire
Next stop we hit, it was the music shop,
It only took one brick to make the window drop
Finally we got our own P.A.
Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today?

(Call fire... respond mobil station. alamidos in anaheim, its uhh flaming up good...)

When we returned to the pad to unload everything
It dawned on me that I need new home furnishings
So once again we filled the van until it was full
Since that day my livin' room's been much more comfortable
Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here
It's getting harder, and harder, and harder each and every year
Some kids went in a store with their mother
I saw her when she came out she was gettin' some Pampers
They said it was for the black man
They said it was for the mexican
But not for the white man
But if you look at the streets, it wasn't about Rodney King
It's this fucked-up situation and these fucked-up police
It's about comin' up and stayin' on top
And screamin' 1-8-7 on a mother fuckin' cop
It's ain't in the paper, it's on the wall
National guard
Smoke from all around

(Units be advised of an attempt 211 to arrest now at 938 Temple, 9-3-8
Temple, many subjects with bats trying to get inside the CB's
house...they're trying to kill him)

Cuz' as long as I'm alive, I'ma live illegal

Let it burn
Wanna let it burn, wanna let it burn
Wanna wanna let it burn
(I feel insane)
Riots on the streets of Miami
Whoa, riots on the streets of Chicago
On the streets of Long Beach
In San Francisco
Riots on the streets of Kansas City
Tuskaloosa, Alabama
Cleveland, Ohio
Fountain Valley, Paramount, Vista Buelle
Eugene, Oregon
Eureka, California
Hesperia
Santa Barbara
mother fuckin' Nevada
Phoenix, Arizona
San Diego
Lakeland, Florida
fuckin' 29 Palms

(Need a unit to... structure fire and numerous subjects looting)
(10-15 to get rid of this looter)

Patrick Traverse

Class A

Song analysis

Sublime April 29^th 1992

Sublime is a highly influence hip-hop American Ska and Reggae band that formed in California. Sublime started out small and the eventually started to have a huge following. Once they started touring most of their songs hit the charts and they became very popular. When their popularity was most high their lead singer and guitarist, Bradley Norwell, died of a heroin overdose right before the release of their most popular album. On that album were the songs: Santeria, Doing time, What I got, April 29^th 1992 and Wrong Way. The song April 29^th 1992 is good example of the theme struggle in reggae music.

The song April 29^th 1992 is the specific date of the Rodney king riots. This songs talk about the riots that took place in Los angles because Rodney King. Rodney king was an African American bystander that was beaten by four Los Angles cops only because he was speeding. In a result the African American community along with many other rioted in streets and burned many buildings because of their frustration with the police. As said in the song “First stop we hit was my liquor, I finally got all that alcohol that I can’t afford”. This event added to the tension between LAPD and the African American community in Los angles that was already high. This song represents struggle because of the struggle between the cops and people in the inner city. The poetic device used in this song is POV. An example of this is “But if you look at the streets, it wasn't about Rodney King, It's this fucked-up situation and these fucked-up police”

The theme of struggle in reggae is best represented by the song April 29^th 1992. The song is on one of the dates of the Rodney king riots. It was one of the biggest crises in the 1990’s. This song represents the struggle between cops and people in the inner city.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Backmasking

Backmasking
The Beatles: Free as a bird- “Turned out nice again”
The Blood Hound gang: Lift your head up high- “devil child will wake up and eat Beefaroni”
Def Leppard: Rocket- “We are fighting with the gods of war”
Drowning pool: Sermon “ladies and gentlemen, tell me what you believe”
Franz Ferdinand: Michael- “She’s worried about you, call your mother”
Incubus: Azwethinkweiz- “Thursday night we smoked indica, and Azwethinkweizm was born”
Five Iron Frenzy: The Untimely Death of Brad- "Brad is dead. Lets kill Brad."
Lil Wanye: I fell like dying-"We are on the ground beneath ya"
Tenacious D: Karate- "Eat donkey crap."
-All back masking

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Theme

Reggae is a form of music developed primarily on the small island of Jamaica in the 1960's. Throughout this tiny nation's difficult history, reggae artists have sought to express the plight and struggle of their people. The theme of struggle in reggae can be depicted by the song " Welcome to Jamrock" by Damian Marley. In this song he uses the theme of imagery to talk about the city of Trenchtown.
In the song there are many lines that can be uses as evidence toward this general theme. One of the first line that straight up gets to the point is "Welcome to Jamdown, poor people a dead at random". This line is saying that the people of Jamaica can not even afford enough money to spend on food for there own survival. A second example is "Come on let's face it, a ghetto education's basic most a the youths them waste it". This line is saying that the youth, kids in grade school, aren't even using what little education they have. Without the youth getting education at school the country will have any smart people to keep it going.