EPIC RAP MESSAGE

Time for another poetry reading! This one is on 2PAC's 'Changes.' For those of you who don't get why the video on the right is a rap song let me explain. Songs are poetry put to music, rap is no exception. I don't normally listen to rap but when I do it has to have meaning and man does this have meaning! Good rap isn't about how hard you're gonna bang that girl or how high you're gonna get tonight. It's an expression of what a person feels in a way that lets them say whatever they want. So without further explanation, here's my thoughts.               PS: Before you read this you should probably watch the video or you're just gonna be bored.     The song really brings to my attention how hurt and angered this man is. His people are being discriminated against because they're black and as we all know all blacks are criminals. He's talking about how people can't get out of this stereotype 

because they're only doing what they have to to survive. The line 'my stomach hurts so I'm looking for a purse to snatch' really hit me because it's true. Crime is caused (mostly) by people who don't know any other way to live. If you haven't eaten in days and nobody will help you then you'll have to resort to illegal methods to get what you need. If your father is an addict then you probably only know that life. Sure it's illegal but we aren't stopping the root of the problem. Instead of helping the people around us we look the other way until they end up in prison and then when or if they get out they still won't know any better and the cycle continues. We have the highest incarceration rates in the world and yet we aren't showing any difference from them. He was very right in saying 'Take the evil out the people they be acting right' because it's true. But we can't do that by locking criminals up. All that does is put a bandaid on a bullet wound. I happen to love this verse:

I got love for my brother, but we can never go nowhere
unless we share with each other. We gotta start makin' changes.
Learn to see me as a brother 'stead of 2 distant strangers.
And that's how it's supposed to be.
How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?

The world is unforgiving. It beats down the people who live in it and it's only concerned with itself and its problems. The problem is that we've become strangers, two people from two different worlds who couldn't care less about each others lives. But what if I told you that that guy you just flipped off just lost his job. Or the lady at the cashier is a single mother trying to get by. Or maybe that jerk who treats everybody like trash was the one in his home who gets treated like trash. Suddenly you know them and feel for them. They become people too, not just faces to walk past. They become even more important when you realise that God created them and loves them and died for them. Then it becomes important to find out more about them. If we all cared about each other then when somebody needed some cash they wouldn't have to steal it. They would never have to feel worthless so they wouldn't feel the need to die. Everything changes when you start to see them as people.

So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God's way?" Acts 11:17

So the question of the blog is: what did you get from this poem and what do you think of my interpretation? Let me know in a comment below!

TTFN That's tata for now!