Call and Response-A.J. Cutrufello

How it represents a type of social consciousness? How marginalize and social conscious can have an impact on minority community? How they can be a movement towards justice and education?
Themes. Specific lines.

Kanye West-New Slaves
Kanye says that his mother grew up in a time period where clean water was only for the fairer skin, the white people. He believes that black people are given less because of their race and that people think that the black people want all the same thing. Their aspirations are to obtain "Alexander Wang". He makes these references so that the minority communities could relate to him because they've been in similar situations.

Jay Z-99 Problems
Jay-Z pulls over his car because he has the money to "fight the case if necessary". He expresses that the police officer is pulling him over for being black,  the officer makes the assumption Jay-Z has a gun and states that "a lot of you" do. He was simply going one mile per hour over the speed limit and the copped pulled him over. He's going against the law, justice.

Black Rage-Lauryn Hill
She's pissed about rapings, beatings, sufferings,
"squeezed economics"
"self hatred"
"old time bureaucracy, drugging the youth"
"murder and crime, compromise and distortion"
"free enterprise"
"purposed confused"
"black human trafficking"
"victims and violence both psyche and body"
When she is feeling sad or mad, as the "dog bites" and there's "beatings" she remembers the other things that make this world such a terrible and sick place. She believes our world is unsound economically and more.

Hell-Talib Kaeli
no difference in religion
heaven and hell right here on earth
bombs, paradise
religion create division-hate each other
"God forbid you go to Hell-But if you've ever been to any ghetto, then you know it well
Talib Kaeli shows that even within religion and the search for god there is still profiling. Each religion creates a division and this forces one religion to hate the other. He says Heaven and Hell aren't worth searching for because they can simply be found right here on our earth. His last line portrays Hell on earth and how sad the ghetto is because he compares it to being in Hell.

The Last Poets-True Blues
Sang the blues to escape hell like things like "the missionaries", "slavemaster's whip","family being sold on a slave block", etc. "I sang the blue black, I sang the blues blacker, I sang the blues blackest-I SANG BOUT MY SHO NUFF BLUE BLACKNESS".  Specifically people of slavery can relate to  this song but even deeper than that any body that is being restricted and cannot feel freedom can relate. The blues were and can still be used as a coping mechanism to make on feel free and strong.

Most Def-Mathematics
"all of my people... even the gringos"
"streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring"
murder
8 years olds w guns
soldiers
min wage
white unemployment
two columns for who is and isn't niggaz
Most Def talks to the people of the world and how our society is messed up and it gets to the point where race is irrelevant. He allows his audience to be the people of all races so everyone can relate. Our society had 8 year old kids with guns and minimum wage was only $5.15. People went to won and became soldiers just to find their way of life. Even white people at the time were unemployed.

Nas-I can
kids voice, ill be there if i work hard enough
anything in the world
the path isn't easy
woman singer lost because of drugs
rapists-don't pretend to be older-time to grow
every race came to get books
money empowerment for the europeans
ghetto children-you're a king, you're a princess
Nas is informing the children in society that whatever they want to be is obtainable with hard work. Without working hard and focusing on the dream you can end up falling into a dirty hole from drugs. He points out to all of the children growing up and tells them not to grow up too fast and then he tells the history of race and how the black land is where "every race came to get books".