He lived the hood life; scraping for pennies and scraps. He constantly argued with his drunken mother. He played the roles of father, mother, and brother to his younger sister. Eminem worked at jobs for little to nothing to help provide. As his life matured he battled with his daughter’s mother. This could have broken him down; for many it would have. Instead of lying around and creating self-pity for himself he went and made something of his self. The Music Eminem’s music is pure success. His
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many conversations with music artists about commercial music, which usually leads to them disclosing their disdain and hatred of it. Some refer to pop music (pop, as in what’s popular now) as commercial music. Others think of anything that is receiving heavy rotation on radio as commercial music. Whatever their definition, one thing is often overlooked: commercial music is the heart of the music industry which pumps the blood that keeps it alive. So why then are so many music artists resistant to making
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3. Obviously Shostakovich and Prokofiev are different people and different people compose different music but I want to talk about how Prokofiev’s music was different because he was able to travel abroad to Europe and the USA and how it compares to Shostakovich, who said in the Soviet Union. Introduction to the composer’s background 4. Aged fived Prokofiev composed his first piece for piano, an Indian Galop so named after overhearing grown-up talk about a famine in India. Composed The Giant
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have they all gone? Nowhere there sitting right next to you there eating in the same restaurant as you shopping in the same mall, there just to afraid to come and show there light there story to the world. I want to be the one to step out and start my own organization on teaching the pure natural beautiful foundation of poetry to the world. I want to be the legacy of Edgar Allan Poe, becoming the most talked about and praised
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were two of the biggest music stars in there era. James Brown was one of the hardest working men in the music industry and it always showed when he came out with new music. People loved James Brown music because it puts them in a good mood. Music is what he loved to do and you could tell by the way he put so much effort and hard work into making music for everyone to listen too. His song “Say It Loud─ I’m Black and I’m Proud” had an impact on the whole black community. His music was inspirational and
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doesn’t except to her few friends. That pours her feelings into her music because that’s the only way she can speak her thoughts. That girl is me, Skylar Romero, an average sized, light skinned mexican girl with long black hair. I never wanted to be the center of attention and wasn't “the popular girl” in school, which is why I only had two best friends. Adrianna, a medium sized tan girl with green eyes and brown hair, who has been my best friend since second grade, who isn’t afraid of speaking her
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Visual and Performing Arts Defined Have you ever been to a Kenny Chesney concert, or watched a high school marching band in the homecoming parade? Have you ever been to the theater to see a live performance of the Sound of Music? Have you ever been in New York city, only to have missed your chance to see Grease on Broadway by minutes and as a substitution stumble upon the Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular? If you have done any of those or even anything similar you have witnessed an array
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afro Caribbean, and Latino communities of the Bronx and then spread to Harlem and other boroughs of the New York City in the early 1970s. It is defined as a style of popular music of United States and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing. It can also be described as a culture and form of ground breaking music and self-expression with elements that consisted of the elements of graffiti art, DJing, MCing, and breaking. Today Hip-Hop is considered to be dead in the mainstream because
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reasons, that is purely up to the individual. Rock and roll, hard rock, heavy metal. All forms of music that has been an important and influential part of my life and many others life. Some may argue that it’s actually a way of life. So many arguments and discussions about these forms of music have I seen and even participated in. One question and one statement concerning these have always remained on my mind. The statement: “There are Black Sabbath fans and there are Led Zeppelin fans. You cannot be
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Mr.P December 10, 2012 Honors English 12 Risks are the essence of life. In the beginning, they are our instinct. We learn to crawl despite the bruises on our knees and elbows. We learn to walk despite the many falls we endure. But as we get older and gain a greater consciousness of the world around us, somewhere along the way we are presented with failure; at that point, many people try to eliminate most risks from their life. But where would we be without our sense of exploration, our willingness
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