Tupac and Hughes

1. Gospel means the teachings of Jesus and the apostles. In "GhettoGospel," the theme much about Tupac's believed. It is not standard asusual meaning that Jesus' teaching. It could change base on his lifeexperiences like what he went through, either good or bad in thatenvironment.

2. A poem usually doesn't have limit imagination like video. Readerspetty much have their own interpretations about the poem. Although I didnot full understand the poem when I read the 1st time but I did havesome images in my mind after I read it several times. It might not asclear as the video but it has own images or colors. Time lines in thevideo of the man who got killed later on pretty much describe youngpeople who live in the Ghetto BUT left out important element of poem,the grandmother that who took care him. The poem described the issuesthat occur in his time and sadly still happen in some area of US. A lotof children who grew up with their grand mother because of single parenthave finance issues. Parent will leave their to children to theirgrandparents because either the mother or father need to work in orderto support the family or one in jail or have problems like substanceabuse.

3. "We out of the projects, jumped into another form of slavery" meansslavery still exists in the society just in different ways. It is notjust the color issue that simple in Tupac's poem. It is the side affectof racism after so long period of time. Color people get treat morerespect if compare to 1900's. But look at the reality the importantdecision maker are still mostly white. Just ask how many congress menare black or Asian. People in the ghetto did not get as much educationas others. Some of them lose in life because of drug abuse, violence,and alcohol, etc. They became slave of drug and alcohol because ofaddiction.

4. The tone is different between Tupac's "In the Event of My Demise"and Hughes' "Night Funeral in Harlem." The "Night Funeral in Harlem"sounds much sorrow. We can feel the sadness in the air of poem when hedescribed, "Shined just like a tear-that boy that they was mournin.'" Ifeel sorry about the boy who died so young in the poem. He seems a goodperson to me because his friend brought him satin box, flowers, pay fivedollars for the funeral and cried for his death. On the other hand, "Inthe Event of My Demise" you can hear Tupac's strength, standard andprinciples. He doesn't afraid of death. He mentioned that he will diefor his principles. He wanted to be died with density. He used poem andvideo to describe the issues in the society. He discovered issues thatsuppose to get much more attention they suppose to be. I would like tosay that I am very much agree with his points and like his ideas a lotif just base on this poem. However, I always have this question in mymind before did musicians really say what they believe or just want tobe fame like those rappers in general. A lot of them thanked god duringtheir speech in music awards but later you found out they do drug orother illegal stuffs which I do not understand since I came from anothercountry. I do not ready full understand the "culture" of the music.

5. Blue music is a powerful tells-all vehicle of emotion, evident in itslyrics as well as repetitive patterns. Anthems of blue music mostchronicle the sorrow, pain and struggles of people have. We candefinitely feel sorrow in Hughes' poem base on his tone and events thathe described that reflect the issues occurred in the specific period oftime We can also see the patterns in Hughes that appear in blue musiclike line 6 and 7, 11 and 16, 19 and 20, 25 to 28 that show important ofline and will make readers feel more sorry.