[caption id="attachment_7763" align="alignleft" width="218" caption="Thomas Jerome Baker, Jr. (the Rap Artist "J-Zwok")"]
[/caption]
[/caption]How's Your German?
Don't worry, mine isn't very good either. It's been 16 years since I last spoke German. I can still read, still write, still understand, but to speak German takes conscious thought now.
I'm out of practice...
But I'm discovering something about language in general. With music, it doesn't matter. If the music is good, and the lyrics memorable, and an image is evoked in your mind as you listen, then the words will take on meaning for you.
Time Never Stops / Die Zeit Hält Nicht An is this kind of song: you feel it, the emotion, the dreams, the hopes, the disappointments, the triumph, the love, all this becomes yours as you listen, again and again...
I like it so much I built my Book Trailer around it, for my first self-published book, Celestial Games: The First Pot of Gold around it.
The style is what I'm going to call "smooth rap", a jazzy kind of rap that isn't about angry lyrics, violence, guns or drugs.
What is it?
It's the kind of stuff you would want your kids to listen to, because it's inspiring.
The message is a truism: Time Never Stops (Die Zeit Hält Nicht An). So there are things you must do now, now, or time will pass you by, leaving you with a memory of things you never did, because you thought you had time...but didn't...
It's about growing up, about coming of age, about hopes, about disappointment, about dreams, about first love, first disappointment, about being in the wrong place in the wrong time, about talking, about going beyond your personal limitations, about the passage of time...
It's a song about life, about having enough faith in yourself to chase an impossible dream...
It's a song about friendship, about brotherhood, about sisterhood, about family.
It's about fathers and sons, about mothers and daughters...
It's about relationships, with oneself, and with others.
It's special, and maybe, just maybe, you will get a different look at what rap music has the potential to be...
Why?
It's about redemptive love, and it sticks with you, because it's about being good, because in a larger sense, you and me, the listener, the reader of the music, the hearer of the book, well, we ARE good...
It's the kind of song you would really like your children to listen to, and better yet, it's the kind of song you would like your son or your daughter to sing...
By the way, my son IS singing this song...
I'm really proud of him...
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwBYtgDoTH0&w=640&h=480]
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario