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Monday, 30 October 2017

why aren't kendrick Lamar or logic anybody's role model?

The 21st century is one where a lot of genres of music has emerged and 2017, in fact, is the first year when the hip hop genre surpassed the rock genre in most heard genres. Kendrick Lamar's album, 'DAMN', was deemed the most popular album in the USA this year.

Logic's song '1800-273-8255', on the day of its release, increased calls to suicide prevention lines by 27%. 

So why aren't people like these role models? why do we always take the great people as role models? 
A role model does not have to be a great person. It can be anybody who inspires you in some way to live in a particular way. there is so much to learn from the shadows as compared to the light.

Kendrick uses his power and status to talk about social issues and problems in the government and society. He himself says that he is gifted with a voice to translate what he feels and what those who cannot voice out feel.
Kendrick asks us to change the negativity around us to positivity. We can really learn from his raps, but instead, we prefer to just hear them for how dope they are. A lot of raps have deeper inner meanings which really mean important things. 
Logic is a new and upcoming rapper. To me, he is an amazing person and rapper. His verses are one of a kind and always leave me amazed. 
Logic's main aim is life is to spread peace, love and positivity. He mentions it in many of his songs and says that these make you versatile.
Logic wrote 1800 because he was inspired by one of his fans. While on tour, he went a fan's house for dinner and saw that the fan had his lyrics tattooed on his arms and kept telling him that he saved his life. Logic just wanted to make good music and had no intention of 'saving lives' but now that he realised this, he decided to help save lives and wrote 1800. 
Logic tells us to move away from positive and negative appraisals. Positive appraisals, he says, make you develop a big head and ego while negative appraisal makes you depressed and dark minded. 
Both these rappers are extremely authentic and have very devoted fans who often claim that they save their lives, literally. 

We can learn a lot from our world indeed. all the teachings are right in front of us but we need to interpret them. If we are successful in doing so, we can achieve great heights. 


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