The fault in your stars

The fault in your stars

By Damilola Adewolu

Almost everyone is interested in music nowadays. A huge problem is the kind of music that is out there, most of it is very disturbing and brings a lot to mind. I will take the lyrics of just one popular song pumped  through cylindrical tubes into the mental faculties of a lot of young people today and help you see the fault in that which you appraise as the best and all time favourite song.

We will look at a rap song heavily influenced by deep bass beats carefully orchestrated In a pattern to leave the head of the passive  minded swaying from side to side. Yeah the new banger "love with the coco".

First line of the hook communicates a deep desire of the rapper (O.T. Genasis) for crack belted out of frustrations with life's problems (this I got to find out In a written interview with the rapper and his mentor; bust a rhymes). Now he, O.T. Genasis, claims to be off crack, while still talking about it with such exuberance and passion (expressed in the tone of the song)?. It shows this dude needs some proper mentoring and shouldn't be allowed such platform to influence the minds of people  in his confused state. He’s in need of great help and no one's doing anything about stopping the spread  of his infectious disease to someone else  The youth publicly celebrate what the world is trying to fight and the rest of this same  world are doing nothing about it, especially those who can (like people in government). Back to the lyrics somewhere in this same song he talks about having baking soda.  Now based on research, I discovered that baking soda is a necessary base required in making crack. This dude is publicly announcing the recipe on how to make crack in a song and he hasn’t been sanctioned,  it’s like the sitcom 'The Boondocks' come to life the particular episode where a character gets to learn how to make crack from a rap song.

One last point on the absolute criminality of this song is another line in the lyrics where we are  told that "36 that's a kilo". If this doesn't get the song banned from TV I wonder what will. This time the obviously 'not in your best interest rapper' gives us the rate at which crack is sold on the streets (he himself once been a drug dealer). This is like giving blueprints on how to blow up a building in  song, this is very wrong and I really would like to see more young people seeing from a more  mature view on issues such as this controversial song.

On a  final note I advice that you choose what you propagate and support, if you dislike drugs and especially it's effects don't find yourself digging a song  like this.

(Check out "High Society" to read about stories relating to this...  - It'll be cool)