Im thinkin hip hop but any genre

Songs that at first glance seem negative but either subtly hide a positive message, master double entrende or switch gears at the end and make a positive statement

could talk about drug dealin, drug use, women, in an unsavory way but really be a vehicle for more


Kool G Raps-Road to the Riches immediatly comes to mind with a tale of the fast life and you can practically feel his ascension from sweepin floors to being the man w money bustin out his sock all the way to being a small time Al Pacinio. The literal video treatment helped too.

but the best example I can think of is Ice Cubes "My summer vacation"

which I think worked to great effect with the easily recognizable and dancable Atomic Dog sample.

the title "my summer vaction" says fun. and it starts off as a typical gangsta tale but ends with a statement only Cube could do.

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"Good hair"-Uzi

1619 the 1st slaves are brought to American shores
thus begins the phrase “mine is better than yours?” (huh?)
forced to serve-too broke to by freedom
the systematic rape of African culture has begun
little time

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never heard it...but I will

whats it about tho?

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"Good hair"-Uzi

1619 the 1st slaves are brought to American shores
thus begins the phrase “mine is better than yours?” (huh?)
forced to serve-too broke to by freedom
the systematic rape of African culture has begun
little time

He said that he wouldn't be able to make a single without the hook being about a Cadillac on 22's, so he says that shit in the hook, but the verses are nothing about Cadillacs.


It's gon' be aight though (ohh)
This one's for you, yeah!
Cadillacs on 22s...
Pimp my voice and mack these beats..
Pray to the to the lord for these Mississippi streets


Cadillacs on 22s
I ain't did nothing in my life but stayed true
Pimp my voice and mack these beats and
Pray to the Lord for these Mississippi streets, hey!


God I know that we pimp
God I know that we wrong
God I know why she talk about Moet all of my songs
I know these kids are listening
I know I'm here for a mission
But it's so hard to get 'em wit 22 rims all glisten
I know these balls are talking
Lord I wanna do right
I tried to fight but these demons they comp at me at night
Like my momma, my daddy, my girl and all my boys
I lost Rachelle but I guess I still got the whining Roy
My couzins sweet, momma lay that Jason
Lord I'm praying for swacking my heart is still impatient
Keep 'em off them drugs, far away from thugs
He's still my hero but just a shell bed or what it was
Yeah smoking get a buzz, but God I hear ya calling
And shit wrong wit balling
But my soul is just steadily falling
And the sex and the dead, and the other jail
God I'm stacking my mail but will I end up in hell?




Lord they hung Andre Jones
Lord they hung Reynold Johnson
Lord I wanna fight back but I'm just so sick of bouncing
Lord I'm sick of jumping, Lord just please tell me something
My folks still dumping my music, bumping but I feel nothing
My heart is steadily pumping
My heart is steadily breaking
Sometimes I feel like I'm faking, man
I'm so sick of taking
Maybe hell ain't a place meant for us to burn
Maybe Earth is telling just a place for us to learn
Bout yo love, yo will and grace
Sometimes I wish I wasn't born in the first place
Maybe this first base, God knocked the ball up out the park
So we can come home this world right here is feeling so dark
Feeling so cold, Lord I'm feeling so old
I dunno if I can take this world right here no more
22 inch rims on the 'Lac
I guess that was yo footprint in the sand carrying us on yo back

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i.e. songs that the artist THINKS are positive but are actually negative.

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I was going for the opposite songs that on the surface are negative but that are actually positive

but you bring up a great example of what you said.

I never thought of Dey Schools as negative cuz I am grown and the song was more enjoyable than influential on me personally but I can see how that song could incite negative feelings that lead to disatrous consequences and perpetuate a stereotype

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"Good hair"-Uzi

1619 the 1st slaves are brought to American shores
thus begins the phrase “mine is better than yours?” (huh?)
forced to serve-too broke to by freedom
the systematic rape of African culture has begun
little time

after spending a year teaching math in a failing neighborhood philly public school...

what a ridiculous fucking song...lol.

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their whole schtick was bass ackwards anyway

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"Good hair"-Uzi

1619 the 1st slaves are brought to American shores
thus begins the phrase “mine is better than yours?” (huh?)
forced to serve-too broke to by freedom
the systematic rape of African culture has begun
little time