Song Analysis Essay, Research Paper

Song Analysis

The song I have chosen to do is ?Forgot about Dre? from Dr. Dre 2001. This song features Grammy winner white rapper Eminem.

Analysis:

This song talks about how Dr. Dre has brought many of the most famous rappers by producing them. This is why he is called Dr. Dre because he fixes up acts like a doctor would a patient. In the first verse Dre sings;

Who do you think brought you the o? G?s

Eazy-E?s Ice Cube and D.O.C?s and Snoop D O double G?s

And the group that said muthaf*** the police.

Latter he goes on to say;

And when your album sales wasn?t doin to good

Who?s the doc that he told you to go see.

His says this because if it weren?t for him most of the famous rappers around now would not be known.

?Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say

But nothin comes out when they move their lips

Just a bunch of gibberish

And muthaf****s act like they forgot about Dre.?

That was the chorus. This means that when a rap song comes out its just gibberish until Dre comes along and fixes it and everybody forgets that he is one of the most important person. Even more so than the rapper.

Genre:

The genre of this song is normal gangster rap. This genre of music usually has the same tune repeated through the whole song except sometimes the chorus is different. The words nigga and muthaf***a are usually in the lyrics and the song usually mentions some sort of people dying or getting beat up. This genre is sung by black dudes but may feature some white dudes sometimes like Eminem.