Imitation #6 2000s Rap Dylan Owen "Ghost"

"So if your getting sick of leaving
Or even repeating weaving a seam to the people who seem to be cold
Yeah I know that you have fevers and sleep with your secretsSeeking a seal for the ceiling right before it falls on us bothI believe in leaving demons, bereaving a reasonWe could only see those deepened seeds and that they needed to grow.Most emcees these days spit promotional rhymesIs it wrong that I’m in touch with my emotional side?As a kid I used to wonder where the ocean would dieAnd if there’s anybody like me hoping on the other side."

I chose "Ghosts" by Dylan Owen, for a rap song of the 2000s. This song is about leaving things behind that upset you and fighting your "ghosts" that follow and "haunt" in your life. Dylan uses ghosts as a metaphor for the things in life that you regret or the things that happened to you that upset you. Dylan talks about these ghosts and then about leaving them behind. The ten bars I chose are talking about these "demons" and if you are sick of leaving, friends or family, or trying to hold on to old friends. Dylan also talks about people sleeping with "fevers" and "secrets" and how people go to bed with things on their minds and thoughts in their heads about their lives. Dylan uses a metaphor when he talks about "seeking a seal for the ceiling right before it falls on us both", this is used to show how sometimes it feels like things are falling apart all around you, or you and a loved one. Either things aren't going good in your life or you are heading in a direction you didn't want to go and you are just trying to keep things from getting worse. Dylan then goes on to state how these "seeds"  a metaphor for feelings need to grow and be let out. Dylan then talks about how other rappers only "spit" promotional  songs , and that he is in touch with his emotional side and questions if it's wrong. This comments on mainstream Hip Hop and Rap on how all he hears is, for the most part, rappers rapping for promotional reasons.  He as a result questions his own raps and asks if its wrong that he doesn't do this, that he raps about meaningful topics and emotions. The last two lines he talks about how he dreams and wonders about things and he wondered if there was anybody else who thought the way he did. Dylan wonders if people think and feel the same things he does as he is growing up. In the tecond and third lines Dylan uses alliteration, using the "s" sound, he uses this same sound again in line seven. Lines two and three also use assonance with the "e" sound. In lines four and five he uses internal rhyme.  He wrote this song and album "Keep Your Friends Close" around the time he was going away to college and he went to visit old friends before he left. The album has to do with the emotions and feelings that come with growing older.