ENGL 1101 - Fall 2020 - Hip-Hop Reader - PEASE

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                                                                                                                      Aaliyah Thomas  10/11/20 

Good Boy Gone Bad

    Kendrick Lamar is not any ordinary rapper, he is a rapper that raps about stuff he’s been through. In this language analysis, I’ll tell you his background and the hardcore things he had to endure. Kendrick Lamar released the song “Swimming Pools” on July 31,2012 to show us the peer-pressure and the social life of his family dealing with alcohol. 

    First, In the first lines, he says “Pour up, drank, head shot, drank
Sit down, drank, stand up, drank
Pass out, drank, wake up, drank
Faded, drank, faded, drank”. In this stanza he uses a Assonance and a Consonance. An assonance and consonance is rhyming with similar vowels and consonant. Here he keeps saying drank and ending some of his words in up. These are also symptoms of being drunk.

     Next he says “Now I done grew up 'round some people living their life in bottles” this is a personification saying people close to him for (ex).mom, dad, aunt, or etc. are constantly drinking and burying their lives in a bottle. As we move down, he says “I was in the dark room loud tunes”. This is imagery. You can picture the music being super loud and the room being pitch black. It’s kind of a scary scenery. Then in the third stanza/verse he says “All the girls wanna play Baywatch”. This is a allusion. All the girls are lifeguards standing around the swimming pool watching him drown in alcohol and they aren’t saving him. In Kendrick’s scenario, I figured his neighbors or the outside people looking in are the lifeguards not saving him from all the harm and danger he had been exposed to. He then goes on to say “ freedom is granted as soon as the damage of vodka arrived”. This is a simile comparing freedom and the damage of vodka. How when your free from parents or free from the world, your likely to get influenced by drinking and it can ruin your life. “Some people like the way it feels
Some people wanna kill their sorrows” it sounds like internal rhyme. Internal Rhyme is when you have a rhyming word in the middle of the first case and near the end. In Kendrick’s case the rhyming words are some and more. “Pool full of liquor Ima dive in it” is imagery. You can picture someone diving in a pool of liquor even though it’s unbelievable. Lamar is drunk in this whole verse. He is talking to his conscious and it’s warning him that he’s going to drown into some poison “alcohol”.

          Then, he says “why you babysittin' only two or three shots”? This is a personification referring to Lamar not drinking a lot. He’s barely getting drunk or taking a sip of his drink already as is. “I wave a few bottles, then I watch 'em all flock” is a allusion. The bottles aren’t really flocking, I assume they are just falling to the ground. The sound of the song makes you think up a uplifting beat.

           This song analysis has a lot of meaning to it once you dig deeper than just hearing it.

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