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Mr. Love Song

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10/22/18

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Table Of Contents Love Songs and their storiesÂ

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Rappers who rap about problems in society

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Modern day rap

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David Lara

David Lara is a recent graduate from Urban Promise Academy middle school who currently attends Fremont High School. David has recently applied to volunteer at a summer program called Aim High where he recently graduated to give back to the community that helped him with school work for the upcoming years. After graduating from high school David would like to apply to UC Santa Barbra & UC Santa Cruz to achieve his goal of becoming a firefighter. In his free time, David likes to hang out with friends and family, watch videos, movies, and play basketball.

Osvaldo Hernandez

Osvaldo Hernandez is a ninth grade student at Fremont High School located in Oakland, California.

He recently graduated from EPIC Middle School were he enjoyed journeys and building stuff on the computers and also using the 3D printers. But now He is in Fremont high school and he is going to try his best and get good grades to achieve his dream.

Jonathan Jeronimo

Jonathan Jeronimo is a student at Fremont High, he was a honor student at Melrose Leadership.

He strives to become a professional gamer or game creator, in his spare time Jonathan likes to play video games and hangs out with friends. He wishes to attend Collage but has no real preference in which school he attends. His only big goal in life is to help repay his parents for what they have given him.

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BILL WITHERS MR. LOVE SONG By: Osvaldo Hernandez

William Harrison Withers Jr. (born July 4, 1938) is an American singersongwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. He recorded several major hits, including "Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine", "Use Me", "Just the Two of Us", "Lovely Day", and "Grandma's Hands". Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for four more.

His life was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Still Bill. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.

A CONNECTION WE HAVE IS THAT WE BOTH LOVE OLD SCHOOL ROMANTIC SONGS

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MARVIN GAYE On April 1, 1984, Gaye's father, Marvin Pentz Gaye (born Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) Marvin Gay Sr., fatally shot him at their house in the West Adams was an American singer, district of Los Angeles.[ Since his songwriter and record death, many institutions have producer. Gaye helped to posthumously bestowed Gaye with shape the sound of Motown awards and other honors— in the 1960s, first as an inincluding the Grammy Lifetime house session player and Achievement Award, the Rhythm later as a solo artist with a and Blues Music Hall of Fame, the string of hits, including "Ain't Songwriters Hall of Fame and the That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I A CONNECTION WE Heard It Through the HAVE IS THAT WE BOTH HAVCE THE LOVE FOR Grapevine", and duet OLDIES. recordings with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".

During the 1970s, he recorded the albums What's Going On and Let's Get It On and became one of the first artists in Motown (joint with Stevie Wonder) to break away from the reins of a production company. His later recordings influenced several contemporary R&B subgenres, such as quiet storm and neo soul.[2] Following a period in Europe as a tax exile in the early 1980s, he released the 1982 Grammy Award-winning hit "Sexual Healing" and its parent album Midnight Love.

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Kendrick Lamar Kendrick Lamar is one of the best current Hip Hop artists. Kendrick Lamar raps about problems we face throughout life, for example in one of his albums called "To A Pimp Butterfly" he reads a line from a poem in each song from his album, but when you put all the lines he said a poem reveals.

This poem talks about the big impact rapers have on their community and that rapper should it ignore their responsibilities and help their community out. He also tells his story of living in a tough neighborhood in which many people can relate to him because most people in the U.S come from tough neighborhoods like Compton, Oakland, and etc.

He also deliverers messages to most of his music he creates like messages about racism and social injustice.

“SOMETIMES OUR DREAMS COME TRUE, SOMETIMES OUR FEARS DO TOO.� ...-J COLE

J Cole

J Cole is considered one of the best rappers of the 2000's.

When people listen to his music they can relate to the things he is rapping about from racism towards colored people, losing loved ones, social issues, and etc.

One of his famous albums called "4 Your Eyez Only" is very touching because he explains problems many people face and it is a dark album because many people opened themselves up to listen to struggles. A song by J Cole is called "Crooked Smile" and this song explains that women should know their worth, and empowers them to not follow stereotypes that the media puts on women and that they should be proud of what's in the inside and not the outside.

Another song by J Cole "Neighbors" it talks about how black people who live in nice areas with white neighbors are being prejudiced and are thought to be drug dealers because they are black in white neighborhoods. This song also shows that many African Americans are targeted by white people and are treated differently from whites from being prejudiced to thinking they are drug dealers, and being brutally attacked and treated differently from police officers.

"FOLLOW YOUR HEART..."- J COLE

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MODERN RAPPERS These types of singers are what I call lucid rappers cause their music can be passed as a song or a rap.

These rappers have the ability to capture the hearts of both audiences The 3 rappers I know that most people know are : Drake, Juice World and lil uzi vert. and some others that I won't bother mentioning because their fame only relates to the crazy stunts they perform.

Drake rose to popularity once he realized his song called hotline bling, juice worlds song that rose him to popularity was lucid dreams, lil uzi vert's song that rose him to popularity was  Xo Life Tour.

These 3 singers rose to the top real quick, 1 song made them celebrities, but how did they do this? I believe that they had pure luck but I also believe that its because they talked about their emotions over a girl and their life.

How to become popular/famous? its pretty simple make something that most people can enjoy or make a weird stunt that grabs the attention of everyone. Maybe even your appearance can give you fame for example 6ix 9ine got most of his fame for peculiar appearance.Â