Blame
Akon does an amazing job of portraying his message that people need to realize their mistakes and try to fix them. His song, “Sorry, Blame it on me”, is about realizing all of the errors he made in his life and that he needs to work on them. This song represents the theme of struggles through Hip Hop and Rap music. It talks about how Akon had to leave his home all of the time to go on tours and how he was never there for his girlfriend. Then, he apologizes to his mother for never making any right choices and not seeing how much pain she was in since his father left her. Finally, he talks about the scandal that was all over the news, which was about how he kissed an underage girl at a club. Not only were these apologetic pieces able to make the song a masterpiece, Akon was also able to use poetic devices to make his song that much better.
Not only was Akon able to create a top hit in the music industry, he was also able to apologize to his girlfriend while in the process of making it. Akon realizes that he is never home to spend any time with his girlfriend or his sons because he is always on music tours playing at different concerts. He states in his song, “I’m sorry for the fact that I did not know, that you were sitting home just wishing we, could go back to when it was just you and me.” He is apologizing because he can now see why his girlfriend was always upset. All she ever wanted was to spend some time with him, but he never made the time for her. He wants to make up with her and this is evident in the song when he says, “like how you are the best thing in my world, and how I’m so proud to call you my girl.” Akon is trying to make everything better between them, and this shows how he is a remarkable person.
Next, Akon apologizes for not seeing all of the pain that his mother has had to deal with, and also for adding more to it. His father was extremely nice to him and his brothers, but his father left his mother so he could get remarried to another women. Akon realizes now how lonely his mother must have felt because she did not have anyone else to talk to except for her husband, until he left her. Not only did he not realize that at the time, but Akon also, “added to your grief.” Akon is talking about how he added extra stress to his mother’s life, when it was really not necessary. Not only did Akon steal when he was little, but the police ended up coming to take him out of their home because he was such a bad child. This verse in the song is wonderful because Akon notices how hard it was for his mother to raise him and he is trying to repay her for all of the stress that she had to deal with along the way.
The last verse of the song is an apology directed to some of his fans. Akon went “on tour with Gwen Stefani” and one of his shows ended up at Club Zen. At concerts, sometimes the male singers, or rappers, choose a girl from the audience to come up on stage with them. The artist usually either dances with them or sings to them once they get up there. Since this was a “21 and older club”, Akon did not think that any of the girls would be underage. He ended up kissing the girl that he pulled onto stage with him and it was caught on video by all of his fans. Eventually, word spread around and the girl’s father found out and pressed charges against Akon. Akon does not feel as though anything that happened that night was his fault because he was under the impression that everyone was either twenty one years or older. He states, “Just a little young girl trying to have fun, her daddy should never let her out that young.” Akon is basically putting the blame on her father for letting her go out to a nightclub, but at the end of the verse he says, “even though the blame’s on you, I’ll take that blame from you.” Akon realizes that even though it is not completely his fault, he needed to grow up and take some of the blame for his actions.
Finally, Akon uses many different types of poetic devices in his song to make it flow smoothly. Two of the devices that he uses are rhyme and assonance. Assonance is the “repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.” Even though this type of repetition of sounds is hard to find while listening to songs, once the lyrics are read, it seems like it would be hard to even miss the phrases that have assonance in them. The words; take and blame, are an example of assonance within this song because they both have that long “a” sound in them. Another example is road and alone. These words have the repetition of the long “o” sound. The other type of poetic device that is used excessively in this song is rhyme. At the end of each line, the word that is there always rhymes with the following word at the end of the next line. Neglect and disrespect are an example of rhyme because they both end in “ect”, which makes them have similar soundings. Overall, Akon was able to do an excellent job in incorporating poetic devices into his song.
Akon is seen as one of the best Hip Hop artists that are around these days. He succeeded in not only creating an excellent single, but also in apologizing to his family and his fans. Akon was able to cope with the fact that he is not always right, and find a creative and inspirational way to apologize to those people who he loves the most. Sometimes life ends up throwing people curveballs in their daily lives and many people are not able to overcome those difficulties, like Akon was able to do. This proves Akon’s message that people need to first, realize what their mistakes are, then try and fix them. A lot of people do not have the chance to apologize in the way that Akon was able to, but at least they can realize that there are a lot of different ways in which they can apologize to someone. In the end, Akon was able to create an apology through a song, while also being creative by using poetic devices.
Akon does an amazing job of portraying his message that people need to realize their mistakes and try to fix them. His song, “Sorry, Blame it on me”, is about realizing all of the errors he made in his life and that he needs to work on them. This song represents the theme of struggles through Hip Hop and Rap music. It talks about how Akon had to leave his home all of the time to go on tours and how he was never there for his girlfriend. Then, he apologizes to his mother for never making any right choices and not seeing how much pain she was in since his father left her. Finally, he talks about the scandal that was all over the news, which was about how he kissed an underage girl at a club. Not only were these apologetic pieces able to make the song a masterpiece, Akon was also able to use poetic devices to make his song that much better.
Not only was Akon able to create a top hit in the music industry, he was also able to apologize to his girlfriend while in the process of making it. Akon realizes that he is never home to spend any time with his girlfriend or his sons because he is always on music tours playing at different concerts. He states in his song, “I’m sorry for the fact that I did not know, that you were sitting home just wishing we, could go back to when it was just you and me.” He is apologizing because he can now see why his girlfriend was always upset. All she ever wanted was to spend some time with him, but he never made the time for her. He wants to make up with her and this is evident in the song when he says, “like how you are the best thing in my world, and how I’m so proud to call you my girl.” Akon is trying to make everything better between them, and this shows how he is a remarkable person.
Next, Akon apologizes for not seeing all of the pain that his mother has had to deal with, and also for adding more to it. His father was extremely nice to him and his brothers, but his father left his mother so he could get remarried to another women. Akon realizes now how lonely his mother must have felt because she did not have anyone else to talk to except for her husband, until he left her. Not only did he not realize that at the time, but Akon also, “added to your grief.” Akon is talking about how he added extra stress to his mother’s life, when it was really not necessary. Not only did Akon steal when he was little, but the police ended up coming to take him out of their home because he was such a bad child. This verse in the song is wonderful because Akon notices how hard it was for his mother to raise him and he is trying to repay her for all of the stress that she had to deal with along the way.
The last verse of the song is an apology directed to some of his fans. Akon went “on tour with Gwen Stefani” and one of his shows ended up at Club Zen. At concerts, sometimes the male singers, or rappers, choose a girl from the audience to come up on stage with them. The artist usually either dances with them or sings to them once they get up there. Since this was a “21 and older club”, Akon did not think that any of the girls would be underage. He ended up kissing the girl that he pulled onto stage with him and it was caught on video by all of his fans. Eventually, word spread around and the girl’s father found out and pressed charges against Akon. Akon does not feel as though anything that happened that night was his fault because he was under the impression that everyone was either twenty one years or older. He states, “Just a little young girl trying to have fun, her daddy should never let her out that young.” Akon is basically putting the blame on her father for letting her go out to a nightclub, but at the end of the verse he says, “even though the blame’s on you, I’ll take that blame from you.” Akon realizes that even though it is not completely his fault, he needed to grow up and take some of the blame for his actions.
Finally, Akon uses many different types of poetic devices in his song to make it flow smoothly. Two of the devices that he uses are rhyme and assonance. Assonance is the “repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.” Even though this type of repetition of sounds is hard to find while listening to songs, once the lyrics are read, it seems like it would be hard to even miss the phrases that have assonance in them. The words; take and blame, are an example of assonance within this song because they both have that long “a” sound in them. Another example is road and alone. These words have the repetition of the long “o” sound. The other type of poetic device that is used excessively in this song is rhyme. At the end of each line, the word that is there always rhymes with the following word at the end of the next line. Neglect and disrespect are an example of rhyme because they both end in “ect”, which makes them have similar soundings. Overall, Akon was able to do an excellent job in incorporating poetic devices into his song.
Akon is seen as one of the best Hip Hop artists that are around these days. He succeeded in not only creating an excellent single, but also in apologizing to his family and his fans. Akon was able to cope with the fact that he is not always right, and find a creative and inspirational way to apologize to those people who he loves the most. Sometimes life ends up throwing people curveballs in their daily lives and many people are not able to overcome those difficulties, like Akon was able to do. This proves Akon’s message that people need to first, realize what their mistakes are, then try and fix them. A lot of people do not have the chance to apologize in the way that Akon was able to, but at least they can realize that there are a lot of different ways in which they can apologize to someone. In the end, Akon was able to create an apology through a song, while also being creative by using poetic devices.
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