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“ Retrospect for Life” Often, all Rap music is denoted as lacking in moral content due to the fact that several Rap Artists proclaim the use and abuse of drugs, violence, sex and degradation of women. However, in the song “Retrospect for Life,” artist Common Sense addresses issues of morality by poetically expressing his feelings towards life. In “Retrospect” to what has happened within his own experience, the artist looks back and retells a story in …

…child: “You ! say your period hasn't came, and lately I've been sleepy/ So quit smokin the weed and the beadies and let's have this boy.” This shows that Common has grown and learned from his expericence where he mistreated life. Now that he is put in the same situation as before, he wants to do what is right in looking back at what he has done in the past: “let's have this boy.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**