Monday, October 13, 2008

Sentence Forms in Jesus walks

Kanye West was born June 8th, 1977 in Atlanta Georgia. His parents divorced when he was 3 and he lived with his mother in Chicago, Illinois. He dropped out of college due to poor grades and a desire to make it in the music industry. Kanye initially produced big hits for stars like jay-z, Talib Kweli, cam'ron, paul wall, Common and many others. He couldn't find a record deal because most labels saw him as a producer not a rapper. He eventually signed a deal and released his 1st cd entitled, The College Dropout. It contained hit songs like, All Falls Down, and Jesus Walks.
The single, "Jesus Walks" by Kanye West is a very motivational song which Kanye West is talking to God. He uses varying sentence patterns. He uses gerund phrases, repetition of Key Phrases and Object and complement out of order. 
The first gerund phrase is. "Saying, we eat pieces of s*** like you for breakfast." It is a gerund phrase because the verb say is being used as a noun.
The second sentence form is repetition of keys terms. " Jesus walks, Jesus walks, Jesus walks with us." The main point is repeated because it is meant to get the point across. Like the old saying, repetition is the father of learning, the same is true for this song. He is repeating what is important to him.  
The last sentence form is Complement out of order. At the end of the first verse Kanye says, " But I"ll be gone 'til November I got packs to move I hope." You could put the I hope in the front of the sentence and it would say, " i hope i'll be gone 'til November, I got packs to move. The object is out of order.
As you can see, Kanye West uses a lot of different sentence types to convey his thought from his mind to the paper. His style has been very effective and is recognized as one of the greatest rappers of all time.

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