All Falls Down Analysis

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.
All Falls down in a very touching song about Kanye's view of life and how people are very self conscience. He uses some literary devices to make his point, in the first verse,"Couldn't afford a car so she named her daughter Alexus'" This a pun, he is saying that she can't afford a car so what she did was name her daughter a car. It is the closest thing she can get. In the second verse he says, "Prettiest people do the ugliest things." That is a overused saying, it is always said but it can also be considered a paradox because pretty and ugly are two opposite things. In the third and final verse West sums it all up and says that, "We all self conscious I'm just the first to admit it." This song is about the people in the world, everyone is self conscience but they act like everything is fine. The truth is everyone cares.