There really is not munch tempo in this song. You can listen when he is rapping that he is on point with the beat for the majority of the time. As mentioned before, the speed of the layers and the amount of layers really don’t change (sped up or slow down.) Although, each layer of the song is unique in their own way because they express call and response with other instruments and Ludacris vocals. The motive of the song is Ludacris main message and the instruments puts emphasis on these things. You hear the beat in segments like (boom, boom, boom, interruption, and then boom, boom, boom.) You see this pattern/contour throughout the whole song. All of these different sounds working together builds character to the song. After the twenty seconds up to the thirty-second mark you hear an interruption… there is like a flute kind of noise. There are a couple number of layers you have Ludacris(vocals), the backup voice( another vocal), the bass, and a clapping noise. During the first twenty seconds of the song, the beat is catchy and works itself up.

The contour throughout the song kind of stays the same. In the South back during slavery, they picked cotton plants… and majority of beds are made out of cotton so that is why he says cot-picking dirty South bed because it is a great way to use an allusion. However, in the lyrics he says “Dirty South mind blowing Dirty South bread Catfish fried up, Dirty South fed Sleep in a cot’-picking Dirty South bed” When he says cot-picking dirty south. On the other hand, I kind of think he is alluding about slavery… I could be wrong. Also in the south they make and eat a lot of soul food and he alludes to “southern fed”. He is rapping about how he went from being poor now he does not have to wear hand me downs… he wears platinum in his mouth. He alludes to the “dirty south”/ Atlanta, Georgia because that is where he was raised and he is talking about how he overcame a struggle that he went through and seen. I think Ludacris alludes to players because “players” are guys who can get a lot of girls and that is one of the main points he tries to make throughout the song. Ludacris alludes to players, the “dirty south”/Atlanta, slavery, and Cadillacs.

There are a couple of allusions that Ludacris uses in this song. Samples are a good way to be creative by using other pieces/chunks from other artists in placing them in your work with a twist of your creativity. Helps create a theme (money, girls, and cars) that Ludacris is trying to get across. I guess you can also say that he uses assonance because there is a repetition of internal vowel sounds (this helps the rhyming).īy using these poetic techniques, it gives the song flow and style. Throughout the song, he uses consonance at the beginning of lines, at the end of lines, and even in the middle. This is not the only time Ludacris uses consonance. Matter of fact, candy-paint Cadillacs kill So check out the hoes my Cadillac fills”- you can hear the constant ‘C’ in Cadillac. Take these lines for example “Cadillac grills, Cadillac mills Check out the oil my Cadillac spills Additionally, there is a lot of consonance within this song. Relating to the pattern of the song… with almost everything rhyming at the end of the line that is a specific pattern. I think the way Ludacris did this is cool and it shows a lot of creativity throughout the song. If they are not exact or perfect they are masculine. Majority of the lyrics rhyme throughout the song is exact or perfect rhyming. But in order to portray these messages he uses a lot of exact rhyming/perfect rhyming, consonance, and end rhyme. This is what Ludacris focuses on throughout the whole song. These things are also associated with having money and becoming famous. Then throughout the whole song he repeats things such as cars and girls. For example in the first stanza Ludacris raps about Cadillacs covering the color of the car, the structure(grill), the tires/rims, and how it can fill up with a whole bunch of girls. There is a lot of repetition in this song. In the video of Southern Hospitality, it takes place in Atlanta. He later moved to Atlanta, Georgia as he got a little older. After today’s discussion, I learned that Ludacris’ real name is Christopher Bridges and he is from Illinois. Throughout the music industry, we see still see a need for violence, drugs, and sex.

However, the stuff that the artists rap about is similar and the same for the music videos. The whole style of how people dress and act is different. I just want to start off and say that this song is funny now that I am looking back on it. Back then, I thought it was a hardcore rap/gangster song. When I first heard this song I was a younger child. The song that I chose for today’s blog discussion is Southern Hospitality by Ludacris.

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