He confesses not being able to have relationships and causing pain to his family. This also fits with the theme of the song because here, the singer feels not only incapable of overcoming financial struggle but also, of establishing strong, positive relations with those around. Each time, I felt miserable about the sufferance I caused to my family. I tried my best not to do anything that would cause me problems with the police, but I did enrage my parents many times, and I got in trouble at school several times. I have been attracted by gang life but I tried to remain far from the temptations it offered. I come from a modest family, and I lived in a bad neighborhood. Yet, as the singer, I also keep trying hoping that one day, I will defeat all obstacles. The song relates to me to a great extent, because I too feel sometimes that I try in vain to reach my dream. It sends a positive message about poor Black men, that they are not unwilling to change their lives, or inherently bad, but that they cannot control what happens to them, and that the place where they live defines their reality. For this reason this song sounds “true” to many Blacks in bad neighborhoods. However, it remains anchored particularly in the realities of Black Americans, particularly in the realities of young men who begin their adulthood by having no direction in life, and no means to reach their dreams. Hip Hop has become a popular musical genre in the American culture, and stopped representing a genre only by and for Blacks, as it used to be. The song is typical for the Hip hop musical genre, because it is meant to describe the lived realities of a category of people –black males who live in bad neighborhoods in America, and to send an inspirational message to them. He perceives his future as a dark one because he can see that things do not change and as soon as he manages to “get out”, the misery of his bad neighborhood pulls him back in the same kind of troubles he used to have. He confesses that “it’s hard to manage cause everyday’s a challenge” and he feels he is slipping and will not be able to handle the pressure of everyday life. The singer seems to be in a circle of suffering and poverty he cannot get out of. The singer confesses that he has done some bad things in his life, such as gambling, scamming or hustling, and these deeds have become demons that hunt him, and also, his actions affect his family and cause them pain. Society in particular seems to bear the fault for his failure, because he is “just a black man”, and he comes “from the darkside”, and therefore, the society does not give him any chance to redeem himself. The singer states that it is not his fault, and this becomes an essential part of the song, because it suggests that destiny, society and even God, whom he asks for help, are to blame for his misery. The singer than explains that although he tries to stay out of problems and move forward in life, the streets are an evil environment because he gets into trouble no matter how hard he tries to stay away from them.
The song begins with the lamentation of the singer who complains that, “I try so hard can’t seem to get away from misery /man I try so hard”.
"Reflection on the Song “I Tried” by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Ft.
0 kommentar(er)
