DMX- "Slippin'"
The song "Slippin' " by artist DMX uses tone, theme and imagery. DMX's purpose for writing this song was to convey the theme how life in the streets is, and how you can over come life with drugs if you give it all you got. The song begins with the speaker talking about problems he is having with his mom, and that's when he decides to run away from home. Then it moves on to when he is on the streets by himself, and that is when his problems begin to worsen.
In the first stanza, the speaker starts talking about the problem he is having with his mom. He then decides to leave his house. When he leaves his house he thinks its going to be easy to live alone in the streets and that is when he uses imagery and says "I'm gonna be that seed that doesn't need much to succeed ". He then finds out that life in the streets is not so easy and that's when he says, " I'm ready for the world, or at least I thought I wasÂ… "In this stanza he also uses tone when he says, " DAMN,......
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