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Study to gain an overarching understanding of the role of the arts in society, especially the artist’s role as a catalyst in social change, through an interdisciplinary studies track that integrates the following four components:

(1) History or Cultural Studies from at least two different departments

(2) A rigorous study from an “Arts” department, in this case, music

(3) At least two ethics/religious components preferably from varied traditions

(4) At least two environmental science classes.

“I live to see the day when this world of black and white considers the possibilities of having different shades of grey.”
Dark City

ASC Links:

- Hip Hop and Social Change at the Field Museum, Chicago

- Hip Hop Press

- Local movements taking fruit

- The Circle – The Hip Hop Archive

- A page dedicated to Hip Hop for Social Change

- A website called Pioneers of Change contains a page called “Arts for Social Change”

- US: Mobilizing the Hip-Hop Generation by Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, WireTap

- Hip-hop Nation By Suzy Hansen, Salon

- Hip Hop as a Political Tool By Yvonne Bynoe, AlterNet

Freshly Prepared
May 7, 2007

Farewell

(rapped)
Refrain
What you livin’ for? Do you live to wage war?
What you livin’ for? There’s more for you in store
What you livin’ for? My words could be the door/
Enter and help me realize the truth within the core/

Verse One
I live for breakfast/ it’s soft contentness/ how my stomach senses/
The nutrition I’ve invested/
I livce to lie down on this cool spring ground/
and stare at the different shades of yellow green that I found/

The leaves/ the sky/ and how it’s never ending/
The colors melt into my eyes/ the breeze that’s transcending/
How exhilarating/ like the rare moments of late nights/
Expressing perfectly my intentions of verbal fights/

I live to see the day/ when this world of black and white/
Consideres the possibilities of having different shades of grey/
I live for paydays/ but I am not your slave/
My work returns with more profits than your consumer ways/

Refrain
What you livin’ for? Do you live to wage war?
What you livin’ for? There’s more for you in store
What you livin’ for? My words could be the door/
Enter and help me realize the truth within the core/

Verse Two
The soft dirt trails/ accompanied by fresh smells/
Of the Korean mountains/ when I visit various temples/
Undescribable scenes put serenity in my heart/
As I drink from its ever clear spring water fountains/

Takin’ in energy/ from the nature that surrounds me/
It’s like walkin the endless plains of corn with seldom oak trees/
Inconsistent/ ah, but with a superior order/
Non-existent/ to humans sweatin’ to tame the mother/

However/ screw livin’ in worlds with false terror/
Bitches tryin to play with my mind makin’ useless endeavors/
I’ll sit silent/ while you dig your own grave/ and watch the missles hover/
Take cover everyone/ you are about to witness/ a world super mistress/
Blow up ueverything you lived to learn to love ten times over/

Refrain
What you livin’ for? Do you live to wage war?
What you livin’ for? There’s more for you in store
What you livin’ for? My words could be the door/
Enter and help me realize the truth within the core/

Verse Three
Oh the tangents come rollin’ in/ but can’t hide/
The rising happiness surfacing from within/
I live to surpass the script full of metaphors/
Cold words/ misrepresenting what people actually live for/

I strive on retrogression/ when it comes to a free style session/
Old-school is how I bust out my lessons/
It’s the love/ the dap you givce when I’m on the hop/
It’s the help I get when I’m rippin’ my hear out cause of writers’ block/

First day of school when I didn’t know shit/
When chillin’ out with friends was eatin’ dirt together in a sand pit/
First warm day after a long winter/ everyone seduced to outdoors
Beauty kissed after a peaceful slumber/
I live/ come on just take it as it is/
Cannot finish countin all the wonderous worldly bliss/
Experience is yourself/ so take a step back/
Pick up a back pack/ and go explore the memories you lack/

All work/ and no play/ makes this world/ a dull place/
So live it up/ and have fun while you’re in this maze/
Nothing can phase you/ if you’ve been through enough/
And nothing will stop those bounded by the force of love.

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