Song Analysis Of 'The Water' By Mick Jenkins

In today’s generation, music can be exposed to any listener. It is not like the mid 60’s, when The Beatles were banned from major radio stations and even countries! Now music can be as political and diverse as an artist wants. Unfortunately music is degrading in quality, but today, situations such as poverty, involvement of hard work and everyday life situations are being heard more of in music. Although music is making a negative impact, one of the albums that I highly respect in the underground scene that states all these problems is “The Water[s]”. This is an album composed by a rebellious artist named, “Mick Jenkins”. This album shows all the social problems in a different perspective, that our generation find highly offensive. Aside from making such popular topics being heard, “Mick Jenkins” is well involved with today’s generation due to his age and life status. Jayson Jenkins, better known for his stage name “Mick Jenkins“ is a rapper from Huntsville, Alabama. At age 20, after being part of a club in college of creative writers, he dropped out and moved to Chicago. Soon after he competed in a rap competition called, “
In the album the song “Black Sheep” shows how degrading hard workers can be a mistake. In the opening lines “Young Mozarts with more keys, black sheep with a gang of wolves before me” shows the relation of his talent and perseverance, such like Mozart’s because no one believed he would become a great pianist. Another example of such hard work is the complexity he uses is in the last line “ Black sheep, but I know you see the GOAT in me”. This is what makes the song so hardworking and no exemption for other artist to slack off. He uses the black sheep as a symbol for the starters in anything, which for him is the rap game. Then after that he uses an acronym in GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) to point out that no slacking is allowed if you are trying to compete against hard workers like