The piece of art I choose to work on was the song “Suicidal thoughts” by Biggie. This artist managed to properly depict the mental health and it directly correlates with the concept of how important your childhood surroundings are gonna be towards your adult hood. Also, how essential it is that being a young black man in America comes with certain traumas that can greatly impact the rest of your lives. He gets into the nitty gritty of his regrets as a husband and as a son while goes into the extremes of his depression. He doesn’t want to accept this love from his surroundings due to ingenuineness. He is scarred from the mistakes hes made in his past, yet willing to lay it all out on a song.
As soon as I noticed what the topic was really asking for, immediately this was my first choice, I love that this wasn’t a generic suicide prevention song and actually ends in the deepest end of the hole. Death.
A potential thesis; This artist work attempts to shed light on his personal mental health issues and leads Segway into a deeper conversation about suicide in black men.
Mental health is an important issue to talk about because yours and other’s people mental health can help one another. And an artist that is bringing this issue into a song which everyone would listen to would speak it much louder. Biggie is one of my favorite rappers and his story can be relatable to other people who lived a life like that.
A really good song you chose, and it speaks about Mental Health issues not only for black men but as a whole.