In Crooked Smile by J.Cole I found many examples of text painting. In verse one, J. Cole said,
“And baby girl you’re a star, don’t let ’em tell you you’re not
Now is it real? Eyebrows, fingernails, hair
Is it real? if it’s not, girl you don’t care
Cause what’s real is something that the eyes can’t see
That the hands can’t touch
That them broads can’t be, and that’s you,”
in these couple of the lines, I can picture a woman looking in the mirror judging her self because she doesn’t fit someone else image. The women he is referring to is today’s society as a whole. We as society try to paint over or ignorer what is really going on around us. We are giving people a job in office to the people that look the part instead of the people that are qualified for the job. Another example I found in this song is in verse two J. Cole said,
“Killing yourself to find a man that’ll kill for you
You wake up, put makeup on
Stare in the mirror but its clear that you can’t face what’s wrong
No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on
Your roommate yelling, “Why you gotta take so long?,”
in these line I can almost picture the same thing. I see a women in the mirror putting on makeup, because they don’t like their skin. This is also today’s society telling a women she must look a certain way before she comes out the house.
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