Diary of a Black Girl

The rap artist Wale is one of my favorite rappers. Rap, as we all know, is poetry but the way Wale spits his lyrics gives a perfect poetic ryhm. That is the main reason why Wale is one of my favorites, beside the meaningful messages behind each song he creates. One of my all time favorites by him is his song titled, "Diary."

"See all I wanna do is be relevant,
Just tell me that I ever meant anything more,
That you could ever see me and you in another light,
But its like the dark women indoors in the darkest nights by the wrong man,
see all of them have made you incapable of a first impression,
what it do is I channel my aggression with no cable or antenna,
Just intentions to impress you if capable,
Hoping that the material possessions can materialize to a better you,

Cars, nothing I drive can drive you out of this frame of mind,
For such an ugly picture and,
Money, nothing I buy can buy more time for your ears to tell your heart to listen to it,
Diamonds, a girl's best friend is what they say but believe me with the right allegiance shorty you gonna shine anyways,
and everyday that goes by is a couple more lines in her diary,
the day before is better than the present,
so anyone presented in her presence endures these life sentences,
there's no key for release,
no reason to be around,
her minds in the clouds,
she writes it all down,
in her diary."

The story behind the song is a guy trying to get the attention of a female, but she completely ignores him. He tells the "diary of a black girl" by pointing out all the events that has happened in her past causing her to put up a wall towards any guy approaching her in the future. Wale uses denotation when he list the material things in a woman's life such as "cars" and "diamonds."