2) Select pathos to analyze to any lyrics. What emotional response does the artist wish to illicit. A great artist for this exercise is to look at Tupac Shakur or Matisyahu

Lyrics for This Ring By: Tech N9ne

 "This ring/Got me a top notch/Straight hot fox/We sought rocks/And the Ewok Slot/Was caught/Got dropped two/Playing hopscotch/On the block/Ought not twat plot/Yo for hops knot/I brought dots/This ring/Help me remain sane/No dame games/Came from bane/To a changed man/No cane thang/Refrain from gang bang/Slang a praying brain/Reigns family fame/Then came pain/Say hello to TechN9NE/Everybody/Wanna be down with a nigga/Women get a whiff of the money/Thinking of taking it from me/They get up in the club/Giving the love/Throwing the pussy/Full of liquor and bud/Booty hopping around up in the MO/Get to looking around/ Every ho wanna lick a nigga low/Infatuated/With niggas with dough/Get em in the sack/And try to make 'em let it go/Tech N9NE/Be autographing bitches/In front of rapping niggas/Who think of having figures/They get to grabbing triggas/They can't imagine villains/When they come back and get us/We get to whacking niggas/I ain't never/Wanted no parts of this/I don't never want to break/Another heart for this/Why the devil/Gotta make it/Why the Lord/Wanna make something that'll kill/Something so marvelous/This ring/Brings demeaning demons/In G-strings/Songs we sing/Make 'em fiend semen/And green things/Clinging/Dreaming/Thinking of being/Mrs. Thing/With this ring/But if I wasn't Tech N9NE/Bitches wouldn't even wanna be/With Tech N9NE/If I did no music/Then would you/Respect mine/This wedding band/And music/Draws a line between life/And Tech N9Ne//[2nd Verse]/This ring/Was supposed to protect a nigga/Best for niggas/Who couldn't stop having sex/With bitches/Bless the Mrs./Who stress to kiss us/Even though we spend our/Checks with strippers/Obsessed with clitorises/This ring/Made a nigga feel macho/Cry for/Lie for/Die for/My ho/Nigga I go face Diablo/With a hostile gospel/If I can't have tres or cuatro/Little vatos/Imma let a lot flow/What they sell /Up in Osco/Up a nostril/That sound like/Tech N9NE/Nigga where the weed/Where the mutha fuckin'/Blow/And the hoes/Next to me/Is ecstacy/Asking me if I wanna roll/Bitches never gave a fuck/About a fling/Makes it exciting/When a married nigga/Wanna fuck around/And bitch know he's down/For the fling/I've been tested/And a lot of times/Been invested/Didn't know this Tech shit/Would constantly get a nigga/Molested/Been approached/By some of the best tricks/In the game/And they came strong/But I hanged on/To this ring/And I hope my son/Don't sing the same song/Hook]/ This ring/Brings demeaning demons/In G-strings/Songs we sing/Make 'em fiend semen/And green things/Clinging
Dreaming/Thinking of being/Mrs. Thing/With this ring/But if I wasn't Tech N9NE/Bitches wouldn't even wanna be/With Tech N9NE/If I did no music/Then would you/Respect mine/This wedding band/And music
Draws a line between life/And Tech N9NE/ Quincy J. told me/Superstars are good providers/But/Two times out of ten/When we're on tour/Family's not beside us/What/Can a nigga do/When he makes ends/Add more to the time they spend/While he make ends/Everything else breaking/And the bond at the house/May end/And your wifey steady yelling/'bout quality time/And you think/With all the fame and fortune/Shit ought to be fine/But what happens/When the divorce papers/Just gotta be signed/And you lose half/And your children/Cause you gotta be N9NE/I wanna relax with them/And spend time/To the maximum/But if silence is golden/Then me making noise/Is Platinum/I gotta be Tech/And Daddy/And Hubby/But music/Women mixed with family's ugly/I know and you know/That hell will be/Hot for a nigga's infidelity/But until then/God forgive me/For any promises that I broke/Family/Can I be/Forgiven/For all the liquor and weed/That I smoke/When I succeed will I cope/Will I still breathe/Without both/This ring/Tech N9NE/I don't know/But when I go/I'm leaving out dope/ [Hook]//This ring/Brings demeaning demons/In G-strings/Songs we sing/Make 'em fiend semen/And green things/Clinging/Dreaming/Thinking of being/Mrs. thing/With this ring/But if I wasn't Tech N9NE/Bitches wouldn't even wanna be/With Tech N9NE/If I did no music/Then would you/Respect mine
This wedding band/And music/Draws a line between life/And Tech N9NE"

 

 I choose a Tech N9ne song because his songs are very powerful and have an emotional connection with his fans through his songs. One of his emotional songs is called this ring. Throughout this song you learn he is married, but he has a character to keep up with, Tech N9ne. While being on the road he knows that his wedding ring, his marriage, reminds him that he does bad things that he does while being away. He wants to be faithful with his wife, but keeping up with Tech N9ne and his marriage is hard to do when he is doing shows for months at a time. The ring allows him to revisit the things he is doing to his wife. Having sex with other women, doing drugs, and being on the road for months at a time allows Tech N9ne leave Aaron Gates at home. He wants to give up Tech N9ne and be with his wife, but being Tech N9ne is what brings home money for his family.  A few months later his wife and Tech N9ne got a divorce. With his other persona Tech N9ne allowed to give up his family for being on the road.

Writer's Biography

Dear Readers,   

I was born to Mary Jo and Thomas Jelinek on September 21, 1991. This is when I was destined to write. Growing up in Nebraska I was really interested in school. I wanted to get my hands on every piece of information that was new to me. In elementary school I loved spelling tests, writing short stories, and poems. As I moved on to middle school I wasn't as interested in poems or spelling. Words to me were getting a lot harder and I had difficulty understanding them. Going through middle school led me to be interested in debate. I don't want to brag, but maybe I should since this is my blog. I did really good in debate and won every time except once. My one loss was to a girl in high school. She had also won every debate she had ever been in. The topic was "The War in Iraq". My side was that I was for it. That was definitely not the case, but since my brother had been in Iraq for two years I thought I stood a fighting chance. My brother helped me by talking to me about the war that he fought in and showed me all these interesting pictures. He showed me that part of the war was actually doing some good, but the media just was showing the bad. I sat and watched her speech roll from the heart. From there on I knew she touched people. I still believed my chance was going to be a good one. I got up there gave my side of the story and people got angry with me. They didn't believe anything we were doing did any good for anyone. I stood my grounds, but in the end she won. 
High school was my best years for writing. As a freshman I took journalism and English 1-2. I learned a lot in journalism and how the writing differed. English seemed to bore me. Romeo and Juliet was the first book we read, but the only thing we did in English was read and only wrote for journals. I was disappointed. My sophomore became apart of my high school's newspaper staff. Yea I only started as a staff writer, but you have to start low and work your way up. That is exactly what I did. By junior year I became Entertainment Editor for the Orator. It was one of my most proud days of my life. Senior year I stayed as an Entertainment Editor and Photographer. I won two awards my senior year for two of my stories. A few of my photos were in the running for won awards, but didn't make it in the top four. I was proud of myself for what I had accomplished. Newspaper led me to what I am majoring today. It made me realize my passion for writing in general.
When I came to college I was very excited about writing. I didn't jump into Newspaper just yet. I wanted to make sure I got the hang of college first. English 100 taught me what I had never learned in high school. I had so much trouble trying to write an essay rather than an article. The switch was very hard, and will probably trouble me a little in English 104. As hard as it may seem I'm willing to work on it and make myself a better writer. 


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