The Rap & Hip-Hop Recommendation Thread

[Sparky]

Originally Posted by Janszoon

I didn't say an impartial perspective, I said the album focuses on work as a general topic in a variety of ways. "No Regrets", for example, is all about someone's life work, while "9-5er's Anthem" isn't so much anti-work as it is anti-meaningless work—he actually says that pretty explicitly in the closing lyrics of the song.

I posted both the closing stanzas of 9-5ers anthem to support my view point, so if you wouldn't mind expressing how you read those lyrics?

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by A$AP Sparky

I posted both the closing stanzas of 9-5ers anthem to support my view point, so if you wouldn't mind expressing how you read those lyrics?

The lyrics I'm referring to aren't ones you posted. Maybe I'm forgetting where they happen in the song. Anyway, the part I was referring to is this:

We the American working population
Hate the fact that eight hours a day
Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us
And we may not hate our jobs
But we hate jobs in general
That don't have to do with fighting our own causes
We the American working population
Hate the nine to five day-in day-out
But we'd rather be supporting ourselves
By being paid to perfect the pasttimes
That we have harbored based solely on the fact
That it makes us smile if it sounds dope

I read this as him expressing a negative opinion about shitty, meaningless work, not work in general. He's saying people should be doing work that means something to them and that makes them happy, as opposed to simply punching the clock at some worthless job. To me it's pretty clearly stated with the lines:

And we may not hate our jobs
But we hate jobs in general
That don't have to do with fighting our own causes