No Guns Allowed

It feels like just yesterday I was made the post about Snoop Lion's song "Lighters Up" and relating it to one of the four notions. And yet here I am again with a diferent song from Snoop "No guns allowed". But before we talk about the song I will tell you a little bit about the the various artists that made this song. First off is Snoop which is a famous rapper who comes from California, he started his career as a rapper but then became a reggae singer and now came back to rapping, so even if in this song he sings I am going to refer as him as a rapper. The second rapper in the song in Drake, Drake is also a very famous rapper from Toronto that is much younger than Snoop and even if they are both rappers they don't have the same rapping style , Drake's style is trap rap and Snoop's style is egotrippin' rap. And last but not least, the chorus singer in Cori B. , she actually is Snoop's daughter and this song is their second collaboration. 

Now let's talk about the song, their is one main message that the artists want to forward , and this message is that they want peace. But their are also some other messages that are also very important.

In the first verse, Snoop says "Money makes a man and that's a crime" , this small verse is actually very important because it's one of the secondary messages in which Snoop wants to critizise the fact that society doesn't consider poor people like real people just because they are poor and treat them like dirt and THAT'S A CRIME.

To understand what comes next we have to remember that Snoop has had a gang affiliated carrer in which guns and violence where part of his daily life. But now that Snoop has 3 children he doesn't want them to have to grow up in a violent world as he did ( let's not forget all the east coast - west coast gang wars there was at that time).Then Snoop says to put the music up because he needs to hear his toughts , for Snoop music is not only a way to express yourself but also to relax and to think about your problems.When Drake takes over he raps about the shootings in Toronto ( where Drake was born) and about the two kids, Shyanne and Joshua that where killed in the shooting. Drake dedicated a tweet in their memory and in the song he expresses how sad he was when he learned about the shooting but couldn't go to Toronto to console the families of the victims.

This song can easily be related to the "notion of progress" because the song is about social progress and not only between the rich and the poor but mostly about peace , because it is something that almost everyone wants but that is very dificult to acheive.