Reflection essay-Nas T.W.I.Y (The World Is Yours)

Isaiah Muhammad
09/10/08
English 201B

Nas-T.W.I.Y free writes
In Nas’s song T.W.I.Y (The World Is Yours) I felt contempt and a sense of repeat in his lyrics. The song, released in 1994, explained to me how the world belonged to those who actually lived, thrived and felt it. At the same time coming from a family and being raised in a environment where the upliftment and betterment of black people I’ve heard this time and time again. Don’t get me wrong, I do believe that black people as a whole still have some uplifting to do after the effects of Jim Crow and 400+ years of slavery completely destroyed are ancestors mind and can’t do for self. The thing I want to say is that I already know of the struggle that appeals to people’s desire to separate themselves from an establishment that values money more then human lives.