While sitting in class on Thursday, listening to everyone’s song they chose to talk about, it made me realize how many different musicians are trying to make an impact on the world. Students chose different rappers, pop artists, and blues singers. I also realized how many songs in the past still stick with people and the new generation of musicians are still talking about the same terrible things going on in the world. These artists dead or alive, spoke about the mistreatment of blacks in America. It shows how much these artists cared about their communities to speak up about these problems. Students takes about Tupac, Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Beyoncé, Big L and more who all spoke about civil rights and their music was released decades apart, but it is still a topic of discussion. Most of the discussion was police brutality which is probably the biggest problem in America right now. Musicians expose the government is their songs for us to listen to and realize the things that are going on, which lead to rallies and sometimes those rallies lead to change. People also discussed gun violence in their songs from so many school shootings and wrongful deaths and now gun laws are getting passed to lessen the violence in America. The big names that were spoken about Thursday is just a small sample size of artists who speak up for what they believe in, and their following will feel the same way and stand up and force a change for the good. Music is that powerful and the talented artists from the past, present, and future will continue to inspire this world.