For this particular track I would like to explain the story of Late Registration as I see it. Just bare with me.
I felt The College Dropout and Late Registration could be looked at as the story of one person. After The College Dropout, the story of Late Registration beings.
This is all running through my mind, and everytime I lie down for a complete listen of the album the story plays through my head in between day dreams. The story can be looked at with any imagery that dances through your head. I just wanted to make a post about how I feel the album's order of tracks make for almost a movie like experience in your head. It'll be complicated to explain fully, so don't try to hard to figure anything out, always think of your own stories as well!
The opening skit plays and I imagine myself in a school, the same depicted in the album photography. Heard Em' Say is played and I am ambitious striving toward something, it's heartwarming. The lyrics in that track and all others paint the pictures in your mind. Then Touch the Sky is up next and I have realized there is a possibility. A song that amps you up and makes me imagine the dream of success is about to come true. And for awhile it does, I am in a fairytale, a personal utopia. Then my life becomes a train wreck, I was so absorbed in the happiness I had found, that I was blinded from simple dangers. The gold digger is one such danger. I use to have values and I was never so absorbed into material objects. I pay the price, but then I am nowhere. I am forgotten, gone with the wind, I am no longer at my status and have lost my value and fame. However, my life was soon not over, I still had a chance, a chance to change, a chance to learn my lesson. I would find refuge in the fraternity of Broke Phi Broke, this would be my way to turn these things around. This would be my Late Registration.
From there I would discover people who had greater values and people who had suffered longer than I had. I reflected on past moments of my life. Of my childhood, I would Drive Slow with my friends and we had such great times. I needed to rediscover myself, and live a normal life that would teach me the do's and don't's of this earth. I become angry and learn the evils of this world while at the fraternity, that people suffer through the wrongs of government. I had learned that in the track Roses. I discover I have become an inspiration and that others wanna bring me down. It is between skit's 1 and 2 that the album is very dark and angry. Then I progress as my time goes by through the fraternity then becoming more intelligent, and ready to face situations, here Diamonds is were I would achieve my personal fame, and achieve something. Then We Major is played, here I have become very successful but I don't become forgetful of my past struggles and I have made different friends who have also become quite successful. I am at an all time high, and there are no problems that I face in my life. I am content, satisfied, and motivated to do more. I then return to Broke Phi Broke to gather and honor our customs, "when your mama would walk in the room and pretend she was the tree". I had found true happiness, and beauty in life.
I now had full understanding of what I appreciated and how everyone faces struggles in there life and gets through them. I would thank the most important person in my life, my mother. I was glad to be alive, and was still tasting success. It was time for a Celebration, time to hold onto my values, but let go of my worries. Get lost in the bliss of success. This wasn't modest and I hadn't been suttle about my success, and I should've been more careful. This didn't end up how it was suppose to and something was about to happen, but I didn't know what. I was now gone from Broke Phi Broke, they didn't like my success. I was gone from the fraternity, that had saved my life.
Sure I was gone, but I wasn't left alone. I had not just myself, but all I had learned to accompany me. I was ready to be on my own, and be careful. I had learned so much, and while being banned from once my only refuge, I had learned to accept it. I was content and I was ready to go off into the world, and make my mark on the world I had once looked at. One that I thought was just all mine, something I could exploit. I had learned from my education from Broke Phi Broke, and the world was under control. I would be forever known by only myself, because only I could understand myself. I was gone.
However, there were things left behind. Such is a track as Late. It is an effort unexpected, just a prime example of all that is a surprise whether good or bad. The pause after Gone, leave me content, showing me I was the same for awhile and had fulfilled my dreams, becoming a master of my life. So Late is just after that story. It shows how life can again change and the mood and outlook of things is all blurred. And in retrospect to Gone we don't really know what is ahead. We only assume past what we know, and our knowledge of what is ahead is forever limited.
Yet, after Late I would be done. I had finished I had left the school knowing what I would need to know. I had Graduated. My Late Registration was a success. It was all worth showing up even though I was behind everyone else in the world. I had gotten to class late, but I had learned.
There you have it ladies and gentleman, after nearly a month of blog work, and a year of listening...
Late Registration is done. Goodbye for now. Head towards the light.
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