BB King Essay
... friends…music is.” He doesn’t stutter when he sings so it is easier for him to sing than to speak. King summed it up by saying, “Blues is a simple music and I am a simple man.” BB King first learned about blues through his grandmother, a former slave. She told him that singing helped the day go by and sometimes served as a warning, perhaps informing other slaves that the master was coming. When slaves sang blues it usually contained some sort of hidden message, it sounded like the songs were made up by the heart. Blues is “a lifetime of stories about the woes and wonders about earthly love.” It took the “ache off our backs and the burden off our brains.” King said he watched blues go from the railroads of Mississippi to practically every point on the planet. He compared blues to a grandfather watching over his children, meaning blues was the foundation of most modern music that people listen to today. King likes today’s young, black music. He is fond of rap and hip hop although he doesn’t like the cursing. King says rap is full of creativity. He states that rapper’s blues are in a different shape but still have the same ideas, singing about heartache and sorrows. Rapper’s rhythm is the rhythm of life which is the same rhythm as BB King’s. Blue’s is a simple music, King explained it by saying you sing 1 line, then repeat that line, and then rhyme the 3rd line with the first line. That is called the 12 bar blues because each line has 4 bars. Blues makes people want t...