The RAP Songs of SPIRAL DYNAMICS!

[Escalated]

It's funny. I was in my music playlists and I noticed something interesting. As my psychology changed with actualized.org my music tastes did too. I took certain songs that I had an interest in through my life and pegged them in the Spiral:

RED: Straight Outta Compton (1988): N.W.A.

This song is about the brutal realities of coming up in the the ghetto. The N.W.A. express their attitudes and what they think is needed to survive in a harsh stage red environment. Survival through gangs, threats, crime, and weaponary is all referenced. Morals are untenable in this environment.

"So when I'm in your neighborhood, you better duck
Coz Ice Cube is crazy as f*ck" -Ice Cube

NSFW-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMZi25Pq3T8

BLUE: I Luh God (2015): Erica Campbell

This song tames the red stage with its own faith and ideals. It represents pure faith in authority. All success is attributed to faith in the one true God.

"I love God, You don't love God? What's wrong with you?" -Erica Campbell
 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5BAQhLzMw

ORANGE: All I do Is Win (2012): D.J. Khaled

This song is a rejection of blue values and represents the epitome of stage orange. The emphasis is individual success through material means. Millions in money, trophies, cars, and women.

"All I do is win, win, win no matter what Got money on my mind, I can never get enough"  -T-Pain

NSFW-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXzlRoNtHU

GREEEN: Price Tag (2011): Jessie J.

This song swings its pendulum in the opposite direction from Orange. Rather than making music for profit and material success the message is about "making the world dance." Messages about "paying with love" and references to globalism is made. You can hear Jessie call out the "serious" and "mysterious" nature of today's culture as if to reference the material perspective and coldness of orange.

"We don't need your money money money

We just wanna make the world dance Forget about the price tag" -Jessie J.
 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qMxX-QOV9tI

YELLOW:  This Is America (2018): Childish Gambino

My favorite is This Is America (Childish Gambino). Songs like this one are RARE especially in the genre of rap. Those who have a keen eye for the music video and lyrics can see the pure Yellow in this piece. It took me years to see the stages depicted in this song. It brilliantly shows the toxic judging of tier 1 psychology. In this song excesses such as Red: violence, brutality, Blue: racism, Orange: extreme consumerism, and much more is shown. The key yellow move was that this was all done without direct judging on Donald Glover's part. This is something that a green song is incapable of. All he did was embody the stages and the viewer can see the toxic excesses. The song, as a result, blends in like a chameleon. Without paying attention the viewer can easily confuse this for a red, blue, orange or even a green song. It really blows your mind when you see it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY

Some Hidden meanings in video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_LIP7qguYw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1HfsU07jHis#searching

In carefully listening to music you can hear the evolution of human psychology and cultural values.

Edited September 22, 2020 by Escalated

[Thewritersunion]

Where’s Turquoise  

[Escalated]

These were songs I literally found in my music search history and playlists. I noticed a change overtime that was consistent with an upward trend in the spiral. I guess I have yet to find and appreciate a turquoise rap song. Those are very hard to come by. Let me know if you find one ?.

[Escalated]

I use to think so too. It looks like we're all in for an awakening. 

[TrustTheProcess]

@Husseinisdoingfine jcole is def early yellow

[DocWatts]

Another good example of Stage Green socially conscious hip hop.

 

[Escalated]

@DocWatts

59 minutes ago, DocWatts said:

Another good example of Stage Green socially conscious hip hop.

 

Never heard that before until now. Agreed. very Green.

[DocWatts]

9 minutes ago, Escalated said:

@DocWatts

Never heard that before until now. Agreed. very Green.

If anyone is familiar with Mos Def, that was where he got his start. First rapper I think of for stage Green.

 

Edited September 24, 2020 by DocWatts

[Gidiot]

@louhad j cole new album is definitely early yellow I agree and Kendrick Lamar has some green. I’d say there are two rap songs on iTunes from moojis album that are definitely turquoise but turquoise rap is more spoken wordy than with a beat an melody from what I’ve seen.

https://open.spotify.com/track/32rL2NqCjJopLxLXhWqC77?si=8lVGetKEQkiDZ02t1rc7oQ

good example of a turquoise rap song

Edited September 24, 2020 by Gidiot

[Escalated]

2 hours ago, Gidiot said:

@louhad j cole new album is definitely early yellow I agree and Kendrick Lamar has some green. I’d say there are two rap songs on iTunes from moojis album that are definitely turquoise but turquoise rap is more spoken wordy than with a beat an melody from what I’ve seen.

https://open.spotify.com/track/32rL2NqCjJopLxLXhWqC77?si=8lVGetKEQkiDZ02t1rc7oQ

good example of a turquoise rap song

@Gidiot That is awesome! Thanks for sharing. 

[nistake]

I'm not sure where I'd put this song on the spiral, but I'd say it's certainly conscious:

Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth

Sometimes you gotta dig deep when problems come near
Don't fear, things get severe for everybody everywhere
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Seems that life is just a constant war between good and evil
The situation that I'm facin' is mad amazin'
To think such problems can arise from minor confrontations
Now I'm contemplatin' in my bedroom pacin'
Dark clouds over my head, my heart's racin'

[DocWatts]

From an awesome rap album that's a playful stage Green take down of Corporate Greed, Privatization, and of shallow Consumerism ruining Rap as an art form. Also happens to be a concept album that's set in a cyberpunk dystopia with a host of science fiction references for good measure.

Wind the clocks back to a simpler times
Where you could talk and speak your mind
Without assault or attack or combat
All resources available in large quantities
Before the deceit and greed and privatization
Of everything that society placed inside it
Spaces as a service to the patrons
Now you pay for it and your credit better be good
Or if there's an emergency, never see a foot
Extended in your direction to help forget it
Shred any evidence of wrong doing to make pledges
Among secret societies with freaky fetishes
Lie about what's really inside, they never let us in

[Villager Albert]

Eminem's rap is turquoise. He's talking about ego death all the time. That's why one of his songs is called Lose Yourself. He also drowns himself in the Role Model song. He's beyond survival.

[Gidiot]

@datamonster yea maybe his subconscious was making double entendres as well. Kid cudi is another rapper in solid green and a lot of rappers these days talk about insights from psychs in their songs. 
 

in a sense there is a part of rap that will always be red/blue/ and a lot of orange Braggadocio ala Jay Z and a part that is evolving up to green and tier 2 althought that’s more recent

Edited September 25, 2020 by Gidiot

[Gidiot]

@datamonster Eminem mostly was actually stage red and then become blue and orange once he had a kid and became a father figure for his daughter and made a bunch of money, I don’t even think he is really even stage green but maybe because I remember he hated on trump resoundingly and supported kaepernick.  Maybe he will get there. He’s definitely one of the more clever rappers that have ever existed