Drega

Canadian rapper Drega sings about society and transition in his song: All I Know

Canadian rapper Drega sings about society and transition in his song: All I KnowYou know that we like it when an artist's biography doesn't help him out. Big museum artists, with lots of expositions and statues being risen in their names have dust and overrated written all over them. What we enjoy most is the potential. You know, when you look in a kid's eyes and you see the president or the leader he can grow into? Same thing here. A pompous musical biography isn't Drega's ace in the hole. His knowledge and the ordeal of being moved from one country to another are.

Two interludes in which he speaks from the heart hint to the themes of this song called 'All I Know': transience and predetermination. Transience is a term coined by Alvin Toffler. It practically sums up all the negative sides of being raised in a fluctuating environment, the always rolling film that life forces us to watch: new people, new feelings, new situations, new jobs, new homes. The second term refers, in this song, at least, about how sons grow up to be the same as their fathers: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Check this out, from an interlude:

'I think that all our dads, from where I grew up All our dads were very hands off They way they raised us was by payin' the bills That's all they knew, ya know They didn't ask for help'.

In the song, tho, our Brampton rapper tells us all HE knows, which is slightly different from what his father knew. That's the message he's trying to give us. Don't be your father. Learn from other's mistakes. And that makes this song a great one. Enjoy!

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