Listen to the following song by American rapper Nas and Jamaican reggae artist Damian Marley. Some parts are hard to understand with out the lyrics so I included some below.
After you listen through the song once skip past the lyrics and find the questions I want you to answer. Listen again and do you best to answer all the questions.
The Lyrics to Ancient People.
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient songs
These ancient people
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient hopes
These ancient people
Like a bird, in the sky
And the sea, and the birds
And the trees, and the sun
Melody
Like a mountain, like a valley
Like the river, like the lake
Like the earth, when it quake
Space and sea
This is rock and roll meets aristotle
I fly those g5's through the skies to cabbo
Martial arts more ancient than tabbo
Schwartzman, more ancient than zorro
Ancient like the pharohs or priests of yoruba
Maher rabah-nasr is the best
Them paths like climbing mount kiliminjaro
Ancient men traded cattle
Before columbus was lost in travel, ancient canoes got paddeled
Before the horse saddle there was camel
Spears before arrow, arrow before ammo
Tribal paint before camel
Large
Chief before sarge, I'm lieutenant
Village elders before descendant
Used to sail the seas before the compass was invented
Ancient people spoke free, they didn't need a 1st amendment
In the beginning, the drum was the tech ...
...
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient songs
These ancient people
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient hopes
These ancient people
...
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient songs
These ancient people
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient hopes
These ancient people
...
QUESTION TO ANSWER:
Use your five senses to experience the song then explain what you noticed.
What did you picture as you heard the lyrics?
What words stuck out in the song?
What words were repeated?
How did the rhythm and beat sound?
What sounds did you hear (either in the song or imagine based on the music)
What types of music (or other songs) did the song remind you of?
Were there any books or movies that seems similar?
Did it remind you of anything else (like a child memory or experience)?
*for use later in class
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/atlas.html
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