Taylor's Music Memoir

  West Coast Rap/HipHop Music and the fictive dream presented by GTA San Andreas Song of choice: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Theme, composed by Michael Hunter, Released in October 26th of 2004, California.       The Grand Theft Auto video game franchise created by Rockstar Games released their fifth installment being San Andreas, created by Leslie Benzie's and Dan Houser their idea for the game was supposed to create a 90's west coast gangster culture setting even replicating famous west coast rappers of that time such as Eazy-E and Notorious B.I.G. and so on in the games character's. The musical element in the west coast culture they are trying to portray became the biggest symbol of the theme and arguably the most famous part of the game. West coast hip hop or rap is characterized by using more electronic elements which is theorized to be due to the west coast hip hop era being more oriented around DJing opposed to rapping, as well as being more fast paced than other st

  Eminem's Lose Yourself, Oct 28th 2002, 54 Sound Studio, Detroit Michigan      This is Eminem's piece "Lose Yourself" as to which he describes exactly why he is an amazing performer, describing the struggles of mental and physical stress with performing in his lyrics for example "His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, there's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti, he's nervous but on the surface, he looks calm and ready." as well as tools he uses to stay confident for instance his life struggles and how badly he wants them to end is what he mentally focus's on to get in the zone. This keeps him calm during his performance to combat stage anxiety to give his absolute best. This is the key factor of performing, he says "You better lose yourself, in the music, the moment, you own it you better never let it go." What I believe he means is you have to lose your the panicked voice in your head that thinks what the cr