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Tupac Essay

I wrote this essay in 2009 my Freshman year of college. It is on my old computer. I don't have a charger for my old computer. It is one of those old chargers. I will have to hopefully get one at some point. I wrote other stuff on that computer. That computer also has thousands of tape recorded rhymes on it. But I need the old kind of computer charger

I wrote this when I played basketball at UCSD so I was nervous and I could always rap well and write well when nervous I don’t know why but it always put me ina different state that was good. But they hurt me so I haven’t been able to play on a team and get nervous.

2PAC rapped what was the most meaningful, that came in the form of revelations from the heart, and thus his words and emotion function universally. PAC recycles a currency that builds upon itself and is also manipulated, constantly leveraging and expanding beyond itself. Pac, however, also is aware of the limitations of not only rap, but any art form in its mimetic necessity tied to human creation.

2PAC’s lyrics are crafted with the beat, with the timing, in a meaningful sequence in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and the removal of any aspect would devastate the creation. The brush strokes are not hidden. His masterpiece “Can’t C Me” embraces that it is man made. The rap begins with a man taking a breath to introduce PAC, humanizing himself and reinforcing its quality as a human creation. His early raps are not commercialized, modified, and distant in assimilatory fashion to be conveniently fitted into popular culture. His raps are alive, never resigning, moving every direction except closed, and still reverberating with the same intensity in its completion.

At the same time rap is a form of constrained writing. It mostly adheres to a general approximate time structure cut into 16 bar segments confined by a general conformity to rhyme that can be manipulated to convince a simultaneous expression of freedom. 2Pacs raps are not limited to benign belligerence and booty bouncing. In 2PAC’s reference and obsession to extremes in human behavior, he also points beyond them. This is a function of the use of rational, interpersonal compulsion against transcendent, melodic, yet unsettling harmonies. Pac’s music awakens, or opens the eyes of the viewer to the harsh realities of the world, yet simultaneously, through its creativity and expression, refuses the listener to resign to these.

The title “Can’t C Me” leaves out “you”. PAC is not merely saying that he is a figment of nothing to the listener, but he actually is no thing. Consequently he cannot be seen and if he is no thing, he cannot see the listener as well. C is the shape of a circle opened. He has escaped pidgeon-holing circumscription. Also C represents average. Functioning as a verb, he is saying he cannot be made average. It is also the third letter of the alphabet. Three reflects the west side sign with two fingers connected in the middle. On the album cover he points these to his forehead. Possibly three symbolizes a transcendence beyond duality (referencing his two fingers intertwined), metaphorically third eye vision. He says can’t as opposed to cannot. This is a sign of condescension and his sense of power over those who cannot see him.

By not using “see” PAC is alluding to something beyond vision associated with appearances. He is describing that, while he can be seen in the flesh, his true self exists in a dimension beyond the reducing effects of vision. In other words, PAC understands that he exists beyond the confines of his physical body. He proclaims “If you feel me, tell the tricks that shot me that they missed they ain’t kill me”. In so doing he confronts the listener with a paradox that defies his understanding of the self. The people or person who shot him hit his physical flesh, but did not hit “Him”. Again, PAC plays with the notion that he exists in a different dimension in sound, and accordingly cannot be felt in the literal sense. But going along with the notion that “he” exists beyond the physical, he is amorphous and can be felt. He could be stipulating that our essences do not exist in our separate bodies but in our transcendent connections and awareness that we are integrated in patterns beyond rational resolution. He extends “feel” to reflect that he is everywhere and amorphous.

The irony of living in a culture that degrades and disparages you is that it brings you to release consideration of your self, which is liberating. 2PAC’s raps are composed of a currency that he circulates. This currency is transparent, yet simultaneously mysterious. 2PAC’s currency, while mired to rational dichotomies of the world, attempted to transcend it in overall formal dynamic interplay. In so doing he let’s go of preoccupation of ego and content, for as a currency it is not directly connected with him but a rotation of expressions built from a sentiment. He does not try to inflate his ego, and ironically degrades himself. Paradoxically this empowers him and infuses his music with transcendence. He has nothing to lose, and as a result, gains everything. He emphasizes violence (possibly to compensate for the fact that it is often ignored), yet at the same time instills a sentiment that there is a zone that transcends the irreconcilable opposites of our consciousness transposed into the world. Thus his music moves on the intersection of scandalous violation and eternal grace.

Slang permeates 2PAC’s raps, and is due to the realization that language, like art, is limited in that it is tied to human creation and thus cannot express the Truth behind the sentiment to speak or produce artwork. Slang can be adopted due to the underlying spiritual aspiration to express without preoccupation with impressing. Nigger is appropriated by PAC, as are other derogatory terms imposed on oppressed “groups”, to take away the pain and seriousness of the word imposed on them and to build themselves up to take verbal abuse. PAC transforms “nigger” into an amorphous boomerang. Slaves developed their own subtle forms of communication so as to communicate without being found out. Slang can undermine the English language that ‘blacks’ adopted from the ‘white man’. 2PAC’s slang was original and was used before it was repackaged and assimilated into culture. Only those on his plane, with his vocabulary and dialogue could understand the content of what he is saying. People get so caught up in his controversial lyrics and cursing that they do not see the subversive undertone and message. But the magnificence of his music is that it is not confined to content. The C also looks like an eclipse before it is realized. Eclipses are symbolic of darkness, or the dissolution of appearances. Those with receptivity to the complexities yet transcendent simplicity of 2PAC’s consciousness could understand that 2PAC is trying to bring about “2PAColypse”, or the death of dichotomy, when blackness takes over the light.

The title “Can’t see me” and the name of the album “All Eyez on Me” plays on the notion that music plays in a dimension that can simultaneously be anywhere and nowhere, shrinking space and time, yet the artist remains out of sight. The title of the song reflects the nature of good rap. Good rap is a formless art composed of transparent, ephemeral forms. 2PAC doesn’t tell you what you want to hear, or show you what you want to see. The significance of rap as a form of art is that it, if good is never a closed system. The listener cannot get stuck on one thing for too long as it is constantly flowing and hitting him with new lines and patterns and tones. Yet paradoxically his raps are presented with and pervaded by an order, pattern, and structure that allow memorization. He who cannot appreciate the underlying significance of the formal elements of 2PAC’s raps would immediately tune out. This memorization does not just consist in spoken word but rhythm and tone. Thus his raps can inculcate a message and sentiment beyond the immediately apparent.

PAC understands that the ghetto is the product of exploitation and manipulation by the status quo. PAC says “witness what hell made”. PAC associates “whites” with devils. He is throwing in the face what the silent majority finds convenient to overlook. Ironically, now the world has no choice, and the chaos and anarchy is coming back around. PAC describes “Visions of cops and sirens”. Visions occur when one wakes up from a daze, and often come in spurts that are fought off. The tide is turning as the upper tier of the status quo is amerced in its self-made disorder that it can no longer contain. By alluding to guns and sirens PAC is suggesting that witnessing is more than just seeing. Guns and sirens can be heard too and with a more frightening effect. PAC subtly calls “whites” “nigger”. He exclaims, “Ask me why I’m a boss player getting high, and niggers wonder why they can’t see me”. He poses this as a rhetorical question. Ironcially, he is saying, the group in power created “him”, the “boss player getting high” and can’t except it. The term boss subverts dominant notions. PAC extends the words high and by, which could also be hi and bye, playing on words in rhythmic juxtaposition. The listener could picture him (not see; there is a difference) in a fancy car. If that person is rich and white it could trigger envy; envy could also be emoted from a poor black person. Either way, PAC is claiming his space and letting his presence known. I propose that he encourages the listener to give into that envy, possibly so he could eventually find that pursuit of riches due to competition is ultimately empty and thus become open to the possibility of losing consideration of his “self” as well. PAC extends and accentuates dieeee as well, suggesting he will never die. He is the one with the power.

The deafening, ringing sound in the middle evokes a sense of slowly devolving and descending, as if Pac has finally caught you and is taking you into a pit deeper and deeper into the darkness. At the same time playfulness undergirds the song, compensating PAC’s serious tone and manipulating the listener to follow. It seems at any moment PAC is going to jump out of the speaker and say “boo”. PAC commands “Visualize what you can’t see”. What cannot be seen is the unknown, and entering the unknown always entails fear. A sense of power permeates the song. The listener is in 2PAC’s realm; he is in control.

One could say that within PAC’s music is a Marxist undertone and sense of power. Nevertheless, PAC adheres, and in fact, seems deeply mired to the dualistic consciousness used to enslave black people in the first place. But 2PAC also realizes that black people cannot be trusted. In fact, he proclaims “it’s me against the world”. He makes references to the white man, and the devil in other songs, but never adheres to a groupish white v. black mentality. He understands that there are complexities underlying black/white dichotomies. He even goes so far as to say “I can’t trust myself”.

Race is a social construction, not based on biology, manufactured by the group in power in order to entrench power into itself. A key component to the perpetuation of race-consciousness is to satisfy the ego’s desire to feel superior. This desire to be superior underlies all other categories as well. PAC is noted for his beef with East Coast rapper Biggie. The East West Coast feud was a domination struggle and part and parcel with domination struggles is oppressive structures under new produced encapsulations. When not introduced to a broader awareness, discontent due to oppressive structures can be driven within the categorized oppressed groups into encapsulated forms of internal strife such as racism, sexism, and geographical bias. 2PAC in his music becomes an actor in the existence of these categories, and he emphasizes their existence so overtly that he almost satirizes them. The passion with which he adheres to binaries is so intense that it points beyond them and himself to a yearning to transcend them. This I argue is the effect 2PAC wishes to produce. Everything in the universe puts itself first so it can become strong enough to break out of its protective enclosure. While people interpreted the West Side as being a beef reflecting geography, it in fact represented PAC’s desire to be a part of something larger than his “self”. Biggie was PAC’s effigy, representing an aspect of himself that he hated and was delivered from in death. By the end of PAC’s life his music reflects a transcendent awareness that a dimension exists beyond categorization and hierarchy. I believe that PAC’s life and death, whether staged or not, represents an art form of deliverance from dualistic thinking as represented in Biggie and PAC’s deaths.

In his glorified “Thug Life” Pac inculcates a principle to live by, a force to rally under, and an instrument for revolution, instilling fear in the upper tier and trust in a force of alliance and a super ordinate goal in the lower. In short he breathes a spirit of resistance essential for the healthy emergence of a new social order.

The rap induces in the listener a multidimensional sensory overload. Encouraged to see, feel, listen, and manipulated through a variety of emotions ranging from amusement to fear, he is almost brought to a state of numbness. The rap finishes with the distorted words of women saying “you can’t see me” and abruptly ends. The silence at the end is accentuated by the intensity preceding it. 2PAC trusts that there is a space beyond the dissonance and a silence that transcends silence. 2PAC in a sense attempts to dance the listener to a standstill.

It is human nature to dilute what is not readily understood into manageable chunks. The background voice in the rap warns the listener to, “stay off his dick”. There is a temptation to reduce transcendent qualities in PAC’s music, consequently diluting the experience. The form of his rap speaks to the subconscious, permeating the steal cage of content preoccupation sustained by constructed frameworks of thinking and understanding. Rap puts words into continuum and words that do not necessarily need to have a schematic connection. Yet it is often still within a structure of sense, pattern, and meter, keeping it within touch of the listener, while its constant flow simultaneously eludes him. It can be used to echo a rhythm and lyricism of a certain time and place or capture a consciousness. Nonetheless recorded speech entails concern with an ego, which is a primary limitation of rap. PAC avoided this by working with a currency that was developed from the spirit of his age with an awareness of the timeless.

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Xzibit has a famous song called X. X is the quadrant. Xzibit is wearing a cross on his album cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(Xzibit_song)

XXX tenacious was a rapper often referred to as X. X is the quadrant. XXX tenacious was murdered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4,_3,_2,_1_(LL_Cool_J_song)

4, 3, 2, 1 is a popular song by LL Cool J. The song has four artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hrsmn

Hrsmn is a supergroup of rappers. They represent the four horsemen

Canibus

Killah Priest

Ras Kass

Kurupt

Slaughterhouse is a hip hop supergroup with four members. Their album cover is a quadrant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse_(Slaughterhouse_album)

Attali points out four stages of music.

On Judhas Priest’s album cover, the devil is wearing a three pronged cross.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Wings_of_Destiny

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugulator

Judhas Priest’s album cover The Jugulator features a three pronged cross on the Jugulator’s forehead

On the Redeemer of Souls, the person on the album cover wears a Judhas Priest Cross.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redeemer_of_Souls

Tupac had a 4 in his album cover Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly_4_My_N.I.G.G.A.Z…

One of the songs in the album is called “Something 2 Die 4”

Shown below is tupac’s Album Cover The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

The cover features a crucifixion. The cross is a quadrant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Don_Killuminati:_The_7_Day_Theory

Pac wearing a cross is shown below on the Better Dayz album

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Dayz

Pac’s Loyal to the Game also has a cross on the cover. A song on the album is titled “Thug 4 Life”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal_to_the_Game

A Tribe Called Quest is a glorified rap group with four members. Their first album cover features the four members with the four words of A Tribe Called Quest, written on their silhouettes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Instinctive_Travels_and_the_Paths_of_Rhythm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin

The fourth Album of Led Zeppelin is called IV. It is actually an untitled album, but on its cover is four symbols, representing the four members of the band.

The four symbols representing (from left to right);

at the top; Page, Jones

at the bottom; Bonham and Plant

The four symbols on the label and inside sleeve of Led Zeppelin IV. From left to right they are, Jones, Bonham, and Plant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV

Four sticks is a famous song by Led Zeppelin. The four sticks cover kind of depicts a three plus one, like the Beatles album cover

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Sticks

A member of the band, Bonham, died after drinking four quadruple vodkas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Rich_or_Die_Tryin%27

50 Cent is wearing a cross on his first album cover. The album was a huge success. Every part of the album cover is cracked, but the cross is not cracked. I listened to 50s music and he says four a lot. He also raps about his cross. In “U Not Like Me”, 50 Cent says “32 carats in the cross, no flaws”. In 50 Cent’s song “I’ll Whip Ya Head Boy”, 50 cent begins the song with “Two niggaz in the front, two niggaz in the back

That's four niggaz riding strapped in grandpa's Cadillac”

On 50 Cent’s second album cover, 50 Cent is also wearing a cross.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Massacre

The four stages of music according to Atalli are shown below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise:_The_Political_Economy_of_Music

sacrificing

repeating

representing

Post repeating

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise:_The_Political_Economy_of_Music

DMX Album And Then There was X has the X/Quadrant on the cover

Andre Nickatina Halos 4 Hire album cover is shown below

Murder 4 Hire is an album by Ice T- 4 is the quadrant

Tupac was shot at quad studios

http://www.mtv.com/news/1583487/biggie-diddy-knew-tupac-would-be-ambushed-in-1994-alleges-los-angeles-times-reporter/

Tupac was shot with four bullets and the fourth bullet was different. Biggie was shot with four bullets and the fourth bullet was different. Lennon was also shot with four bullets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tupac_Shakur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_The_Notorious_B.I.G.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2012/11/19/165495617/beethovens-famous-4-notes-truly-revolutionary-music

Beethoven’s fifth symphony is considered one of the greatest symphonies of all time. Beethoven said that it was inspired by God. The symphony consists of iterations of four notes in a three plus one pattern. During World War II the four notes were played to signify victory for pro ally BBC shows.

Wagner’s famous ring cycle consisted of four parts. Wagner was one of Hitler’s favorite composers. The four parts are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen

The Rhinegold

Siegfried

The Valkyrie

Twilight of the Gods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony

The Italian style symphony originally had three movements. In the 18th century the symphony moved to the standard of four movements. Again, the dynamic of three and four. The fourth is different and transcendent.

an opening sonata or allegro

a minuet or scherzo with trio

a slow movement, such as adagio

an allegro, rondo, or sonata

The classical suite has four parts. The gigue occurred later than the others, and is the transcendent fourth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite_(music)

Allemande

Sarabande

Courante

Gigue

Handel’s Four Coronation Anthems are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_anthem

Zadok the Priest

The King Shall Rejoice

Let Thy Hand be strengthened

My Heart is Inditing

Bach used the cross motif in his music to allude to the crucifixion. Liszt, Shostakovich, and others also used the cross motif.

Brahms is known for his four symphonies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_symphonies_by_Johannes_Brahms

C Minor

F Major

D Major

E Minor

Chopin is known for his four Ballades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballades_(Chopin)

A list of instruments with four strings and four coarses of strings is shown below. The first guitars, the renaissance guitars also had four strings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-string_guitar

Guitar family instruments with four strings[edit]

Bass guitar

Braguinha

Cak used in Kroncong music

Cavaquinho

Celovic used in Tamburica orchestras

Cuatro Venezolano

Tenor guitar

Ukulele

Cigar box guitars often have three or four strings.

Guitar family instruments with four courses of strings[edit]

The Renaissance guitar.

Brac and Bugaria used in Tamburica orchestras

Some Chitarra Battentes

Some Kabosys

Tahitian ukulele

Tiple

The piccolo trumpet has a transcendent fourth valve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugelhorn

Flugelhorns also sometimes have a transcendent fourth valve. The fourth is always different.

The four members of queen album cover are depicted below. The four figures are in quadrant formation and X arms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_by_Me_(film)

PM Dawn’s Cross album is shown below. The title of the album is Of the Heart of the Soul and of the Cross. In a lot of their music videos, there is a lot of cross imagery. The cross is the quadrant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_the_Heart,_of_the_Soul_and_of_the_Cross:_The_Utopian_Experience

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cross_of_Changes

Enigma has an album called Cross of Changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_(Justice_album)

Justice has many albums with crosses on the cover.

John Lennon’s song Imagine has a four note piano figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(John_Lennon_song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_the_Beatles

With the Beatles is a three plus one formulation album cover of the four members of the band.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Future

Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All is written with a cross for the T.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_(album)

OFWGKTA (stylized OFWGK†Δ Odd future has an upside down cross)

Vivaldi’s renowned Four Seasons, is comprised of four concertos. Each concerto represents one of the four seasons.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-four-seasons-by-vivaldi-analysis-structure.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra

A typical symphony has four groups. The four groups are

Woodwinds

Percussion

Brass

Strings

There are four string instruments

https://www.orsymphony.org/learning-community/instruments/strings/

violin

cello

viola

Double bass

The earliest known classification of instruments is the Chinese. The Chinese correspond the four groups to the four winds and the four seasons They are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument_classification

Stone

Silk

Wood

Baboon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_Muzik_4:_A_Turn_4_the_Worst

Joe Budden has an album called “A Turn 4 the Worst”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Love_Lost_(Joe_Budden_album)

Joe Budden has a four album concept. Each album represents a stage in a four stage journey

Halfway House

Escape Route

Padded Room

No Love Lost

Asia is a four member supergroup

The music video for Asia’s classic song “Heat of the Moment” is a 16 square quadrant model grid throughout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpPoytXVvo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_(band)

The Blue Oyster Cult’s album covers always show a Kronus cross.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Öyster_Cult_(album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Öyster_Cult

C Murder has an album titled Screamin 4 Vengeance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamin%27_4_Vengeance

The Geto Boys were a three plus one band. They had four members, but they became three members. The forth is always different

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Trouble

Bushwick Bill

Sire Jukebox

DJ Ready Red

Prince Johnny C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geto_Boys_(album)

In the Geto Boys Remix album, the four members did a parody of the Beatles quadrant cover “Let it Be”. The four members posed like they were taking mugshots.

In Justin Bieber’s album cover “Purpose”, he wears a cross tattoo on his chest, and there are asymmetrical crosses throughout the composition. Bieber is in a prayer position. The cover caused controversy in Middle Eastern countries, so the album cover was changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purpose_(Justin_Bieber_album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro_pezzi_sacri

Verdi wrote “The Four Sacred Pieces”. They are called Quattro pezzi sacri

Ave Maria, a setting of the Latin "Ave Maria" for four solo voices a cappellacomposed in 1889

Laudi alla Vergine Maria, a setting of a prayer in Canto XXXIII of Dante's Paradiso for four female voices a cappella composed between 1886 and 1888

Stabat Mater, a setting of the Latin "Stabat Mater" for chorus and orchestra composed in 1896 and 1897

Te Deum, a setting of the Latin "Te Deum" for double chorus and orchestra composed in 1895 and 1896.

There are four animated members of the Gorillaz. They are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillaz

2-D (lead vocals, keyboards)

Noodle (guitar, keyboards)

Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar)

Russel Hobbs (drums and percussion)

The four Gorillaz are on their album covers

Demon Days is a quadrant cover, homage to the Beatles Let it Be quadrant cover.

The Gorillaz album cover Humanz had four separate album covers, one for each of the four members of the band.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanz

Aida is a very popular Opera by Verdi. My Grandpa had Aida at his house. The play has four acts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I–V–vi–IV_progression

The “Four Chords of Pop” are I-V-vi-IV. Axis of awesome made a song parodying the ubiquity of these four chords in pop music. They are also called the pop funk progression by Dan Bennett, because they are used frequently in pop funk.

Bob Dylan uses the four chord progression in Lay Lady Lay. The progression is also used in TLC’s Waterfalls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4

The main guitar riff in Nirvana’s Smell’s like Teen spirit, uses four power chords. The song is one of Nirvana’s most popular songs.

The music video for Tool’s Schism has important X imagery. The X is even shown behind the main character in the music video, evoking crucifixion imagery. The music video begins with a cruciform image with light emanating from it.

The symbol for tool is a crown with a cross on its right end (our left).

There is an interlude in the song Schism by Tool, “The poetry that comes from the squaring off between

And the circling is worth it, finding beauty in the dissonance.” In the music video there is juxtaposition between the X and circle imagery. An interpretation of the music video is, that the X and the circle represent Carl Jung’s concept of squaring the circle, which he felt was the goal of alchemy and represented finding the self.

https://diginterpretations.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/schism-by-tool/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATsrCNJhic4

Male and female forming a compass shape (left) compared to the alchemist’s concept of the squared circle (right) is represented above.

The image on the right shows Michaels concept of squaring the circle. In the image there are four forms. There is a circle, and a square circumscribing a circle. Circumscribing the square is a triangle. Finally circumscribing the triangle is another circle.

Ace of Base had a popular song called “I Saw the Sign”. The sign referred to in the title turns out to be the ankh cross in the music video. The ankh cross is a three plus one cross, with the fourth arm at the top being circular

https://boingboing.net/2015/10/19/ace-of-base-alleged-nazi-band.html

In the music video four ankhs are placed in quadrant formation. The ankhs create a 16 square quadrant model.

The Sign album, by Ace of Base, has a 16 square album cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Turn_Around#Tracklistings_.28Ace_of_Base_version.29

There are also four members in Ace of Base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Capo_(Ace_of_Base_album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(Ace_of_Base_album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favourite_Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ll5y2hZdCI

My Favourite Game, by the Cardigans, was a very popular song. The music video was also popular and very controversial. In the video, the lead singer, Nina Persson, goes on a joy ride with a rock on the accelerator. She causes a lot of havoc. At the end of the video she stands up and holds her arms out cruciform in a symbolic crucifixion. She is then hit by a car. The cross is a quadrant, and Persson makes the quadrant form. Also, at the beginning of the music video, there is a brief glimpse of a cross that the car passes.

Moreover there are four versions of the ending of the music video

In ending one, Persson's body goes flying into the air and over the van roof where she is then depicted as being dead on the road.

In ending three, she also flies over the van roof except she manages to pick herself up from the ground and walks away from the accident, and wipes the blood away from her face (this version is censored).

In ending two, she also flies over the van roof, except she tries to pick herself off the ground but is knocked out by the rock that was used to keep the car pedal down, cartoonishly.

In ending four, Persson is depicted being decapitated by the top of her car windscreen and a mannequin head is seen in the next shot, rolling along the road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-part_harmony

Four part harmony is music written for four voices or four musical instruments, or for some other musical medium, four musical instruments. The four voices are

soprano (or treble)

tenor

alto (contralto or countertenor)

bass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATB

https://books.google.com/books?id=FoRhWnsH6c4C&pg=PT8&lpg=PT8&dq=doremifasolatido+four&source=bl&ots=_9FJ_lMoJK&sig=AfhHIHvNtruGJbpwWbdw8xAvVN0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIu76PuvvXAhUT5WMKHXrxDXEQ6AEIXjAK#v=onepage&q=doremifasolatido%20four&f=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Harp

In Sacred Harp singing, a four syllable system called the fasola system is employed. The four syllables in the fasola system are given four shapes

Fa is a triangle

La is a square

So is a circle

Mi is a diamond

The four shape system is shown below

The singers in sacred harp groups organize themselves in the form of a quadrant

The seating arrangement of a sacred harp group has four parts. Sacred Harp groups sing acapella.

treble

tenor

alto

base

Most of the Sacred Harp songs are ordinary hymns composed in four bar phrases.

Dan Boyd identifies four regions of Sacred Harp music

eastern Texas (Cooper book)

south Alabama and Florida (Cooper book)

northern Mississippi (Denson book)

New Jersey (Cooper book)

Rappers talk a lot about 40 Ounces in their music. One example of a rapper who talks about 40 Ounces is Eazy E. He has a song “sippin on a 40”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GENYS35lB8

http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Rue%27s_Four_Note_Song

In the hunger games, Rue’s Mockingjay call is a four note motif.

Rage Against the Machine is a four member band who is very well known. One of their most influential songs was “Killing in the Name”. The hook of the song goes

https://genius.com/Rage-against-the-machine-killing-in-the-name-lyrics

[Verse 1]

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Rage’s fourth album has the album cover RAGE in quadrant formation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renegades_(Rage_Against_the_Machine_album)

The Album cover is a parody of Robert Indiana’s LOVE. Robert Indiana’s love is a highly influential work. In Indiana’s composition, the four letters of LOVE are in a quadrant formation.

The Big 4 of Britpop are

Blur

Pulp

Oasis

Suede

The Best of Blur album cover is a homage to the Beatles “Let it Be” album. The album cover is a quadrant

The tenth album of queen is a homage to the Beatles album cover Let it Be. The album cover is a quadrant, with the four members in each square.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Space

Bone Thugs n Harmony have a “Core Four” members. If there is a fifth member in an album by Bone Thugs, he appears on few tracks. The band is also a three plus one. In some albums Bone thugs only had three members. Also in most albums three members perform the most and the fourth members is a little bit different. The Art of War album cover features the four members in a quadrant formation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War_(Bone_Thugs-n-Harmony_album)

Bone Thugz have a song called Ready 4 war on the Art of War album.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha_Crossroads

Bone Thugs famous track, Cross Roads, features the four core members of Bone Thugs n Harmony in a quadrant formation

The four core members of Bone Thugs on their first album cover is portrayed below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_of_Death_(album)

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana uses a four note motif. Carmina Burana is used frequently in popular culture. For instance, the song is featured in many movies and tv shows, and is used by sports teams.

https://juniorcertmusica.weebly.com/carmina-burana.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Orff%27s_O_Fortuna_in_popular_culture

Nas uses the four note motif of Carmina Burana in his song “Hate Me Now”. Nas is also crucified in the song. Nas is also wearing a cross. A cross is a quadrant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKSJN3WWR3E

http://beginningandend.com/god-entertainers-today/nas-on-cross-hate-me-now/

Onyx is a famous rap group. The X in Onyx is usually painted red. The x is the quadrant. Onyx has four members. The album cover of Bacdafucup has the four members in quadrant formation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacdafucup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ADgCeYJMN4

Slam is a famous song from the Bacdafucup album.

Wu Tang Clan’s first album was titled Enter the Wu Tang- 36 Chambers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_the_Wu-Tang_(36_Chambers)

There are nine members of the wu tang clan. Each of the nine members has four chambers in his heart. Therefore, there are 36 chambers all together.

Liquid Swords is a classic album by the American Wu Tang Clan member Gza. Probably the most popular song from the album is “the 4th chamber”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Diagrams

Old Dirty Bastard has a song called “The 16th Chamber’. There are 16 squares in the quadrant model.

The Roland keypad has 16 keys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808

The Akai S1000 has 16 pads in a four by four quadrant model arrangement. It also features 16 voices.

Akai S1000 (1988)

Emulator III (1987)

The emulator stereo is a 16 bit sampler with 16 note polyphony. There are 16 squares in the quadrant model. It has a 16 channel sequencer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampler_(musical_instrument)

The Akai MPC60 has four by four pads. The four by four is a quadrant model. The four by four is one of the most popular types of drum machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampler_(musical_instrument)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-505

The Roland TR-505 has sixteen pattern keys in an eight by eight.

Jay Z has a song called 44 4s where he says variations of four 44 times. Jay Z is called Hova. Hova is a play on the word J-Hova, which is the tetragrammaton. Jay Z has a song that has a hook, h to the izzo v to the izza. Pop 4 Rock is a song in Volume 3, Life and Times of Sean Carter. The four is the quadrant. Jay Z wears a cross on the album cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_Doubt_(album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol._3..._Life_and_Times_of_S._Carter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come_(Jay-Z_album)

The symbol for Jay Z’s Magna Carter Holy Grail is a quadrant.

https://ahealthymedium.com/2013/08/04/album-review-magna-carta-holy-grail-by-jay-z/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4:44_(album)

4:44 is Jay Z’s most recent album. Jay Z said that he woke up one morning and it was 4:44. The title track of the album lasts four minutes 44 seconds.

Jay Z said

"'4:44' is a song that I wrote, and it's the crux of the album, just right in the middle of the album. And I woke up, literally, at 4:44 in the morning, 4:44 AM, to write this song. So it became the title of the album and everything. It's the title track because it's such a powerful song, and I just believe one of the best songs I've ever written."

http://www.complex.com/music/2017/06/what-does-jay-z-444-mean

Jay Z’s wife is beyonce. Beyonce’s fourth album was titled 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_(Beyoncé_album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beyoncé_-_4.png

Beyonce had an MTV television special, Beyoncé: Year of 4.

Beyonce said that a part of the reason why she named the album four is her birthday is on the fourth. She said that her mother’s birthday is on the fourth, and Jay-Z’s birthday is on the fourth, so four is special to her. Beyonce had a Live at Roseland: Elements of 4 concert series. She had four performances during the concert. She picked the date of the concert "On April 4, 2008—eight divided by two is four—[Jay Z] put a ring on it."

Jay Z and Beyonce also got tattoos of the Roman numeral IV after their birthdays. They named their child Blue Ivy. The IV in Ivy is four. Blue also has four letters.

Jay Z said "There’s something spiritual to me about it being my 44th birthday and the serendipity behind the number of days in this challenge; 22 (2+2=4) coupled with the fact that the challenge ends on Christmas day…It just feels right!"

On Beyonce’s Formation album cover, Beyonce is in a cruciform position.

http://msmagazine.com/blog/2011/05/20/beyonce-girls-run-the-world-cue-the-apocalypse/

There are girls in crucifixion style in Beyonce’s video “Who Runs the World”.

http://www.conspirazzi.com/beyonce-runs-the-world-part-2/

https://illuminatiwatcher.com/beyonces-lemonade-illuminati-symbolism-analysis/

Beyonce wears an ankh in “Lemonade”. An ankh is a cross.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/beyonce-releases-sexy-crucifixion-picture-in-bid-to-sell-new-album-4/news-story/4b3a6736c36e4e03b631a4235cdb8e07?sv=850aecaf7ae1720b0b5099dd1cefb198

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_conscioussociopol68.htm

Amber Rose with an upside down cross on her forehead is pictured above.

The Who has an album called Quadrophenia. Quadrophenia is a play on the word schizophrenia. The character that the album is built around is named Jimmy, and Jimmy has a four way split personality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia

In the album Townshend wrote four themes around the four members of the Who. The four themes reflect the four way split personality of Jimmy.

"Bell Boy" (Moon)

"Helpless Dancer" (Daltrey)

"Is It Me?" (Entwistle)

"Love Reign O'er Me" (Townshend)

There are four sides on the cd.

There is a song called “Three Wooden Crosses” by Randy Travis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Wooden_Crosses

The song has four characters. The four characters die in an accident. The question Travis raises in the song, is “why is there three crosses and not four”. In the hook of the song, Travis asks why there is not the fourth. The fourth is always different.

The four characters in the song are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Wooden_Crosses

a farmer on vacation

a hooker

a teacher seeking higher education

a preacher

A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher

Ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico

One's headed for vacation, one for higher education

An' two of them were searchin' for lost souls

That driver never ever saw the stop sign

An' eighteen wheelers can't stop on a dime

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway

Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows

I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you

It's what you leave behind you when you go

That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres

The faith an' love for growin' things in his young son's heart

An' that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children

Did her best to give 'em all a better start

An' that preacher whispered: "Can't you see the Promised Land?"

As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's hand

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway

Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows

I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you

It's what you leave behind you when you go

That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday

As he held that blood-stained bible up

For all of us to see

He said: "Bless the farmer, and the teacher, an' the preacher

"Who gave this Bible to my mamma

"Who read it to me"

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway

Why there's not four of them, now I guess we know

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you

It's what you leave behind you when you go

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway

The Beastie Boys had an “honorary” fourth member, John Berry. The beastie boys originally started with four members. They were originally a four piece hardcore punk group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCs_MdUEGMM

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/original-beastie-boys-member-john-berry-dead-at-52-20160519

Michael "Mike D" Diamond

(vocals)

Kate Schellenbach (drums)

Adam "MCA" Yauch

(bass)

John Berry (guitar)

The band ended up becoming three members MCA, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, and michael Diamond “Mike D”

http://members.tripod.com/~A_Elvina/child/

Destiny’s Child originally had four members, but became a threesome. The fourth is always different.

Beyoncè

LaTavia

Kelly

LeToya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Supremes

The Supremes were originally a foursome, and they were first called the Primettes. The fourth member left.

Florence Ballard

Diana Ross

Mary Wilson

Betty McGlown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_The_Supremes

The early recordings on the Supremes first album have Betty McGlown. Martin left to start a family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydn_and_Mozart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydn_Quartets_(Mozart)

Haydn was a contemporary and friend of Mozart. Haydn was called the Father of the String Quartet. Mozart dedicated six quartets to Haydn. The quartets are known as the Haydn quartets. Haydn developed the string quartet and inspired Mozart’s use of the string quartet. The standard structure of a string quartet is four movements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn

Haydn is known as the Father of the Symphony and the Father of the quartet. Haydn popularized the four part symphony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No._14_(Mozart)

A string quartet has four string players. The first two violins are the duality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_quartet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ensemble_layout_-_string_quartet.png

The four movements of a string quartet in the classical era are

First movement: Sonata form, Allegro, in the tonic key;

Third movement: Minuet and Trio, in the tonic key;

Second movement: Slow, in a related key;

Fourth movement: Rondo form or Sonata rondo form, in the tonic key.

The art of the fugue is an incomplete fugue by Bach. Many scholars have argued that the piece was meant to be a quadruple fugue.

http://www.flagmusic.com/aof.php?r=aof_i_xiv

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Art_of_Fugue

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/BACH_motif

The cruciform melody was used by Bach. Bach used the cruciform melody in relation to Christ.

Bach used a famous four note motif called the Bach motif.

The XX band performs with two Xs on stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_xx

The debut album of xx has an X album cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xx_(album)

The coexist album cover for XX is also an X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coexist_(album)

The I see you album cover of XX is also an X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_See_You_(The_xx_album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scars_of_the_Crucifix

Scars of the Crucifix is an album by Deicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Blood

Scars of the crucifix is a song on Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_(band)

Justice performs with a cross on the stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_(band)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cross_the_Universe_(film)

A Cross the Universe is a documentary film on the music duo Justice. The cover has a cross in the T on Justice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.A.N.C.E.

A cross is shown on the T in Justice on their dance cover.

Justice’s second album Audio, Video, Disco has a cross on the cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio,_Video,_Disco

Justice’s third album, Woman, has a cross on the cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_(Justice_album)

Justice’s video for Stress features a lot of men wearing crosses on their jackets. The men are causing havoc and chaos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWaWsgBbFsA

Careless Whisper was a song by George Michaels. The song has an infectious, irresistable tune. The tune for Careless Whisper is a three plus one foundation. The first three phrases are descending lines spelling out chords using similar rhythms. The fourth phrase is an ascending line running up a scale.

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2016/careless-whisper/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_Sax_Man

Sexy Sax man is a Mexican saxophonist who became a viral YouTube sensation when he recorded a prank video called Sexy Sax man. During the video he plays George Michael’s Careless Whisper in shopping malls and university classes and other public areas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws

The Red Hot Chili Peppers logo is a double cross

There are four members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. On the album cover Mother’s Milk the four members are being held by a woman representing a breastfeeding mother.

The four members of Red Hot Chili Peppers are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Milk

Anthony Kiedis

Josh Klinghoffer

Chad Smith

Flea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Sugar_Sex_Magik

The album cover for Blood Sugar Sex Magic, by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, shows the four members faces around a rose in a quadrant formation.

In 2004 the music industry was dominated by the Big 4 companies. The big four were

Universal Music Group—25.5%

EMI Group—13.4%

Sony BMG Music Entertainment—21.5%

Warner Music Group—11.3%

In 2011 the Big Four controlled 88 percent of the market.

EMI (9.62%)

SME (29.29%)

WMG (19.13%)

UMG (29.85%)

16 bar blues is a variation of the 12 bar progression of 12 bar blues. 12 bar blues structure is a four by three. 16 bar blues structure is a four by four, adding the transcendent fourth quadrant.

One variation extends the first section, IIII, to the second section, repeating the IIII.

Another variation of 12 bar blues to 16 bar blues looks like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen-bar_blues

Another variation of the twelve bar blues to the 16 bar blues that occurs is the repetition of the second section IVIVII

Another variation of the 12 bar blues is shown below

A final variation of the twelve bar blues is shown below. Notice the 16 squares quadrant model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen-bar_blues

Four is a 1957 Jazz Standard by Miles Davis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_(composition)

Foreign has an album called Four. The cover resembles a quadrant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_(Foreigner_album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Foreigner_-_4.jpg

Black Sabbath has an album titled Vol. 4. The album is Black Sabbath’s fourth studio album.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol._4_(Black_Sabbath_album)

Zayn has a song called BeFoUr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EaPxw5exts

Zayn has a famous song called “I Don’t Want to Live Forever”. In the song Zayn mentions “four walls” in the first line.

https://genius.com/Zayn-and-taylor-swift-i-dont-wanna-live-forever-lyrics

Been sitting eyes wide open behind these four walls, hoping you'd call

It's just a cruel existence like it's no point hoping at all

The intro to Getto Boyz famous song “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” mentions four cornered room. The lyrics go

https://genius.com/Geto-boys-mind-playing-tricks-on-me-lyrics

I sit alone in my four-cornered room

Starin' at candles

Oh, that shit is on?

Let me drop some shit like this here, real smooth

In Beanie Sigel's highly acclaimed song “Feel it in the Air”, Sigel recycles Scarface’s lyric "I sit alone in my four cornered room".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Playing_Tricks_on_Me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol._4_(Black_Sabbath_album)

https://revolt.tv/stories/2017/02/23/statue-kanye-west-crucified-hollywood-blvd-0700185210

A golden statue of a cruciform Kanye West in hollywood is shown above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicy_Fruit_(album)

Biggie uses the song Juicy Fruit from Mtume’s album Juicy fruit on his celebrated song “Juicy”. In the movie Notorious, Biggie is handed the Juicy album cover, with the four members, and he is encouraged to sample their song. Biggie is at first hesitant, but he is told that it will help him to become mainstream to use the sample.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZom_gVfuw

The Tupac hologram at the Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre concert wears a cross. He begins the song with “God sent his begotten son”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGbrFmPBV0Y

The Firm was a hip hop supergroup. The four members on the cover are Nas, AZ, Foxy Brown, and Cormega.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xRmrOLFjqo

A famous song from the album is Affirmative Action. The song begins with an intro warning about the “four devils”, Lust, Envy, Hate, and Jealousy.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nas/affirmativeaction.html

Non Phixion has a song “The Four W’s”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJnq12dbdSs

The four members of Non Phixion are

Sabac Red

Goretex

DJ Eclipse

Ill Bill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_Phixion

https://www.amazon.com/Green-Non-Phixion/dp/B0001WJNC8

Non Phixion’s The Green CD shows four soldiers on the cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up%3F_(song)

4 Non Blondes is a famous music group.

112 is a famous group. 112 has four members. On the cover of their hit song, the 1 and the 2 sort of form a cross.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaches_%26_Cream_(112_song)

The Cha Cha Slide is a popular song by DJ Casper. One of the moves is the criss cross.

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/survival-skills/the-4-deadly-poisonous-snakes-in-america/

Slide to the left

Slide to the right

Criss cross, criss cross

Cha cha real smooth

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/boyz-ii-men-fourth-member_n_6071200.html

Boyz II Men has an estranged fourth member. Boyz II Men was originally four members. Since 2003 Boyz II Men has been three members. The fourth is always different.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/boyz-ii-men-fourth-member_n_6071200.html

Nathan Morris

Shawn Stockman

Wanya Morris

Michael McCary

https://genius.com/Dr-dre-nuthin-but-a-g-thang-lyrics

Nuthin But a G Thang was a famous song by Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. The song starts with Snoop Dogg counting to 4.

[Verse 1: Snoop Dogg]

One, two, three and to the four

Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the door

Eazy E had a Popular song called switches. The song begins with Eazy E counting to four

https://genius.com/Eazy-e-switchez-lyrics

1,2,3, and to the 4 Eazy muthafuckin' E With the chrome to your dome Cruisin' in my '64 rag top I got a lot of juice A lot of fuckin' block

https://genius.com/albums/21-savage/Issa-album

21 Savage named his album ISSA. ISSA is four letters. The slang word issa emerged when 21 Savage was on a VladTV interview, and Vlad asked him why he had a cross on his forehead. A cross is a quadrant. 21 Savage responded “Issa knife”. 21 Savage’s response went viral on the internet. 21 Savage’s Savage Mode album cover featured a knife on it. The knife is cruciform, resembling a cross.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Mode

21 Savage also has a popular song called X. The X stands for his x girlfriend. An X is a quadrant.

Ja Rule’s first album was titled “Venni Vetti Vicci”. Venni Vetti Vicci means, I came I saw I Conquered. On the album cover Ja Rule is praying in front of a cruciform statue of Jesus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venni_Vetti_Vecci

Ja Rule’s name is a reference to the tetragrammaton. Ja is a reference to the tetragrammaton. The tetragrammaton is the four letter name. Ja Rule was raised a J-hova witness. The J-hova witnesses believe that the four letter tetragrammaton name is very important, and that the name should be used. The artist name that he adopted for himself references the tetragrammaton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_(Ja_Rule_album)

On the Last Temptation album, Ja Rule shows off two cross tattoos on his back. The e in Rule and the A in Ja also have crosses intersecting them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_It_How_U_Live!

The Hot Boys was a popular rap group quartet. Lil Wayne was a member of the Hot Boys. The Hot Boys were famous for their song Bling Bling. In the song they coined and popularized the word bling, and bling would later become a dictionary word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_%27Em_Burn

Four physical processes are involved in producing vocal sound

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing

Respiration Breath is taken

Resonation The vocal resonators receive the sound and influence it

Phonation Sound is initiated in the larynx

Articulation The articulators shape the sound into recognizable units

In singing there are four stages of breathing when singing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_pedagogy

breathing-in period (inhalation)

controlled exhalation period (phonation)

setting up controls period (suspension)

recovery period

A theme in Mozart’s Opera, “Magic Flute” is the four elements. The magic flute is created by the confluence of the four elements

it was produced on a rainy night (water)

and the flash of lightening (fire)

to the noise of thunder (earth)

and was designed to work using man’s breath (air)

Tamino, in the opera, passes through four tests of the Masonic journey.

https://sfopera.com/discover-opera/1516-season/the-magic-flute/the-magic-flute-program-articles/magic-flute-the-masonic-opera/

The test by Earth happens in the Cabinet of Reflection.

Test of Water

The test by Air is represented by the temptations of human life when food is provided by the three boys to Tamino and when Pamina tries to get Tamino to break his vow of silence

Test of Fire

The Magic Flute assists Tamino on four occasions

http://users.skynet.be/lotus/art/mozart0-en.htm

The first time to call Pamina. He will get no response for the access to light is not a question of desire, even sublimated;

The third time to call Pamina at the beginning of the initiation. This time, she comes, but she gets no response, for only silence gives access to mysteries. Etymologically, mystery means total silence.

The second time to show his joy, charm the surrounding beings and testify the power of the divine breath;

The last time to prepare himself for the fire and water tests, to confront himself with opposites, to surpass them and attain the unity, source of the only true light, the divine light.

http://users.skynet.be/lotus/art/mozart0-en.htm

The Smashing Pumpkins had a logo called the Smashing Pumpkins cross.

http://www.theraydiantlabyrinth.com/index.php/music/sp-cross/

It is thought that Dillon Kleiborn of the Columbine shooting drew the Smashing Pumpkins cross.

https://3rdshooter.tumblr.com/post/149269946745

Marilyn Manson adopted the gun crucifix as a logo. Manson has an album called Holy Wood. The Holy Wood refers to the cross.

http://www.nachtkabarett.com/LogosAndSymbology/GunCrucifix

Marilyn Manson uses a lot of crucifix imagery. In Coma White he is crucified.

'The Love Song' ; Manson on the 2000-2001 'Guns, God & Government' tour in Moscow assuming the role of Nuremberg-esque rally for our society today where violence is religion and where fame & death on camera is better than life itself.

Manson depicts himself as a mechanical Christ, with a television crucifix, in a music video.

http://www.nachtkabarett.com/theThirdAndFinalBeast/MechanicalChrist

Marilyn Manson divides his Holy Wood album into four sections, based around the four letters in Adam, of Adam Kadmon. Adam Kadmon is the kabbalistic term in reference to Adam in the garden of Eden. According to Kabbalists, there were four gardens of Eden in the four worlds.

Manson mentions four Horai in the Holy Wood album. The four Horai were the Greek Goddesses of the Seasons and time. They are

http://www.nachtkabarett.com/AlchemyAndKabbalah/AdamKadmon

ANATOLE - The hour of the sunrise

ARKTOS - The hour of the last light

DYSIS - The hour of the sunset

MESEMBRIA - The hour of noon

"The four were greeted by the twelve circling Horai, daughters of Khronos, tripling round the fiery throne of the untiring Charioteer in a ring, servants of Helios that attend on his shining car, priestesses of the lichtgang each in her turn: for they bend the servile neck to the ancient manager o the universe."

The Greek Epic "Nonnus, Dionysiaca", circa 5th Century, AD.

Manson also uses the cross of Lorraine as a symbol.

“Eat Me, Drink Me' album cover with the hidden symbolism of the double cross

Below is Manson crucified on the album cover Holy Wood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Wood_(In_the_Shadow_of_the_Valley_of_Death)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0304

Jewel has an album cover called 0304. Many thought that the 3 signified the letter C, because C is the third letter of the alphabet, and 4 signified D. Jewel, when asked about the title, said that whoever had the best interpretation, she would go with that as the meaning. I say that the 3 and 4 symbolize the dynamic between the number three and four which is the fundamental structure of reality.

There is cruciform imagery in Madonna’s Confessions on the Dance Floor.

http://www.godweb.org/images3/madonnacru.jpg

http://www.godweb.org/madonnacruci.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niggaz4Life

NWA had an album called Niggaz4Life. Only four members from NWA’s original lineup were on the album. There were images of the five members from NWA’s previous line up, and they would have the fifth member, Ice Cube, crossed off of them.

The cymatics of the sound of the augmented fourth “the chord of evil”, is a cross. The augmented fourth is used in police sirens. Cymatics is the shape that sound makes in sand when the sound is played.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSCH_motif

Dmitri Shostakovich used a four notes as a musical cryptogram of his name to represent himself. The notes were D, E flat, C, B natural.

Steve Reich has a composition called Tehillim. Tehillim is Hebrew for psalms. The work has four parts, and is scored for four women’s voices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehillim_(Reich)

The four parts of Tehillim are marked

fast

slow

fast

Tehillim is the setting of Psalms 19:2-5 (19:1-4 in Christian translations), 34:13-15 (34:12-14), 18:26-27 (18:25-26) and finally 150:4-6. The four parts of the Tehllim are based on these four texts of psalms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4′33″

4’33’ is a song by John Cage. It is Four minutes and 33 seconds of silence. The 4’33’ represents the three four interplay

Steve Reich has an orchestral musical work called Four Sections. The title Four Sections refers to the four sections of the orchestra and four harmonic sections dividing each movement. The four movements of the work are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Sections

Strings (with winds and brass) (♩ = 80)

Winds and brass (with strings) (♩ = 120)

Percussion (♩ = 80)

Full orchestra (♩ = 180)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Organs

Reich also has a work called four organs. The work employs four electronic organs and a maraca.

The Stooges have four members in their band. The members are

Iggy Pop (credited as "Iggy Stooge") – vocals

Ron Asheton – guitar, vocals

Dave Alexander – bass guitar

Scott Asheton – drums

The Ready to Die album cover has a quadrant crosshairs on Iggy Pop of the Stooges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_to_Die_(The_Stooges_album)

https://blackamericaweb.com/2013/10/25/original-tlc-member-crystal-jones-everybody-that-does-know-me-knows-i-can-sing/

TLC had an original fourth member Crystal Jones. The fourth is always different.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/brownsugaradio/2013/11/01/original-group-member-of-tlc-crystal-jones

Chilli

Pebbles

Tboz

Crystal

Men’s voices are divided into four groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics_IV

countertenor

baritone

tenor

bass

There are four main qualities of a human voice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_type

vocal range

timbre

tessitura

passaggio

There are four voice registers

whistle register

modal register

falsetto register

vocal fry register

Envelope generators control a sound's’ parameters. The ADSR parameter is the most common. The four parameters of the ADSR are

https://britcruise.com/2010/05/31/strategy-for-emotion-control-in-an-algorithmic-music-composition-engine/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesizer#Attack_Decay_Sustain_Release_.28ADSR.29_envelope

Attack time is the time taken for initial run-up of level from nil to peak, beginning when the key is first pressed.

Sustain level is the level during the main sequence of the sound's duration, until the key is released.

Decay time is the time taken for the subsequent run down from the attack level to the designated sustain level.

Release time is the time taken for the level to decay from the sustain level to zero after the key is released.

Major Tom is a famous song by Peter Schilling. The hook of the song says “4, 3, 2, 1”

https://genius.com/Peter-schilling-major-tom-lyrics

4, 3, 2, 1

Earth below us

Drifting, falling

Floating weightless

Calling, calling home...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephunk

The Black Eyed Peas are a three plus one band. There are three men and the woman.

will.i.am - vocals on all tracks except 11; backing vocals on track 11; Moog synthesizers on tracks 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13; drum programming on tracks 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10; clavinet on tracks 12 and 13; drums and piano on track 2; Wurlitzer electric piano on track 4; synthesizer on track 10; executive production; production; engineering on tracks 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 12 and 14; mixing on tracks 10 and 14

Taboo - vocals on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 13

apl.de.ap - vocals on tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12 and 13; drum programming and production on track 11

Fergie - vocals on all tracks except 6, 7 and 12

The Black Eyed Peas album cover for The Beginning is a quadrant.

Rappin 4 Tay has an album 4 the Hard Way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_tha_Hard_Way

Rappin 4 Tay has a song “Fight 4000” on his album “Don’t Fight the Feelin”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Fight_the_Feelin%27

E-40 has a 4 in his name. E-40 has an album called “Sharp on All 4 Corners”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_On_All_4_Corners:_Corner_1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappa_Ternt_Sanga

T Pain wears a cross on the album cover and there is a cross in the background.

On T Pain’s second album cover Epiphany, the T is represented by the cross chain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(T-Pain_album)

U2 has a song titled the tetragrammaton. There are four members of U2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh_(song)

In U2’s hit song “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”, Bono mentions the cross.

https://genius.com/U2-i-still-havent-found-what-im-looking-for-lyrics

You broke the bonds And you loosed the chains Carried the cross of my shame Oh my shame, you know I believe it https://genius.com/Lo-fidelity-allstars-battle-flag-lyrics

In Lo Fidelity All Star’s hit song “Battleflag”, the opening lines are “I said hallelujah to the 16 loyal fans”. There are 16 squares in the quadrant model and 16 fans. Hallelujah means “praise the tetragrammaton”.

The famous artist Cee Lo Green was a member of a group called Goodie Mob before he went solo. Goodie Mob had four members.

Big Gipp

T-Mo

Cee-Lo

Khujo

Goodie Mobb’s album cover Still Standing has a sort of quadrant formation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Against_the_Machine

The four members of Goodie Mob on the album cover of Age Against the Machine take on a quadrant formation and represent the four elements.

There are four members of the band Nappy Roots, although they were once a quintet. On Nappy Root’s album cover Wooden Leather, there is cross imagery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_Leather

40Akerz Project

They also have an album called 40 akerz project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400_Degreez

Juvenile had a 4X platinum album 400 Degreez.

Lil B is crucified on his Angelz Exodus album cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_Exodus

There is cross imagery at the beginning of the music video of Roxy Music’s, More Than This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOnde5c7OG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYF7H_fpc-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92FCRmggNqQ

Diabolus in Musica a.k.a. the augmented fourth expresses its musical geometry as a Maltese Cross.

James Furia discusses augmented 4ths, or the Diabolus in Musica.

James claims this was an “interesting find”.

James also adds that “it is horrible sounding … you’d drive somebody crazy with this”

Why is the augmented 4th considered the “chord of evil“, and why was it banned in Renaissance church music

The “chord of evil“ is successfully employed in emergency sirens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LJVO-FcxDio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_for_Four_Instruments

Composition for Four Instruments (1948) is an early serial music composition written by American composer Milton Babbitt.

The twelve-tone row upon which the entire composition is based is given by the composer as 0 4 1 11 3 2 : 8 6 5 10 7 9, and generates the four main trichords of the piece (Babbitt 1976, 12). It never once appears complete as a melodic succession, however (Dubiel 1990, 222), though several authors (Perle 1981, Cone 1967, Arnold and Hair 1976) have given different conflicting versions of a row claimed to be "made explicit only in the final section". While the set given by Babbitt concatenates the first trichords of all four instruments in the order of their entrances at the very beginning of the work, Perle's "basic set" from the end of the composition can be transformed into the composer's version "by wholesale inversion plus individual retrogression of the trichords" (Dubiel 1990, 252–53). The pitch array used in the first 35 bars of the piece is as follows (Dubiel 1990, 223):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Lord

George Harrison was a member of the Beatles. In his song, My Sweet Lord, he says chants hallelujah and Hare Krishna. He says the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra. The Hare Krishna mantra is said by Hindus to be Krishna, and the maha mantra is a four line quatrain and each line has four words, so it is a four by four, sixteen square quadrant model. Hallelujah means praise the tetragrammaton. Jah is short for the tetragrammaton.

Badfinger was a four member band. On the cover of the Maybe Tomorrow album, one of the members wears a cross.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybe_Tomorrow_(The_Iveys_album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Up_(Badfinger_album)

On the Badfinger “Straight Up” album cover, the four members are in a three plus one formation similar to the Beatles, With the Beatles cover.

There is a cross on the Badfinger Day After Day album cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_After_Day:_Live

32 Bar form has four sections

The thirty-two-bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alleysongs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th century.[2]

As its alternate name AABA implies, this song form consists of four sections: an eight-bar A section; a second eight-bar A section (which may have slight changes from the first A section); an eight-bar B section, often with contrasting harmony or "feel"; and a final eight-bar A section. The core melody line is generally retained in each A section, although variations may be added, particularly for the last A section.

Examples of 32-bar AABA form songs include "Over the Rainbow", "What'll I Do", "Make You Feel My Love",[2] "Blue Skies",[citation needed] and Willie Nelson's "Crazy".[3] Many show tunes that have become jazz standards are 32-bar song forms.

The 32-bar form was often used in rock in the 1950s and '60s, after which verse–chorus form became more prevalent. Examples include:

George Gershwin "I Got Rhythm" (1930)[7]

Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" (1957)[7]

The Everly Brothers' "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (1958)[7]

The Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (1960)[7]

The Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl" (1963)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Wish_Upon_a_Star

When You Wish Upon a Star has a four section AABA form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitrack_recording

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_to_Hold_Your_Hand

I Want to Hold Your Hand was the first beatles record to be made using four track equipment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolish_Little_Girl

The four Shirelles on an album cover is shown above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)

MacArthur’s Park is a four movement song. I had a lot of rap music that I wrote but it was lost, so in college when I heard the song MacArthur’s Park I cried, because the green cake that was destroyed and he would “never get the recipe again” reminded me of the raps I wrote.

The idea to write and compose a classically structured song with several movements that could be played on the radio came from a challenge by music producer Bones Howe, who produced recordings for The Association.[4] The song begins as a poem about love, then moves into a lover's lament. The song consists of four sections or movements: A mid-tempo introduction and opening section, called "In the Park" in the original session notes,[6] is built around piano and harpsichord, with horns and orchestra added. This arrangement accompanies the song's main verses and choruses. A slow tempo and quiet section follows, called "After the Loves of My Life."[6] An up-tempo instrumental section, called "Allegro,"[6] is led by drums and percussion, punctuated by horn riffs, and builds to an orchestral climax. A mid-tempo reprise of the first section, concludes with the final choruses and climax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixies

The Pixies have a famous song “Where is my Mind”. The song was in the movie fight club. The Pixies has four members.

There is a lot of cross imagery in The Weeknd’s music videos.

https://revolt.tv/stories/2017/03/13/uncovering-clues-tie-weeknds-starboy-videos-0700d17259

Above is a cross from the Weeknd’s music video Star Boy.

Above is a cross from the Weeknd’s music video Party Monster.

Above is the cross from the Weeknd’s I Feel it Coming music video.

https://revolt.tv/stories/2017/03/13/uncovering-clues-tie-weeknds-starboy-videos-0700d17259

There’s a four in the name of the 504 Boyz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/504_Boyz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_5oYU-IsU

Big Shaq’s viral Man’s Not Hot video begins with “two plus two is four minus one that’s three quick maths.” The line is about the three, four interplay that is integral to the quadrant model pattern.

In Futurama there is an area in space called the Bermuda tetrahedron. Tetra is four.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron

There is depictions of tetrahedrons in M83’s music video Wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAwYodrBr2Q

https://books.google.com/books?id=CH0HDAAAQBAJ&pg=PR7&lpg=PR7&dq=michael+jackson+crucifixion+pose&source=bl&ots=z21NKrWMr7&sig=EOcXL5zLteJCVC43RfooKSnDCdI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikr8mUlevYAhVM2GMKHeLZAmYQ6AEIQjAH#v=onepage&q=crucifixion%20pose&f=false

Michael Jackson did cruciform poses in Ghosts and Earth Song.

The album cover for Mudvayne’s The End of All Things to Come is a tetrahedron. Tetra is four.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAwYodrBr2Q

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_(Bloc_Party_album)

Bloc Party has an album named Four. The cover shows four lines of four colors. There are four members in the band.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(Handel)

In Handel’s Messiah there is a lot of repetition of hallelujah. Hallelujah means praise the tetragrammaton. The song is marked by its hallelujah chorus. A custom emerged to stand during the hallelujah chorus. The custom of standing during the hallelujah chorus is said to have originated when King George stood during the chorus, but some dispute this claim. Regardless, there is a tradition to stand during the chorus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xxplosive

Xxplosive was a popular song by Doctor Dre. The song featured Kurupt, Hittman, and Six-Two. There is a repetition of X in the title. The x is the quadrant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X_Factor_(album)

Iron Maiden had an album called the X Factor. An X is a quadrant. On the back cover there is a giant X.

ZZ top has an album XXX. The three X’s are quadrants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX_(ZZ_Top_album)

On Master P’s MP the Last Don, Master P carries a crucifix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP_da_Last_Don

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DeAndre_Way

Soulja Boy wore a cross earing in an album cover.

Meak Mills has an EP called 4/4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4/4_(EP_series)

The Big 4 Thrash Metal Bands are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slayer

Slayer

Megadeath

Metallica

Anthrax

The slayer album cover Diabolus Musica has a cross on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slayer-GodHatesUsAll-WhiteSleeve.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_for_Life_(album)

D4L was a popular rap group quartet. They had a popular song Laffy Taffy. D4L stands for Down for Life.

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