Neighbors

The year of 2016 J. Cole a widely know American rapper released his fourth studio album entitled ¨ 4 Your Eyez Only¨ with a featured song Neighbors. In this song he is speaking about how prevalent racial profiling is even though it occurs more in certain areas then others. Which in turn inspired the song Neighbors specifically from a personal experience he had. During his time in Brooklyn for a tour he rented out a home that was raided by a SWAT team on the assumption, allegedly made by his ¨ wealthy white neighbors¨, that there were drugs being sold on the premises¨.  In reference to where he states in his song,

¨ So much for integration, don´t know what I was thinkin´ I´m  movin´ back to southside¨. 

The closing verse he uses would be the most striking line when he says,

¨ Black in a White man territory
Cops bust in with the army guns
No evidence of harm we done
Just a couple neighbors that assume we slang
Only time they see us we be on the news, in chains, damn¨.

Similar to what is stated in ¨  What is Poetry¨ , ¨ people have always been more successful at appreciating poetry than at defining it¨. In what J. Cole was doing with this song it can be seen as poetry because it can be appreciated through the fact that it is addressing a global issue that many races of people face though specifically African Americans regardless of social classes. Then it can be appreciated by those whom have been or currently experiencing the same situation.