People make Mistakes

Do you think it is it necessary to make mistakes to become a better person?

First and for most everyone makes mistakes and will continue to make mistakes. I don't think that it is necessary to make mistakes to become a better person. I do however find it very important to learn from your mistakes to become a better person. If you go through life repeating your mistakes then what good is that to you. It is essential to learn from the mistakes you make so you wont repeat them. There is a old saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" simpling meaning if you don't learn from what you did wrong then it is your own fault. If you learn from what you did wrong you wont repeat these wrongs and can become a better person. Many people don't learn from their mistakes, and continue to make the same ones time after time. How can you better yourself if continue to commit the same ones repeatedly. After all that's part of growing up, making oneself better. I am not saying that as you grow older you don't make mistakes. I am saying that as you grow older you learn from the mistakes that you are destine to make, and make yourself better because of them. Some of the greats things happen by mistakes, Christopher Columbus was looking for a trade route to China and made the mistake of accidentally bumping into America. There is a lesson in every mistake. When you make a mistake, it is important that you accept it, and learn from it. It is when you refuses to accept that you have made a bad decision and prolong it, that a mistake becomes hurtful. It is also hurtful when you make these mistakes and refuses to learn from them. After you make a mistake the first thing you should do is define the problem or mistake clearly, and ask yourself what you can do to solve so you wont repeat it. You want to use your mistakes to your advantage. It is not the mistakes that you make but how you learn and react to them. No one is perfect, so learn from your mistakes and you learn to minimize them.

I make mistakes, I learn from everyone And when its said and done I bet this Brotha be a better one~Tupac Shakur

Videos

This is the official video for Jay-z's lost one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5giXBzAv3NA


This is a video I made. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfyVZOYa_oY

The Hook

• Left one, lose some to win some (You lost one) Story of a champion, sorry I'm a champion You lost one

In this whole song Jay-z is rapping about all the bad things that happen to him in 2006. Three to be particular his split with Dame Dash, his relationship with Beyoncé Knowles, and the death of his nephew Colleek. So by saying lose some to win some he is saying by going through these things they are going to make him a better man. He is not going to dwell on the past, but look to the future. People say that a champion (sport team) learns from every game they lose. Jay is saying that he is a champion. Jay is saying I make mistakes but i learn from every one, and because of this i am better then i was before i made them

Personal Experiences

• Does he (Jay-z) bring his personal experiences into a lot of his songs?

• Yes Jay-z dose bring a lot of his own experience in to his music. That is what most of his songs are about. Either his past experience, or what he is going thought at the present time. I think this is one of the reasons that he is considered to be one of the best rappers of all time. Yes he is the top grossing rapper of all, and is in the top three in records sells. To me what sets him apart from other rappers is how he speaks from the heart. He dose not go out there and talk about just sex, drugs, and violence. He dose incorporate these things in his music but you also get more then just that. You get it in a different form then most mainstream rapers deliver it in.

Thrid Stanza

My nephew died in the car I bought
So I'm under the belief it's partly my fault
Close my eyes and squeeze, try to block that thought
Place any burden on me, but please, not that lord
Time don't go back, it go forward
Can't run from the pain, go towards it
Some things can't be explained, what caused it?
Such a beautiful soul, so pure, shit
Gonna see you again, I'm sure of it
'til that time, little man I'm nauseous
Your girlfriend's pregnant, the lord's gift
Almost lost my faith, that restored it
It's like having your life restarted
Can't wait for your child's life, to be a part of it
So now I'm child-like, waiting for a gift
To return, when I lost you, I lost it
Lose one, let go to get one

The first part of the stanza is about the death of Jay-z nephew Colleek , who died in a car accident in a car that Jay-z bought him for a graduation present.

"So I'm under the belief it's partly my fault" Jay is saying that he feel bad that it happen and in some way it is he fault that it did happen.

"Some things can't be explained, what caused it?" Jay is saying no one know why it happen, shit just happens.

"Such a beautiful soul, so pure, shit Gonna see you again, I'm sure of it" Jay is saying that Colleek was a great kid and he is going to see him again( in Heaven).

"Your girlfriend's pregnant, the lord's gift" Jay is saying after Colleek died he was sad then he found out that his Colleek's girlfriend was pregnant. He says its the lords gift because he lost his nephew but in a way he will "still have part of him here. Almost lost my faith, that restored it It's like having your life restarted" Jay is saying he almost lost his faith in God but after finding out the news he regained it. By having his nephew's child it is like stilling having a piece of him here. "Can't wait for your child's life, to be a part of it So now I'm child-like, waiting for a gift" Jay is saying that he cant wait to have the kid that it just like he is having a baby himself. Jay dose not have any kids but he has a lot of nephews and nieces that he treats like his own. I think by saying all this Jay is getting a lot of his chest. He had a hard time dealing with the death and by rapping about it the accident it really helped him deal with the whole thing.

Reply to comments

• Is jay-z saying Beyonce lost him that he has moved on? And that he can't wait for her? And what do u think he means by that now he is a champion?

• I don't think Jay-z is saying he moved on. I think he is trying to say that he has to let her be her at this stage in her life. When two celebrities data they often has different schedules. Most celebrities have schedules that keep them away from their families. So two celebrities have an even harder time. By say he is a champion i think he is saying even thought the would song is about loosing he is still a winner, because he understand you cant win them all.

• Do you think he lost in faith that she would marry him, or that he always new they eventually would?

• I do think that Jay-z always knew that they would get married. He is not trying to say that they are broke up or anything like that. He is simple saying that because she is so focused on her work that they cant really be together like the were at one point in time.

Audio Clip

Second Analysis

I don't think it's meant to be, be
But she loves her work more than she does me
And honestly, at twenty-three
I would probably love my work more than I did she
So we, ain't we
It's me, and her

'Cause what she prefers over me, is work
And that's, where we, differ
So I have to give her
Free, time, even if it hurts
So breathe, mami, it's deserved
You've been put on this earth to be
All you can be, like the reserves
And me? My time in the army, it's served
So I have to allow she, her, time to serve
The time's now for her
In time she'll mature
And maybe we, can be, we, again like we were
Finally, my time's too short to share
And to ask her now, it ain't fair
So yeah, she lost one
Lose one, let go to get one
Left one, lose some to win some (Oh yeah, she lost one)
Story of a champion, sorry I'm a champion
You lost one

The second stanza is all aboutJay-z relationship with Beyoncé Knowles. He is trying to say that he wants to asks her to marry him but he don't think she will say yes. Jay-z is almost 40 and Beyonce is 23 so there is an age difference. Jay is saying that she is focused on her work and not their relationship. That's not a bad thing because when Jay was 23 he was the same way. "So we, ain't we It's me, and her' Cause what she prefers over me, is work And that's, where we, differ" means that he want to be with her but he cant because she like to work and make money. "So I have to give her Free, time, even if it hurts So breathe, mami, it's deserved" means that he understands that he has to let her do want she wants even if its not what he wants. In the lines "You've been put on this earth to be All you can be, like the reserves And me? My time in the army, it's served So I have to allow she, her, time to serve The time's now for her In time she'll mature" Jay is trying to say that she needs to do what she want when she is young just like he did. He already did his time soon she will, and then they can be together. Finaly Jay says that it would not be far to her to ask her to marry him. This song came out two years before they got married.