this is a podcast done by myself and Ashton Brown on Trever Noah’s, Born a Crime. where we talked about the different elements in the book things we liked and things we thought weren’t as good as they could have been.

In Trever Noah’s book born a crime he speaks of his hardships living through apartheid and after. The songs that I thought related best to the book were Potholes by Tyler the creator, The world is yours by Nas, PRIDE by Kendrick Lamar, and Take Me to Church by Hozier. The first song Potholes is a song about having people that “ain’t my right hand” and that he only trusted his mom and an elder white man. Like Trever with his mom being one of the few that he trusted along with his biological father who was a white man, his mother said that she did not trust the boys he was hanging out with in the hood and thought they were no good. another part of the story is “Now do I stay? Do I go? Thats my dilemma” with Trever moving out and then his mom getting shot I see this line being something that Trever would have thought to himself. The second song, The World is Yours is a song that relates to Trever’s younger life where his mom never thought him that he was any different from anyone else or that “the world is yours” although the song has a long and repetitive chorus  I feel that with the amount of times that his mom told him that he could do anything  would be close to the amount that the song says “The World is yours.” The third song and my favorite is PRIDE. And in the first verse he says, “Loves goanna get you killed but pride’s goanna be the death of you, and you, and me.” By saying this he nods to the fact that if too prideful you could die due to it. I feal that is a great quote for Trever’s mom because she said that her having the third kid was a gift from God showing how prideful in her faith she is and did in fact get her shot and almost killed. The last song is Take Me to Church, is a song that speaks to Trever, his relationship with church and how he always is getting in bickering matches with his mom over church. In one of the first lines, he says, “If the heavens ever did speak, She’s the last true mouthpiece.” My interpretation of this was that Trever thought of his mom as this saint when he was younger and went to three different churches every Sunday. But i think she was trying to atone for what she did in her early years.