"Party In The Rain" Eve, 2002

Instrumentation: Trumpet, piano, drum syth pad, more beat mixer-claps, beat boxing. breathing, Eve's vocals, and female and male chorus. The beat mixer adds the running beat that defines the songs rhythm. The chorus parts sung by females adds a new vocal range that eve does not hit in her alto speech. The back up singers hit the high notes that rap songs do not usually cover, and that eve herself does not hit. The men and women choral singers add embellishment with their ohhs and ahhs. As a rapper, Eve has real control and speed in this song. eve has agency in this song since she composed it, and as a woman she has greater power because women were so often limited in this musical genre. Male voices only enter the song at 3:10 when men begin giving orders to the audience-get on the floor, clap. The multiple voices are overlapped and muted a little and add a harsher tone to the song.

Texture: I felt like this song has a more polyphonic feel. With the beat mixer that ran with and without the vocals there was a whole new line of music. This song was fairly thick with all the differing instruments and embellishments.

Lyrics and Performance: I definitely admire Eve for her success as a female rap artist in a male dominated field. The lyrics in this song are very powerful. Eve has this attitude that resembles, "I will do what I want, and if you dont like it, Screw you" She is not scared of critique and believes in the power of her music.