2Faces - Phora textual analysis

The number 2faces of Phora is a song told in a first-person direct discourse and thought or in homodiegetic internal focalization about the ‘you'. But the question is; who is you?

When the rap starts we imply that you is a person, because the sentences ‘Know I spend so much time with you, but I never met you’ and the contrasting ‘I hate being around you’ both make you think that they've met each other or have been in the same room. But the meaning could be that he met ‘you', but not the true intentions of you. Besides that Phora talks like ‘you' is someones’ property; ‘They wish they had you, see the look in their eyes? They jealous of me, I have you, now they want me to die’. My intentional reading then would be that ‘you' is a woman. Also the saying: ‘I refuse to spend all my time in this world trying to chase you’ makes me think about a woman. The biological roles in nature are men who go hunting, which is implied by the word ‘chase'.

Off course the text also contains an agon; ‘I hate being around you’ against ‘I can’t live without you’. His problem is that he does not know how to handle ‘you', but he does value ‘you'. Motivs then are love, hate and loneliness. This love-hate relationship is a melodramatic masterplot. But at the end you can also call it postmodern, because the anta- and protagonist are both to find in one aspect: ‘you'.

Verse 2 let me doubt about the ‘you' as a woman;

But shit, I'm taking care of my mama
Making sure that she's happy
Got her a brand new mattress and put food in the pantry
Show these people that I'm everything that they said I can't be
So if they hate me for needing you, they don't understand me

Next to the line ‘Even through hard times, you was always there when the rent due’ the love looks based on materialism instead of personality. After that the stereotypes of the surroundigs of richdom are written about: attention based on money.
‘How can you have a heart? You don't have a heart, you don't have feelings for shit.’
When we look at this literally we can say that ‘you' all the time was not a person.

You got two sides, you got two faces
Now you wondering who's this person and all these places
But this person's not human, this person can't feel
It's the almighty dollar that we all been chasing
Two faces

The last four bars tell us that ‘you' indeed is an object; money. 2Faces is a metaphor for the two sides of a dollar bill with the message; money does not bring happiness.

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