The Mahdi by rap duo The Underachievers may be there most popular song so far.Made up by Issa Dash and Ak. This duo has rocketed to the top of the semi under ground rap scene with there album  Indigoism and there mix-tape Lords of Flatbush.  Many people associate the underachievers with pot smoking and ,well underachieving. But there goals and beliefs shows the exact opposite, and proves the people with misconceived judgments wrong.  
         For example a lyric in the song Mahdi, "We be that Elevated Mafia".  In many of there songs they state that they are are elevated . That they are on almost a higher plane of thinking. This may be do to the narcotics they use but its whatever. "But I'm guided by the light, no shine. Soldier of the Father but I ain't no Christian,"This sentences show that they believe in a higher power and god  but not really through conventional ways , in other songs they actually bash Organised religion.
           Underachievers, make believers out of heathens. This shows that there goal is to show the haters that they aren't just some thugs from the hood . But people who are trying to change the world hence the fact that they refer to themselves as indigo children. (The heathens are the haters by the way) there name is a sarcastic remark to the remarks the heathens say bout them

One major theme that plays through out Cormac McCarthy's novel "the road" is death.
The man and the boy  struggle to survive, death is the obvious theme because there is a constant threat of murder and running out of food . The landscape is covered in ash and soot . Most living things were killed . Civilization has been completely destroyed by the big mysterious event . For example, cows are extinct, and the boy has never before seen birds or fish. "On the hillsides old crops dead and flattened. The barren ridgeline trees raw and black in the rain".

Eventually  the reader become aware that the man is dying. "In the night he woke in the cold dark coughing and he coughed till his chest was raw.... He knelt there wheezing softly, his hands on his knees. I am going to die, he said. Tell me how I am to do that" . His death is approaching , his worsening cough and the increasing amounts of blood he spits out, are evidence of that .

The color of the scenery and landscape thoroughly represents death. the overall tone is black and grey . the ash ,the water, the rain , the burnt trees. Bleak landscape  in general gives and ambience of death and depression. The interesting about this book is that death is expected and even accepted by the characters. When the man shot a bandit that was trying to get the boy. he didn't  give a seconded thought about shooting him. He just accepted the bandits death and didn't think twice about it.