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This month's subject: Eminem the rapper and the controversy.
I thought I'd speak about a lighter subject this time around. Lately my favorite rapper, Eminem, has been getting a bum wrap. I am so tired of hearing critics talking about what a bad influence his music is on our youth.First of all folks he is an ENTERTAINER. He is not running for public office, he is not teaching in your local school system he is a rapper who has an explicit language warning on the wrapper of his CD. He is 28 years old, he is a grown man so so what if he uses provanity to make his points. It is the responsibilty of the parents to monitor what their children are listening to, watching and doing. Take responsility people! Stop trying to push your responsibilities onto the government, your neighbors, your kid's teachers or the entertainment industry.When I was growing up my mother took an interest in what I was doing, listening to, and watching. And if I was listening to or watching something with content that was out of my age range she was all over me. And because of that I molded myself after my mother not my favorite recording, movie, TV, or sports star. She was the one to teach me respect and how to be a lady because she was the one in my face day in and day out taking an active role in my life, listening to me, talking with me. The moral is, yet again, stop blaming everyone else for what's going wrong with your children, when the blame should be placed squarely on your own shoulders. As for Eminem if you ever took the time out to actually listen to all of his lyrics you would see, he's really not as bad as you think. Lyrically he's a genius, but one who should be enjoyed by adults.
Over and over again
Slapped, beaten, torn
Words so harsh and unfair
Yet I pick up my pride off the floor and I try to carry on.
Head held high I exist stage right to the next drama scence where I am the one to be misused, degraded, slew
Left to be miserable, wallow in self pity and wonder why...
Why do I put myself into these unsavory situations?
Trying desperately to ease the pain, the loneliness
Looking for the other part of me, the missing link to happiness.
He who possesses the key to my heart and soul nowhere to be found.
All I encounter are dead end streets, lonely highways, and back roads to nowhere.
Left with a bruised ego to drag behind me, a heart to mend, a soul to sooth.
Flings, Affairs, Rendezvous
Pain, Hurt, Shame
Happiness so far from my grasp
Love...inconceivable
Tears glide down my face knowing tomorrow will be more of the same.
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
~Alan Saporta