Posted on 05/13/2002 6:52:27 PM PDT by Jewels1091
RapperActor Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem, fires back at Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, in a new CD set for release next month by UNIVERSAL.
Rapping on the track WHITE AMERICA from the upcoming EMINEM SHOW, obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT, Mathers declares: "F*@k you, Miss Cheney!"
The rap attack comes after Cheney appeared before a Senate committee to condemn Eminem's music.
"Blood, guts, guns, knives, lives, wives, nuns, sluts. It is despicable. It is horrible," she said in 2000, quoting the lyrics of pop music's bad boy.
"He is a violent misogynist. He advocates raping and murdering his mother in one of his songs. He glories in the same song and the idea that he might murder any woman he comes across. He talks about how he will choke the women he murders slowly so that their screams will last for a long time."
Mathers fires back in the new song: "F*@k you with the freeness of speech this Divided States of Embarrassment will allow you to have! F*@k you!"
UNIVERSAL plans a June 4 release of the recording. It is expected to become the top-selling disc of the summer.
Not to risk being labeled a democrat shill: former VP wife/lyrics fighter Tipper Gore also comes under Eminem's rage.
"F*@k you, Tipper Gore!" repeats the Detroit native.
Don't they know when an adult bad mouths something, the kids gravitate toward it out of rebellion?
Of course it's music. I don't much like it either, but there's a lot of forms I don't like (like reggae) that are clearly music anyway.
um...free speech.
Earlier in this thread someone posted the lyrics of one of Mathers's songs, and it rhymed. Of course, a song doesn't necessarily need to rhyme. As for the beat, I always thought that was one of the most noticeable things about rap. Rap isn't to my own personal tastes, but then neither are some of the groups (i.e. Steely Dan) that our resident Arbiters of Excellence have been putting forth as "real" music. It's all music. Just because something isn't to my personal taste (or yours, or someone else's) doesn't mean that it's not.
How perfectly asinine.
Everything that is termed "art" can be said to "make a statement." S'what? Are you making the grand suggestion that all "statements" are of equal importance? And who says Marshall Mathers of all people is a credible messenger of issues "Amurika" needs to "confront"? Of what worth is a "statement" that is wrapped inside a medium so offensive that the allegedly important point is lost in the controversy?
All deliberately offensive entertainers and "artists" have already said what you have written. Madonna, Howard Stern, Marilyn Manson, Ozzy Osbourne, Trent Reznor, Eminem, take your pick -- they go out of their way to become parents' worst nightmares, and then they whine, "I'm so misunderstood!"
Congratulations on being a human parrot.
Correct. There is no such thing as "bad" music, just music that you -- or I -- don't particularly like.
If people think that rapping is easy, they should try it. A couple of years back, Michael Savage was on the air saying that rap isn't music. By then attempting to rap himself, Mike demonstrated that while he isn't as vile as Ice Cube, what Cube and other rappers do is not easy. You need a quick mind to be a rapper, especially if you want to freestyle. If you are an articulate person in the first place, that's great. Now try to be articulate and make every other line rhyme...without missing a beat.
There are very, very, very, few people who make it in the record biz without talent (see Vanilli, Milli). I don't like what Eminem does, but to say that he is not talented is ignorant. There is a lot of music I don't like, but I don't say that people aren't talented unless it is painfully obvious. You will never hear or read me saying that Britney Spears is a bad dancer. She is, however, at best a barely talented singer.
People who don't have the stomach for his music *should* stay away from it.
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