EMINEM FEARS GANGLAND HIT

Sky News ^ | Friday July 25, 2003

[Michael2001]

Eminem has reportedly hired a team of ex-CIA men as bodyguards to protect him from gangland assassination attempts.

The rapper is said to be shadowed by the heavily-armed former US Government agents everywhere he goes.

The singer also wears a bulletproof vest whenever he is out of his car or home, according to the Sun's Bizarre column.

The paper claims he is "terrified" after getting involved in a bitter war of words with rival Ja Rule.

The highly-trained heavies - who are costing Eminem a small fortune - carry handguns and do security sweeps of anywhere he is going.

Eminem and Ja have been exchanging vicious insults in their songs.

Ja has branded Eminem's mother a "crackhead" and Eminem has hit back by ridiculing Ja for being short.

The rap world is infamous for gangland shootings.

Eminem's ex-bodyguard Byron Young is quoted as saying his protection is now much more than a one-man job.

"When hardcore gangsters say they're gonna do something, they do it.

"And right now they're saying they want to kill Eminem.

"For the first time in his life the rap thing isn't just about money.

"It's about street life - and street life is murder."

[Capt_Hank]

A "Rap Gangwar", that would make my day. After the dust settles, none left. For the life of me, I don't understand what this generation gets out of this noise.

[Bluntpoint]

Do I detect a theme to your posts?

How about drinking fountains? When did you choose to quit using public ones?

[Bluntpoint]

The lyrics make me cry and want to snuggle.

[wardaddy]

Hon, I don't recall musical groups and their production companies et al being routinely involved in murder per se in popular music prior to the advent of hip-hop.

suburban thuggishness is more posuer and a "phase" as well...regardless of color or ethnicity.

The roots of American wordspeak "music" from Bob Dylan to Gil Scott Heron and the Last Poets never partook in murder or drug dealing or racketeering to my knowledge and I can only assume that they also had better home decorating tastes as well...lol

USA Hip-Hop(as we know it) which arguably originated in the NYC environs comes directly from Jamaican "dancehall" DJ and Sound System rivalries and had a history of drug and political violence even before reaching our shores between the JLP and PNP and rival drug gangs who financed their endeavors....you are probably too young to recall the rash of killings at Brooklyn Jamaican dancehall competitions in the early 80s which were directly tied to drug and political rivalries back home on the island.

with all due respect ...

[wardaddy]

Damn you are up early....no rest for the wicked eh?

[csvset]

Two scratched rappers.

[AppyPappy]

Do the crime, do the time.

[Bluntpoint]

My morning already sucks. One of my stupid-ass beagles killed two of my prize Guineas.

They used to follow me around like puppies.

I never thought I could get so attached to stupid, pea brained birds.

[wardaddy]

Very few dogs or cats will refrain from killing things they can simply.

Sorry....I hope he/she at least ate them.

[Northern Yankee]

Imagine being a Rap star, and then taken out by a .45?

Almost poetic justice.

Wasn't Marvin Gaye killed by a .45?

[Guillermo]

Eminem is from the ghetto, not the suburbs.

[Northern Yankee]

Our Chesapeake Retriever once killed one of our chickens.

We ate the chicken.

[Bluntpoint]

I think the rake over her head gave her indigestion.

I have over 10 dogs that sleep with the Guineas.

My beagles are generally penned up.

Well, I forgot to plug in the hot wire around their fence last night and she got out.

I blame rap music for my dog's behavior.

[Bluntpoint]

Tie the chicken to the neck of the dog for an entire day.

That usually stops chicken killing.

[Fraulein]

Exactly. Eminem has called his mother a druggie, and I once read in an interview where Eminem called himself short.

[Norse]

Ja rule is a punk who can't rap - that's a fact. Eminem is a kid who grew up on the streets and didn't quit following his dreams in order to get where he's at now. I respect the man. All these "Ja rule" idiots need to be rounded up

[wardaddy]

My doberman will try to kill anything that is not family. He is always on T-Rex mode. He once dismounted a bitch to attack a kittycat.

[wardaddy]

lol....I wanted to put a weed burner on my already concertina wired fence at my warehouse....the city would not allow it.

[Bluntpoint]

Me and my Posse can't stand Ja rule.

I never liked his dancing on the Lawrence Welk show either.

[Norse]

I'm familiar myself with "lamestream" suburb culture, but i'm also familiar with ghetto thug culture. The worst parts of suburb culture are no where near as destructive to society. Basically, with the lamestream, you have a few idiots dropping off to drugs and kids who misbehaved badly growing up becoming quite successful