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Unguarded [Racially Aware] Lyrics Embarrass Eminem
NYT ^ | November 20, 2003 | KELEFA SANNEH

Posted on 11/20/2003 8:02:19 AM PST by twas

*snip*

The track is by Eminem, and it sounds like a free style, not a song. Like much of his best and best-known work, this rant castigates an untrustworthy ex-girlfriend. But in this case the ex-girlfriend is black, and the rhymes are full of crude racial taunts. "Black girls only want your money," he says more than once. And early on he lays out his conclusions in sweeping (and inept) language:

"Black girls and white girls just don't mix

Because black girls are dumb and white girls are good chicks

White girls are good, I like white girls

I like white girls all over the world

White girls are fine and they blow my mind

And that's why I'm here now, telling you this rhyme

'Cause black girls, I really don't like."

Even before the news conference had begun, Eminem had released a statement acknowledging that the words were his but calling them "foolishness," the sound of a spurned boyfriend venting his "anger, stupidity and frustration."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: race
Madonna doesn't let her children watch her performance material. Ice Cube doesn't let his kids listen to his rap music. Now we learn what Eminem really thinks.

These "artists" push trash to promote themselves and get rich, polluting the minds of our children along the way and yet they seek to insulate their own children from what they want your children to consume.

Eminem is 30 years old (but acts and dresses like a teen). He lives in a lily-white community where he can protect his own children from urban influences.

This is the reality of the cultural war.

1 posted on 11/20/2003 8:02:20 AM PST by twas
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To: phasma proeliator
PING
2 posted on 11/20/2003 8:06:31 AM PST by jdogbearhunter
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To: twas
>Eminem is 30 years old (but acts and dresses like a teen)

A 30 year old dressing like a 12 year old- baseball cap, oversized t-shirt. What a joke. Emily Dickenson this guy is definitely not.

3 posted on 11/20/2003 8:07:29 AM PST by Dialup Llama
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To: jdogbearhunter
I better send this to my daughters English teacher... so that they can play it in class and discuss what a good Poet Eminem really is....

4 posted on 11/20/2003 8:10:32 AM PST by phasma proeliator (it's better to die with honor than to live without it.)
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To: twas; phasma proeliator
Eminem is the Shakespeare of our time.

Love him or hate him, he gets both condemnation and applause, along with lots of money, for irreverent statements that sometimes rhyme.

+I've got to formulate a plot 'fore I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only "mf" option, failure's not

+You can do anything you set your mind to, man

Probably the more libertarian you are, the more you can appreciate his style.
5 posted on 11/20/2003 8:20:58 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough (Wrapped in saran wrap wrapping.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
"Probably the more libertarian you are, the more you can appreciate his style."

So THAT is my problem.... ;-)

6 posted on 11/20/2003 8:23:36 AM PST by phasma proeliator (it's better to die with honor than to live without it.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Probably the more libertarian you are, the more you can appreciate his style.

Slim Shady bump!

7 posted on 11/20/2003 8:23:38 AM PST by Fraulein
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To: twas
Eminem's daughter is like 8 or 9 years old... of course he wont her listen to rap music. Eminem's target audience is not "children," his target audience is teenagers.
8 posted on 11/20/2003 9:03:54 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe (I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Probably the more libertarian you are, the more you can appreciate his style.

yup. Especially After a couple Bong Hits....

9 posted on 11/20/2003 9:13:16 AM PST by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
No his target is OPC other people's children
10 posted on 11/20/2003 9:58:51 AM PST by tom paine 2
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Eminem is the Shakespeare of our time.

WTF??

11 posted on 11/20/2003 9:59:15 AM PST by Ashamed Canadian
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To: Fraulein
What! No ping?
 
;^)

12 posted on 11/20/2003 10:42:58 AM PST by AnnaZ (::: RADIOFR :: Hi-Fi FReepin' 24/7 ::: http://www.theotherradionetwork.com/pgs/rfr_schedule.htm :::)
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To: Ashamed Canadian
Eminem is the Shakespeare of our time.
WTF??

Good start! ...... Put a "MF" at the end of that and you'll have your first line.

13 posted on 11/21/2003 5:54:13 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough (Wrapped in saran wrap wrapping.)
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To: tom paine 2
No his target is OPC other people's children

So the big, benevolent, omniscient and, of course, moral government should ban his music?

Some parents don't get it: you have to take care of your own kids.

14 posted on 11/21/2003 6:04:52 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough (Wrapped in saran wrap wrapping.)
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To: hobbes1
Especially After a couple Bong Hits....

Funny. You must have grown up with Bill Clinton or something.

I saw Randy Travis a few years ago and he couldn't even remember the words to his own songs. He actually had to stop singing and apologized to the audience. Sad.

At least Eminem is WYSIWYG, without apology. And by the way, Eminem derides druggies in his movie 8 Mile.

15 posted on 11/21/2003 6:26:14 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough (Wrapped in saran wrap wrapping.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
I am just pointing out the hypocrisy. I am not one of these anti music folks.
16 posted on 11/21/2003 6:37:26 AM PST by tom paine 2
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