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For the Teeming Millions:
The majority of people here are what I consider highly intellectual. Now I must pose a question.

I was introduced to Eminem by a friend. I listened to his copy and picked up the cd in the end. I’ve been listening to it since then. I’ve been hooked ever since <grin>.
Now that the new one’s out, I’ve not taken it out and listened to it constantly. I find that it fulfills me and thrills me and in the music I find me.

Does anyone else out there like Eminem? If so, why? If not, why not?

I like him because here is a person that has tried to make it doing something that he wanted to. Everyone told him it wasn’t possible, and now he’s done it. In his liner notes, he says:
Eminem would like to thank everyone that knows they deserve it. And fuck you to everyone that deserves it too.
I think I’d act pretty much the same way. I wouldn’t give anything to anyone who tried to keep me down. Especially if afterwards they were telling me they were there for me. Ha.
But mostly, I like that he’s a rapper, he raps about things other than gangsta shit, and he’s added a new dimension to rap.

Your thoughts?

eminem is crude, disrespects his audience, and commits violent domestic abuse in his music. Why would anyone listen to that?
i don’t know but i love it. maybe because its honest and its funny. He is actually getting sued by his mother for defamation because he raps about her being a drug addict and unfit parent.

best line is:
Will Smith doesn’t need to curse to sell albums
Well I do
So fuck him
And fuck you to

what dimension has he added to rap?

I like him too, and I’m not one who normally likes rap. I think he’s funny. Maybe that says something scary and weird about my psyche … oh well!

what dimension? how about what dimentia?

How many rappers rap about suicide? drugs other than coke or pot? Who makes sound effects in the background? “Hi kids, do you like violence (yea yea)…”
He does things that rap has never thought about, plus he’s white, and how many white rappers have made any kind of influence in rap? Vanilla Ice. Beastie Boys. Everlast. Tell me more, please. Ask the black community, and I bet they will tell you the only rappers that have had a good influence in rap is the beastie boys and eminem.
I like him because he raps about things I’ve thought about, but was hesitant to speak of in public. I hate things he hates, like things he likes, but, I don’t like everything he likes, and although I identify with the drug situation, I don’t indemnify myself in the same way.
I’ve been suicidal, I’ve done drugs, I have told people to fuck off and haven’t cared about some shit that people think that I should have. I’m not normal, but I don’t care that I’m not. If I was or if i cared, then I might not enjoy my life as much as I can.
I consider Eminem a role model, because even though he says things that might be controversal, or offensive, he’s still true to himself. Maybe that lands me in hell, maybe that lands me in heaven, but I figure as long as I never betray myself, or my beliefs, I’ll go where I’m supposed to go.

Eminem is great. The only thing that I don’t like about his 2nd (actually 3rd) album is that there is a lot of hate. I don’t identify with hate, but I like pissing people off…

I find his sound fascinating and his songs unavoidably catchy. He is very frank and sometimes offensive, and I appreciate that, but some of his lyrics cross the line even for me. And hey, I’m usually the one who goes bounding past it!

Note: KROQ (station here in the LA area) seems to play only white rap. Beastie Boys and Eminem. That’s all I’ve ever heard from that genre on the station. Anyone else notice this phenomenon in your area?

it’s all been done before, brood.

and i would hardly consider the fact that he’s white a ‘new dimension’.