A question about Eminem

[Adam Y.]

I never said no one liked Elvis, I was referring to his music. If you also notice, there are many more teenagers who listen to Eminem than adults.

Actually I agree that there are quite a few similarities between Eminem and Elvis. The only thing different between them is the amount of things they both had to do to create controversy. All Elvis had to do was shake his hips and he would scare a lot of parents with that. In fact television shows would show him from the waist up because of the controversy.

[Kevin A]

To all of you people against eminem, think about this -
part of music is conveying a message to other people, and eminem does a great job of this. you all know the exact message that he is giving out, but maybe its deeper. maybe he would have killed somebody by now if he hadnt let all his anger out. Admitting is always the first step to recovery, right?

I personally like his music to a point. I wont listen to it repeatedly, but its a good reality check every once in a while.

Maybe im crazy

[Raven_Writer]

Originally posted by Kevin A
To all of you people against eminem, think about this -
part of music is conveying a message to other people, and eminem does a great job of this. you all know the exact message that he is giving out, but maybe its deeper. maybe he would have killed somebody by now if he hadnt let all his anger out. Admitting is always the first step to recovery, right?

I personally like his music to a point. I wont listen to it repeatedly, but its a good reality check every once in a while.

Maybe im crazy

Maybe he would've...but ever thought about this -
If he didn't do his writing, their maybe less hate in the world?

I never said their would be, I said their might be.

[MarkF]

Yes, Eminem has an amazing talent to spit out rhymes faster and with more meaning and complexity than anyone else. And quite frankly, when I listen to it (the non-offensive stuff), I get a bit of an energy boost. BUT this whole controversy would probably not be going on if he hadn't started off with such nasty lyrics...who wants to listen to him talk about killing, maiming, tapings anf so forth, his mother? Now, I don't particularly like my mother, but I have no reason for that other stuff.

I can understand him being nominated and winning a nice little prize for his talent (he has ALOT of it, don't think I'm saying he doesn't, I just think he chooses to use it in the wrong way most of the time), but the Nobel prize? Come on. That's too much.

[Elgin Clock]

/me looks at watch and is angry that I spent half my lunch break reading this dribble....

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