Meaning Behind the Words “Have you ever been hated or discriminated against? I have, I’ve been protested and demonstrated against, picket signs for my wicked rhymes...” Eminem’s shocking and profane lyrics have caused many controversies over the years, but in his song, “Cleanin’ Out My Closet,” Eminem pours his heart out bringing up crucial memories from his past. In these first lines of his first verse, Eminem is addressing the criticism and activism he’s received for his lyrics from the public
public who he is and how he feels about certain things. His music and relationships correlate with one another to a certain extent. In Cleanin’ Out My Closet he talks about his relationship with his mother and the ways he hurt her and how she hurt him. Years after, he releases the song Headlights which asks for forgiveness on how he talked about her in Cleanin’ Out My Closet. He also states that he knew that his songs would hurt her but he still made them and released them because he needed some sort of
he himself considers it as a great factor in his path to fame. In the song “Never Enough (Featuring 50 Cent & Nate Dogg)” from his fifth studio album, he says how he grew up contributed to his love for music and his fame. “Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me, in the neighborhood daily, they jumped me and chased me, it only made me what I am today see” (Eminem, “Never Enough”). Mathers grew up rhyming words together at the age of four, and continued all the way through middle school
Eminem’s Life Story: The Way He Is For many years people have been associating young adult’s violent behavior to rap music. Artists such as Eminem, Jay Z, 2 Pac, and many others are being blamed for the acts that teenagers commit, but why do these artists have such an influential impact on us? In our research of Eminem, our group is studying three main controversies; his upbringing, his attacks against family members and other artists, and his political views, in hopes to understand why his
His words have brought people together, either to love or hate his music. With his emotional lyrics and personal content Marshall has blurred the thin lined that differed rappers and poets. Like most successful poets and rappers, Marshall started out poor; he was born on October 17, 1972 in St. Joseph, Missouri, but lived in Detroit for a large portion of his life. He grew up fatherless and lived with this mother for most of his life; he switched schools a lot because of constant moving. Marshal