On Monday Eminem released his first fully original track for the best part of five years called "Crack a Bottle", which also features Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. It's the typically brutal Marshall Mathers where "In Eminem's world, all women are whores and he is eager to rape and murder them." as Bob Herbert described him in his article "In America: A Musical Betrayal", which was published in the New York Times and quoted in Bernard Goldberg's book "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America".
In some ways Eminem's willingness to take his brutal existential worldview to its conclusion is refreshing as he seems to quite literally speak his mind, but it's like a bresh of fresh air that comes with a punch in the windpipe! Mid-way through Dr. Dre betrays this existentialism:
"But hey, what else can I say? I love LA.
Cuz over and above all, its just another day
And this one begins where the last one ends.
Pick up where we left off and get smashed again."
I do however think that Eminem is a phenomenally influential "poet" of today - despite his 5 year silence he was still voted "The Best Rapper Alive!" by Vibe Magazine in 2008.
The song is currently at number 3 in the iTunes chart and has been released as a bit of a primer for his up and coming album "Relapse" which is due for release in the late spring of this year... It will be interesting to see how and whether his views have changed during his downtime. I'll hopefully let you know once I've bought it and braced myself for the lyrical onslaught.
God bless.
Dear Freedom
2 comments:
Ed? Eminem? Oh what a cliched middle class white boy you are. :)
Still Jerry would be proud.
(I still think his first mainstream album was the best!)
yeah Jerry would.. be i wasn wondering what happened to this chap... he is extremely tallented but the profanities are a bit hard to listen to me thinks as in i puts me off as it kinda fills my head with all sorts words that i dont need.. but the filtered lyrics would be an option but not quite the same...
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