Eminem: Plain or Peanut
Bunny Sez: Peanut
“I'm Bunny, yes I'm the real Bunny,
All you other Bunnies are just imitating,
So won't the real Bunny please hop up,
please hop up, please hop up?”
(parodied from the “Marshall Mathers LP)
Okay I have to admit that being a mother of two young
teens, I repeatedly heard the real version of Eminem’s
above lyrics on the radio and actually knew the words to
the chorus as it appeared to be a catchy tune. Although,
I also must admit that due to the intricacies of driving
while talking on my cell phone, I only had a slowly
dawning reality as to what the lyrics actually said.
Once I was bathed in the bright sunlight of reality, I
really had to struggle with what hearing these lyrics
meant to my kids. Should I ban them from his music? Yeah,
right, that would work….NOT! They would only want to
listen to the songs even more and sneak around behind my
back while visiting less stringent households or use
Napster to download and play it. Now don’t think for
a minute that my children are naïve - they aren’t
-I have raised them to be as honest and loving as I can -
however, due to the financial necessity of their
attending public school, I know that they know what the
word “fag”, etc. mean. My only hope is that
while they like the music that they recognize it as an
artform rather than a mantra for their lives.
While most of Eminem’s songs are full of hatred and
venom towards those who aren’t an “Em-clone”,
the nuttiest thing is the song “Stan”. This
ditty is about an obsessive fan named Stan who gets
progressively angrier when the object of his obsession
doesn’t write back after a deluge of letters. He
ultimately ends up tying up his pregnant girlfriend and
placing her in the trunk of his car while driving and
making a tape to his idol during which he promptly runs
the car off a bridge. But at the end of the song, he
plays the rapster who promptly gives a lecture on morals
and behavior to his number one fan while referring to a
news story he had read and ending with the dawning
realization that his fan was the subject of the news
story. He also gets holier than thou attitude in a song
called “Who Knew”. I can’t believe that
this “singer” (I use this reference loosely)
has the temerity to lecture when the vast majority of his
songs contain more sins than the average Father hears in
a lifetime in the confessional. Go figure, huh??
One can only hope that the next news story we hear about
this nut is when he falls down. Never happen you say? The
baggy pants whose crotch hangs to his knees will cause
him to trip and may well get him in the end. Speaking of
him getting it in the end - maybe he will spend part of
the rest of his life in the state pen with his new 7
foot, 300 pound “loverboy”. I wonder who he
will call a “fag” then?
Coug Sez: Plain
Eminem, a.k.a. Marshall Mathers, has
recently become one of the most provocative,
controversial rappers in contemporary pop music. His
lyrics sensationally depict rampant drug use, rape, sex,
and violence.
To this I respond: Big Friggin’ Deal!
He’s hardly the first rapper to venture into these
subject areas, and I’m sure he won’t be the
last. So what’s all the fuss about? Well, I’ll
tell you ... brace yourself, though ... time to start
blow-drying Ted Koppel’s hair, because this
one’s gonna be our lead story tonight .... he’s
WHITE!!! Ack! Say it ain’t so!!
Eminem was nothing more than the next Vanilla Ice,
sentenced to forever toil in obscurity, until he was
signed by Dr Dre’s label, Aftermath Entertainment.
It’s then and only then, under the tutelage of an
old school rapper, that Eminem’s popularity began to
take off. Then came the controversies, a staple of the
rap publicity juggernaut, which included being sued by
his own mother, an arrest for pulling a gun at a
nightclub, his wife's suicide attempt, almost getting
banned from Canada, an impending divorce, a boycott by
the members of GLAAD, getting sued by his wife, and his
lyrics being cited in a Senate hearing on violence in the
entertainment industry. {s yawn ... been there, read
about that!!
Eminem hasn’t done anything that hasn’t been
done before. The media just pays more attention to it
because of his color. And regardless of what he may do in
the future, my long standing motto of “If
it’s rap, it’s crap” will never
change!!
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