the famous producer Dr. Dre discovered Eminem. His first album The Slim Shady EP was a hit. People were starting to recognize the young sensation. Early Work The second album that Eminem made was The Slim Shady LP. This album has won awards for greatest rap album. The next album was The Marshall Mathers LP and it was the highest selling hip hop/rap album of all time. I guess you can say he was growing into a huge hit. But there was a dark side Eminem had legal issues with his wife Kim Mathers
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What is the weather like over there? It’s about fifty degrees and we have not gotten snow in about two weeks. How far are you? About eighty words so far. Quite a few more for me to go. What do you think? Hm… I suppose that I can continue to listen to Eminem. Or is it Slim Shady? Only the shadow knows. Speaking of shadows, do you know if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there, does it make a sound? Yes it does, of course. I can also tell jokes. What do you call a lazy kangaroo? A pouch potato! Yes
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Eminem “Mockingbird” Eminem “Mockingbird” was first released in November 2004.It toped the charts both in U.S and the UK. Mockingbird earned Eminem a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Sole Performance. This song expresses his personal experience with his daughter and his adopted daughter Alaina. In the second verse he also continues on to talk about his failed marriage to his wife Kim. Eminem uses irony in his lyrics to paint a better picture. Through his lyrics he’s speaking to his daughters
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Eminem “My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge...”- “Criminal”, from “The Marshall Mathers LP” An average rap artist wouldn’t be able to grace the covers of VIBE, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and Spin while on a national tour months before their major debut album is released. An average rapper couldn’t say that he’s collaborated with Dr. Dre, Elton John, and Dido, all in the same year. Then again, Marshall Mathers III, better known as Eminem isn’t your average rapper. No other
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like with music is the lyrics. When it comes to meaningful lyrics I listend to rap music. Rapmusic has the best message music can ever have. I prefer to listen to the rapper Eminem. His songs are songs you can relate to and songs about life itself. Like an example I would like to bring up one of my favorite lyrics in Eminems song ‘’Beautiful’’: In my shoes, just to see What it's like, to be me I'll be you, let's trade shoes Just to see what it'd be like to Feel your pain, you feel mine Go
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September 9, 2014 Mockingbird by Eminem The song “Mockingbird” by Eminem reveals many concepts throughout the song. Many emotions were shown through his lyrics for the love he has for his two daughters. His lyrics provide a brief and straight forward message but if you take time out to interpret each line it consumes a story of his life. The word alone proved an important message about how he feels about himself as a father and describes the problems he faced trying to raise Hailie
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Iqnambir Singh ENG 1s Brian Lewis Feburary 3rd, 2015 HIP HOP: MORE THAN JUST A MOVEMENT. In our everyday lives, we always see art in some form, which involves our senses. For example, we see visual art by using our eyesight. Another famous form of art, which involves our sense of hearing, is music. Music is vast that it has so many genres and subgenres. One genre, that is quite popular in today’s world, is hip-hop. Most people view hip hop as a movement, but i consider that its more
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Shawn Carter was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he lived in the housing projects. Shawn was the third and final child of his mother. Shawn attended three different high schools, but did not graduate. During this period, Shawn sold crack cocaine, and is said to have been shot three times. Shawn would rap under the name Jay-Z and sell CDs out of his car after shows. Jay Z says his early musical influences were soulful artist like Marvin Gaye, and Donny Hathaway. With no record label to give him
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Killa Tay-K Taymor Travon McIntyre better known as Tay-K is a seventeen year old rapper from Arlington, Texas. He burst on to the rap scene with his song “The Race”. Tay-K started his career by posting songs on Soundcloud. His songs got thousands of plays on Soundcloud and his music video posted on Youtube got 76 million views. Tay-K’s songs had violent and vulgar lyrics which reflected choices he made that landed him in jail. Tay-K has violated federal crimes and those crimes are murder and
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How has Eminem impacted society? Thesis Statement: Eminem has impacted society by talking about life struggles. Annotated Bibliography Junger, Richard. “Eminem (1972-).” St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 2nd ed., vol. 2, St. James Press, 2013, pp.222-223. Gale Virtual Reference Library www.go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?. Accessed 30 Oct. 2017. “Eminem.” Newsmakers, Gale, 2001. Student Resources in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc. Accessed 30 Oct. 2017. Society was impacted by Eminem through
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