He Didn't Just Say What I Think He Did. Did He?
             "I'm like a head trip to listen to cuz I'm only giving you things you joke about with your friends inside your living room. The only difference is I got the BALLS to say it in front of yawl, and I don't got to be false or sugarcoated at all. I just get on the mic and spit it. Whether you like to admit it, I just *censored* it better than 90% of you rappers out here. Then you wonder how can kids eat these albums, like volumes. It's funny cuz at that rate I'm going when I'm 30 I'll be the only person in the nursing home flirting. Pinching nurses assess when jacking off with jergins and I'm jerkin but this whole bag of viagra isn't working. In every single person is a Slim Shady lurkin. He could be workin at Burger King, spitten on your onion rings or in the parking lot circling screaming I don't give a *censored* with his windows down and system up. So will the Real Shady, please stand up. And put one of those fingers on each hand up and be proud to be out of your mind and out of control..." That was a quote from "The Real Slim Shady" a song off of Eminem's new Album "The Marshall Mathers LP." Now can you honestly say that that song isn't giving bad ideas to kids? Censorship in music is a topic that has brought about much controversy in the past two decades. There have been many different arguments on the topic, however the question still remains as if it should be censored or not.
             For as long as there has been music there has been censorship. In fact, in western culture, it is only in the past hundred years that artists have had much independence at all. Eric Nuzum discusses the history of censorship, which dates all the way back to the 19th century, on his web page, A Brief History of Banned Music.
             "Most classical and popular music through the 1800's was created under a patronage system-where a ri...