Grotesque, Demeaning, Yet Mean

Eminem is constantly criticized and in many places censored because of the explicitness he portrays in something that he is trying to tell others to prevent. ” Overall, many people can die from the “42 car pile-up” and there is no justice in starting fights. The opposite view praise Eminem for bringing out violence to attention and make the youth realize the cause and effects of violence. In “Drug Ballad, Eminem portrays himself as a drug addict and gives advice to his younger fans. ” Critics would say this is crude and disgusting to advocate how fun it is to be drunk and “have the right to remain violent. Eminem’s rebuttal in the criticism that he is too violently explicit is that what he is saying in his lyrics are real because people do have evil intentions, and he doesn’t have to be nice and “sugarcoated” in expressing it. When Eminem finally does have the time to write back, he apologizes to Stan in the letter for being untimely, and at the end find out that Stan was the same Stan that committed suicide. The critics do nothing but find a scapegoat for blaming and the real problems are ignored. For example, the song “Stan,” is about an obsessed fan who overtime has written two letters to Eminem and still did not receive a letter back. Eminem creates the realism in the atmosphere in fusing sound effects such as rainfall and thunder, a car smashing into the bridge, the water effects of landing in the water, and pen scratching as if one person was actually writing to another into the song. The beats of the music are normally a repetitive melody made from a studio synthesizer. “My nose is pointy / I’m the bad guy who makes fun of people that die / in plane crashes and laughs / As long as it ain’t happened to him” (“Criminal”). Eminem’s strategy of using a storyline structure to illustrate his songs gives it an explicit edge that many rappers lack. Eminem states his rebuttal that speaking his mind, which is an amendment right, is ironically a crime. Eminem is describing an experience in being young and having drugs and girls all around, but in result “sucks to be you,” the connotation of being not good to do these things; it is not something Eminem would want himself doing, so why would his listeners want to do drugs? They would not because in the same song he sings, “These drugs really got ahold of me / ‘Cause every time I try to tell them no / They won’t let me ever let them go / I’m a sucka all I gotta say” (“Drug Ballad”).