We fight with analysis to explain what Eminem et al means in his songs. I would suggest that the answer is simple - the analysis is making it complex...
dan
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: > At 12:11 PM 2/22/01 -0500, you
wrote:
> >http://www.counterpunch.org
> >
>
>
> Good point.
>
> BTW, a nauseating defence of that piece of Nazi shit has been published in
> the last issue of The Nation - it argues that he is a product of his
> enviornment and a "satire" on social relations (just as the counterpucj
> says). What a tripe! Why does The Nation have to sink so low and swallow
> raw the standard line of entertainment industry claiming that they only
> produce what the public supposedly wants. It seems that nowadays "free
> speech" and "free market" espouse the same idea: freedom of commodity
> producers from any accountablity for their products.
>
> Another point - this whole (c)rap music business is a perfect example of
> white establishment using Blacks to do the dirty work - just like in the
> Old South. Only this time it is not picking up cotton but promoting
> Amerikun "family values" - violence, hate, and bigotry - something that is
> "beneath" white musicians. Eminem transgress that "ethnic role," hence he
> draws the wrath of the establishment critics.
>
> wojtek
>
>
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