>Sometimes Counterpunch nails it, and sometimes they don't. The screed on
>Eminem <http://www.counterpunch.org/eminem.html> is 100% airball. Great
>shot, perfect arc -- only it landed in the front row, not the net. I could
>quote you spine-chilling lyrics from the Geto Boys which make M&M look
>like a cub scout. Homeboy teamed up with Dr. Dre to do some slams,
>musically his stuff is pretty good. Not breakthrough level, like Cypress
>Hill or Dr. Octagon, but pretty kicking.
>It's one thing to defend Eminem against censorship-quite another to
>promote, as Chaucer would say, "the sentence" or message of his
>lyrics. Remember the lines by Shelley, dashed off in a hour of rage
>following the Peterloo Massacre--the WTO protest of its day, where
>40,000 protesters and laborers were trampled by English police on
>horseback. Try to find any similar sentiments in Eminem. Here are
>two stanzas: "The seed ye sow, another reaps; / the wealth ye find,
>another keeps; / the robes ye weave, another wears; / the arms ye
>forge, another bears. // Sow seed-but let no tyrant reap; / Find
>wealth-let no imposter heap: / Weave robes-let not the idle wear; /
>Forge arms-in your defence to bear."
Those are the first lines I think of when I hear Eminem too!
Doug