Friday, May 2, 2014

Eminem Is A Rap God

Eminem claims to be a rap god. After listening to Eminem's latest work I have to agree with his assessment of himself. The music is good and the lyrics make you think. As a dark man from the hip-hop generation I never had a problem with Eminem's success as a rapper. I always thought that he was clever and thoughtful. I like to think. I also enjoyed the fact that Eminem loved our culture. It is sad that he loves our culture more than we do. Your typical dark rapper pimps the music out for money. Dark rappers continue to use their art form as cash cows even when they are wealthy. Some of these boy/men are worth 500 million dollars or more and they still are not putting out work anywhere near the quality of Eminem's work. Listening to Eminem express his power I also thought about how this affects young dark boys. Today they have to worship gods who do not look like them everywhere. Hip-Hop was the last place where a little dark boy could see heroes that looked like them. Now the dark children have to worship others at every aspect of their lives.