Guest Blogger: Abdi #1

Eminem’s a hip-hop star whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mather’s III. He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on October 17 1972. He started rapping after he dropped out of school at age of 9.Then he started getting noticed a little bit later throughout the years. He then finally became famous. I started to listen to him when he first started, but I wasn’t really into his songs. I liked the movie he stared in “8 Mile”, but I wasn’t a fan yet of his music. First song I noticed him a little bit more was a song he was featured in, Drop the world by Lil Wayne. Then I had a second thought of him and I was getting in the process of understanding his old songs too, because his songs always had a meaning and it was always something deep. When I grew older more of his songs were making more sense. The song Drop the world is a song where I would listen to whenever I was a little bit stressed. It’s kind of a motivation for me to stop everything, loosen up, and be stress free. Eminem is different than most other hip hop artists, most artists would rap but, it isn’t very lyrically talented like Eminem. He also dropped a new song Rap god who is already a hit song, and one of my new favorite songs. A quote that means a lot to me would come of the Not Afraid single since it was such and brilliant song. “If it thinks it’s stopping me I’ma be what I set out to be, without a doubt undoubtedly and all those who look down on me I’m tearing down your balcony”. Basically this lyric is saying he can be anyone he wants and nobody can stop him. “No, I aint much of a poet but I know somebody once told me to seize up the moment and don’t squander it cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow So I keep conjuring, sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from”, this is a lyric that came off his newest song he dropped featuring the famous singer Rihanna. Many people say Eminem’s music puts you in a depressed mood, which I believe that untrue. I only believe they say that because they don’t listen to the lyrics of the song, they just hear the background and go straight to assumption that this is a depressing song. Overall Eminem is ridiculously talented and is lyrically a genius. I believe he is worth my time and i would pay money any day to listen or go to a concert of Eminem’s.