Guest Blogger: Keatton 1

One of my favorite and one of the most favored rappers today has to be Eminem. He was born 1972, October, 17th in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was raised in a trailer home as a kid and had a bad child hood and never knew his father. He has the most interesting music explaining his feelings about his life and what he has gone through. His music is very emotional and can be very violent sometimes. He talks about things that he knows he’d never do to get his feelings out through his music. This is why I like his music it feels like venting to me, and it helps me express my feelings/ gets my anger out when I’m upset. As a young adult I have learned from his music and it makes me able to understand someone that has come up from a place in their life and become famous and make their dream a reality all by himself. As a white male, a lot of people had doubted his success; some never gave him a chance to hear him rap. But when he finally stood up in front of a crowd and started rapping people liked him giving him the benefit of the doubt as he through awesome lyrics at them. Eminem thrived for success and for people to listen to his music in a way that would help them express their feelings as he did. He has now slowed down his music career as he is now in his 40’s. He feels he is too old to be rapping violence because of his kid and that he needs to be more of a father now. That is why I respect him so much as a person to drop his big success as one of the best rappers in the world to be a better father and be there for his kid. Those are just some if the reasons he’s my favorite.