NP: Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[Derek C. Maus]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Thomas Eckhardt quoted from Eminem's "Criminal":

> A lot of people ask me.. stupid fuckin questions
> A lot of people think that.. what I say on records
> or what I talk about on a record, that I actually do in real life
> or that I believe in it
> Or if I say that, I wanna kill somebody, that.. 
> I'm actually gonna do it
> or that I believe in it
> Well, shit.. if you believe that
> then I'll kill you

Ooooh...that is so, like Alanis said, ironic. I wonder if he was being
ironic when he beat the shit out of that bartender or pulled a gun on
another "artist" (one of the guys from Insane Clown Posse, if I 'member
correctly) the same week his album was released? Speaking of transparnet
marketing ploys ("If you liked Fred Durst's borderline criminal behavior,
you'll like Eminem").

Give me five lines of De La Soul over every lyric this no-'count puke will
churn out in the next thirty years.

De La Soul
"Stakes is High"

     POS: 
     The instamatic focal point bringing damage to your boroughs 
     Be some brothers from the east with some beats that be
     thorough 
     Got the solar gravitation so I'm bound to pull it 
     I gets down like brothers are found ducking from bullets 
     Gun control means using both hands in my land 
     Where it's all about the cautious livin' 
     Migrating to a higher form of consequence, compliments 
     Of strugglin', that shouldn't be notable, 
     Man every word I say should be a hip hop quotable. 
     DOVE: 
     I'm sick of bitches shakin' asses 
     I'm sick of talkin' about blunts, 
     Sick of Versace glasses, 
     Sick of slang, 
     Sick of half-ass awards shows, 
     Sick of name brand clothes. 
     Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks, 
     Cocaine and crack 
     Which brings sickness to blacks, 
     Sick of swoll' head rappers 
     With their sicker-than raps 
     Clappers and gats 
     Makin' the whole sick world collapse 
     The facts are gettin' sick 
     Even sicker perhaps 
     Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse 
     POS: 
     Man life can get all up in your ass baby you betta work it out 
     Let me tell you what it's all about 
     A skin not considered equal 
     A meteor has more right than my people 
     Who be wastin' time screaming who they've hated 
     That's why the Native Tongues have officially been re-instated 
     (Vibes....vibrations) 
     Stakes is high 
     (Higher than high) 
     You know them stakes is high 
     (Higher than high) 
     When we talkin' 'bout the 
     (Vibes....vibrations) 
     Stakes is high, you know them stakes is high 
     When we dealin' with the 
     (Vibes....vibrations) 
     Stakes is high 
     (Hey yo, what about that love?) 
     POS: 
     Yo, it's about love for cars, love for funds 
     Loving to love mad sex, loving to love guns 
     Love for opposite, love for fame and wealth 
     Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself, kid 
     We living in them days of the man-made ways 
     Where every aspect is vivid, 
     these brothers no longer talk shit 
     Hey yo, these niggas live it 
     'Bout to give it to you 24/7 on the microphone 
     Plug One translating the zone 
     No offense to a player, but yo, I don't play 
     And if you take offense, fuck it, got to be that way 
     J.D. Dove, show your love, what you got to say? 
     DOVE: 
     I say G's are making figures at a high regard 
     And niggas dying for it nowadays ain't odd 
     Investing in fantasies and not God 
     Welcome to reality, see times is hard 
     People try to snatch the credit, but can't claim the card 
     Showing out in videos, saying they cold stars 
     See, shit like that will make your mama cry 
     Better watch the way you spend it 
     'Cause the stakes is high 
     Y'all know them stakes is high 
     When we talkin' 'bout the 
     (Vibes....vibrations) 
     Stakes is high 
     I think that smiling in public is against the law 
     'Cause love don't get you through life no more 
     It's who you know and "How you, son?" 
     And how you gettin' in, and who the man holding 
     Hey yo, and how was the scams and how high 
     Yo what up, huh? I heard you caught a body 
     Seem like every man and woman shared a life with John Gotti 
     POS: 
     But they ain't organized! 
     DOVE: 
     Mixing crimes with life enzymes 
     Taking the big scout route 
     And niggas know doubt better 
     Than they know their daughters 
     And their sons 
     (Oh boy) 
     POS: 
     Yo, people go through pain and still don't gain 
     Positive contact just like my main man 
     Who got others cleaning up his physical influence 
     His mind got congested 
     He got the nine and blew it 
     Neighborhoods are now hoods cause nobody's neighbors 
     Just animals surviving with that animal behavior 
     Under I who be rhyming from dark to light sky 
     Experiments when needles and skin connect 
     No wonder where we live is called the projects 
     When them stakes is high you damn sure try to do 
     Anything to get the piece of the pie 
     Electrify 
     Even die for the cash 
     But at last I be out even though you wantin' more 
     This issue is closed like an elevator door 
     But soon re-opened once we get to the next floor where the 
     (Vibes....vibrations) 
     Stakes is high 
     Y'all know them stakes is high 
     When we talkin' 'bout the 
     (Vibes....vibrations) 
     Stakes is high 
     Stakes is high, come on   


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