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"Mathers is the most prominent of the handful of white hip-hop artists who have been artistically or commercially successful," Judge Lynch wrote. "Like other white musicians who have been successful in musical genres or forms pioneered by Africans or African-Americans, from Benny Goodman to Elvis Presley to Paul Simon, Mathers has been accused of exploiting black culture; he in turn has asserted his respect for his black role models and peers, and has maintained that he comes by his hip-hop success honestly, as a young man from a poor urban background who has long been associated with African-American friends, neighbors and mentors."
-- Michael Brick for The NY Times
Unsurprisingly, Monk isn't into rap music. After Elvis, there is really only the void! However, a blogging friend got Monk to give Eminem a try, and he enjoyed it more than he expected. Monk hasn't become a collector of his music or anything, but he did enjoy the movie 8 Mile. Though, since this movie, Monk hasn't heard anything about him, except for this news item.
Before Eminem hit it big, he wrote songs that had a harder racial cast, and the song in question disparaged black women in particular. A magazine has published those lyrics in what it calls an expose of the artist. It seems that Eminem has won the legal battle to keep those lyrics out of the main media. Somewhat interesting...
"Mathers is the most prominent of the handful of white hip-hop artists who have been artistically or commercially successful," Judge Lynch wrote. "Like other white musicians who have been successful in musical genres or forms pioneered by Africans or African-Americans, from Benny Goodman to Elvis Presley to Paul Simon, Mathers has been accused of exploiting black culture; he in turn has asserted his respect for his black role models and peers, and has maintained that he comes by his hip-hop success honestly, as a young man from a poor urban background who has long been associated with African-American friends, neighbors and mentors."
-- Michael Brick for The NY Times
Unsurprisingly, Monk isn't into rap music. After Elvis, there is really only the void! However, a blogging friend got Monk to give Eminem a try, and he enjoyed it more than he expected. Monk hasn't become a collector of his music or anything, but he did enjoy the movie 8 Mile. Though, since this movie, Monk hasn't heard anything about him, except for this news item.
Before Eminem hit it big, he wrote songs that had a harder racial cast, and the song in question disparaged black women in particular. A magazine has published those lyrics in what it calls an expose of the artist. It seems that Eminem has won the legal battle to keep those lyrics out of the main media. Somewhat interesting...
