Lyrical abuse in the Hip-Hop world

Eminem released his first album named “Slim Shady LP” which was such a huge success. It sold four million copies and upwards world wide. “I just don’t give a fuck” and “Brain Damage” are the two songs comprising Eminem’s initial single from the Slim Shady LP. Each tune is sure to paralyze meek listeners with their relentless lyrical assault. The two songs speak about everything from drugs to rape and parental abuse to murder. The release of eminem’s first album raised a lot of controversy; there were a number of protests ou

It seems that in today’s world people listening to hip-hop either don’t pay any attention to the lyrical content of the songs or they truly enjoy listening to songs that mention sex, drugs, rape, alcohol abuse and murder. Artists cannot be blamed for the music they compose, all they are doing is giving their listeners what they want to hear and see on screen. Another artist Snoop Dogg, well known for his use of marijuana in most of his videos and young women parading all over in his songs. Snoop went to the extent of starring in the “Girls gone wild” videos that are sold though TV commercials. These videos show college girls taking their clothes off in public for the cameras.

tside the MTV’s head office for airing his video. None of this really affected the rapper in anyway, instead all this hype boosted his popularity and people actually bought the album just to see what was so wrong about it. From this point on eminem always had explicit lyrical contents in his songs, he went as far to say that he would kill his father, mother and wife in his song “Cleanin out my closet”. Once again this song was a big hit, proving once and again that there are people out there who actually wan

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