... Music today influences kids almost as much as their parents do, and at a young age children are still having trouble discerning right from wrong. What they hear someone saying on a cd or the radio they might confuse. In and example I"ll use Eminem because he gets heat from this anyways. If eminem is talking about beating his girlfriend in one of ... his songs, a young kid might think well Eminem is famous so if he can do it I can do it; he might actually hit his girlfriend. So I think cd's with certain content, inappropriate language, extreme violence, lots of sexual content or referenc...

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... ? He's not going out in public and yelling these things on the streets, if you don't want to hear him, don't listen to him. You don't have to buy his CD's and you don't have to go to his concerts. Many of his songs do have a meaning to them. Like the song "Cleaning Out My Closet" expresses why he feels such ... the reason things are censored is because they don't want little kids listening to explicit lyrics. Just think about it, even if you try restricting the age of buying appalling CD's they"re still going to get them is they want them. Just like cigarettes, even though the age might ...

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... full-length album in 1996 called Infinite. It was somewhat of an experimental thing, but the record did not sell any copies. Eminem was forced to pull all of the CD's off the shelves and he lost a lot of money by doing this. Because of the major set back, Kim took Hailie and left Eminem because he did not have any ... they got married. Eminem is now known as a great rapper, and is known everywhere. His latest album, The Marshall Mathers LP, came out May 23, 2000, and it is a great CD and much better than any of his others. Most great rappers are black, and everyone hassles and talks abo...

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... for their bleak anthems of drug use, prostitution and criminal acts. This kind of entertainment reached mainstream status in 2001, when the U.S. Grammy awards gave Eminem three awards for his CD, The Slim Shady LP. Moral values Lastly, violence on television has desensitized the youth in our society. Children can easily be persuaded by portrayals of violence, crime and even suicide ... ...

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