"Then attack Eminem cause I rap this way/ But I'm glad cause they feed me the fuel that I need for the fire/ to burn and it's burnin' and I have returned" (Mathers 4.18 ... however, obviously none of Eminem's enemies can relate to this (Walsh 1). Eminem was constantly teased for being a white boy in a mostly black neighborhood and attempting to rap along with them. Not only does Eminem's past childhood have an impact on his songs, the situation with his wife also adds to the controversy. The wife of Marshall ... a $10-million lawsuit against him for the same reasons that Kim Mathers did, defa...

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Free Speech, Controversy, & A Guilty Conscience "My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge..."- "Criminal", from "The Marshall Mathers LP" An average rap artist wouldn't be able to grace the covers of VIBE, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and Spin while on a national tour months before their major debut album is released. A mediocre rapper ... . They would prove to be haunting to the tortured youth. Without stability finding friends and staying out of trouble became all but impossible. Yet the one solace he discovered was rap music. Even while dropping out of high school and working ...

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... being at the center of the media and it played right into his hands on this album as he went multi-platinum again and is one of the most successful rap artists of all time. The claims he makes on this album aren't the literal claims in the issues he talks about, but instead his claims come out indirectly in his ... ...

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