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Article: Getting a Bad Rap?(offensive lyrics in rap music)(Brief Article)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- February 2, 2001
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"MY MOTHER DID DRUGS --tar, liquor, cigarettes, and speed/The baby came out--disfigured .../It was a seed who would grow up just as crazy as she/Don't dare make fun of that baby cause that baby was me." Those lyrics come from the latest album of Marshall Bruce Mathers III, better known as the rapper Eminem.
Although Mathers was often teased by other kids while growing up in a working-class Detroit (Mich.) neighborhood, the popular rapper is now having the last laugh. The Marshall Mathers LP has sold more than 7.9 million copies worldwide and was nominated for four Grammy awards, the music industry's highest honors.
Not everyone is amused. After the ...