Oral semester project blog entry two(week5) -My favourite musician is....

There are heaps of different kinds of music in the world. Among them what I am really keen to listen to is the 'hip-hop' genre. Because it makes me feel more comfortable and it makes me happy when I listen to that kind of music. The musicians who I can tell apart from that genre are Eminem, 2pac, Snoop dogg, 5o cent, Akon, Doctor Dre, Beastie boys as well as Korean hip-hop musicians such as Drunken Tiger, Bohemian X, Mc mong, MC Sniper and so on. I can not remember exactly the time, but when I was young I used to listen to Ballard and R&B, and nothing else. I mean I hardly ever listen to Ballard and R&B these days. It could be one reason that it makes me feel sad. That is why I am trying to listen to more of hip hop. I also listen to indi hip-hop because it reminds me my childhood.

Eminem, he had a really hard time when he was young unlike those people who jump to stardom in a single day with a wonderful family background and a good voice. He is white and has a great command of speedy high-tone Rap as well as a flow of Rap with originality, the critical words of a song….
The great characteristics of Eminem’s song are a unique expression and organization of a song. It is as if watching a movie, where his words act as the main features of his songs which are a concise in the development of the situation and a story-creation with transcendental imagination, wits and horror.

For example the lyrics from one of his songs "a child with a parentless family was living in a difficult way, added to his misery, when he was a victim of bullying at school, and there was no space to sleep at home so that in order to forget these agonies, he had to go out to sell some drink and drug".

Even though this sounds like a tragic drama and seems very extreme, it is described with a sense of humour, like the following lyrics "a man was chatting to his daughter with one thing and another on a car with carrying a dead wife who was killed by him".

We can see his bizarre creation of a situation described as a movie, like when he mentioned in a press release.

“The poor white trashes are as many as the black, there is no relationship with their skin and it is just realism not option”