But across America, there were millions of kids my age who were blasting and singing along to the pop culture spoofs, the touching father-daughter ballads, and the frustrations he felt towards his ex-wife and mother. ![]() ![]() He took the CD from me and sent me to bed.ĭespite never having heard an Em song in its entirety, my dad knew enough to come to a few conclusions: the controversial lyricism, outlandish behavior, and rebellious image wasn’t what my dad wanted to expose to his young suburban son. Before that, I remembered attempting to rip a borrowed copy of The Eminem Show I’d gotten onto the family computer before being caught by my father. The first time I listened to the first Marshall Mathers LP in its entirety was shortly before the release of Relapse, when I’d just entered high school and had started doing my research on all the great Hip-Hop music I had been too sheltered to be exposed to.
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