Out My Closet Analysis

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The Real Slim Shady Humans are emotional beings, they get angry, sad, happy, and many more on the emotional spectrum, but that is only a display of emotion. In order for emotion to be felt by people, it needs to be channeled through a medium—song. Then, those lyrics become backed by the emotions sung behind it with harmony and rhythm ensuring that the message gets across. Music is, in other words, the expression of emotion—and rap is an essence of it.
Rap may be seen today as words “that has nothing meaningful to offer,” on the contrary, it is more than that--it is “poetry” with a “beat” (Dallam, 2007, pg. 84). As a result, it takes a strong analytical mind to use rap lyrics as a connection to the self and the world. The rapper takes what …show more content…

There are some specific songs and music videos that show his fans and the public who he is and how he feels about certain things. His music and relationships correlate with one another to a certain extent. In Cleanin’ Out My Closet he talks about his relationship with his mother and the ways he hurt her and how she hurt him. Years after, he releases the song Headlights which asks for forgiveness on how he talked about her in Cleanin’ Out My Closet. He also states that he knew that his songs would hurt her but he still made them and released them because he needed some sort of release and now he knows that everything she did was to help them. This shows his fans and the public that he has grown as a person and maybe even as a musician. Furthermore, he has a couple of songs that talk about his daughters and how he wishes that maybe some things were different. Marshall speaks about them in some songs and Mockingbird is one of them. Hilburn from LA times describes the tender Mockingbird as,
“[Eminem] outlin[ing] his devotion to his daughter, Hailie . . . [and] tries to help the child make sense of a world in which her father is always on the run because of his career” (Hilburn, …show more content…

From rough beginnings to eventual fame that would cost him so much in life, Eminem is the prime example for how rap can be a thing of beauty and pain. Through trials and tribulations Eminem has put everything on the line to make these dreams a reality. Through his music we learn the story of a man hurt by the world, hurt by his family, hurt by his circumstances, yet he still turned it into a lesson for the future. Each of these lesson leads to the possibility of another soul being saved, and in the end one can only assume that this is what he would have wanted. Despite the controversy surrounding his views on different subjects, it is hard to overlook what he has contributed to the world of rap. As such, Eminem will continue to be a shining example for the essence of rap and

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