ic in the US, Wal-Mart. Unfortunately they tell you that they won’t stoke your album because it holds a parental advisory sticker. So then some other retailers pick up your album and you get lucky, people like you stuff. Everything’s working out for you, then the media gets a hold your album. Soon you have religious and community groups along with the entire media tearing you and your album apart. All of this because you want to tell people all over the US what it was like in your neighborhood growing up. This story, believe it or not, happens to musical artists all too often. People ask why must the music be so vulgar. Well, have you ever read a war novel or seen a war movie? If you take all the references to violence, obscenity, and anything else offensive out, then it would no longer be a war novel or movie. You wouldn’t realize what it was like to be in that war, which is the whole point of that particular film or book. The point is if you take away all the obscenity then the music loses its realism, and its point.Now I’m not saying everyone should be able to hear this type of music. Obviously some elementary level children might not be mature enough to understand it. Some teenagers aren’t mature enough. It isn’t all to be taken seriously, which is where several artists get in trouble with media, parents, religious groups, and such. Immature kids listen to the stories some of these artists tell about there live and take it seriously. An article in Billboard Magazine says, “Eminem’s provocative rap demands listening between the lines.” Do you know what this means? If you don’t, then you probably shouldn’t be listening to Eminem, because out of all the vulgar and obscene groups and artists out there, Eminem is the king of them all. But even Eminem says in his latest release “Stan” that he shouldn’t be and doesn’t mean to be tak...
