From: "Paul Murphy" <Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Topic
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 12:30:39 +0100


I've listened to some of Emminem's stuff.  There's a lot of sentimentality,
an awful lot, and lots of stuff that is just crass, homophobic and a pretty
sad reflection on Emminem.  But then he can be funny, saying the kind of
things that people just think, mad, tangential things, and little crisp
lines that are very hard to resist, not that I'm in anyway justifiying
Emminem.  The whole thing about his deprived background's just a front?
He's really a rich kid isn't he?
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From: <BobAuler-AT-aol.com>
To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: Topic


>
> In a message dated 02/22/03 12:05:37 AM, Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com writes:
>
> <<  Having been to some poetry readings and hearing the views of poets on
pop
> culture, I'm not surprised that people find poetry so unfashionable.   >>
>
> you know, dammit, i have been listening to rap recently (blush).  it's
harder
> than hell to decode it, and the ideas are nasty and primitive.   the rules
> are all abrogated...if the rapper can abrogate things he never heard of.
but
> once in a while there is a crisp little rhyme or nugget of imagery that is
> strong and vibrant.   and it shows the ordinary people can't escape poetry
> and will reinvent it if it doesn't go to them.
>
>
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