Sure Some Music example essay topic

Why Criticize People For Helping Themselves? There are many things in this world that seem offensive. Some of what is considered offensive is necessary to how some people make their livings. Court systems, parents, and other groups have come to believe that what is said in music, movies, and video games, contribute to the actions of some individuals as youngsters. To me this is wrong; I have always felt that way. It has actually helped the people saying the stuff, more than it has every hurt anybody, and I am going to explain this in the rest of this writing.

Now when I talk about the person saying the offenses, I am speaking of the performers. Most of my paper is going to be centered on Interscope Records, and their number one artist, Marshal Mathers. Marshal Mathers is also known as Eminem, or Slim Shady. He says these are his alternate personalities, obviously a show for the fans.

Marshal Mathers is named after his grandfather. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and moved around with his mother until the age of 9. He never really had any friends, or family other than his mother until they settled down in Southwest Detroit. There they settled down into an apartment in the ghetto, and lived in poverty for most of his childhood. Marshal had no friends because of their constant moving, and being a skinny white kid in the ghetto, he got picked on, and bullied a lot. This caused him to grow more and more angry at the world, and then to finally isolate himself to work on his music.

He got teased a lot for wanting to be a white rapper, and never really got any appreciation until his first freestyle contest. At age 18 he entered his first rap freestyle contest and came in runner-up. This just encouraged him to try harder and entered in the Annual L.A. Rap Olympics one year later. He finally came out triumphant when he took first place. This started his career, because veteran rapper Dr. Dre was attending the Rap Olympics and liked what he heard. Dr. Dre at that time was the C.E.O. of Death Row Records at the time and immediately signed Eminem on for a record deal.

Marshal's first professionally recorded cd, Slim Shady L.P., started a nationwide fan club. He used language and lyrics that have never before been used in music, that offended most of the nation's parents. In one song on the Slim Shady L.P., entitled "97 Bonnie & Clyde", he sings about him and his daughter murdering his wife Kim Mather's and a man she is having an affair with. On other songs he wrote, he has come across as being homo-phobic. There is more than one track that has skits about gay people.

This also offended many people across the US. On the contrary, Marshal Mathers sang a remix of his song "Stan" with Elton John, a notoriously gay musical artist, to prove to the world that he is not homo-phobic. Now even though there are very offensive terms and phrases in his and other artist's music in the 1990's and the new millennium, the rappers themselves are doing great in life. Marshal, for example, has been relocated. He is living in L.A. in a multi-million dollar house, and living the high life. Through all his music that some people consider, "hate music", he has made a comfortable life for himself.

There are people that say that music is corrupting the behavior of children today. I know this is a very controversial subject, but in my mind, music and games have nothing to do with the behavior of people. Censorship should not be an issue in entertainment today. People behave the way they are brought up to behave.

That is not even a factor some of the time. I come from a hard family, one that is bad enough that I do not even want to explain, and I know that music does not affect the way I feel or act. Sure some music is offensive to people, but so is everything else in this world. Slang words, labels on certain people, it even comes down to college team names lately. Even if inappropriate material is take out of games, music, and movies, there will always be the news. You cannot stop what is happening in the world, and you cannot stop it from being displayed across the news media to the public.

The point is, that these performers have really straightened out their lives because of what they are doing. They should all be commended for making the best of their situations and working hard to come out of whatever madness they come from. They should not be told to stop what they are doing. The other people in this world should be told to work harder to straighten out their lives. By telling kids that listening to music and bad words will corrupt their minds, I believe that we inadvertently giving them an excuse to vent their steam. Think about that.