....just celebrate your freedom to say Fuck fuck fuck..
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses-for art establishes the basic human truth that must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.” Poetry often celebrates the anguish of creation, and the role of conscience in a sometimes dehumanized modern world.
We celebrate the nonconformist. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. We also honor those with moral courage. We celebrate the creative spirit, which recognized or not, has shaped our civilization.
And today I Celebrate the musical genius of Rap Star artist Eminem, who during the middle of the war had the courage to question power and asked life's difficult questions on the possibility that we could have another draft. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Nothing moves me more than a groove that suits me
Nothing suits me more than a groove that boosts me
Nothing boosts me more or suites me beautifully
There's nothing you can do to me, stab me, shoot me
Psychotic hypnotic product I gotta take an antibiotic
Ain't nobody hotter and so on and yada yada
Gotta talk alot of hum-hei-la-da-da-der
Oochie walla-walla-mmm-de-da-da but you gotta gotta
Keep moving there's more music to make
Keep making new shit, produce hits to break
The monotony what's gotten into me?
On your knees, got you under siege
Yeh you laugh til your motherfucking ass gets drafted
When you're in bed here thinking the draft cant happen
'Til you fuck around getting anthrax napkin
Inside a package wrapped in saranrap wrapping
Open the plastic, and then you stand back gasping
Fucking assassins hijacking anthrax crashing
All this terror, America demands action
Next thing you know, you've got uncle sam's ass asking
To join our army, or what you do for their navy
You just a baby getting recruited at 18
You're on a plane now eating their food and their baked beans
I'm 28, they 'gon take you 'fore they take me
Crazy insane or insane crazy?
When I say Hussein, you say Shady!
From the Album "The Eminem Show", title track, Square Dance.