RE: Eminems success / labels future

[Michael Clark <mcl451@airmail.net>]

Music is an expression of emotion.  Anger is an emotion.  There is a lot of
anger out there.  Most of time, it's called "rock and roll."

M...


At 03:34 AM 10/2/02 -0500, you wrote:
>At the risk of getting the wrath of the anti-Eminem folks...
>I've come to my own personal revelation that anyone who makes it in the
>music business
>doesn't suck, they have each worked hard in their own way to refine their
>God given talents and their karma and hard work has put them there. I 
>think
>it's a matter of taste and not a judgment on whether a particular artist 
>can
>play or not.
>
>I do believe the Sound Current (Music) has such a powerful impact on all 
>of
>life and think it's unfortunate that artists use it unconsciously to 
>express
>their anger and rage and the lowest common denominators in life which 
>breeds
>more of the same (the recent episode at Woodstock would be an example) but
>so goes life in the current Kali-Yuga (Iron Age). At least we have the so
>called "freedom" to express ourselves in our glorious US of A! (and those
>freedoms maybe slipping through our hands)
>
>We all make our own beds and have to sleep in them....
>sweet dreams beautiful brothers and sisters of the Loop!
>
>In Spirit,
>ARTHUR LEE
>www.arthurleemusic.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Clark [mailto:mcl451@airmail.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:36 PM
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Eminems success / labels future
>
>
>Hey, Vanilla Ice is my favorite artist!  Well, besides Burl Haggard.
>
>M..
>
>
>At 02:33 PM 10/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Perhaps it was my gagging that distracted me and made me think he was
>off.
>>(OH,
>>> LOOK AT ME!  I'M PERFORMING WITH A GAY!  I'M NO HOMOPHOBE!)
>>
>>Aww come on - they looked so cute together. Besides, Elton John isn't
>>homophobic.
>>
>>> Frankly, my best
>>> opinion of him is that he's a worthless piece of shit clogging up our
>>culture.
>>> But I mean that in a good way.  Can we change the subject?  Talking 
>about
>>his
>>> "music" is akin to talking about Hitler's paintings in my world.  I'd
>>rather just
>>> hope that history forgets Eminem and stores him in a bin next to 
>Vanilla
>>Ice.
>>>
>>
>>Are you refering to the "white men can't rap" section, or the 'white men,
>>can't rap" section?
>>
>>Put me in the 'what's the big deal with Slim Whiney' category. And no, I 
>do
>>like plenty of other hiphop.
>>
>>bIz
>>
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