A white rapper streams out and bust rhymes as sweat drips down his face. He thrusts his hands in a gangster rhythm and jumps viciously forwards and backwards as his face snarls with intimidation. The audience bounces along to the beat and listens word for word as the lyrics continuously burn over and over in their minds. This is the music created by Eminem, also known as Slim Shady, real name Marshall Mathers. Deep entrenched in Eminem's performance styles and values lays his disapproval of society's ignorance toward the violence of man; therefore, he strives to bring attention to violence by being vividly explicit in hopes of prevention. What makes him unique is the controversy that encompasses his music and image. The critics label Eminem as a white male exploiting the misery of the world and vividly drawing pictures of crime, rape, and racial and homosexual hatred to the virgin ears of the youth. His fans and other music moguls view Eminem as having explicit realism in his messages. Those messages are ironically mixed with fantasy in order to bring attention to the crazy actions of imbalanced people and events that have been deemed taboo in the world today.
             Eminem's music expresses a rage against a world that does not care or "joke" about the inhuman intentions of man or the violent and mentally depressed individuals who haunt the world today. "I'm like a head trip to listen to cause I'm only givin you things you joke about with your friends inside your living room The only difference is I got the balls to say it in front of y'all and I don't gotta be false or sugarcoated at all"("The Real Slim Shady"). Eminem's rebuttal in the criticism that he is too violently explicit is that what he is saying in his lyrics are real because people do have evil intentions, and he doesn't have to be nice and "sugarcoated" in expressing it. "You have the r...