歌手簡介
阿姆(Eminem,又名艾米納姆)於1972年10月17日岀生在美國密蘇里州的聖約瑟夫,本名為馬歇爾·布魯斯·馬澤斯三世,是美國最受歡迎和最具爭議的說唱樂手之一。阿姆是嘻哈界極少數成功的白人歌手之一,音樂也受到樂評人廣泛好評。他自己作的歌詞韻律感很強,也能夠在保持音樂節拍不變的情況下在一首歌中改變好幾次自己的說唱節奏和風格。同時他也因為歌詞的內容備受爭議,滲透著反同性戀、厭惡女性的情緒,也過分描繪暴力。不過他最近的一些舉動也在這些方面有所改觀,如參加海嘯捐款,和同志歌星艾爾頓·約翰共同演出、握手、擁抱等。阿姆的歌詞涉及範圍很廣,例如愛滋病在朋友之間的傳播等。他同樣也在歌中流露出反戰、反對小布希的看法。曾被雷爾教派的領袖雷爾封為榮譽神父,但他卻是皈依的基督教徒。他反對說唱樂手之間的互相仇殺、反對虐待兒童。儘管認為自己並不是個在政治方面激進好鬥的藝人,他也確實在一些方面嘲諷過美國的政治現象。
歌詞
Eminem - Yellow Brick Road
What we have to do is deal with it when these idividuals are young enough.
If you wish to be saved, not in a religious sense
but not to constitute what this country at times calls if or which over.
We seem to be approaching an age of the gross.
We all have this idea that we should move up from our parents station
and each generation should do a little bit better.
Come on, let’s cut the bullshit enough
Let’s get it started, let’s start addressing this issue and open it up
Let’s take this shit back to bassmint
And we can disscuss statements thats made on this tape
And its whole origin of the music that we all know and love
The music that we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of tryna destroy
Let’s rewind it to 89 when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit
Crossin 8 Mile in the border in the hate territory
I’d like to share a story,
this is my story and cant no body tell it for me
You will well inform me, I am well aware that I don’t belong here
You’ve made that perfectly clear,
I get my ass kicked damn near everywhere
From Bel-Air shopping center just for stopping in there
From the black side all the way to the white side
Okay there’s a bright side a day that I might slide
You may call it a past I call it haulin my ass
Through that patch of grass over them railroad tracks
Oh them railroad tracks, them old railroad tracks
Them good old notorious oh well known tracks
Come on lets go back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
That I once used to call home sweet home
I roam the streets so much they call me a drifter
Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch hike
Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and van dike
And steal a god damn bike from somebody’s backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the half way mark
To meet Kim had to walk back to her mama’s them dramas after dark
To sneak me in the house when I’m kicked out my mom’s
Thats about the time I first met Proof when poof he’d carry on the set
Set eyes born in and out some flyers, he was doin some talent shows
At center line, I had told him to stop by and check this out sometime
He looked at me like I’m out my mind
shook his head like white boys dont know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first place
And we both had the same rhymes that sound alike
We was on the same shit that Big Daddy Kane shit
with compound syllables sound combined
From that day we was down to ride
somehow we knew we’d meet again somewhere down the line
Come on lets go back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
That I once used to call home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can’t forget that day at school
It was cool till your man MC Sham came through
And said that Boom was the brain cuz the clan makes troops
It was rumors but man god damned they flew
Musta been true because man we done banned they shoes
I had the new ones the Cool J, Ice land swayed too
And we just through them in the trash like they yesterday’s news
Guess who came through next, X clam debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and green
With a key sissies now with this bein a new trend
We don’t fit in crackas is out with Cactus albums
Blackness is in, African symbols and medallions
Represents black power and we ain’t know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and ??? would go to the mall with ’em
All over our necks like we’re showin ’em off not knowin at all
We was bein laughed at you ain’t even half black
You ain’t supposed to have that homie let me grab that
And that Flavor Flave clock we gon’ have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin back at Manix’s basement
Sayin how we hate this, our races wit dope the x clan take this
Which reminds me back in 89 me and Kim broke up for the first time
She was tryna two...