The transformation is complete. I will admit I once owned a copy of an Eminem album. It was back in 2000 and my neighbor bought it and I copied hers. I figured if a woman owned it, then it couldn’t be that bad. I listened to it back in the day and thought Eminem was cleaver and funny and couldn’t understand why people didn’t get the joke.
So today I found the CD deep in the recesses of my collection and thought “what the heck, I haven’t heard this in a while.” About three songs in, I had to resist the urge to roll down the window and chuck this thing onto I-95. What finally did it for me was when one of the guest rappers on the album came on and talked about giving his sister the birthday present of losing her virginity to his crew. Yeah, not a damn thing funny or clever or witty about gang rape. I guess in a world where Courtney Love is allowed to raise a child, Eminem might not be the worst parent out there. I just hope Haley ends up becoming her father’s biggest critic. I guess if there is a “joke” to Eminem, I just don’t get it anymore.