“Drug Ballad” serves as Eminem’s “love song” directed towards the true lady in his life, that being drugs. Simply put, it serves as an ode to the intoxicants which play such an all-important role in his...
Eminem was not the first White rapper to be accepted as a credible emcee even within the African-American community, where hip-hop originated and was by and large developed. Rather that distinction would probably go to...
Pooh Shiesty’s “Back in Blood” is a perfect example of a true gangsta rap. It features the vocalists elaborating on the code of the streets, i.e. an eye for an eye, or perhaps we can...
Lyrically this is a relatively-complex song, to say the least. For instance, the name of this track was derived from an influential 1960s book by American author Marylin Bender whose title is “The Beautiful People”. This tune was...
Honestly the main theme of this song centers on the singer’s dependency on illegal substances, as well as we can say the aftereffects of him partaking of such. So with that understanding in mind, the...
Nipsey Hussle and Jay-Z’s “What It Feels Like” comes from the soundtrack of “Judas and the Black Messiah” (2021), a historical piece harking back to the heyday of the Black Panther Party. The Black Panther Party...
Eminem’s “The Kids” is both comedic and serious – if you want to perceive it as the latter – at the same time. It features Eminem, in the height of his rap-spitting glory, taking on...
Pink’s “Cover Me in Sunshine” is another song which sentimentally was birthed by the social woes resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. That is to say that it is premised on the discomfort that the song’s vocalist(s) has...
As with most Marilyn Manson singles, let’s say from this era (the 1990s) in particular, the lyrics of “The Dope Show” were obviously influenced by what we’ll refer to as the band’s affinity for illicit drugs. But...
“Don’t Chase the Dead” features the type of dark lyrics one would expect from Marilyn Manson. But that being noted, the wording is very, very open-ended. It was intentionally designed so by Manson, who “wanted… listeners to...