Month: August 2004

Her love for Eminem’s music has banned her from the UK

Her love for Eminem’s music has cost her a ban from England and Wales. Sharon Mc Loughlin used to play Eminem’s ‘ Stan ‘ at a loud level:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14493170&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=reclaim-our-streets–stan-and-deliver-name_page.html
Which made her neighbors’ every day life to a nightmare. Not everybody likes Eminem, particularly played at a loud level.
Her behavior has lead to her neighbor’s depression:
“My settee moves across the living room, my 15-month-old son’s cot moves across the floor and the constant music has me permanently on edge. My GP has prescribed me anti-depression tablets to cope.”
The British 33 years old woman’s story is a precedent: she’s the first person to be banned from the UK for such reasons.
Having experienced loud neighbors 5 years ago, I know how disturbing such behavior can be, but still, I am questioning myself about the measuring of decibels in this story. There seems to be something wrong with it.
First, the article from the UK Mirror states:
‘ Environmental health officers monitored it at 65 decibels – as loud as a passing train ‘
65 decibels don’t seem to be that loud and they certainly can’t be compared to a passing train that reaches around 100 decibels, as the following website tends to prove it:
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/wondernetdisplay.html?DOC=wondernet%5Cactivities%5Csound%5Csalt.html
If it is true that 65 decibels appreciatively correspond to a normal conversation or to laughter, then there are big chances that either the music was louder than that, either there is a manipulation behind the whole story.
Sharon Mc Loughlin completely denies have reached the highest sound levels and accuses her 3 children to be responsible of most of the noise.
Second, whether there is some exaggeration in the neighbor’s statements when she claims that Sharon’s music was louder than a plane, whether Sharon Mc Loughlin was much louder than 65 decibels, knowing that a plane taking off reaches around 130 decibels:
“We live near the airport and under the flight path but the planes aren’t nearly as noisy as her music.”
Maybe Sharon Mc Loughlin should have been more careful while playing her music.
There are several intelligent ways to avoid those problems while enjoying your music at the level you want to like to safe voice your appartment (of course, this solution might be costful), but why not simply use a stereo cask ?
Maybe there should have been more dialogue and mutual comprehension between Sharon and her neighbors, which could have avoided her eviction and also, one of Eminem fans’ worst nighmare: being deprived of his music.

Promatic album review

Let the dynamic Detroit duo Proof and Dogmatic introduce you into their crazy world. Journey through the streets of Detroit: mushrooms, hoes, lesbians and alcohol are part of your dangerous virtual trip to the 313.
Promatic is the example of a successful collaboration between two gifted emcees. Dogmatic, who is still underground, gives a particular dimension to the album.
‘ Take No Shorts ‘ shows the offensiveness of a crew of rappers who won’t compromise their style for anybody.
The song ‘ Ecstasy ‘ is an ode to the well known illegal substance. Dogmatic and Proof describe their addictiveness in funny terms and bring Bizarre’s talent into the scene.
The Promatic album will give you an authentic taste of 313 underground real hip hop. The hilarious and rebellious ‘ What I Do ‘ will make you enjoy Proof’s world.
Proof and Dogmatic’s work is definitely something different:
‘ Even though the album is hard and it’s got some definite street content, we didn’t want to just come out like that. We just wanted to show the people something different first. ‘ (Dogmatic)
Promatic’s main goal is also to make people discover more about Detroit:
“The world has never really got a taste of what Detroit is really about. They looked at the East Coast and then the West and then the South, but we’re in the middle. We got influences from all of that shit When we do our music, that’s just what it comes up as. There’s so many different aspects of music that we listen to in Detroit.”
As Dogmatic also points it out, Promatic is representative of Detroit City in its whole craziness and battling world:
“Everybody wants to know what Detroit really sounds like. Promatic, this is it. It’s niggas spitting, all the craziness. This is what Detroit is. It’s what conformed out of all that.”
Promatic is also a clever collaboration of the Detroit underground scene. The song ‘ Life ‘ features rap phenomenon King Gordy. ‘ Take No Shorts ‘ will allow you to discover less known talents such as Bakarac and Jus Bounce.
Promatic is musically rich of different styles. ‘ Feels Good ‘ distinguishes itself from the other songs and has even a little bit of the ‘ Barry White style ‘.
A dope album for mushroom graduates: grab the songs one by one and check it out.

An original interpretation of “‘97 Bonnie and Clyde”

An original interpretation of ‘ ’97 Bonnie And Clyde ‘
In 2001, a female artist, Tori Amos decides to work on Eminem’s well known track ‘ ’97 Bonnie And Clyde ‘. Kim has been inspirational to her. Not Kim Mathers, but the victim of the fictional murder by Slim Shady’
I have listened to her track. Tori Amos hasn’t changed any word from Eminem’s lyrics. She has sung the song with a female voice, leaving a scary atmosphere behind her. Interpreted this way, the song becomes very emotional from the victim’s side:
“When you talk about killing your wife, you don’t get to control whom she becomes friends with after she’s dead.” ‘ Tori Amos
It is fascinating how Tori Amos makes a fictional story look real. Maybe because she obviously ignores the reality of the context of the song:
– a father (Eminem) was obviously being manipulated by his baby’s mom (Kim) who wouldn’t let him see his daughter, as Mike Mazur, Eminem’s former boss confirms it:
‘ He would come in to work and worry and say, ‘The bitch took my daughter and won’t let me see her. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I don’t know what I’m going to do. ‘
Before despising Eminem, whose song is nothing else but artistic expression, the public should be aware of Kim’s manipulative side towards Marshall:
‘ Whenever we fight she takes Hailie away and uses her as a weapon against me. ‘ (Eminem)
To record ‘ ’97 Bonnie And Clyde ‘, Marshall had to lie to Kim:
” I lied to Kim and told her I was taking her to Chuck E. Cheese that day. But I took her to the studio. When she found out I used our daughter to write a song about killer her, she fucking blew. We had just got back together for a couple of weeks. Then I played her the song, and she bugged the fuck out.”P
People shouldn’t ignore Marshall’s reconciliation attempt. The existence of ‘ ’97 Bonnie And Clyde ‘ expresses Eminem’s pain about Kim’s behavior. The main reason why this song was created was his reconciliation attempt. It worked: in a couple of weeks Marshall and Kim were back together.
Tori Amos’ work is a beautiful peace of work. I am not convinced she understood Eminem’s motivations, when you look at the way she describes the original song:
‘ I’ve always found it fascinating how men say things and how women hear them. Words can wound and words can heal, and both are included on the album. When she first heard “97’ Bonnie & Clyde, the scariest thing was … the realization that people are getting into the music and grooving along to a song about a man who is butchering his wife.” (Tori Amos)
Tori Amos also missed that important point: usually people who are getting into Eminem’s music have a sense of humor. They are perfectly conscious of the fictional character of a song like ‘ ’97 Bonnie And Clyde ‘. Knowing the context of the song, you could barely take Slim Shady seriously when he ‘ murders ‘ Kim, who -by the way- is still alive since her double fictional ‘ murder ‘.

“What I Do”, a Proof-Dogmatic collaboration

Although Mc Big Proof is Eminem’s best friend, he really needed to take some distance with Shady Records and release his own work with different record labels. Thats’ why Promatic is a Koch Records production from the Contra Music Label and “I Miss the Hip Hop Shop” was released at Iron First Records.
The Proof-Dogmatic song and video is an amusing comedy that won’t leave you indifferent.
As well as while watching or listening to Eminem, the video will require from you a solid sense of humor. Some parents might be shocked by Proof and Dogmatic’s numerous references to drugs, and particularly while Proof is sniffing some glue. Before getting mad at Proof and Dogmatic who -by the way- have manage to pervert a whole class and make drug addicts of them, take the video for what it is: a hilarious comedy.
The two friends who seem to be to old to be high school pupils show up in the middle of a classroom. The song is rebellious against parents and that’s exactly what makes it so funny. Listen to Kevin (Dogmatic):
‘ Oh, that’s just my dad, when I talk shit he gets mad (arrgh)
I took his .44 mag, I put that mag in my bag
Took it to school, so I can blast all you faggots (arcade shot)
I think my teacher’s on rag, cause when I’m in class
All that bitch do is just nag
Kevin do that, Kevin do this
I do what I wanna do, slut suck my dick!
I can school skip
I can put weed to my lips
I can pop E and take trips
I can flip scripts
Smack all the girls on they hips
Dress like a blood and yell, CRIP!
Steal daddy’s Remy and take sips
Drink on the back of the porch and break shit
Break all the windows in dad’s car and dip
Fuck stealing keys, ignitions get ripped ‘ ‘
While Kevin talks against his father, Deshaun will bag on his mom:
“What am I grounded for?
Tell me one good reason
Moms is a dirty whore
Twice she been caught cheatin’
Why should I go to school?
You never went to school
Beating me with a broom
Just coz I bent the rules
I hate mom and dad, making me so sad
(Tshawn, clean up your room now!) No fag
No batch, so sad thinkin I’ll mind you
Wanna kill you and hide you
Where nobody can find you
Time to curse you, for giving me curfew
Every time that you beat me
‘Till my body purple
No, I won’t listen mom
Why don’t you shut your mouth?
School I’ve been missing out
Kids trying to punk me out
What I learn manners for?
Maybe you raised me wrong
All kids that graze me wrong
Get crazy play this song
Then can I have some friends
Make me come in to play
Dad always touch my skin
Now I’ma run away ‘
The dialogue between Dogmatic and Proof is a never ending circle: none of them will listen to each other’
If you haven’t bought the Promatic album yet, you will be able to watch the video here:
http://www.promaticworld.com/plot/video.shtml
Proof and Dogmatic clearly show their likes and dislikes. You guessed it: both are fond of weed and mushrooms. And if you don’t like it, both emcees will tell you to fuckoff.
Parents, relax a little bit if your kid is fond of the Promatic video: this won’t make a bad substance user of your kid. My 9 years old son is crazy over the ‘ What I Do ‘ video. He even understood that the use of glue was to make Proof ‘ get high ‘. He also understood that this example is, of course, not to follow. Trust your kids. They are cleverer than you think.
The ‘ What I Do ‘ video is incredibly good and original work based on an excellent duo collaboration. Dogmatic and his fellow Proof have introduced you in a true Detroit underground sound. Enjoy your stay while watching their great video.