Eminem, rap music and crotch grabbing
12-May-2008
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Eminem, rap music and crotch grabbing

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I have to admit that I do not understand or enjoy rap music and I have no idea why guys like Eminem and Will Smith have to continually grab their crotch when they sing.  Is it me, or is that just a reall weird thing to do when you perform on stage?

Eminem

What IS that all about? I was wondering if Will Smith’s got a second microphone there or something?  Does Eminem keep his vocal chords there perhaps?  A more likely explanation would be that the awful noise coming from the mouth makes the testicles shrivel up.  Maybe it has something to do with the fact that rap music has black origins and black men are renowned for certain physical attributes?  This I can kind of understand, so we’ll let Will Smith off the hook at this point!  But what about white rapper’s such as Eminem?  What’s their excuse for all this strange behaviour, and why are they trying to be something they’re not?

Also, I don’t really understand what the songs are about half the time, if indeed they can be called songs.  Seems to me more like a race to cram as many words into a verse as possible but they’ve got to rhyme or something.  Maybe some talent there after all, who knows!  The few songs I’ve been able to follow are all very similar and the subject matter is the same.  They all rant on about cars, jewellery and women from what I can tell!  The exception again, is Mr Eminem who goes for a much more personal approach.  God, he must have had a miserable life!  Did he really hurt his momma then?

I don’t mean to offend Mr Eminem, or any rapper for that matter.  I just don’t get why some people find this ‘gansta’ music cool, and why do the people who like it play it so loud in their cars?  I especially can’t get over the crotch-grabbing thing; absolutely hilarious in my opinion!  At least it makes for good entertainment.


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Maybe it's to help them hit the high notes?
Apparently the above is too short so blah blah blah!
*grumpyoldwoman  18-Apr-2008 16:57

 
There Gangstas Or Chavs W.e
+ There Rappers Thats Proberly Why
*AmyBabes  09-Apr-2008 16:33

 
It really ticks me off to see these rapcrap singers..and I use the words singers very loosely...grabbing their crotch CONSTANTLY..WTF do they have to do that for? Do they want to make sure its still there because the last ho' they screwed may have had a disease that made it rot away? Oh..I would love to be a doctor and just sterilize everyone of them at birth so they cant understand at 12 the first time they rape someone..why she didnt get pregnant and to avoid any other possible way they can reproduce!
*RAPHATER  31-Mar-2008 22:02

 
Dear All

As in the above article about "crotch grabbing" I wish to say I feel exactly the same.

Truly fail to see the attraction and need of this type of action, I find it extremely irritating, the same also applies to people instead of hand shaking touch each other by the meeting of their knuckles, finally feel the same when people do this intertwining of their digits in various ways then have their shoulders meet.

Wish to say I have full respect for all nationalities, have never practised discrimination in any form and never will, I may be 59 years in age however am very much in touch with the present day trends but do prefer shall I say the old ways.

With sincere best wishes.

Peter John Stubbs
*Peter John Stubbs  31-Mar-2008 18:33

 
I think Eminem holds his crotch just to make sure that his "equipment" is still there, because his so called music is bad enough to make anyones balls shrivel.
*Music critic  07-Mar-2008 23:38

 
Deathrocker...you are a damned fool. Blogs and forums are for the exchange of opinions and ideas, not the random ravings of a subnormal. I'm sure you're as committed to your taste in music as everyone else on this site is but because none of you are taking the time to state an answer to a question and possibly inform the people around you, hopefully spreading thought provoking concepts that might inspire someone to seek further within themselves to life altering epiphanies, you sink into a cesspool of hostile blurts, stupid platitudes and a one way ticket to a "jailhouse honeymoon". Good luck.
*No One In Particular  02-Feb-2008 23:55

 
Eminem is crap, rap is crap, hip hop is crap. R&B is crap. Its all crap. Theres nothing better than Horror punk, psychobilly and Deathrock.
*Deathrocker!!!!!!!!!!  02-Feb-2008 06:47

 
Does the word spellcheck mean anything to you clowns? I realize that pride is essential when viewing the manner in which someone tries to put their message across but grabbing your bag seems more like something a damned animal would do.
*No One In Particular  31-Jan-2008 21:29

 
Hiya,
Does enybody no how old you have to be to go see eminem in concert?
I dont no why he grabs his crotch like cazza! x said " ITS HOT"
"HES HOT"

Bye
*princєss  17-Dec-2007 21:13

 
Stupid uninteligent comments like these do nothing for the image of this style of music. If you read carefully you will see that color has nothing to do with the issue and that the whole article is a query, a lack of understanding perhaps and hence the questioning of the behaviour of the artists. It is normal to question that which you do not understand. If you can, respond with information and enlightenment instead of insults and brain dead comments loaded with opinion!
*Beefy  25-Nov-2007 15:18

 
Hi that comment was not from me [bellow]
are you black because your realy dissing eminem and hes the best rapper out there so shut it he can do what he likes

I would never say that and I just want to get this point out eminem is the best rapper out there he dosent rap about crap he raps about real things
hes the best x
*cazza! x  18-Nov-2007 12:05

 
are you black because your realy dissing eminem and hes the best rapper out there so shut it he can do what he likes
*cazza! x  17-Nov-2007 14:32


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