Whether or not one decides to take Tom MacDonald’s “Cloned Rappers” literally is ultimately up to the listener. For the most part, we will say that the subject matters of Tom’s tracks tend to be...
There is an old saying that goes “the hills have eyes”. What that basically means is that someone is always watching. And this is especially true when it comes to the lives of celebrities like The...
Most professional rappers have their come-up stories. These are the bars or sometimes entire songs which harp back to their pre-fame days, where even keeping food on the table could have proven to be a...
Celebrity entertainers, by default, are role models. Media, especially of the mainstream variety, is one of the primary socializing institutions which define the way that we conduct ourselves. And if someone reaches the upper echelons...
“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...
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...
On “Fake Woke”, Tom McDonald confronts a modern-day social phenomenon known as “cancel culture”. Cancel culture is another name for what transpires when a person says something politically incorrect and resultantly is ostracized by the online...
The lyrics of “Guns Blazing” are actually aimed at the romantic interests of the rappers who, as the title implies, the vocalists have beef with. In Dre’s case the logical implication, at least to some...
The sentiment behind Eminem’s “These Demons” is seemingly premised on how many people who criticize him are actually hypocrites. In other words, they want him to be uninhibited yet at the same time not to...
