Rap Music And Eminem's Space Bound

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Rap music has to be the most influential thing ever to be made. Rap is classified to me as rhythm and poetry, therefore, I believe that anyone who can write a poem and have rhythm to go with it, it’s rap. When I was younger, I never actually understood music, and a perfect example of this is Eminem’s song called Space Bound. I knew the lyrics by heart when I was about 12, but I never understood. So this is why I’m writing this essay, to show you how to (or explain how I learned to) read into rap music. Honestly, if you can read a book, you can understand lyrics.

I want to share my experiences with music, (how I got into it, etc). Basically it all started one spring day, in 2010. I was playing a popular game at the time on the computer called ROBLOX. I played that game all the time, but I was also into things like background music, so I went on youtube and instead of just listening to beats or whatever, I looked for a song, Eminem had recently released a song called Not Afraid. Now at the time, I kind of
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Comparing these 2 is basically how they both listen to the music. They both like some type of music and know these songs by heart. Now contrasting them I will say that people who love all types of music and love to find out what these songs mean usually are smarter and use more complex words in their vocabulary. They also tend to listen to music more or less all the time.

In conclusion, when I was younger, I heard Eminem’s song, and it really made me wonder what other rap music, including his, was about. So as I got older and started listening to more music, I learned how to figure out what these songs, especially rap music, mean. A lot of things go into doing this, but reading this essay will for sure help you. Just start off by learning what small lines in the song mean and put it all

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