Miller told detectives he was possessed and he visualized his wife, Adreana Miller, as a demon. Just before stabbing her at 4 a.m., he told police he started screaming lyrics from an Eminem song, saying, "Here comes Satan, I'm the anti-Christ, I'm going to kill you."
It's wrong, of course, to blame Eminem or his music for these murders. Stipulated, free and clear. Still, I hope Eminem is horrified by this, and feels in some sense guilty, because he -- and his record company -- are at some level morally implicated in this gruesome killing.
I do not believe for a second that artists should stay away from dark material; to do so would be to be untrue to life. What matters is how they use that dark material. When you work with violence, anger, spitefulness, or any manifestation of evil in your art, you are dealing with forces, psychological and otherwise, that are more powerful than you may understand. They should be handled with utmost care. If you don't have the moral maturity to understand that, you shouldn't deal with this stuff.
Take a look at the lyrics from the latest Eminem album, and judge for yourself if the man is handling his material in anything but a grotesquely exploitative and, yes, evil way. He raps about murder, insanity, rape, demonic possession, perversion (e.g., he raps in vomitous detail about how he was allegedly raped as a boy by his stepfather, and goes on to describe stomach-churning sex acts) I've posted lyrics for a couple of songs below the jump. The first, "3 A.M.," is written from the point of view of a serial killer who stays drunk and drugged, and masturbates while thinking of Hannah Montana.
Eminem indulges in the pornography of violence. The record company executives who pay him to do this are equally culpable. That our culture not only accepts this into the mainstream, but celebrates it, shows how far gone we are into decadence. In any healthy, sane, balanced society, Eminem would be a fringe outlier. In our society, he's rich, famous and widely praised.
I know, I know, we're sophisticated, and we establish ironic distance between ourselves and these songs. But if we spend our time feeding this garbage to our individual and collective minds, we shouldn't be surprised when its foul spirit takes possession of the minds of some. Eminem's is a primitive deathwork, a grunted liturgy of the Culture of Death. In the end, there's no getting around the fact that a man stabbed his wife and child to death, with the words of Marshall Mathers on his lips. That's on you, Marshall Mathers. Live with that, Mister.
3 A.M.Ohh ohhh
Oh(yea) oh(yea) oh(yea)
Ohh ohhh
Ohhh
Oh(yea) oh(yea) oh(yea)
Ohh ohh
Oohh
Oh(yea) oh(yea) oh(yea) oh(yea)oh(yea)
Ohh
Woahh
There is no escaping (yo)(yooo)
There's no place to hide(yooo)(yooo)
Yes please someone save me(yo)(yooo)
But they don't pave no mind( yooo) (yooo)
(Good night)
Good bye(Verse 1)
Your walkin down a horror corridor
It's almost 4 in the mornin
And your in a
Nightmare
It's HORRIBLE
Right there's the coroner
Waitin for you
To turn the corner
So he can corner ya
Your a goner
He's ona ya
Out the corner of his cornea
He just saw you run
All you want is to rest
Cause you can't run anymore
Your done
All he wants is to kill you in front of an audience
While everybody
Is watchin in the party applauding it
Here I sit while I'm caught up in deep thought again
Contemplading my next plot again
Swallowin the Klonopin
While I'm noddin
In and out on the autumn and
If the ramada inn
Holdin onto the pill bottle then
Lick my finger and swirl it round the bottom
And make sure I got all of it
Wake up naked at mcdonalds
With
Blood all over me
Dead bodies
Behind the counter
SHIT
Guess I must of just blacked out again
NOT AGAIN(Chorus)
It's 3 a.m in the mornin
Put my key in the door and
Bodies layin all of the floor and
I don't remember how they got there but I guess I must of killed em
Killed emI said
It's 3 am in the mornin
Put my key in the door and
Bodies layin all of the floor and
I don't remember how they got there but I guess I must of killed em
Killed em(Verse 2)
Sitting nude in my living room
It's almost noon
I wonder what's on the tube
Maybe they'll show some boobs
Surfing every channel
Until I find hannah montana
Then I reach for the aloe and lanalin
Bust all over the wall panel and dismantlin
Every candle on top of the fire place
Mantalin
Grab my flannel and my bandanna then
Kiss the naked manakin man again
You can see him standin in my
Front window
If you look in
I'm just a hooligan
Who's use to usin hallucinogens
Causin illusions again
Brain contusions again
Cutting and bruising the skin
Raise the scissors and pins
Jesus when does it end
Phases that I go through
Dazed and I'm so confused
Days that I don't know who
Gave these molecules too
Me
What am I gone do
Had the prodigal son
The diabolical one
Very methodical
I slaughtered them(Chorus)
It's 3 a.m in the mornin
Put my key in the door and
Bodies layin all of the floor and
I don't remember how they got there but I guess I must of killed em
Killed emI said
It's 3 am in the mornin
Put my key in the door and
Bodies layin all of the floor and
I don't remember how they got there but I guess I must of killed em
Killed em(Verse 3)
She puts the lotion in the bucket
He puts the lotion on the skin
Or else it gets the hose again
She puts the lotion in the bucket
He puts the lotion on the skin
Or else it gets the hose againI duck and I slash slice and gash
Last night was a blast
I can't quite remember when I
Had that much fun
Off a half pint of the jack
My last vic and a half
A flashlight
Up Kim kardashians assI remember the first time
I dismembered a family member
December I think it was
I was having drinks with my cuz
And I wrapped him
In Christmas lights
Pushed him into the stinkin tub
Cut him up into pieces
Then just when I went to drink his
Blood
I thought I outta drink this bath water
That outta be fun
That's when my days of serial murder man slaughter begun
The sight of blood excites me
That might be an artery son
Your blood curdling screams
Just don't seem to bother me none
It's 3 am
And here I come
So you should probably run
A secret passage way around here
Man there's got to be one
Oh no there's probably none
He can scream all that he wants
Top of his lungs
It aint no stoppin me from choppin him up(up)(Chorus)
Cause it's 3 a.m in the mornin
Put my key in the door and
Bodies layin all of the floor and
I don't remember how they got there but I guess I must of killed em
Killed emI said
It's 3 am in the mornin
Put my key in the door and
Bodies layin all of the floor and
I don't remember how they got there but I guess I must of killed em
Killed emYooo (yoooo)
A yoooo (a yoooo)
Yooo (yoooo)
A yoooo (a yoooo)
Yooo (yoooo)
A yoooo (a yoooo)
Yooo (yoooo)
A yoooo ( a yoooo)
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I have to note that my own assertion in the postscript to my previous post is partially incorrect, as Rod this morning (10:14 am) has posted a follow-up to "Murder by Eminem" acknowledging that the lyrics attributed to Eminem were not actually his.
Rod still has not apologized for his uncalled-for personal remarks/rebuke addressed to Mathers, however.
I duck and I slash slice and gash
Last night was a blast
I can't quite remember when I
Had that much fun
Off a half pint of the jack
My last vic and a half
A flashlight
Up Kim kardashians ass
I remember the first time
I dismembered a family member
December I think it was
I was having drinks with my cuz
And I wrapped him
In Christmas lights
Pushed him into the stinkin tub
Cut him up into pieces
Then just when I went to drink his
Blood
I thought I outta drink this bath water
That outta be fun
That's when my days of serial murder man slaughter begun
The sight of blood excites me
That might be an artery son
Your blood curdling screams
Just don't seem to bother me none
It's 3 am
And here I come
So you should probably run
A secret passage way around here
Man there's got to be one
Oh no there's probably none
He can scream all that he wants
Top of his lungs
It aint no stoppin me from choppin him up(up)
This is my favorite verse in the song but it doesent make me wanna murder anyone WAS THAT GUY NUTS?..........NO HE'S INSANE HAHAHAHA
yu ppl are soo stupid its not eminems fault he didnt kill anyone that stupid man killed his family he is using eminem as an excuse
Dude who ever blames Eminem for the murder is RIDICULOUS. Eminem's latest album is a really good album. Eminem has been suffering from drug addiction the past few years and wrote all these songs under the influence of valium. He was born an addict due to his mother and he was raped by his stepdad so he's been dealing with alot of issues his whole life but yet he turned his life around and is off of drugs and is now coming out with another album this month. Eminem only raps about alot of these worrible things because they actually HAPPENED. The guy who murdered his family would have done it whether or not Eminem would have released the song.
hey guys. have anyone of you noticed that the words, "here comes satan, I'm the anti-Christ, I'm going to kill you" arent in any of eminems songs, and its foolish to believe that a dark force is behind eminem and his lyrics and that hes to blame. the guy has a mind of his own. listening to eminems lyrics is no different from watching a horror movie or anything. you dont see people killing others after watching Saw. in one of eminems songs hes says,"They say music can alter moods and talk to you
Well can it load a gun up for you , and cock it too" so his lyrics cant physically do the stuff. eminems, horror film influenced songs are no different from sex based raps or gangsta rap that talks bout shooting and steeling.plus eminem talks bout stuff other than that whether its from speaking to the lower class of america(lose yourself) or to answering political quesions (Mosh) or even morality(beautiful). no matter crazy it is or true u can relate him to the beatles because some of his raps have meaning and reach out to people no matter how vulgur the language.
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