Cleaning out my Closet by:Eminem ( Social Action #1)

Where's my snare?
I have no snare in my headphones - there you go
Yeah... yo, yo

Have you ever been hated or discriminated against?
I have; I've been protested and demonstrated against
Picket signs for my wicked rhymes, look at the times
Sick as the mind of the kid that's behind
All this commotion emotions run deep as ocean's explodin
Tempers flarin from parents just blow 'em off and keep goin
Not takin nothin from no one give 'em long as I'm breathin
Keep kickin  in the mornin and takin names in the evenin
Leave 'em with a taste as sour as vinegar in they mouth
See they can trigger me, but they'll never figure me out
Look at me now; I bet ya probably sick of me now ain't you momma?
I'm a make you look so ridiculous now

I'm sorry momma!
I never meant to hurt you!
I never meant to make you cry; but tonight
I'm cleanin out my closet (one more time)
I said I'm sorry momma!
I never meant to hurt you!
I never meant to make you cry; but tonight
I'm cleanin out my closet

Ha! I got some skeletons in my closet
And I don't know if no one knows it
So before they thrown me inside my coffin and close it
I'm a expose it; I'll take you back to '73
Before I ever had a multi-platinum sellin CD
I was a baby, maybe I was just a couple of months
My  father must have had in a bunch
Cause he split, I wonder if he even kissed me goodbye
No I don't on second thought I just wished he would die
I look at Hailie, and I couldn't picture leavin her side
Even if I hated Kim, I grit my teeth and I'd try
To make it work with her at least for Hailie's sake
I maybe made some mistakes.

I am a big fan of Eminem. This song was very deep and emotional. Eminem was young and had a painful life with his mother. Eminem has been bullied and his mother took a lot of drugs. Eminem's mother (Debbie) abused Eminem emotionally,physically,and verbally as well. Eminem had suffered more than as well. Eminem was bullied by a guy named Bailey. Bailey injured Eminem so much that Eminem got broken noses and sort of lost his vision in one of the eye, Debbie ended up suing his school for bad protection. Debbie was accused of putting her own son on drugs. Eminem was addicted to drugs because of his mother. This song he wrote and sang was about his dark past. Cleaning out my Closet is sort of an expression showing that how ever since he was a little kid, he tried to hide his past (  all his memories were sort of locked up in a closet.) Eminem wants to spill and tell everyone about his painful memories and does not want to keep it a secret anymore. Eminem wasn't only trying to clear out his childhood, but wanted everyone to know what his wife (Kim) did to him as well and wanted to start over again. Kim and Eminem knew each other as a kid and fell in love and got married. Eventually, Eminem became extremely famous because of his rapping, but Kim never loved him. Kim cared all was about money. Kim eventually cheated on Eminem, but Eminem found out and it caused a deeper hate for Kim. In the song Eminem wrote the lyrics  " I got some skeletons in my closet .And I don't know if no one knows it .So before they thrown me inside my coffin and close it.I'm a expose it; I'll take you back to '73"  I thinks what this means is that since Eminem kept these secrets with him for so long... it turned into  skeletons. I thought that this was like a metaphor because he compared it to dead bodies (skeletons) with his secrets. I kind of also changed the lyrics because their was few curses and I deleted the curses. But, I chose this song because it related to social issues like drugs, child abuse and bullying. So for those of you who didn't listen to this song, you really should. This isn't the whole entire song, this is only part of it.