Word: eminem
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...talk, given at the ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government, Ireland frequently digressed, covering topics ranging from rapper Eminem's hotly debated lyrics to the Taliban's treatment of women in Afghanistan...
...last, America's most notorious hip-hopper and many of the parents who hate him have something in common. Pills. Specifically, prescription painkillers like Vicodin. Eminem, who sports a Vicodin tattoo on his left arm, is the pill's unofficial spokesperson. Last month, in his duet with Elton John at the Grammys, he rapped, "I'm on a thousand downers now/ I'm drowsy." It's easy to imagine that, as they glared at the TV, boomers around the country alleviated their annoyance at Eminem's notoriety by swallowing the very drug their nemesis was naming...
...time will become an addict, says Dr. Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He suspects that most of those abusing Vicodin obtained the drug illegally. Says Leshner: "It's important to separate when the substance is a medicine and when it is abused." Just ask Eminem, who in Under the Influence declares, "I'm like a mummy at night/fightin' with bright lightning/frightened with five little white Vicodin pills bitin...
...There's a lot I want to know. I want to know, now that he's been found not guilty, if he feels that the prosecution was a malicious one. I want to know if he feels that hip-hop is receiving unfair legal scrutiny (Eminem and DMX are also facing jail time in unrelated cases). I want to know if he thinks that the whole nasty club shooting incident and subsequent trial busted up his relationship with one of the hottest women in the world. But he dodges questions about specifics, promising to get into details at another time...
...Unconvinced small businesses need OSHA's "silly goggle rule" b) Sure that no one can see him c) Being given a tour of a factory in Beaver, Pa. d) About to sing a duet with Eminem...