The final line.

Ty Geertman 

Mrs. Hart 

12/19/12 


This is now my final post, and I shall be sharing with you all of the things that I learned about blogging, Eminem,

 my challenges, and rewards that I got.  One really interesting that that I was how many people where in the band,

and are still in it, including Eminem himself.  I also learned that Eminem's band got famous because of him.  

Once D12 started getting more famous a lot of people really liked them.  I also learned that Eminems childhood was a 

lot worst than what I thought.  And I didn't know that he had moved around, and changed schools so much, 

and that he dropped out.  One more thing that I had learned about his mom was that she was only 

15 when he was born.  A problem that I encountered with my blogging experience was uploading the pictures.  

They would not paste into my post, because of a few flaws that the iPad has. The way that I would get people to 

see my picture was type the web address and then type "to see this picture please visit:_____".  

My other problem with blogging about Eminem was fitting everything into one post.  Or even staying on topic, or not 

talking about his childhood, because that is what makes him Eminem.  I would sometimes veer off and then I would 

have to rewrite, or change some things about my post.  One thing that I found very rewarding about my blogging time 

was realizing that Eminem had a lot harder times than I have, and it makes me thankful for not having to go through 

all of the things that he did.  It also reminds you that we don't have it that bad off, depending on what it is.  Learning to 

blog also was a real reward itself.  I wasn't so sure about it at first, but as we got farther into it I really started to enjoy it,

 because I got to learn about such a legend in the rap game.  I also got to learn all the things a full time logger knows.  

Thank you so much for your time reading all of my posts, including this one! I really enjoyed making my blog and 

information available to you.  Please comment on any post, I would really appreciate it.    



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The best of the best

The best of the best


As I am closing onto my last post, I am now focusing on the best of Eminem.  An example would be like some of his albums, the most recent, and also the biggest and the best.  Eminem has a lot of big things in his life, and it was hard to choose just five.

Eminem's most recent, and one of his best selling albums, Recovery was release June 18, 2010, this album sold 741,000 albums in the first week (in America).  " The album debuted at number one on the U.S. billboard 200 chart, selling 741,000 copies in its first week in the U.S.". This album wasn't the people's favorite though, for their own certain reasons, I like this album, It shows how much Eminem really has to say, and it is a fine album, no matter what anyone says.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_(Eminem_album)

Eminem's next great accomplishment is Relapse, and this album was Eminem's sixth album.  This is also his first album after his 4 years of writers block, and Eminem is not exactly impressed with this album.  I feel like Relapse is a a good album, but it his not his best.  It is something he should be proud our though, because a lot of singers can't come out of things like this, and it is a great comeback for Em.  It keeps him going and helped him find himself for recovery, and his next albums.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/relapse_(Eminem_album)

One accomplishment that Eminem would probably say is his best would be the birth of his only daughter. December 25, 1995, Haillie Jade Mathers was born, it was with his girlfriend at the time, Kim.  Wich they would soon after get married, and then soon after that they got divorced. They have since dated, and broken up.  "Haillie used to live on the other side of Detroit with Kim, and only sometimes did Eminem get to see her, but eventually Kim moved back in with him.

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Eminem releases his biggest album! The news is that "the real slim shady" is finally out.  This is Eminems biggest and best album he has ever released.  This is what made Eminem famous, and also it's what mad his band (D12) famous, so a lot of people benefited from just this one album.  It was released on February 23 1999, this album sold over 1 million copies,and went platinum,and that his why its his best one yet.

www.eminem.net/biography

Eminem meets Dr. Dre at the rap Olympics in1997.  Eminem and Dr. Dre liked each other since the beginning. " down to nearly his last dime, he went to the 1997 rap Olympics, hoping to win the prize of 1,500 dollars, he ended up meeting Dre, and that started his career, maybe he didn't get the prize, but he has won millions of dollars instead."  I feel that this was Eminem's greatest accomplishment of all, because it has made him who he is, and he now has an amazing friend that always sticks by his side.

www.eminem.net/biography

Those five things I just shared to you about Eminem are probably his five greatest accomplishments as a singer/songwriter.  Yes he has had his ups, and his downs but don't we all? I know Eminem should, and is proud of all of these 5 things, and I feel that he should be.  Thank you for reading.


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To play, or Not to Play

I'd like to bring radio censorship to your attention.  This is somewhat of a big controversy, because some people think that the radio is not censoring enough, but at the same people are complaining that the radio censors too much.  This censorship really hurts Eminems ratings because he says some words that people would not like to hear on the radio, and people try to convince that they should just change some of the words.

In my first source that I have this person is arguing that the radio is arguing that the radio is way to protective.  He says that when they bleep out, or change words that kids will take it upon theirselves to search up the words, or lyrics on YouTube or any other site that will show them, so he is saying that they might as well play them, or kids could fill them in with their own imagination.

The next source is explaining why it is completely legal to play the full lyrics.  The source has said that it is the radio station that chooses to not play certain words or phrases.  The first amendment protects us from the government taking away our free speech, which means that the government itself cannot tell the radio to play, and what not to play.

Both of these sources believe that the radio stations should not bleep out words.  At the very least they would like stations tho change them to a word that is not so bad. These two sources though just have two very different ways of saying that. One source is taking the legal approach, while the other one is stating of how it may be better for children.

These two sources agree on on the playing the real version, like I said.  I think that stations should play what they think is appropriate.

My opinion on this topic however is keeping the stations the same, I liked listening to good music, and if I want to listen to the original version then I can download it into my phone, or my iPod even.  Thank you for your time.

1st source: http://cornellsun.com/node/46744

2nd source: http://www.nku.edu/~issues/music_censorship/laws.htm

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