- Eminem
- Public Enemy 1 - 2.4mb MP3
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- A track entitled 'Public Enemy 1' on Eminem's upcoming
mixtape The
Re-up caught my ear this afternoon. The track features a simple almost
militant style beat somewhat similar in tone to his last politically motivated
track Mosh. While
Mosh (which New York magazine called "the most important piece of
mainstream dissent since the 60s") alluded to 9/11 via caricatures
of Bush reading 'My Pet Goat' and newspaper clippings on 9/11 (including
the infamous 'Bush Knew' New York Post article), this new track goes into
much darker subjects.
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- Frames referencing 9/11 in Eminem's 'Mosh' music video
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- The track makes references to his phones being tapped,
how an FBI van might pull up and he might just disappear, or maybe get
taken out by a sniper one day. He goes on to say how he is focused on writing
as many tracks as he can just incase something happens, and takes it one
step further saying that he has already accepted he would be killed and
then painted negatively for his actions. This is the point where the track
briefly references 9/11 (after mentioning tremendous tremors) before going
on to talk about 2 Pac predicting his death, and JFK's assasination - an
allusion to them both being killed for being 'public enemy 1' in the past.
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- Here is a rough set of lyrics:
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- I sense someone's tapping into my phones why do...
- I got this feeling in my bones I might die soon...
- The F.B.I might be tryin to pull my file soon...
- I might be walking blind fold into a typhoon...
- I might be seeing rockets light up the night sky...
- Right outside of the window of my living room...
- And if they do you can say goodnight and bye bye to my
tunes...
- If I don't try to record as much before I do...
- The plan is to have as many in the can as I can...
- As I stand before you in this booth a walking deadman...
- Blank stare, dead pan look as my face as I gaze into
space...
- As I wait to be scooped up in that van...
- Mysteriously disappear into thin air...
- And they gon' say a sniper just appeared out of no where...
- And I'll go down in the history as the blood sucking
leech...
- Who hid behind the freedom of speech...
- Tried to take the fifth amendment use it, twist it and
bend it...
- (???)
- The business way to end this...
- I can feel the tremors tremendous...
- In remembrance of September 11...
- Flash back to September 7th...
- When Tupac was murdered in Vegas...
- He said that he predicted his own death...
- Let us never forget it or should we ever live to regret
it...
- Like the day John F Kennedy was assassinated in broad
day...
- By a crazed lunatic with a gun...
- Who just happened to work on the same block in a library
book depository...
- Where the President would go for a little Friday stroll...
- Shots fired from the grassy knoll...
- But they don't know or do they?...
- Who's they? Touché...
- We're all vulnerable and it's spooky...
- This is about as kooky as I've ever felt now...
- Count down to Nuclear Meltdown...
- 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
- You can run you can do what you want to...
- But you know you ain't gonna do nuttin...
- When its time its your time...
- You are the prime target...
- You have become Public Enemy Number 1...
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- While Eminem is not known for being a 9/11 skeptic, and
he has not overtly stated that he is one, there is plenty to suggest that
he is at least a questioner of the official story. Not only does this track
and the Mosh track reference 9/11, but his former DJ - Green Lantern -
had the track 'Bin
Laden' by Immortal Technique (featuring Mos Def) alongside tracks by
Eminem and other members of Shady Records. There are other past references
to 9/11 as well such as a mockery of Bin Laden speaking to a camera, and
having the backdrop fall down and reveal Dick Cheney and other members
of the Bush administration. Most of these references have been scattered
about so far, but perhaps that will change soon.
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- This is not Eminem's new album, it is a mix tape for
his label Shady Records, but it may give an idea as to what direction Eminem
will go in his next solo album - or at least we can hope. One thing is
for certain, if he did go down this direction further in the future he
most assuredly would become 'public enemy 1'.
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- Check out the song, post some thoughts, and check out
our large 9/11
related hip-hop section on <http://www.911podcasts.com/>911podcasts.com.
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