?Carly Pietrosimone English 101 Professor Foundas October 16, 2014 Music Speaks for Us As in every generation, there is new music and artists that the people get to listen to or start to obsess about. As we listen to these songs, we start to recite the words that these artists are signing and we sometimes really connect to the song because of the lyrics true meanings. By personal experiences or something you are going through just momentarily, we all know songs to get us through times of happiness, sorrow, and anger. Eminem (Marshall Mathers) was one of those artists and still is that speaks to us when he raps his songs. A lot of teens and people of our/past generations connect to Eminem because he is so honest in his songs it’s like we trust him and know him personally. He raps the thoughts of what we want to say about the way we feel towards parents and so forth. I have not grown up in a broken home or had any time of abandonment in life with my parents but it does not mean I did not feel that way in one point in my life or another. When I wanted to get away from the real world, I would put music on either happy or sad I didn’t care as long as I had something else in my head then everybody else. Eminem was one of my favorite rappers when I was younger; I started listening to him when I was like 8 or 9. As I would sing his lyrics my mom would look at me strange but knew I had no idea what I was saying. As I grew though I started really understanding what he was saying in his songs and I started to relate a lot more. Going through rough times with my family during high school I would sit in my room and listen to his album The Eminem Show, just analyzing everything he said. Then I realized how much he helped me get by the hard times like that just with listening to his songs, it’s like I released my energy into them without doing anything. He said hurtful things in that album but in that moment that’s how I was feeling and t