The bleached-blonde kid with blue eyes who’s redefining the image of the “All-American Boy” has been labeled by Newsweek as the “most compelling figure in pop music” (5/29/00). Known by our kids as Eminem, he’s hanging out with them and peddling his angry, gut-wrenching worldview through his chart-topping albums and frequent airplay on MTV. Judging from his meteoric rise from nowhere into the center beam of the pop culture spotlight, the 26-year-old white kid from Detroit who’s become the new “King of Hip-Hop” has gained a huge young following for his “gleefully pathological” ( Newsweek, 7/19/99) music and message. You won’t see him hanging around the schoolyard or at your neighborhood playground, but there are probably few kids inNorth America who haven’t encountered him and his lessons on life. He’s been described as controversial, demented, vulgar, violently warped and offensive. ![]() ©2000, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding
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