YAHOO -- Searching for Eminem's controversial new agitprop video? Think of poor Gavin Sheridan who is getting buffeted with 12 gigs a month of transfer data, much of it related to the rapper of our time. Then point your eyes to Singing Fish where the hordes have pushed Eminem to the top of the digital video search charts.
Yahoo reports "the rapper's new anti-Bush video Mosh is up 1,239 percent in search. Eminem himself is up 37% in terms of search engine queries. The video is quality animation, expressing very direct criticism of President Bush. It could earn the rapper a visit from the FBI because the vdieo makes Bush a shooting target. But this video has legs. It should be getting primetime play in front of a white bread American public going blind from Fox News and the pseudo-religious waffle that emerges with an election pitch. There is no way anyone who watches "Mosh" can stereotype Eminem as an inane, uneducated rant case. This is required viewing on our multimedia degree course in Tipperary Institute.
The song "Mosh", from Eminem's forthcoming Encore, and its animation (directed by Ian Inaba of the Guerilla News Network), should set off alarms under young Americans. Whether that gets out the vote is another call.
This is Serious Eminem, laced with a martial piano line backed by low, plodding drums. It's most effective because it's dark and brooding with a consistent, steady cadence and vocal timbre, rather than gradually becoming unhinged.
The release of the video sparked a Yahoo Buzz where terms like "Eminem Mosh" (+455%), "Eminem Mosh lyrics" (+669%) and "Eminem Mosh video" (+496%) all blew up. Its a work-safe video that has even won the admiration of Moby (himself up +25% in search terms).
The lyrics:
[I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation under God
Indivisible・
It feels so good to be back..]
Scrutinize every word, memorize every line
I spit it once, refuel, reenergize, and rewind
I give sight to the blind, mind sight through the mind
I ostracise my right to express when I feel it's time
It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as
I say to fight you take it as I知 gonna whip someone's ass
If you don't understand don't even bother to ask
A father who has grown up with a fatherless past
Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has
Or at least shows no difficulty multi task
And juggling both, perhaps mastered his craft slash
Entrepreneur who has held long too few more rap acts
Who has had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half
Of his career typical manure moving past that
Mister kiss his ass crack, he's a class act
Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back
Come along, follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark, that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength,
Come with me, and I won't stear you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
Till the light, at the end, of the tunnel, we gonna fight,
We gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march through the swamp
We gonna mosh through the marsh, take us right through the doors
To the people up top, on the side and the middle,
Come together, let's all bomb and swamp just a little
Just let it gradually build, from the front to the back
All you can see is a sea of people, some white and some black
Don't matter what color, all that matters is we gathered together
To celebrate for the same cause, no matter the weather
If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better
They ain't gonna stop us, they can't, we're stronger now more then ever,
They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go,
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push up, mush, fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home come on just . . .
Come along, follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark, that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength,
Come with me, and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
Till the light, at the end, of the tunnel, we gonna fight,
We gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march through the swamp
We gonna mosh through the marsh, take us right through the doors, come on
Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us,
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's trying to tell us something, maybe this is God just saying
we're responsible for this monster, this coward, that we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head nodding,
How could we allow something like this, Without pumping our fist
Now this is our, final hour
Let me be the voice, and your strength, and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme, just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply it by six
Teen million people are equal of this high pitch
Maybe we can reach Al Quaida through my speech
Let the President answer on high anarchy
Strap him with AK-47, let him go
Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil
No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes, it's all lies, the stars and stripes
They've been swiped, washed out and wiped,
And Replaced with his own face, mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you'll know why, because I told you to fight
So come along, follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark, that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength,
Come with me, and I won't stear you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
Till the light, at the end, of the tunnel, we gonna fight,
We gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march through the swamp
We gonna mosh through the marsh, take us right through the doors
[Eminem speaking angrily]
And as we proceed, to mosh through this desert storm, in these closing statements, if they should argue, let us beg to differ, as we set aside our differences, and assemble our own army, to disarm this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president, for the present, and mosh for the future of our next generation, to speak and be heard, Mr. President, Mr. Senator.
Yahoo -- "Slim Shady Speaks Up" about his video. Altermath Entertainment/Interscope Records.
Guerrilla News Director's Note -- "Eminem's Mosh Music Video: Directed by GNN's Ian Inaba"
Pitchfork -- "Eminem and the vote"
Get the video. Then go vote.
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