Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:20:41
The Great White Rapper
The techno musician made headlines a few years back when he accused the rapper of promoting homophobia with his songs. Now, Moby is telling Eminem and anyone who promotes his “misogynistic” music: “you have blood on your hands.”
Moby’s outrage stems largely from a recent case in which an Eminem fan and impersonator recently was convicted of murdering a woman and stuffing her in a suitcase. The man had just finished a karaoke performance singing Eminem’s music. In his video, “Stan,” Eminem murders a woman he put in the trunk of a car.
“If a musician made a record wherein he talked about killing blacks and Jews would he get covered in the press and played on radio and MTV? If the answer is ‘no’ (as it should be), then why is radio and MTV filled with music that has lyrics about killing and brutalizing women and gays?” Moby asks on his Web site. “Any employee of a record company or journalist or radio programmer or MTV employee who has promoted and celebrated misogynistic or homophobic music should be ashamed. You have blood on your hands, and you should be deeply, deeply troubled at the culture that you’ve helped to create.”
Regarding the murder case, Eminem has joked that he’s “completely innocent. I should be cleared of all charges” and has said that the “hype” surrounding the case should be good for his career.
He just argued that Ozzy and Priest are guilty and culpable in the suicide deaths of their fans. No musician who was interested in art, truth or freedom would dare make such an asinine argument.
Moby, you’re a Grade A dick and I hope musicians all over the world realize what you just said and shun you for the rest of your commercial-soundtrack career. By the way, attention whore, the real reason you did this can be found in the first sentence:
The techno musician made headlines a few years back when he accused the rapper
No one gives a fuck about you, Moby. Stop hunting the Great White Rapper. You’re outclassed, outgunned, out-manuevered, outsold and you’ve sold out. Go back to making music for car commercials, or aren’t they buying Jack Danger’s castoffs from you anymore?
Posted by JimK at 01:20 AM on December 13, 2005
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#2 Posted by JimK 
on 12/13 at 05:11 AM -
I hear you, but there’s a VAST gulf between what you’re saying and what Moby is saying.
#3 Posted by Janna on 12/13 at 02:59 PM -
to me what is just wrong about this, is that eminem just recently tried to extend an olive branch to Moby. They have been “feuding” ffor some time. Nice to know that the appology was so well accepted.
Moby is a has been techno-crap artist. Eminem had it right when he said nobody listens to techno.
And to say that an artist is culpable for what the people who listen to thier music do is completely asinine.
I’m not a huge Eminem fan by any means. Some of his raps are cool but for the most part...I am indifferent. But to make the statement that an artist is culpable is just wrong and dumb.
#4 Posted by Rann Aridorn on 12/13 at 04:55 PM -
I saw some movie on Lifetime (and Family Guy got that one right: “Lifetime… Television for Idiots") that was basically about this court case where a small publisher published a book, “How To Be An Assassin”, and when someone supposedly used this book to carry out an actual assassination, the family of the people he killed got the “hero” of the movie to sue the publishers and hold them accountable. This was held up as a grand thing.
Yes, take that, you evil First Amendment!
#5 Posted by padders 
on 12/13 at 05:16 PM -
And to say that an artist is culpable for what the people who listen to thier music do is completely asinine.
Sort of depends what you mean culpable dosen’t it? There are a number of caribbean reggae (particularly Jamaica) artists that promote people to kill homosexuals.
Should they be stopped from saying what they want (by the government), absolutly not. In my mind they are still morally responsible when one of their idiotic fans goes out and kills a gay guy.
Thats the way it should be, people can be morally responsible for something but not legally.
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I’m with you on the freedom of musical artists to say whatever.
I’m so not with you on your love of Eminem, though. If he doesn’t like being called misogynist, he shouldn’t sing about killing women and stuffing them in car trunks.
And with that, I’m just talking about not being shocked when people take you up on the image you present. I’m sure Rob Zombie or Alice Cooper wouldn’t be shocked to death if people called them Satan worshippers, since, y’know… that’s their schtick. I’m sure they were kind of prepared for it when they decided to craft their image that way. They may not be, but you don’t hear them trying to go around portraying some squeaky-clean image when they’re out of the makeup.
To a certain extent, Eminem does try to whitewash himself, with his whole “I’m just a poor white boy who made good, ya’ll” thing as seen in 8Mile. It’d be like Rob writing himself into one of his movies as the noble and heroic protagonist who saves everybody from the psycho killers.
Eminem tries to have it all, this image of a humble, heartfelt person just intent on his art, at the same time as the violent, offensive persona that gangsta rap demands. In doing so, he comes off as more phony than the guys who actually ARE faking their stage personas.