I never listened to one of his performances, but I knew he was very famous and I knew the kind of propulsive, rhyme-driven, verbally athletic genre that rap was. At a conference for teachers, I was asked a question about the younger generation’s interest in poetry. My answer was that some popular genres had a metrical and rhyming energy and that this guy Eminem seemed to have sent a charge around the world. End of story, I thought. How wrong can you be? The Daily Telegraph reported something on the lines of “Nobel Laureate Commends Rapper Who Advocates Rape, Murder, etc.”
Oh, after all the "Penelope Cruz mentions Eminem..." Threads in this section, this deserves to stay.
He's talking about Eminem the whole time...?