Has Em ever rapped in 2nd person?

[Pauly D]

I know it's a weird question, but I've been listening to other artists and they rap in 2nd person more often.
And thinking about it off the top of my head, I can't recall one song out of all his songs that was in 2nd person. It's mostly 1st person, and some 3rd person.

Someone wanna see if there's a 2nd person song?

[xxTrigger1989xx]

Stan

I think My Darling is somewhat 2nd person, too, at times

[Pauly D]

i thought em said "I" in stan at one point. that's first person, am i wrong?

[Pauly D]

Stan isn't 2nd person. He's talking to him.

2nd person is "You walk into a room, you see a shadow.." etc.

I don't think he has.

am i the only one that finds that a little weird? out of all his songs, he's never put out a 2nd person song on an album? maybe he hasn't even tried to or attempted.. that could be maybe a new thing he could do, and change up the style. not all of his songs, but give him a new view of his songs?

[xxTrigger1989xx]

i thought em said "I" in stan at one point. that's first person, am i wrong?

Yeah, you're right

Well, I think My Darling is 2nd person during some parts

[NicoleEM]

i thought em said "I" in stan at one point. that's first person, am i wrong?

Yeah, you're right

Well, I think My Darling is 2nd person during some parts

Yep My darling came in mind when i saw the title lol.Too late now to think of others..but i think those 2 are the only ones?

[mdemaz]

'Fack.' He plays the girl he's fucking.

[djonslaught]

As The World Turns

[xxTrigger1989xx]

I don't think you guys know what 2nd person is.

I don't even think I know.

Lol, I don't know the full meaning, but I know some of it. I'll admit

FML, I've always been such a great English student, but 2nd person has always sorta confused me lol. Maybe it was the way it's been explained to me, I dunno

[djonslaught]

isnt it playing the role of another character

[djonslaught]

Definition: In second person point of view, the narrator tells the story to another character using "you"; the story is being told through the addressee's point of view. Second person is the least commonly used POV in fiction, though there are a few examples. Tom Robbins's Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas is one example of a novel told in second person. Many of the stories in Lorrie Moore's book Self-Help are also written in the second person. The following example of second person comes from her story "How to Become a Writer,":
The next semester the writing professor is obsessed with writing from personal experience. You must write from what you know, from what has happened to you. He wants deaths, he wants camping trips. Think about what has happened to you. in three years there have been three things: you lost your virginity; your parents got divorced; and your brother came home from a forest ten miles from the Cambodian border with only half a thigh, a permanent smirk nestled into one corner of his mouth.

[xxTrigger1989xx]

isnt it playing the role of another character

I think it's playing the role as another character, speaking to yourself. That's why I thought My Darling

[xxTrigger1989xx]

Or not...as I've been proved to be way wrong lmao

[Pauly D]

n second person point of view, the narrator tells the story to another character using "you"; the story is being told through the addressee's point of view.

Example:
The next semester the writing professor is obsessed with writing from personal experience. You must write from what you know, from what has happened to you. He wants deaths, he wants camping trips. Think about what has happened to you. in three years there have been three things: you lost your virginity; your parents got divorced; and your brother came home from a forest ten miles from the Cambodian border with only half a thigh, a permanent smirk nestled into one corner of his mouth.

[xxTrigger1989xx]

From what I was taught, if you were to read a 2nd person, it would place YOU, the viewer, the listener, the reader, into the story.

For example, it would be telling YOU what you're doing, but it's not the same as if saying "I love you Slim, we coulda been together"

It'd be like "You tell Slim you love him, and you coulda been together"

You know?

Parts of Em's All She Wrote verse come to mind. "You're starin' down a barrel of hate, terrible fate", but he's talking to the girl, not the listener.

So I don't know.

He uses 2nd person in Going Through Changes, then. He talks to himself, telling himself what went wrong and shit

Also, "What kinda apple you take a bitea, Slim?" from Cocaine. He's talking to himself