Marshal Mathers, otherwise known as Eminem, is known to many and seemingly loved by few. This is quite understandable as his rise to fame was on the back of incredibly explicit material that features many incredibly immoral topics. The sort of insanity and hyper masculinity of his work is what I believe boosted him to the top however. He's done and said much throughout his career, though his most recent album Revival released on December 15th of 2017 has marked a large turn in his style. The last album released before Revival was The Marshal Mathers LP 2 which was released November 5th in 2013 and that four year gap had changed Eminem quite a bit. This new album confronts many social issues in the raps included, as well as a much more toned down and mature style. This is particularly true of the found object I've chosen to present, the fourth song of Revival, "Untouchable."
The song is six minutes long and does, in my opinion, a very good job of chronicling the racist arguments between blacks and whites. The lyrics are quite clear, particularly the second verse, where he goes into plenty of detail on the mentality of cops against minorities. He observed plenty of this with his own eyes, growing up in the black ghettos of Detroit. Verse 3, also the entire second half of the song, goes to debunk some of the racist arguments as well as to humanize minorities. It also goes into potential causes and solutions of why things are the way they are. Personally I very much appreciate that he outlines all of the different arguments, then goes through and touches on each one instead of just leaving them without explanation.
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