Someone here at work has Eminem's last album
The Eminem Show on a server where we can all listen to it. I was just listening to "Square Dance". Check out these lyrics... he talks about taking on the Bush administration, terror scares, and the draft. At the end he even makes a reference to Saddam Hussein: "When I say Hussein, you say Shady". Is he talking about how we've been reflexively trained to see Saddam as a super-villain?
Let your hair down to the track, yeah
Kick on back, boo!
The boogie monster of rap
Yeah, the man's back
With a plan to ambush this Bush administration
Mush the Senate's face in
Push this generation of kids
To stand and fight for the right
To say somethin' you might not like
This white hot light that I'm under
No wonder I look so sunburned
Oh no I won't leave no stone unturned
Oh no I won't leave, won't go nowhere
Do-si-do, oh, yo, ho, hello there
Oh, yeah, don't think I won't go there
Go to Beirut and do a show there
Yeah, you laugh
Till your muthafuckin' ass gets drafted,
While you're at band camp
Thinkin' the draft can't happen
Till you fuck around, get an anthrax napkin
Inside a package wrapped in Saran Wrap wrappin'
Open the plastic and then you stand back gaspin'
Fuckin' assassins hijackin' Amtraks crashin'
All this terror, America demands action
Next thing you know
You've got Uncle Sam's ass askin'
To join the Army
Or what you'll do for they Navy
You just a baby, gettin' recruited at eighteen
You're on a plane now,
Eatin' their food and their baked beans
I'm twenty-eight
They gonna take you 'fore they take me
Crazy insane or insane crazy?
When I say Hussein, you say Shady
My views ain't changed, still inhumane, wait,
Arraigned two days late,
The date's today,
Hang me!