Friday October 8, 2010
Eminem Bans Profanity at Home: “If you’re the parent, be a parent”
By Peter J. Smith
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Marshall Mathers, the popular rap music star known as “Eminem,” told CBS that despite what his lyrics may indicate about him, he has no tolerance for profanity at home.
“Profanity around my house? No,” Eminem told reporter Anderson Cooper, who profiled the rapper for CBS’s upcoming “60 Minutes” program. Cooper’s exclusive interview with Eminem is scheduled for this Sunday, October 10 at 7 p.m. Eastern and Pacific.
Eminem’s music features lyrics that notoriously range from the extremely sexually graphic and obscene to the mildly profane. But CBS reports that while the rap star says that his music does reflect something of his real life and how he feels, he considers the use of profanity just part of his art form.
At home, it’s an entirely different story, he says. He has zero tolerance for foul language, adding that at home, “I don’t cuss.”
“I’m a parent. I have daughters,” Eminem tells Cooper. “I mean, how would I really sound, as a person … walking around my house [saying] ‘Bi**h, pick this up,’ you know what I mean?”
As for youth who imitate the language in his songs, Eminem lays the blame on parents who don’t do their jobs raising their kids, not himself.
“I feel like it’s your job to parent them” he said. “If you’re the parent, be a parent.”