I’m a fan of Eminem’s precisely because I can’t explain him easily: My inability to get him fully — as opposed to my approval or disapproval of any of his perceived “messages” — is what keeps me coming back. He’s like a master novelist who writes characters I can neither love nor turn away from: the madman drunk with his own Rolling Stone-conferred power in “Kill You”; the cuckolded husband in “Kim” who turns his pain into a reign of terror. We like to think of art as our friend, but art — as Shakespeare or Goya or Bacon would have told you — isn’t always kind. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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