Music: Rap video: Raise the Debt Ceiling by Remy

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Remy the Rapper dishes out irony on Raise the Debt Ceiling.  A case of ironic agitprop (agitator propaganda).  Or, as I prefer, aesthetipol in the rap genre.

— Videomonger

Music: Pop: Eminem features Rihanna in "(I) Love the way you lie"

 Eminem the white angry ghetto troubador -- oops!,  rapper (I keep wanting to spell it "wrapper") -- is a crosscultural freak, and that nicknaming is done in respect and best wishes for his continued artmaking.

As he aged, he faltered -- I always find myself thinking in these cases that she or he has been in a state of exhaustion.  
 
Then, then I conclude as I look at the album cover,  he had some kind of "Recovery."  In the semiotics of the album and on the frontpage of the YouTube video here, the "o" in "Recovery" is rendered partly red or contrastively bordered red-to-w+it -- that's "white" without the extra final "e," and the letter "i" replaced with "+" to translate the Owlbirdbet into a more orthodox spelling. Obviously, this exploration of alphabets and spelling alternatives is a pet project, even an idosyncracy.  But:  the w+t cross on the red field; so, included is the concept of a border between the two colours, w+t and red!  That's the thing.

Has Eminem gone thru a recovery, a recovery from a here/hear-acknowledged fall?  How does that find a place in his music, the lyrics of his rapping.
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