%#*@ my *$%# you %#*$%!!!

Japan. The land of bubble gum pop and crooning playboys. Morning Musume, SMAP, Ayumi Hamasaki and... Eminem?

Yes, I am still grappling with the concept that I was first introduced to Marshall Mathers III's side project - D12 - when it came blaring over the loudspeaker at my junior high school during the lunch break:

"So you can suck my d*ck if you don't like, my sh*t
'Cause I was high when I wrote this so suck, my d*ck..."

What?? Did I just hear that correctly? Can he say that? And I mean it was loud. Something about messing you up with a knife, bitch, and leaving you hanging from a curtains? Yikes! I thought that the students' song requests for the lunch time break would be filtered a little more carefully.

Then I realised... I was the only person in the whole school who understood what the lyrics meant. The kids just dig the tunes, sly! The school principal himself was probably humming away while eating his sardine and sesame rice with grey slops on the side. It certainly is a catchy riff.

Word up. Peace.