힙합계에 정말 큰 한 획을 그은..아니 ~ing 해나가고 있는 에미넴(Eminem).
에미넴이 정말 현재까지 수많은 이슈와 노래를 생산해내고 있는데, 2018년 8월 31일 10집 앨범인 카미카제(Kamikaze)앨범을 내놓게 되죠. 일본과 역사적 대치점을 가지고 있는 우리에게 그다지 마음에 들지않는 앨범이지만 미국인들이 느끼는 카미카제는 "무모한 일을 하거나 너죽고 나죽자 식"의 관용어 정도가 아닐 듯 싶습니다.
어쨌든 이전 앨범의 혹평에도 불구하고 발매하자마자 빌보드 1위를 당연히(?)찍으며, 9번째 빌보드 1위를 찍으며 역대 5위로 빌보드에서 많이 1위를한 뮤지션이 되었습니다.
이번 앨범에서 가사적으로나 음악적으로나 많이 언급되고 이슈가 되는 곡이 많이있지만 제 최애 곡은 바로 이 Stepping Stone 입니다. 예전의 Marshall이 돌아온 느낌이라고 할까요?
Stepping Stone은 앨범의 7번째 곡으로 라디오 주파수를 변경하여 맞추는 방식으로 노래가 시작되는데요....0:03초 때 바로 "안녕하세...." , 이런 식으로 들립니다. 다른사람들한테 들려줘도,몇번을 반복해도 그렇게 들리는데 이 곡에대한 Behind를 모르기때문에 확신은 없지만 그렇게 믿으려구요.
국내공연에서 보여주었던 우리 팬들의 함성에 감동한 에미넴의 보답이라고 믿으려 합니다. 그러고 보니 "안녕하세요"로 시작되는...국내 팬들이 만든 세계적인 뮤지션 트웬티 원 파일럿츠(21 pilots의) Tear in my heart도 생각나네요.
Tear in my heart도 궁금하시는 분들을 위해 Stepping Stone 아래쪽에 링크영상 올려놓도록 하겠습니다.
Official 비디오가 없어서 lyrics 비디오를 올립니다.
마지막으로, 예전 2012년 국내공연에서 어울리지않게(?) 대형 하트를 날리신 에미넴의 사진과 함께 Stepping Stone을 즐겨보시죠.
[사진출처]:http://sports.chosun.com/news/news.htm?id=201208210000000000015000&ServiceDate=20120821]
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[가사]
[Intro]
Take me to the river
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Verse 1]
It's 2002, everything was totally new
We were globally huge, watchin' sales go through the roof
We wrote and we feuded, Runyon Avenue soldiers included
A multitude of homies who would bounce for no good excuse
We were so bulletproof—wrote, souped and soaked in our youth
Thought we was runnin' shit 'til we lost the sole of our shoe
The death of Doody broke us in two
We were thrown for a loop, ain't none of us know what to do
And at the time I was goin' through my own struggles too
So I wasn't in no condition to be coachin' us through
Everyone tried to go solo, really nobody blew
I was hopin' they do, so I ain't have to shoulder the crew
The plan was put everyone in position so that they knew
How to stand on they own, and I don't wanna open up wounds
I just noticed that oomph was gone when we go in the booth
'Cause the truth is, the moment that Proof died, so did the group
Shit…
[Pre-Chorus]
If I could leave this all behind
I could open up my eyes and walk in a straight line
Down to the river with you
Help me leave this all behind
[Chorus]
I'ma wash away my sins
I'ma rinse away this dirt
I forgot to make amends
To all the friends I may have hurt
I better stop and say my grace
From it I pray that I don't fall
'Cause on the way back down I may
End up runnin' back into them all
I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones
[Verse 2]
It was never the same, and it's bothered me since
And the farther we drift apart, the more awkward it gets
The more time goes by, the more life happens
And we gotta be men, we got responsibilities
Plus we don't say how we feel
And I feel like this is what got us in the debacle we're in
Been with you guys thick and thin
But it's almost as if sometimes we're not even friends
Which reminded me Biz, "Rockstar" was the shit
Y'all coulda got you a hit without me on the shit
If you woulda put D12 on it, wish I coulda did
More than try talkin' you into comin' up off of it
I know it wasn't my fault, but part of it probably is
I think of all of the trips to BET
And the rappers I wish that we woulda politicked with
Maybe y'all coulda clicked and got you some features
But that's water under the bridge
But I'm washin' my sins in it 'til my conscience is cleansed
[Pre-Chorus]
If I could leave this all behind
I could open up my eyes and walk in a straight line
Down to the river with you
Help me leave this all behind
[Chorus]
I'ma wash away my sins
I'ma rinse away this dirt
I forgot to make amends
To all the friends I may have hurt
I better stop and say my grace
From it I pray that I don't fall
'Cause on the way back down I may
End up runnin' back into them all
I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones
[Verse 3]
Bacardi and Hen', never thought the party would end
One minute you're bodyin' shit, but then your audience splits
You can already sense the climate is startin' to shift
To these kids you no longer exist
Went from rainin' cats and dogs in this bitch
To tiny drops, little drips
And by the time your reign is over, you'll hardly be missed
You start thinkin' of all the artists you dissed
All the carnage you left, is this the kind of karma you get
For turnin' your fuckin' back on Bizzy, Kuniva and Swift?
A Freudian slip, subconsciously, I honestly wished
I ain't feel so much guilt and y'all didn't harbor resentment
But it's hard to pretend that y'all ain't got none
I just wish I had words, but I guess there just are none for this
To my partners, I can't say how sorry I am
This is not how I planned for our story to end
I love all of you men
But I just can't be the guy everybody depends
On for entire careers 'cause that's not even fair
I will always be here, but that spark isn't there
And I don't know how to recapture that time and that era
I've tried hearkening back to, but I'm fightin' for air
I'm barely chartin' myself
Feels like I'm on the descent, but it was not my intent
To treat y'all like a stepping stone
Though I ain't left no one behind, but we been down every road
Done all we possibly can, I know we kept our hopes up
But the longer we spend livin' this lie that we live
The less is left for closure, so let's let this go
It's not goodbye to our friendship, but D12 is over
[Chorus]
I'ma wash away my sins
I'ma rinse away this dirt
I forgot to make amends
To all the friends I may have hurt
I better stop and say my grace
From it I pray that I don't fall
'Cause on the way back down I may
End up runnin' back into them all
I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones
I never meant to make you feel like my stepping stones
I never meant to use you all for my stepping stones
twenty one pilots : Tear In My Heart
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