It all started when the DJ skillfully plays the turntable and the next thing you hear is the rapid but harmonically arranged lyric flowing from the singer. Then, your body moves on with the beat before you know it. Yes, we are talking about new hip hop here! Once belong to native Africans and Afro-Americans, new hip hop reached its peak popularity in the beginning of 2000?s despite the fact that it has already been known worldwide in 1980?s. New hip hop has definitely gone beyond the music itself; it has become a life style. People who like new hip hop will dress, act, and speak in a new hip hop way (and I personally like it). Besides, hip-hop is a very flexible and versatile music; it can be combined with almost all genres of music.One of the most celebrated and controversial figure in new hip hop is Marshall Bruce Mathers III; you know him as Eminem. A prot?g? of Dr. Dre, he once was considered as an anomaly in the new hip hop industry because of his skin. But then he silenced all of his critics by singing a lot of first class new hip hop hits which granted him eleven Grammys. His first major label album, The Slim Shady LP, successfully rocketed his name. However, his explicit and provocative words in his songs caused an ongoing war between him and many other artists like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Nonetheless, that?s what makes him special. Not only brilliant