Whose Side are you on? Eminem Or Dr. Dre?

http://www.capitalxtra.com/artists/dr-dre/lists/facts/eminem-white/ 

We all battle two consciences, Eminem and Dr. Dre, and Edgar Allen Poe’s is clearly on Eminem’s side. In Edgar’s “The Black Cat,” and Em’s “Guilty Conscience,” characters struggle with their consciences while committing a crime. The main character in “The Black Cat” kills his cat and his wife—the second, Eminem’s alter ego, Slim Shady (and at the end of the song Dre can too) can understand, but killing a cat, c'mon man—and reasonably  has reservations and a conscious haunting him for days and weeks after the fact. This conscience eats away at his soul, making it more and more painful as time goes on—oh, the agony. The three main characters in Shady’s “Guilty Conscience” are split two to one, bad decisions to good. Dr. Dre convinces Eddie, the first guy, to not rob a liquor store, but Em sways the second, Stan, to rape a fifteen year old girl, I mean, it goes with his Slim Shady alter ego. In the end, Em and Dre both agree that Grady, the third man, should kill his cheating wife and her partner. All of these characters struggle with their consciences, showing that Poe’s ideals, about how a conscience can affect decision, still hold true to this day. Eminem and Dr. Dre’s “Guilty Conscience” is the modern day version of “The Black Cat” because it shows the prominence of consciences in moral decisions.

https://prezi.com/zw8cblnlmxww/the-black-cat-byedgar-allan-poe/ 

All the characters hear their consciences speaking moments before committing a crime, for the most part the characters commit crimes and Dr. Dre’s voice, the moral one, is often left angry afterwards, a clear example of how the man in “The Black Cat” felt after killing his cat and his wife. In the case of Stan, the rapist in “Guilty Conscience” and the murder of the first black cat, Poe’s character states that he is remorseful, “When reason returned with the morning...I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty” (Poe The Black Cat), and Dr. Dre is clearly upset by Stan’s decision to side with Eminem and rape the girl, “Shit, you wanna get hauled off to jail” (Dr. Dre Guilty Conscience)The two quotes above show that both Edgar Allen Poe’s character and Eminem and Dr. Dre’s characters struggled with the conscience speaking to them in their minds about the crimes committed, murder and rape, respectively. But it’s literature, so it's up to you.