![]() ![]() "I never gave a fuck - now I give a fuck less!" ![]() "You can be Run-D you'll never be an MC" "It's a rough day, but everything is okay/I'm up all night, but everything is alright/It's been a rough week, I don't get enough sleep/It's been a long year, pretending I belong here" Burroughs reciting their crazy cut-ups over mellow jazzzzzzy jazzzzzness like "It's OK," "Tonite" and "Searchin'." And oh! Don't even get me TALKING about that cool vwoopy swervy bass thing going on in "Jealousy Woes II." Why, I'll be here 'til America's soccer team defeats (or "beats") South Korea! Much closer in sound and tone to classic A Tribe Called Quest than standard Eminem, the melodies (or "beats") are jazzy, bassy laidback organ grooves! You almost expect to hear countercultural '50s poets (or "beats") like Allen Ginsberg and William S. (Remember me to someone who lives there.)īut what really takes the cake and eats it is the selection of great background musics (or "beats") created by producer Denaun Porter. Still, his delivery (or "flow") is certainly preferable to the guest rappers who keep stinking up the joint (Eye-Kyu, Three, D. His rapping isn't embarrassing by any means it's just not very notable. Breakdance music fans say he sounds too much like Nas and AZ on here, but I wouldn't know those men from a ground in my hole so that's your call. Our hot topic(TM) today is the debut Eminem CD Infinite, recorded before he'd developed his trademark high-speed, high-pitched, highly-offensive rapping style. So let's actually talk about the albums now. Granted, he's since gone on to create controversy for no other reason than to keep his name in the headlines, but that wasn't his intention at the beginning. The dangers of creating an unintended response in certain listeners is, in fact, the main theme of the Marshall Mathers LP. He just doesn't think that he should take the blame for society's stupidity. Right? So the uptight people are correct, right? And Eminem is just out to make money without concern for our children's well-being? Not necessarily. But there are loads of unbelievably ignorant, violent, maladjusted freaks out there who may very well take this stuff a little too seriously. You and I both know that if we hear a song about raping or murdering somebody, it's just a song. Paragraph! Infinite The Slim Shady EP The Slim Shady LP The Marshall Mathers LP The Eminem Show Encore Relapse RecoveryĮminem (real name Marshall Mathers = M&M = Eminem = GET IT?) is a foul-mouthed yet sometimes entertaining white rapper who has set the flame of the world alight with fire through his profane woman- and gay-bashing lyrics, violent situations and adult themes - targeted towards kids! He has been set up as a kind of supervillain in the press when all he really is is a fairly clever songwriter who sings about things that make uptight people uncomfortable for a very good reason - they're the same things that make STUPID people violent. Riding the Hershey Highway special introductory ![]()
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