Used to be a huge fan of Eminem - the first CD I ever bought was the Slim Shady LP but Revival really disappointed me, Em is capable of so much better. Any Slim fans on here?
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Used to be a huge fan of Eminem - the first CD I ever bought was the Slim Shady LP but Revival really disappointed me, Em is capable of so much better. Any Slim fans on here?
Wouldn't call myself a fan but about a month ago i looked out the Marshall Mathers cd and have been playing it in the car near non stop. Feels as fresh as ever. Haven't been drawn to his most recent stuff, but this album was of its time and it hasn't lost anything over the years.
I love Eminem.True his older stuff is better but he does still drop some bangers and he's still the greatest rapper ever.
The majority of his stuff is absolutely atrocious.
There’s very little after The Marshall Mathers LP that’s worthlistening to imo
In the words of Sick Boy:
'Well, at one time, you've got it, and then you lose it, and it's gone forever.'
Eminem struggles to make a top 5 of white rappers never mind rappers full stop.
Eminem is a fantastic rapper when he's annoyed (the way I am, mosh etc...) but beyond the Eminem show, he's become exactly the type of performer he eviscerated on his first three albums.
The way I am.
Fwiw top 5 is something along the lines of:
Guru
Rakim
Nas
Inspectah deck
Q-tip
(In no particular order)
Vinnie Paz is the best white rapper imo.
Eminem is more novelty than serious musician imo. I much prefer Erick Sermon, Redman, Busta Rhymes ahead of him.
It's funny how it is still fairly normal to separate rappers by race, talking about "white rappers" as if they are different.
I suppose it's to football's great credit that we wouldn't really have a conversation about who "the best black footballer" is any more. A footballer is a footballer.
The Beastie Boys were always number one for me, irrespective of race.
I listend to that last summer for the first time in probably around a decade. I used to love hip-hop, and im still an irregular listener, I thought that album was garbage going back to it though. Maybe im getting too soft as I get older, but I could see why his lyrics upon release got a lot of negative media attention. Would still rather listen to the Marshall mathers lp than tunes featuring ed sheeran mind you.
Oh well.. looks like I am on my own here.
I LOVE 'The Recovery' :greengrin
Wasn't until relapse that I properly started to appreciate Eminem but the Recovery is what I listen to most by him. Appreciate I'm different in that I never started liking his stuff until later and other guys will have grown up with his early material. It's also to do with the fact I much prefer his 'angry' voice to his 'silly' one if you know what I mean.
Great poet and some outstanding tunes.
The Notorious B.I.G. Now there’s a proper rapper.
From a legacy point of view I think dying was about the best thing Biggie and Tupac could have done. I wonder if they would be revered in the way they are if they had lived long enough to go prancing about in Katy Perry videos or play caricatures of themselves in films.
For every Immortal Technique there's an Ice Cube or Snoop Dogg.
Thats funny you say that as i did the same roughly a year ago. Was listening to slim lp and marshal lp for a few days and although i enjoyed it, it wasnt the same from my younger days. some classics but by no means a cd i would have on repeat for any great deal of time.
I did however dig out the dr dre 2001album recently and that is still a classic imo.
Absolutely. Especially with those two. Let's face it, s ballerina and a rapper managed by puffy were never going to stay away from embarrassment for long.
It also stopped biggie from dropping more than 2 albums at which point the quality would have dropped. Unfortunately 2pac never got that luxury.
I think it's especially pertinent with those two being gangsta rappers and the other two you use as an example are the same, it looks daft when a 40 or 50 year old man talks about that nonsense. immortal technique and for example chuck d have always been more politically minded and as a result they could update without looking daft.