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EMINEM - RELAPSE (Official Discussion)
T-Dogg:
--- Quote from: From Dre-Day to Helter Skelter on May 12, 2009, 08:46:13 AM ---
--- Quote from: Action! on May 12, 2009, 08:21:01 AM ---Rain Man is such a dope track. Clever as hell. Went over most people's heads.
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how so?
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It's summed up in the last lines:
"And I don't gotta make no god damn sense
I just did a whole song and I didn't say shit".
That's the whole and only "clever" bit about it, as far as I see it. One could argue there even being some existentialist aspect to it - making a song just for the sake of making a song. But there's no point making a song without having some value to it.
In my book, that song's just a waste of space and a waste of a good Dre beat.
J.E.:
--- Quote from: Action! on May 11, 2009, 05:18:49 PM ---I do think this record was lyrical.
I do think it was creative and is a concept album.
I do think the beats weren't in-your-face fiyah on purpose.
I do think the beats support the lyrics.
I do think his flow is straight.
I do think the accent is on purpose and represents the alter ego Slim Shady. It does not bother me.
I do think Em is one of the most honest out even when his music isn't of the same quality or the same shock it used to.
I do think Em is aware of this and it makes him more compelling because he continues to release music and spits about it.
I do think most people don't understand Relapse is a concept record and focus on relatively meaningless shit when they reflect on the album
I do think discussion is tight but none of it really matters because if you like it, you like it.
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Great post.
Action!:
--- Quote from: From Dre-Day to Helter Skelter on May 12, 2009, 08:46:13 AM ---
--- Quote from: Action! on May 12, 2009, 08:21:01 AM ---Rain Man is such a dope track. Clever as hell. Went over most people's heads.
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how so?
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In my experience when talking to people about the song they dismiss it as "that comical track where he disses Christopher Reeves." The song is so much more then that. It's basically Em's summary of his current career and his rebuttal to the critics.
Rebuttal to critics:
--- Quote --- You find me offensive? I find you offensive
For finding me offensive
Hence if I should draw a line on any fences
If so to what extense if
Any, should I go? 'Cause it's getting expensive
Being on the other side of the courtroom on the defensive
They say that I cause extensive
Psychological nerve damage to the brain when I go to lengths this,
Far at other people's expenses
I say your all just too god damn sensitive
It's censorship
And it's down right blasphemous
Listen to shit now cause I won't stand for this
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Rebuttal against social conservatives:
--- Quote ---Now in the Bible it says
Thou shalt not watch two lesbians in bed,
Have homosexual sex
Unless of course you were given the consent to join in
Then of course, it's intercourse
And it's bi-sexual sex
Which isn't as bad, as long as you show some remorse for your actions
Either before, during or after performing the act of that which
Is normally referred to have such, more commonly known phrases
That are more used by today's kids
In a more derogatory way but
Who's to say, what's fair to say, and what not to say?
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Points out the double standard if not the hypocrisy of his critics:
--- Quote ---Let's ask Dr. Dre
Dr. Dre? (What up?)
I gotta question if I may? (Yeah)
Is it gay to play Putt-Putt golf with a friend (Yeah)
And watch his butt-butt when he tees off? (Yeah)
But, but! I ain't done yet
In football the quarterback yells out hutt-hutt
While he reaches in another grown man's ass
Grabs on his nuts but just what if
It was never meant it was just an accident
But he tripped, fell, slipped and his penis went in
His teeny tiny little round hiney but he didn't mean it
But his little weenie flinched just a little bit
And I don't mean to go in into any more details but
What if he pictured it as a females butt?
Is that gay? I just need to clear things up
Till then I'll just walk around with a manly strut because...
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Career reflection:
--- Quote --- Anyway, anyway I don't know how else to put it
This is the only thing that I'm good at
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Another rebuttal to critic while admitting his product isn't the same:
--- Quote --- And I don't gotta make no god damn sense
I just did a whole song and I didn't say shit
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Rain Man is for all the listeners complaining about his content. they bitch that he's not saying something but he is saying something and they totally miss it.
Digital Pimpin':
Top post Action, +1.
King Battman:
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