It's May 05, 2024, 08:26:35 PM
Lyrically, flow wise; can't nobody touch Eminem.
Who said anything about production ? The beats don't otushine Em, they simplay represent a background drop for Em. There's no flashy, over the top production like Dre would do for his other artists. Em is pretty much his only protege that's an actual MC and not a hustler turned rapper. Lyrically, flow wise; can't nobody touch Eminem.
Dre comes wiith some monster production (deja vu, my mom, crack a bottle, many more) but what stands most noteworthy is that Dre is undisputedly great at producing FOR THE ARTIST. Many other people throw their style against their collaborator's style and hope it works...Dre tailors the work to Em. It's a completely different 20 beats then if Dre was to produce for 50 or Snoop or whoever....it's exciting to know a fully dre produced record really means whatever artist he's producing accommodated to and brought to their best- though Dre is a student of the Beatles and Phil Specter's Wall of sound, he keeps his Eminem productions spare, sparse, minimalist (or at least they SEEM like they are...) so that Em's ridiculous flow and narratives are always center-stage.Sometimes I miss Em's older more straight forward style (and to his credit, sometimes the best aspects of that flow are present on certain tracks) but Dre and he have crafted a very melodic, hook ready persona for this ridiculous MC. Integrating singing into rapping is absolutely essential for modern pop hip hop success and far be it for Dre and Em to get left behind by the Kid Cudis of the world....It's absolutely incredible that Dre produced this whole record...and you can see the craft. It's been a decade since 2001 LP, and I think it's safe to say Dre has found his sparse yet complexly funky niche again.Dre can still do complex dense soundscapes, and I think we'll see him do that again with certain artists, but he knows when to take a 'back seat' but then when you stop and listen to any of the beats closely you see Dre has laced it complexly with low key piano lines, subtle synths and sound effects....it has all the complexity and rich layering of ANY dre production in the past but he just mixes it so perfect that Em shines prominently over it.-T
Lunatic--Re: Baghdad...I was very close to saying the same thing in that I would have dug some political commentary but ultimately decided that I liked that the song didn't have a real topic and that it was just him spittin' verses. How do you feel about the track Deja Vu? The more I think about it, the more I'm thinking it's the best track on the record....-T
Jacking off to a hockey mask, at a boxing match"He can't say that", yes he can, I just did faggotNow guess again, you better text message your next of kin