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Infinite do you think Infinite is Ems best album?
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Sccit on April 05, 2020, 09:33:38 AM ---
yea he copped the re-issue
the original would be over over a grand
https://www.ebay.com/itm/382925038976
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Vlad is one of the few people in the world that actually had the o.g Slim Shady EP before Eminem got signed by Dre. I've heard a few people say that in interviews. Aside from Eminem's own circle I still haven't heard anybody be like.. "Yo, I had the Infinite album back in 1997" but there has to be some people out there in that category.
Can you imagine having the Infinite album in 1997? I think it was mostly racism, because how could you have not listened to that in 97' and seen "Holy shit--this mutherfuckaz lyrical ability is off the meter!!
...So unless you just dismissed him for being white you would have had to recognize the lyrical ability. The only problem was he had not developed his Slim Shady character yet. So he was kind of caught in between on Infinite. He was positive on some tracks but it wasn't revolutionary and powerful like the kind of black righteousness you'd find on Illmatic... then he tried to kick some demented shit but it didn't have much character and it was just your basic battle rap shit talking
Sccit:
--- Quote from: Infinite Trapped in 1996 on April 05, 2020, 04:50:13 PM ---
--- Quote from: Sccit on April 05, 2020, 09:33:38 AM ---
yea he copped the re-issue
the original would be over over a grand
https://www.ebay.com/itm/382925038976
--- End quote ---
Vlad is one of the few people in the world that actually had the o.g Slim Shady EP before Eminem got signed by Dre. I've heard a few people say that in interviews. Aside from Eminem's own circle I still haven't heard anybody be like.. "Yo, I had the Infinite album back in 1997" but there has to be some people out there in that category.
Can you imagine having the Infinite album in 1997? I think it was mostly racism, because how could you have not listened to that in 97' and seen "Holy shit--this mutherfuckaz lyrical ability is off the meter!!
...So unless you just dismissed him for being white you would have had to recognize the lyrical ability. The only problem was he had not developed his Slim Shady character yet. So he was kind of caught in between on Infinite. He was positive on some tracks but it wasn't revolutionary and powerful like the kind of black righteousness you'd find on Illmatic... then he tried to kick some demented shit but it didn't have much character and it was just your basic battle rap shit talking
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m
yea there was only 1,000 copies of infinite pressed
u talkin bout dj vlad?
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Sccit on April 05, 2020, 07:21:12 PM ---
m
yea there was only 1,000 copies of infinite pressed
u talkin bout dj vlad?
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Yeah DJ Vlad's talked about it in a few interviews. Just kind of cool to hear from someone who wasn't working for any label or a part of Em's circle. They just happened to be in touch with the underground scene at the time and had a copy of the Slim Shady EP.
My first impressions when Aftermath released "Just Don't Give A Fuck" single way ahead of "My Name Is" was that that shit was so fuccin hard that it wouldn't get acceptance in the mainstream. Of course once "My Name Is" dropped I saw more of Em/Dre/Interscopes vision to break mainstream. Even "Brain Damage" which was the B Side sounded too depressing for mainstream. But later a lot of alternative fans took to tracks like that.
Duck Duck Doggy:
--- Quote from: Infinite Trapped in 1996 on April 05, 2020, 11:41:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: Sccit on April 05, 2020, 07:21:12 PM ---
m
yea there was only 1,000 copies of infinite pressed
u talkin bout dj vlad?
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Yeah DJ Vlad's talked about it in a few interviews. Just kind of cool to hear from someone who wasn't working for any label or a part of Em's circle. They just happened to be in touch with the underground scene at the time and had a copy of the Slim Shady EP.
My first impressions when Aftermath released "Just Don't Give A Fuck" single way ahead of "My Name Is" was that that shit was so fuccin hard that it wouldn't get acceptance in the mainstream. Of course once "My Name Is" dropped I saw more of Em/Dre/Interscopes vision to break mainstream. Even "Brain Damage" which was the B Side sounded too depressing for mainstream. But later a lot of alternative fans took to tracks like that.
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Those kinda tracks are my favorite Em. There's a track from the Slim Shady EP called " Low Down and Dirty" which is up there with my favorite Em tracks ever. I feel like he had a different style on the EP than the LP
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Duck Duck Doggy on April 06, 2020, 10:16:00 AM ---
Those kinda tracks are my favorite Em. There's a track from the Slim Shady EP called " Low Down and Dirty" which is up there with my favorite Em tracks ever. I feel like he had a different style on the EP than the LP
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Yeah "Low Down Dirty" is vintage Em. He was in the zone whenever he made that EP and I'm sure it was probably only a matter of time somebody noticed it.
You know his style of virulent self-hatred I wasn't really familiar with such a style initially. I know other underground artists were doing it, but I wasn't familiar. I was used to hearing braggadocio shit about bitches, money, or gansta shit--and Em was doing none of that in this era. Later he'd start to do a bit of it but not in those times. When I first heard Em on "Just Don't Give a Fuck" I recognized the talent, I just wasn't sure how they would polish it up to push him to platinum beyond hardcore headz, but I knew if anyone could do it, Dre and Jimmy would figure it out. There was just the fear with all Aftermath artists that they could end up shelved like King T.
At the time the "Just Don't GIve A Fuck/Brain Damage" single was released on Aftermath around November 1998--it wasn't a forgone conclusion that Eminem would blow up or even come out. King T had a lead single "Got It Locked" on BET and magazine ads in the Source saying Thy Kingdom Come--and his shit still didn't drop. I just remember being legit concerned that the Eminem project wouldn't come out either.
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