It's May 16, 2024, 10:33:12 AM
Infinite pretty on point here except that first three are easily classic and man vs machine is a solid 4/5. All those albums aged incredibly well.
This my O.G. account I been here as long as anybody wit as much posts as anybody but Overseer accidently deleted the shit back in the day cause I had an alterego "Political Gangsta" and he got mixed up on which accounts I was using...but I been down on these forums going back to SnoopsDogghouse back in 98' around the time Bad Azz Word on The Streetz was released I remember cause that was like my first time ever reading an album review on the net.. and then WCKillaz Trauma's forum.. Dreday forum.. and The Eminem Bodyrott forum (where I used to get called an Em dickrider which was dumb because I got hated on for supporting Eminem on a forum that was was named after Eminem and dedicated to Eminem, so go figure) the official sites for Eminem and for Dre were the shit also back around the release of Dre's second album and MMLP...Anyway.. I was hype when this shit comes out because it bangs like all the previous Xzibit albums for most of the record and then suddenly falls the fucc off after "Say My Name". Some of the beats towards the end are unlistenable. It could of been another classic if he just would've had the Premier track on the regular album, and cut the album off after like 13 tracks or so to take off some of the filler... bangers include"What a Mess" the premier banger from the bonus disc"Symphony in X Minor" This beat was so crazy I had it as my ringtone for years"Say My Name" this was actually even better than the Em joint from Restless, and Nate does his thing on itThen a lot of other solid joints like that 80's Sample of "I bless the rains down in Africa" by Toto, love that track, and then the Snoop joint is nice and it slaps, couple other good ones.. "Release Date" was a nice opening idea with the album release being analogous to him getting released from prison .. though never understood what the fucc he meant by "give my naked pictures away" lolThis album does sort of mark the end of the West Resurgence movement that started with Snoop's Top Dogg album Spring 1999 and then ended with this album Fall 2002
I remember this site as well, used to post at the forumhttps://web.archive.org/web/19991127163955/http://www.dre2001.com/
It didn't have a forum but Eminem's official website from signing with Dre up until he really exploded with MMLP was over on this underground hip-hop website I think it was called hip-hopsite.com but they used to sell a lot of underground albums like I remember buying Bizzare's Attack of the Weirdos off of there... but you could click from the main website and go to Eminem's page and they used to have a lot of exclusives... I think it was actually Paul Rosenberg postin the updates on there. Sometimes they would drop some exclusive snippets of upcoming tracks way in advance of it being leaked anywhere else
from what i can recall, the dre2001 forum was the last forum everyone was posting at and became the blueprint to this one .. overseer, big jake, b-please, narrator, engies, phiasko, trauma, sikotic, tanjint, and a few others i can’t name off the top of my head. i remember b-please and seer in specific made it happen. b-please went on to start weak ass siccness.