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Eminem Owns The Charts For Christmas Week!
7even:
MMLP and TES sold way better, though. Thank God.
Elevz:
--- Quote from: DPGC2005 on December 24, 2004, 07:53:58 AM ---sad but its true...it is not only white power, but MTV, TRL and all the little girls and wiggas think this album is tight as hell...I doubt Eminem all of a sudden lost his skills overnight, but why should he put an effort to make a classic album when he could just fart and vomit all over a record and go at least 4Xplat...
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Well, I already thought the boy fell off after the Slim Shady LP (I didn't even like MMLP that much) but with 8 Mile he showed he's still on point. He can probably still do it that way, but he just can't be bothered pleasing the hiphop community, as the pop industry is way bigger anyway. It's all about the money.
Shallow:
--- Quote from: smartass on December 24, 2004, 08:56:51 AM ---this just goes to show how much power eminem has. he has so many stans im suprised bush even got re-relected.
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It's just rub off sales. Anytime an artist seels huge with an album the next couple do rather well because the people that bought the previous ones give the new one a chance. Bad was much worse than Thriller and Dangerous was much worse than Bad but both went upwards of 6 to 7 platinum. They did not however reach the sales of Thriller but they did compete with the other albums in their years. Backstreet Boys were selling multi platinum well after they were finished and if N'Synch released a come back it would probably go around 5 platinum even if it sucks to it's target audience. When an artist becomes a cultural icon it takes a slow death to kill him. Em could probably turn a profit once more doing the same thing he is now, and if he is in this for the money, which 90% of the industry is, then he will do what he can to make that money.
There is no reason to hate on it, because it's always been this way. I didn't care that Hammer and Vanilla were selling more than Kane or Rakim because some people just don't have mass appeal. Em does, and he gets the most he can out of it while trying to make it last as long as it can. Nobody is confusing Eminem with Bob Dylan. He's a witty lyricist but he's never been called a prophet.
Elevz:
Damn, I just hope Eminem won't die, because that would definately turn him into a prophet like Pac and Big, and that would mean there's gonna be like 8 posthumous records of his coming out before 2015, all done with material which sucks more than the material he has already used for Encore.
Oh Lord, please let Eminem stay alive. We're better off this way.
Noname:
--- Quote ---shows what a sorry state hip hop is in
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Nah the problem is, the white people have taken over hiphop mainstream. Thats why you got so many comerciall rap bullshit. There are so many hot underground rappers, but they dont get the chance.
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