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Quote from: The Watcher on September 13, 2005, 01:38:43 AMhe's given his reasons for encore bein like it was- interscope wanted a 'poppy single', so he gave them a whole album so he can do the next album how he wants to- he doesnt want the spotlight, hoping it might make people forget about himFirst off, I dont really feed into these "reasons/excuses for releasin' a shitty ass album. Yea, even if Interscope did want Em to make a more "poppy" album thats still not an excuse for a shitty release like "Encore". How did he feel that releasin' a shitty ass album would prove a point!? Eminem could put his name on a pair of old sweaty gym socks and that shit would go platinum plus!!! And also, why would u want to fuck up ur carrer/reputation by releasin' a piece of shit album! Dont make sense to me! Ok, he says he wanted out of the "spotlight". There is other ways of gettin' out of the spotlight then releasin' an album like "Encore"! Believe me, he could have came up with a better idea to get out the spotlight then just makin' hisself and every1 who participated in this album look like garbage!Another thing, I seriously doubt that Dre would participate in an album that is a "ploy" to get out the spotlight. The perfectionist that Dre is I doubt he would seriously be involved in something that he knew was gonna be critized and called a joke! Thats just my 2 cents!
he's given his reasons for encore bein like it was- interscope wanted a 'poppy single', so he gave them a whole album so he can do the next album how he wants to- he doesnt want the spotlight, hoping it might make people forget about him
Quote from: hempside on September 13, 2005, 02:01:57 AMQuote from: Allah's slave: Abdul-Infinite on September 12, 2005, 08:50:18 PMSay what you want about Eminem, and we all know that by the time Encore was released Em's skills had seen their better days, but that was exactly the purpose for the album.-On Encore, he sets off the first track "Evil Deeds" saying that he never meant to be as big as he was, and that the show is over, and he wants out of the spotlight, he knows he can't do what he was able to do before, he has said what he's got to say, but that he's not leaving without one last encore, and he's not leaving without "passing 50 the button".-Em is a musical genius. Take his four albums, and all four are related to one another. He jumps off with "My Name Is" on the Slim Shady LP, but by the time Encore comes around he has been exhausted and "Rain Man" is an expression of this (with all the usual sarcasm and irony).-The Slim Shady LP had a theme and a track about him explaining the death of his daughter's mom, then on the Marshall Mathers LP he has a song that's a prequel to that event.-Track 2 on the The Marshall Mathers LP and track 2 on The Eminem Show both finish with the same sarcasm and irony.-Every album had a song like "Cum On Everybody" and it was usually track 13.-Every album had a skit from Paul.-Every album took you deeper and deeper into his family history and background, and he left no stone unturned. His life has been an open book and the price for this has taken it's toll. By the time "Mockingbird" comes along on Encore, Em is reflecting on all the fame and family hardship, and he's asking to be out of the spotlight saying "One day this will all just be a dream." -One of Em's most underrated songs is "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" on the Eminem Show. He's basically saying that he wants out of the spotlight, and wants a normal life, that he never expected to be as big as he was, and that he's preparing for the time when it is all over. He finishes this thought on the next album in "Evil Deeds" when he says everyone thinks he has it so great, and their is the big show, but he can't go home, the "curtain never closes".-He has a constant theme from Slim Shady LP and a fascination with suicide, he speaks explicitly about it in the Slim Shady LP about wanting to kill himself, and finally on Encore he does it, but "not without leaving the game without atleast saying goodbye" and he raps up his legacy on a final climatic track with Dre and 50 Cent where he says "if they hadn't seen our faces on rolling stone pages maybe they'd be raised to be racists".........Really, Em is a genius for this, and nobody has given him the credit he deserves for dropping four albums that run together to form one of the greatest works of art of our time. Nigga! get off that White( KLANS MAN)dick.....talk about some real shit.like how he just fucked over a legends(2-PAC) music.was that shit so "GENIUS"...close this shit....and stop supporting a racist. WTF!!! does Em have to do anything wit pac? 2 different raps styles and 2 Very different rappersand how in the fuckin world is EM a racist did i miss somethin?
Quote from: Allah's slave: Abdul-Infinite on September 12, 2005, 08:50:18 PMSay what you want about Eminem, and we all know that by the time Encore was released Em's skills had seen their better days, but that was exactly the purpose for the album.-On Encore, he sets off the first track "Evil Deeds" saying that he never meant to be as big as he was, and that the show is over, and he wants out of the spotlight, he knows he can't do what he was able to do before, he has said what he's got to say, but that he's not leaving without one last encore, and he's not leaving without "passing 50 the button".-Em is a musical genius. Take his four albums, and all four are related to one another. He jumps off with "My Name Is" on the Slim Shady LP, but by the time Encore comes around he has been exhausted and "Rain Man" is an expression of this (with all the usual sarcasm and irony).-The Slim Shady LP had a theme and a track about him explaining the death of his daughter's mom, then on the Marshall Mathers LP he has a song that's a prequel to that event.-Track 2 on the The Marshall Mathers LP and track 2 on The Eminem Show both finish with the same sarcasm and irony.-Every album had a song like "Cum On Everybody" and it was usually track 13.-Every album had a skit from Paul.-Every album took you deeper and deeper into his family history and background, and he left no stone unturned. His life has been an open book and the price for this has taken it's toll. By the time "Mockingbird" comes along on Encore, Em is reflecting on all the fame and family hardship, and he's asking to be out of the spotlight saying "One day this will all just be a dream." -One of Em's most underrated songs is "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" on the Eminem Show. He's basically saying that he wants out of the spotlight, and wants a normal life, that he never expected to be as big as he was, and that he's preparing for the time when it is all over. He finishes this thought on the next album in "Evil Deeds" when he says everyone thinks he has it so great, and their is the big show, but he can't go home, the "curtain never closes".-He has a constant theme from Slim Shady LP and a fascination with suicide, he speaks explicitly about it in the Slim Shady LP about wanting to kill himself, and finally on Encore he does it, but "not without leaving the game without atleast saying goodbye" and he raps up his legacy on a final climatic track with Dre and 50 Cent where he says "if they hadn't seen our faces on rolling stone pages maybe they'd be raised to be racists".........Really, Em is a genius for this, and nobody has given him the credit he deserves for dropping four albums that run together to form one of the greatest works of art of our time. Nigga! get off that White( KLANS MAN)dick.....talk about some real shit.like how he just fucked over a legends(2-PAC) music.was that shit so "GENIUS"...close this shit....and stop supporting a racist.
Say what you want about Eminem, and we all know that by the time Encore was released Em's skills had seen their better days, but that was exactly the purpose for the album.-On Encore, he sets off the first track "Evil Deeds" saying that he never meant to be as big as he was, and that the show is over, and he wants out of the spotlight, he knows he can't do what he was able to do before, he has said what he's got to say, but that he's not leaving without one last encore, and he's not leaving without "passing 50 the button".-Em is a musical genius. Take his four albums, and all four are related to one another. He jumps off with "My Name Is" on the Slim Shady LP, but by the time Encore comes around he has been exhausted and "Rain Man" is an expression of this (with all the usual sarcasm and irony).-The Slim Shady LP had a theme and a track about him explaining the death of his daughter's mom, then on the Marshall Mathers LP he has a song that's a prequel to that event.-Track 2 on the The Marshall Mathers LP and track 2 on The Eminem Show both finish with the same sarcasm and irony.-Every album had a song like "Cum On Everybody" and it was usually track 13.-Every album had a skit from Paul.-Every album took you deeper and deeper into his family history and background, and he left no stone unturned. His life has been an open book and the price for this has taken it's toll. By the time "Mockingbird" comes along on Encore, Em is reflecting on all the fame and family hardship, and he's asking to be out of the spotlight saying "One day this will all just be a dream." -One of Em's most underrated songs is "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" on the Eminem Show. He's basically saying that he wants out of the spotlight, and wants a normal life, that he never expected to be as big as he was, and that he's preparing for the time when it is all over. He finishes this thought on the next album in "Evil Deeds" when he says everyone thinks he has it so great, and their is the big show, but he can't go home, the "curtain never closes".-He has a constant theme from Slim Shady LP and a fascination with suicide, he speaks explicitly about it in the Slim Shady LP about wanting to kill himself, and finally on Encore he does it, but "not without leaving the game without atleast saying goodbye" and he raps up his legacy on a final climatic track with Dre and 50 Cent where he says "if they hadn't seen our faces on rolling stone pages maybe they'd be raised to be racists".........Really, Em is a genius for this, and nobody has given him the credit he deserves for dropping four albums that run together to form one of the greatest works of art of our time.
Quote from: Allah's slave: Abdul-Infinite on September 12, 2005, 09:01:58 PMThen name one artist for me that was able to produce such a continuity between albums, leaving at the perfect moment and creating a legacy that will serve as a time capsule for our era?Jimi Hendrix, although he didn´t wanna leave. He was a bit more of a "musical genius" than Eminem, but 1. his albums were better, 2. his legacy will always be bigger and 3. the "time capsule" is probably much more important and impressive
Then name one artist for me that was able to produce such a continuity between albums, leaving at the perfect moment and creating a legacy that will serve as a time capsule for our era?
Quote from: Lincoln The Reform-A-Tory on September 13, 2005, 05:05:09 AMI'd like someone to explain what makes Eminem a music genius. What revolutionary new technique has he brought upon the music world? How has he changed music as a whole?I will explain...#1. He was one of the greatest lyricists ever. You can take almost any song off of the Slim Shady LP and listen to it over and over and here a different rhyme, most rappers only rhyme the last word of each bar, his bars are layered with rhymes. I know he's not the first rapper to do this, but I will say he took it to another level. Even back in 1996 he was doing this as well as any rapper in the game, listen to his track "Infinite"... "I'm Infinite/You heard of hell/Well I was sent from it/I went to it servin a sentenceFor murderin instruments/and now I'm trying to repent from it/But when I hear a beat I'm tempted to make another attempt at it/I'm Infinite"
I'd like someone to explain what makes Eminem a music genius. What revolutionary new technique has he brought upon the music world? How has he changed music as a whole?
#2. He was a great battle rapper. He had a mix tape with "Nail In The Coffin" and he totally ripped the Source apart, he also had an unreleased track called "Bully" and a Canibus diss track on there, these are all classic diss tracks. Eminen came in second at the rap olympics, and he can also spit straight off the dome freestylin.
#3. He's a great performer, I don't go to hip-hop concerts anymore, but I did see two of his shows back in the day, and he killed it, alot of rappers can't perform, Em is tight in the studio, and he can move a crowd, back in hip-hop's early days if you couldn't move a crowd then you weren't even aloud in the game.
#4. He is one of the most prolific writers, everyone knows him for his metaphors but he is also one of the greatest storytellers hip-hop has ever seen. Listen to "Stan" or "Just the Two of Us" or "Kim", even Slick Rick can't touch that skill level.
#5. He's the only white dude that has been able to establish a long carear in hip-hop and excell to the top of the game. That's no small task.
#6. He can rap and produce, by the time the Eminem Show came out he was producing almost 80% of his material, this is a true artist.
it pisses me off how eminem doesnt want spotlight, what the fuck are you rapping for?!