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DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: blazeindave213 on July 13, 2010, 11:27:51 AM
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Love the Way You Lie" is something of a departure for Eminem, as he doesn't typically follow the hip-hop trope of spitting some verses and then letting the female singer handle the hook in the chorus. But it's a brutally honest, heart-on-his-sleeve series of verses, and Rihanna's appearance is a sweet respite from the swirling angst surrounding her. It's quite possible that "Love the Way You Lie" is the best female collaboration in Eminem's career. How does it stack up to his other mixed tag-team partners?
Pink
Of course, it's possible that Eminem's team-up with Rihanna isn't even the best collaboration with a woman on that album. "Won't Back Down" puts Pink's tough girl aesthetic to excellent use, matching her up with a cranking guitar-infused beat full of piss and vinegar. "Won't Back Down" is so badass that former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell used it as his entrance music during his fight with Rich Franklin a few weeks back.
Dido
Eminem's signature team-up track (on the classic "Stan," from 2000's The Marshall Mathers LP) also uses his guest's vibe correctly, as Dido croons the song's haunting hook with an ethereal chill. Though Dido was not famous when "Stan" came out, she certainly elevated her profile after the track became a hit. (Her 1999 album No Angel — which contained "Thank You," the track from which the sample from "Stan" came — ended up going platinum four times.)
Dina Rae
Though not a star in her own right, Eminem has tapped singer Dina Rae for more collaborations than any other female artist. Rae has provided backing vocals and hook work on "Cum On Everybody" (from The Slim Shady LP), "Drug Ballad" (from The Marshall Mathers LP) and "Superman" (from The Eminem Show).
Hailie Jade
The other female voice heard pretty often on Eminem's albums? Daughter Hailie Jade, who actually got a "featuring" credit on The Eminem Show's "My Dad's Gone Crazy" (she half-sings the song's hook
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Obviously Dido because she's on arguably his greatest song.
Rhianna might be second because her hook on "Love The Way You Lie" is great.
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That rihanna is the worst song on his album and one of the worst period
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Dido, Stan is a classic. Although i do really like the Rihanna track and thought i was gonna hate it,
www.myspace.com/miclordzmusic <---Don't sleep
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That rihanna is the worst song on his album and one of the worst period
What's wrong with that song?
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She dont fit the song, her voice is bad wack song
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Um, those Dido and Rhiana collabos are just samples from other songs. And that "Love the Way You Lie" joint is dope.
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dildo yell
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Um, those Dido and Rhiana collabos are just samples from other songs. And that "Love the Way You Lie" joint is dope.
The Rihanna hook is sampled? From what?
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That rihanna is the worst song on his album and one of the worst period
Co-sign...
That's one of the things that's fucked up about the game today. It started in the Puffy era when rappers just started recording with anybody and everybody because they had a big name. Shit should stay in house. That's why I picked Dina Rae, just because she was a kind of in house artist, round the way girl, for Shady Records.
It would of been like Dre going and gettin Whitney Houston to sing a hook back in the day instead of using Michelle' or Jewell.
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Real talk^^
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That rihanna is the worst song on his album and one of the worst period
Co-sign...
That's one of the things that's fucked up about the game today. It started in the Puffy era when rappers just started recording with anybody and everybody because they had a big name. Shit should stay in house. That's why I picked Dina Rae, just because she was a kind of in house artist, round the way girl, for Shady Records.
It would of been like Dre going and gettin Whitney Houston to sing a hook back in the day instead of using Michelle' or Jewell.
How can you possibly blame today's game for doing whatever they can to sell records? Honestly, this song has been all over the radio in NY & basically for the most part because of Rhianna. I'd still like this song if a no-name sang the hook, because the song is just dope like that.
But to dislike it because it's a big name for sales doesn't make sense to me if the song is still good.
If you just flat out don't like the song, that's another thing.
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dont like it but isnt it goin agaisnt what em has talked about n his raps? Makin fun of pop etc...sides y get wack cryin rihanna when u can maybe make another banger wit the others who are dope and less known?
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^^ why ge someone dope and less known when Rihanna did a good job? I'm still waiting for the cat to tell me what song "Love The Way You Lie" sample the hook from too ::)
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i agree with cham on this one,who cares if it's rhianna on it,i just don't like the fucc'n song period,he could have had my mama on that bitch and it would have succ'd to me, good stragegy tho,take the bitch who's well known for gett'n fucc'd up,only bigger and better choice from that stand point would have been tina turner yell
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Ya moms b singin box?
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Ya moms b singin box?
she try to sing but it ain't good thank god for the rest of the choir haha yell
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Hahahahahahaha ur on the good shit lately...and she doesnt log onto here lol? C her fam goin at her
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How can you possibly blame today's game for doing whatever they can to sell records? Honestly, this song has been all over the radio in NY & basically for the most part because of Rhianna. I'd still like this song if a no-name sang the hook, because the song is just dope like that.
But to dislike it because it's a big name for sales doesn't make sense to me if the song is still good.
If you just flat out don't like the song, that's another thing.
Why should we give a fuck what sells records or what makes money for an artist?
This is the problem when you say something is wack people say, "how can you blame him he's gettin his money!" Why should that matter to us as the listener? Do we get any of the money?
No... so what matters to us as a fan should be what we can relate to, and what we like as a listener... and I think Rihanna is only good for soft porn. If I wanted to watch a soft porn video then I would watch Rihanna, but when I'm in my car or listening to music on my headphones Rihanna is totally irrelevant at that point.
You should want to hear someone that has a good vibe with Eminem as an artist, someone who you could picture Eminem hangin with before he ever got famous, and Dina Rae was an around the way girl, similar to a Michelle' or Jewell on Death Row, so it sounds more authentic.
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Dina Rae
Drug Ballad is my favourite em track
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^That's up there for me. 8)
He flows his ass off like a motherfucker! :o
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Drug Ballad is probably one of my favorite party tracks...Stan was a better song overall......but i gotta go with Dina Rae