Eminem is retiring................

[Conan]

He's going out on fucking ''Encore''? If this is true, what little respect I had left for Eminem has vanished. His legacy amounts to releasing one of the biggest disappointments in rap, and in my opinon the travesty that was his latest  CD overshadows his dopeness on ''Slim Shady'' and ''Marshall Mathers''.

As for the retirement, its probably for the best if his skills were going to keep deteriorating. That wouldn't have surprised me either.

''Encore'' is Eminem's ''Black Album''!? 

[LyRiCaL_G]

bullshit in my opinion....

this is what would happen if eminem finished his career at this stage......

99%of hiphop fans, the ones who matter (no eminem groupies) would feel eminem went out cuz he wasnt good enough, he was jus a overplayed gimmick, not cuz he aint got the hunger no mo  or he wants to finish while he on top, or cuz he got nuttin to say....cuz 1st.......eminem been speakin on the same shit since mmlp......and he aint gonna top mmlp as a album so why try comin better than that tryna copy it, he should learn from it in ways like how he could flow back in the day and make a joint you would feel is hiphop and for the streets instead of somre 13yr old white kid.......like encore was.........the fact ppl say rain man was one of the better joints on the album just shows how bad the album was.......how could someone shit on a dre beat so bad?.....i mean dre could have gave that to 50 cent and he would have come better on it than eminem did on his encore tip......ppl say encore aint that bad are jus chattin shit cuz encore was terrible.....a joke......pathetic.....wack, weak.....lol.......he cant come out after eminem show and mmlp and drop a album thats on the same shit but jus put down worse and mo corny........

eminem needs to find his hiphop root in him somewhere and start making joints ppl can dig instead......how u gonna waste the ass like that beat the way eminem did? damn.....again, 50 cent would have gave it more justice than em! 50 cent even killed eminem on encore! awww naaa nigga!

but yeah you could see the slide of eminem slowly with eminem show, which wasnt a great album or anythin in my opinion.......and apart from the 8 mile cd which was dope, eminem aint done anything dope.....

he wont retire, cuz eminem will want to be remembered as one of the greats, and if he jus quits now, he wont end up being known as a top 10 rapper.....

also he needs to get creative and get back to hiphop....and respect a dre beat again, and take his tiem writing joints........like the other cats said, take a break, keep writing but put down a joint when you got something serious or dope or inspiring shit to put down, not some imma get a 13yr old white kid to luv me shit,

eminem got mad talent when his rappin about shit in his own lil zone.......but many rappers have mad talent in that their own zone, but when he steps outside of it.....which he will need do on his next album, we'll find out how talented he really is or if his a gimmick and still goes with the same shit

by the way, i think its bullshit he'll retire now.......he spit on detox, probably find some style again cuz dre wont let him come wack on that i hope! n then drop his next album......my predicition!

but i couldnt give a fuck if eminem doesnt drop a album within the next year or two cuz theres nuff other joints to check for.....

but i dont think he should quit on encore, after the hard work that went down on sslp,mmlp and even eminem show which i didnt feel, to stop on encore would be a pussy move, show some muthafuckin image and come back strong

peace

[LyRiCaL_G]

oh and the other possibility is his learning off 50 cent,haha and decided his gonna use this as a new tool of promotion to get 5 times platinum, since his shit still hasnt hit the mark yet

[NP_POISON_247365]

No, not every one, not even on this board, hates Eminem. I don't. But Encore, though did have a couple good cuts, was wack as hell. And the shit he absolutely put to waste on that album - like the beat on Rain Man. Dre gave him another gold nugget, but instead of doing something proper with it, he - well - made a whole song and didn't say shit.

Yea I agree with what your saying, I didn't really think Encore was good @ all except for a couple hits. As far as Eminem retiring I highly doubt it..he still has what it takes to make tops songs like back in the day, those fuckin skills dont just go poof and dissapear..hes still got it in him. I hate his new style he brought along with Encore he needs to drop that and move on to hits like his new song Welcome to Detroit City..also as far as retiring.. I thought I heard a rumor about a new album coming out near the end of this year..The Funeral?

[Tigre]

On the back of the "Encore" is an empty stage and a microphone, curtains down or something like that is the last song so I thought he's retiring from the game or atleast taking a long brake... so this doesn't come as a big surprise. Brake could be a good thing, many rappers push too much music out... like Spice-1, feels like he's dropping two albums a year. Anyway this could be just a publicity stunt...

[h cottie is bac-tive?]

think stat quo can live up to the hype bein em's protege? im done with the shit comin out from atlanta..too much exposure

[The Watcher]

apparently its all bullshit and he didnt say anythin about retiring @ all to anybody.. theres posts over at d12world about one of the AM3 shows;
from d12 world:

"Eminem basically said it was bull**** last night at the concert. In short, he did a skit about how he likes to read articles and brought up how he read how he was "retiring". He then said that the article next to his was "the moon to blow up today" or something along those lines. He then said "i'm retiring?" and mooned the crowd. He then said if he did retire, he'd come back as rainman and that's how he went into the next song. so there u go."

"alright i was at the seattle show last night, and between songs em brought up the issue that theres articles going around about him retiring. first off he said, how many of you all read the tabloids, cause theres sum **** goin around that im retiring, he went on for a bit, and he goes,"and right next to that article was this article" and he held up a national enquierer paper that said "moon to blow up in 6months" then he mooned the crowd, and said "im retiring? then i guess the moon just blew up" so its all bull****, yall can stop talking about it now, EM AINT GOIN NOWHERE, thank god... and he put on a ****in bad ass show."

[Bch]

em knows he has the rap game on lock, honestly ... he controlls that mtv shit all the white kids love em and the white bitches and im not being racist here but hes putting out music obviously for them and hes getting PAIDDDDDDDD he can do alot more albums like that and still go platinum thats the SAD side of it.
maybe he feels like he shouldnt even have to try hard anymore, like he can just put out corny music and get those masses of people to buy his bubble gum w-rap music.
honestly em has the power to end any rappers career because once he disses you , he gets 50 cent to diss you / g unit its practically over-- your sales will decline and people in the hood arent going to make u rich, they arent the main consumers of hip hop.

[Twentytwofifty]

Eminem still has the skills to make good music and release a dope album.  He really just has to work on his content and don't put out retarded shit.  If he wants to make a funny song, don't make stupid toliet humor, make a song like "As the World Turns" or "My Fault".  He basically just has to get his act together. 

And cutting the 20 track albums down and killing the dumb skits wouldn't hurt either.

[Diabolical]

^yeah

[5*$TUNNA]

This is all bullshit.  I was the Anger Management 3 Tour on Sunday night and Eminem was going on about how him retiring is all in the tabloids and shit.  It didnt seem like he had any interest in retiring.  He then went on to make fun of Mariah.... haha

[White-Chocolate]

This is all bullshit.  I was the Anger Management 3 Tour on Sunday night and Eminem was going on about how him retiring is all in the tabloids and shit.  It didnt seem like he had any interest in retiring.  He then went on to make fun of Mariah.... haha

i was there too and i'm sure he has one cd left in him btw that show was tighttt, suprised no one has made a thread on it yet.

[Mr. O]

em lryics were cool..but i think he should of done porn instead...

[icebergslimIII]

The Marshall Mathers LP was a classic. Eminem Show wasn't as good. The Dre cuts on ES were classic though. I think Encore was rushed to get out. I think I read where Interscope wanted a new Eminem cd every two years. I knew it was garbage when I heard that Evil Deeds song on the radio. That shit was garbage. I think Eminem has ran out of ideas too.