Eminem Is Eminem a better lyricist than Nas?

Started by daveramm, Sep 27, 2016, in Eminem Add to Reading List

  1. VR46
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    im dead
     
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    Sep 27, 2016
    they are both great.
     
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    They both have their strengths and weaknesses so i say its a tie. But battle wise em would destroy nas
     
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    Delete your account plz
     
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    You just sit around all day on sectioneighty and troll people, and the thing is its not even funny. If you're gonna be a troll at least be funny
     
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    A christopher Reeve, Sonny Bono, skis, horses and hitting some trees

    Well, that has a pretty funny meaning, Nas is a better lyricist than Eminem, Em is able to get so close, Em doesn't rely on writing alone, that makes a lot of difference
     
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    Shut the f--- up fa---- don't make me make you cry again and get us both banned you absolute f---ing p---- waste of space play chicken in traffic.
     
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    Buff's at it again, I see
     
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    Lol more like you were crying. And we both go ourselves banned so nice try kid
     
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    yeah by miles imo.
     
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    How was I crying? And no you did, r-----. And how can a 2Pac stan have any merit in any conversation?
     
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    Lol whatever man I'm not arguing with you again its pointless cuz its like arguing with a little kid
     
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    Yikes

    Prediction: Em stans itt will now be forever shook
     
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    You just called me a man and a kid, and yeah okay we both know you're f---ing mad af rn
     
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    thanks for being mature man. wouldn't want to ban you again
     
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    A bunch of words that rhyme but don't mean f---ing anything...
     
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    "Your skins a travelling bag of your existence, yours is tattered and scabbed while Mines glistening" is 2 nas bars better than anything you posted
     
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    let me post the meaning behind the bars i quoted

    So this is longer than an octave, this is nine bars. However, these are my absolute FAVORITE bars on the track and some of my favorite bars Eminem has EVER spit.
    So the first bar has two rap references. One of Kid Rock’s album, which he was involved with, and another of the Public Enemy song, “"Rebel without a Pause”. Keep in mind the word “pause”.
    He’s a kaze without the kami. A kamikaze is a japanese suicide bomber, or, better said, the person flying the suicide bomber. Marshall is saying that he’s a “kaze”, which is a slang term for Japanese person. Note, its about as much of a racial slur as “honkey” is, so not too bad. He’s a kazi without the kami, kami being a divine being of the “Shinto” religion. So Eminem saying he ain’t no Shinto, homie.
    This third bar is a bit of a misdirect. Its pretty cool but doesn’t really fit with the entire train of thought, although ‘G’ is a letter, keep that in mind.
    Then he continues through the next four bars with one train of thought.

    This quatrain is a metaphor for his writing skills. His pen is his “glock” (pistol) and his pencil lead are also his bullets (made out of lead).
    Not only that, his pencil has a laser sight that he’s pointing straight at your colon… so he’s gonna s---t you in the a---. This also serves as a double entendre since he’s “pausing” when he’s going for your a---, cause he’s not gay. But YOU pause since your about to be shot!
    And now the most impressive part : At the end he says “Punks you wait”, which is a homophone for “Punctuate”… which is wordplay on the entire verse.
    Everything from kaze without the kami (kami being pronounced like “Comma”), to the G, to the two dots on your colon. Colon obviously being a punctuation mark, as well as the two dots signifying that it is, since that’s what a colon is.
    What do you do when you see a colon? YOU PAUSE.
    FUUUUUUUUCK MARSHALL!
    P.S – The latter half of the last bar regarding Rock and Roll, Eminem constantly compares himself to elvis, as shown in the next line where he discusses how he’s literally “elvis” and he HASN’T left the buildin' yet
     
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    let me post the meaning behind this too


    Midway through this amazing track Eminem delivers the best quatrain of the year :
    So what does Eminem do here. One, he wants a total focus on rhyming. Literally every word apart from “Like/my/I’m” are feeding into the rhyme scheme. This leads to almost 95% rhyming match, something that the bars you link don’t have.
    He’s also holding an 8 syllable rhyme scheme in the first couplet. Eight! That’s impressive in its own right, but he goes one step further. He keeps this quatrain under one motif. Sports. So wrestling and Football. He starts it off with a wrestling metaphor, saying that he’ll dominate like the famous boxer, Sugar Ray Robinson. He’s also in the same league that Muhammad’s in. So in the best rappers of all time.
    Muhammed Ali is his colleague, furthering the metaphor. He’s bombing them with his rap. He’s destroying his competition so much so that he’ll end up on top of them like Ndamukong, a Detroit Lion’s football player who’s known for stomping his competition LITERALLY.
    He’s Russian – Rush-in' so he’s Rushing like the football player, Ladanian Tomlinson. As well as Russian like Ukranian, which was under Russia’s Empire, or was when these references were relevant.
    AND THAT’S NOT IT!
    He’s also Russian and YOUR-CRANIUM which is a slant-homophone of Ukranian. Rushin' at your cranium is a double entendre for lyrics pouring into your brain as well as him literally rushing you like a football player…
    AND THAT’S NOT f---ing IT YET.
    Ukranian is a slant-homophone of the word Uranium, which is a prime substance in bombs, relating it back to the line “Bombing Em'”.
     
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    VR46 Kamikaze

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    To unwarp this mind you gon' need some sort of an antidote
    There’s not a pill for bananas though

    So let these words lift, cause all I got is bars
    For you dumbbells, since yours ain’t working out
    Each verse is more merciless than the first is, and you ain’t got to wear
    No shoes and shirt in this b---- to get served, bloodthirst revenge of the nerds

    those 2 just 2 random quadruple entendres i thought i should share
     
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