Eminem Is Eminem a better lyricist than Nas?

VR46 · Sep 28, 2016

Sep 28, 2016
when i found those explanations i was surprised

Lucy · Sep 28, 2016

Sep 28, 2016

VR46 said

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--king 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 said

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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im not reading all this you weird little f---

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