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Eminem Shady XV Discussion Thread

Started by Oldboy, Nov 23, 2014, in Eminem Add to Reading List

  1. grizzyp
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    Nov 24, 2014
    Eminem's verse on Vegas is one of his best is recent memory. Easily better then anything since Recovery. Lose your self demo was a bit underwhelming and doubt i will ever listen to it again. Right for me reminds me of his slim shady persona more than anything since his comeback, transition into the hook is a bit out of place though. Overall it s better then i expected.
     
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  2. Michael Myers
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    Nov 24, 2014
    I don't know I like Evil Twin a lot more than Right For Me. Hate his flow on it
     
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  3. Epitome
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    Epitome Quality (posting) over quantity

    Nov 24, 2014
    I enjoyed Right for Me but Evil Twin is definitely better.
     
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  4. pluto✰
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    pluto✰ where the opioids?

    Nov 24, 2014
    bane was released for the sole purpose of showing the public why d12 hasn't released any music
     
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  5. Mikey
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    Nov 24, 2014
    There was some Em stans criticising Em for abandoning D12. Well Bane answers that question. Em got sober & realised just how s--- they are.
     
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  6. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Nov 24, 2014
    I can't believe people are citing Vegas as one of the better tracks. In my opinion it's a perfect example of what's wrong with the way modern day Eminem raps (random beat drops, trying to fit too many words into one bar, thinking it's "edgy" to write a line about raping Iggy Azaelia). Admittedly, I do like the beat, but other than the part where he immitates the Versace flow, it's overly cluttered, abrasive in a bad way, and just sounds like noise to me.
     
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  7. Howie
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    Howie

    Nov 24, 2014
    The overreaction to the Iggy line is getting a bit out of control. It wasn't even that big of a deal. I was shocked to hear he knows who she is and didn't go back to Mariah or Britney.

    The real issue is how much he recycles jokes. Get some new material or stop trying to be funny.
     
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  8. DKC
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    Nov 24, 2014
    It's not that I personally am offended by it, I'm just questioning what it (and other lines like it) adds to the song. It's not clever. It's not funny. There's nothing compelling about it. It's ground already tread, and it's kind of embarrassing that a 40-year-old wrote it. Not even Odd Future thinks it's edgy to rap about r--- anymore.
     
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  9. Old Account
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    Nov 24, 2014
    "What they don't know is the fact Rihanna calls me Pinocchio,
    She loves the way I lie
    Sits on my face and waits for my nose to grow"
     
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  10. Packman
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    Nov 24, 2014
    I've listened to Bane ONE time, and...

    I didn't think it was that bad at all.
     
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  11. Winter
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    Winter Super Comfy

    Nov 24, 2014
    Will literally never listen to this album again. It wasn't awful, it was just really uninteresting.
     
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  12. Street Prophet
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    Nov 24, 2014
    Agreed aside from 3 tracks it has 0 replay value.
     
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  13. 2shady4u
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    Nov 24, 2014
    in all honesty really liked 3 or 4 tracks off this. bane is obviously awful. imo fine line is the show stealer. i agree with everyone saying it doesn't have replay value, but fine line to me does. really liked vegas, original lose yourself, and shady xv intro.
     
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  14. Howie
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    Howie

    Nov 24, 2014
    ^i agree with most of that. I do think this is not even close to MMLP2 though. I just listened to MMLP2 again and I still enjoy Bad Guy, Rap God, Legacy, Headlights, Brainless, and am okay with a few others. ShadyXV will not have much replay value.
     
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  15. Street Prophet
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    Street Prophet my takes are 100% facts at all times

    Nov 24, 2014
    Bad Guy is an amazing song that I love replaying but only right after Stan imo
     
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  16. Tommy Zing
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    Nov 24, 2014
    Yo, Fack >>>> Bane
     
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  17. attila
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    Nov 24, 2014
    I wouldn't go that far.
     
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  18. Truth Himself
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    Nov 24, 2014
    I know it has been said over and over but the mixing on the Die Alone hook is embarrassingly bad. You can barely make out one word Kobe is saying. It's just a bunch of noise that hurts my ears.

    A lot of the mixing on this album is bad. The hook of Twisted isn't necessarily a mixing issue, but it just annoys me that during the hook he drops out the instruments besides drums and just distorts the s--- out of Skylar Grey. It really takes away from a hook that could have been much bigger.

    And anyone else notice in the third verse of Fine Line when he says "I will never forget that and how you guys accepted me for me" that he literally is shouting so loud it distorted the mic so he had to turn down just that one line.
     
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  19. CAMP
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    CAMP

    Nov 25, 2014
    How did anyone let D12 f--- up that Bane beat? The hook is the worst ive heard in years.. no wonder eminem skipped out on this. btw LOL @ paul for calling bane "a b-----r" wtf is he on?
     
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  20. get_em_boy
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    Nov 25, 2014
    The mixing had been horrible for years now even tracks on the slaughterhouse album music up to llud cant make out the words...sometimes i wish em would produce his own s--- again he had some bangers back in the day moment of clarity ghost ect...d--- wish the bass brothers were back but we all know its a nelly "just a dream"
     
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