Apr 30, 2016

GOAT

 

Apr 30, 2016

i was jamming out to this and Celebrity last night before bed

 

Apr 30, 2016

it's ok not to be allowed to review important albums because of your s-----y tastes. It's ok.

 

Apr 30, 2016

 

May 3, 2016

ftr, i won this debate handily.

 

May 2, 2016

Haha--I mean, we were talking about MMLP. But okay: I'll grant you that his biggest song holds up.

Yes. Absolutely. I'm not being obtuse here at all--Jay Z was the biggest album-oriented rapper in the world other than Eminem, and he closed his second album with stories about accidentally shooting his brother and his regret over manipulating a girlfriend into selling crack for him. Country Grammar came out the same year as MMLP--go and listen to the personal narrative aspects on that.

If you wanted to make an argument that I could rebut, you should have said "Eminem was an example of personal narrative grounding rap music for people who were previously unfamiliar with the genre."

You didn't like "Go DJ"?

Sure, it would be an anomaly, but Eminem is an anomaly. He was a battle rapper who became a pop star because he was white and because he secured the proper co-signs. Point me to the disciples! People didn't replicate Eminem because it's very hard to--you have to be a tremendous talent in a highly technical kind of rapping, and you have to be able to harness teen angst that was drying up as the culture shifted in the decade following SSLP. The cultural moment that made Eminem Eminem wasn't permanent. That's not a criticism, I think that's just accurate history.

 

May 2, 2016

(this goes for everyone here. we're talking about lemonade right now. eminem wasn't the first popular entertainer to drive buzz through an album's personal narratives -- making their music a reality tv mystery/puzzle that listeners needed to crack, etc. -- but he tapped into that in a way seldom seen before, especially for a rapper. fueling interest in music/show by making the ppl in ur personal life speculative characters is fairly standard now, but eminem should be noted for the way he pioneered that bridging)

 

May 1, 2016

Literally ONE bad song. ONE.


And, ironically, it's called soldier lmao

 

May 1, 2016

Would be nice if someone could post a best album/rapper/anything list without it devolving into a back and forth about Eminem

Top 5 is perfect though and I don't disagree with any of it

 

May 1, 2016

I guess if you are putting Eminem in your top rap albums of all time then I dunno, that means you really haven't matured or grown old of his s---. I've never been a huge eminem fan but I basically stopped listening to him when I turned 18. His stuff sounds great when you're a yungin but it's not that great in reality tbh

everyone that has heard the fix holds it in high regard.

 

May 1, 2016

arch dogg needa stick to posting dickpics in offtopic, his taste in music is terrible lol

 

May 1, 2016

The world needs more people like you.

Also in

 

Apr 30, 2016

Top ten by year:

2000: 2
2001: 1
2002: 2
2003: none
2004: 1
2005: none
2006: 2
2007: none
2008: none
2009: none
2010: 2
2011: none
2012: 1
2013: none
2014: 1
2015: none
2016: none

 

Apr 30, 2016

MKL was easily my favorite release of 2014 I'm extremely glad to see you put it on the list. It doesn't get enough talk or credit around here.

 

Apr 30, 2016

They haven't yet.

Lmao @Perry The Platypus would "like" a post by a troll in a desperate attempt to discredit me cmon m8