Eminem What happened to Eminem's hook game?

Started by RetiredAccount, Jan 4, 2015, in Eminem Add to Reading List

  1. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

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    Eminem is a pretty divisive artist regarding what his best material is but I honestly cannot fathom how any Eminem fan wouldn't like the hook on Deja Vu (or the song in general). I don't think there's ever been a clearer best song on any album in the history of music than Deja Vu on Relapse.
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

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    That gif kills me every time
     
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    don't you mean your alt made some genuine points
     
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  4. Peter Parker
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    I honestly think that calling female singers to do hooks in his songs is the only way for him to get close to a girl. I don't know if it's payed off, it probably did though. Marshall's a player no matter how you look at it.
    When the hook's actually good (Liz Rodriguez/Rihanna) it's a win/win
     
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  5. Tech
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    That bridge game tho. I think he's slowly trying to turn himself into a singer/songwriter and hope that no one notices
     
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  6. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

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    yeah but when the hooks from female singers are good, verses are usually a---
     
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  7. Meero
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    i like you're never over's hook
     
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  8. Peter Parker
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    :dno:

    Tbh I think it's a matter of confidence. He features guest singers on his hooks and uses practically the same format (verse/hook/verse/hook/verse) all the time, he used punchlines heavily etc. Instead of trying to make a trend, he follows trends, and that's a limitation to whatever creativity he has left. Another problem is that his new fanbase consists of Rihanna fans, that could explain the Riri and other female singers. I think he'll manage to sound better in the next album and probably have less features than Recovery/MMLP2. He showed in Fine Line and that Cypher that he can rap his a--- off, and from the few songs that I've heard post MMLP2, that he doesn't have that many bad puns as in Recovery. He also made songs like Don't Front for his previous album, so maybe he'll try and do more stuff like this. So yeah, the problem with his hooks is part of his problem since his comeback.

    edit: Berzerk is a very good recent hook imo
     
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    I think berzerk is the only hook by em that i really like in his past two albums
     
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    lmao
     
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    :dead:
     
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    you're nevvvver oveeeer

    difficult >
     
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    His hook game just followed the rest of his abilities- fell way off an is now below average to mediocre with occasional flashes of his former greatness
     
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    [​IMG]
     
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    Sums up his carreer since 2004 perfectly
     
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    >career fell off
    >recovery sells over thirty million in cds and singles

    keep talkin
     
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  17. K18 El Duderino
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    you might be slow but that n----- fell off a while back. He makes great songs here and there but because of how much mediocre material he has put out since 05 it drastically changes my opinion on his newest s---
     
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    list of truly mediocre album tracks?

    most people should only have a handful so please don't say this whole cd or that whole album or these twenty features
     
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  19. K18 El Duderino
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    K18 El Duderino Welcome to the Dopamine Dome

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    almost everything on xv except for Fine Line and GOF
    MMLP2
    assholoe, so much better, survival, The Monster, Stronger Than I Was, Bezerk,
    Recovery
    Wont Back Down, WTP, LTWYL, Your Never Over,unititled
    Relapse
    i really shouldnt havee to explain my self on this one
    Encore
    yeah i shouldnt have to explain this either cause we both know its garbage
     
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  20. CSW
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    k there are a couple tracks there i can't stand either

    except are you sure you're appreciating how many different situations (his fans, his exes, his parents, his daughters, his peers and so on) he's describing at the exact same time with every last line of some of the songs you mentioned?
     
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