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Oh, I didn't know anyone actually didn't like him, lol. I'm familiar with the older Slim Shady, funny guy that got in trouble a lot .. Please stand up.

At 5/21/09 11:33 PM, VI-Chuckles-IV wrote: They don't actually listen to his lyrics.

Trust me, we do.

Why should I be ashamed to listen to music that I like?

You shouldn't. I could talk all day about how horrible Eminem's music is but I wouldn't expect you to change your tastes or anything. Just keep listening to whatever you want. I get a load of shit when people hear the music I like but I don't care; they're twats.

He isn't only a rapper. He's a poet.

I've heard people use the "it's poetry" line to justify rap music's existence more times than I've had hot dinners. For example, people say that Tupac's lyrics are poetry. When I ask them to cite any other poem they've ever heard in their life, they can't. How can they describe something as poetry when they don't have anything to compare it to, and thus not know what poetry actually means?

I liked him back in the day. Oh, memories.

Relapse was not very good. He's had a lot ofstuff happen to him over the passed five years, I wish he had used more of those expierience as inspiration for his album.

I respect people who listen to anything from the Eminem Show or before, that was when he had true talent. It annoys me how his career keeps on resurrecting without anything good ever resulting from it.

Because lol.

I don't like him because he's a cocky prick. He's overly popular in other countries for the sole reason that he's white. He's also not terrible grateful.
That's why I hate him anyway.

Eminem was one of the first musicians I ever liked.

I'm not to sure about him now though.

Meh...to me his production or should i say Dr.Dre's has not been booming lately,of course his lyrical ability is always banging...But meh i kinda liked Relapse

I liked relapse, i thought it had a real vibe to it. Songs like Deja Vu and Beautiful show you that he can talk about whats going on in his life and make it something you'd want to listen to. Then his lyrics on Same Song & Dance and Stay Wide Awake are sick, insane, Marshall Mathers LP material.

Hes cool.
But im not into rap really.
When i litsen to stuff like Avenged Sevenfold or Animal Collective i have to change before my sister falcon punches me.

I don't mind some of his songs, like

Toy soldiers
when im gone
mockingbird
lose yourself

This is why people a lot of people don't like eminem:

I used to be a pretty big fan i guess. I had all his albums up to and including Encore.

I hate encore. He went from being a poet and a flower to being a poser, and a media whore. He has nothing worth talking about anymore, so he just has peopel on his album peopel want to listen to so they buy his shit. I am not a fan of a lot of the "new" rap,and hiphop i honestly think its all media garbage, only produced to make our generation a lot fucking dumber.

At 5/22/09 03:43 AM, silentisdeath16 wrote: This is why people a lot of people don't like eminem:

I used to be a pretty big fan i guess. I had all his albums up to and including Encore.

I hate encore. He went from being a poet and a flower to being a poser, and a media whore. He has nothing worth talking about anymore, so he just has peopel on his album peopel want to listen to so they buy his shit. I am not a fan of a lot of the "new" rap,and hiphop i honestly think its all media garbage, only produced to make our generation a lot fucking dumber.

I feel that on relapse he had something to write about thats why its an Eminem album worth listening to. Proof died and he got addicted to sleep inducers. I think those are good reasons to write songs about so its a good reason to give those songs a listen.

At 5/22/09 02:30 AM, Phobotech wrote: Because lol.

Alf!!!

His music sucks now because he has nothing to prove. The Marshall Mathers LP and Slim Shady LP were his, truly his, I think. He had a reason to write good music. His featured verses on Renegade were some of his best, along with the songs Kill You, The Way I Am, etc. Nowadays though, there are not only better white artists, but better artists in general. In his prime he was one of the best without a doubt. Now though, guys like Black Milk and Blu are better.

I dislike him because he's a shit rapper. There's hundreds of better acts, really.

And this isn't just a race question; there are good white rappers on my list too. It's headed by Everlast.

eminem was good when he raped horror core (ex. his first major album that was way softer than his normal shit)
then eventually he just started rapping about the modern world, which there is already enough of that
so have fun

He's not a poet, he doesn't write poetry you tool. I don't mind eminem myself- but I do not download his music, buy his albums or go out of my way to listen to his music. If its on the radio then I'll nod my head to it but I don't go further than that. He's clever, but his stupidness doesn't make him great, to call him the greatest rapper of the century is to loudly proclaim 'I'm an idiot who knows only one rapper lololol'.

People can't like every artist. Some people like him, some don't. Not everyone is gonna like him. So why bother?

At 5/21/09 11:36 PM, DaSadGirl wrote: His lyrics are fucking garbage, now. His last good album was, "The Eminem Show." After that, his career was over because he had nothing else to talk about. : ( 28

and there was no inbetween
you either loved it or hate it,
every cd critics gave it the 3,
then 3 years later they go back and re-rate it
and called the slim shady LP the greatest,
the marshall mathers was a classic,
the eminem show was fantastic
but encore just didn't have the calibre to match it,
I guess enough time just ain't passed yet
a couple of more years that shit'll be illmatic.

At 5/22/09 05:21 AM, Aci6 wrote: He's not a poet, he doesn't write poetry you tool.

Exactly, there are few rappers that are poets; Saul Williams comes to mind. There is a difference between a poetic text and a lyrical text, the same way there's a difference between, say, prose text and a journalistic text.

This, however, at least in my view, does not mean those rappers that are not poets are any worse. Hell, i find Saul Williams a bit sub-par rapper, but an interesting artist nonetheless.

I thought people did like him! He's just about the only rapper I can stand.

Personally, I don't like most rap / modern "RnB" outside of Goldie Lookin' Chain, but if you want to, go for it. As far as I'm concerned, as long as you aren't playing it off your mobile speaker when you're walking alone instead of using the magical creation of earphones or coming into someones face going "fuck you I'm gangsta this music is the shit", listen to what you want.

At 5/22/09 03:43 AM, silentisdeath16 wrote: This is why people a lot of people don't like eminem:

I used to be a pretty big fan i guess. I had all his albums up to and including Encore.

I hate encore. He went from being a poet and a flower to being a poser, and a media whore. He has nothing worth talking about anymore, so he just has peopel on his album peopel want to listen to so they buy his shit. I am not a fan of a lot of the "new" rap,and hiphop i honestly think its all media garbage, only produced to make our generation a lot fucking dumber.

I have to admit, I haven't heard much from encore and what I have heard I wasn't really feeling.

Relapse is pretty good, though.

I've liked him since when I was about 11, so 2003 and he's still great.

At 5/21/09 11:45 PM, simon wrote: I dunno, his lyrics in Relapse are pretty sick.

Relapse is off the fucking hook.

i think hes ok

slim shady is a lady

This is the truth about slim anus