Eminem gave white kids someone other than Trent Reznor to empathise with.
And this highlights the sophistication of Eminem's message - on this record he's reminding the hip hop community that white kids could also be poor, downtrodden and ignored. Even better is that not only did Eminem get the godfather of gangsta rap to mentor and produce him, he pokes fun at Dre and mocks him for being soft. The irony of Dre being the reasonable voice in the room is wonderful. Should Eddie rob the store? Should Stan rape the young girl? Should Grady shoot his cheating wife? After a while the conscience, Dre, gives up. Eminem's high pitch voice and piss-take lyrics are hilarious - "I can't work out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate" (for the record, we'd choose Scary) and Dre's beat is easy to bop along to.ĭr Dre's influence kicks in more obviously in Guilty Conscience. My Name Is is a great introductory track. While he's just as famous for the controversy he generates, there is no doubt about the genius of his lyrical acrobatics. While neither of us are serious Eminem fans, like most of the western world, we enjoy and respect his music and rhymes. For that, I hold the Slim Shady LP partly responsible. I don't buy into the argument that listening to angry music will lead to you committing violent acts, however, last night I could have smacked someone in the head with a frying pan.
My two-part dessert was an eight-part disaster and, gee, I was angry. It was probably a mistake to cook dinner while we listened to it rather than focus completely on the twenty-track unrelenting album. And Dylan who suggested putting his breakthrough late nineties album, the Slim Shady LP, into the basket. Classic Album Martini Saturday was a disaster and for that I blame Eminem.
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