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I am not terrible familiar with Eminem but what I have heard was very homophobic and misogynistic. I didn't feel like his lyrics were a radical voice. Reactionary and small minded seem more appropriate. Maybe I just didn't 'get it'.
John Thornton
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> Eminem rocks, for the most part. The first half of his new album is pretty
> good, the second half sort of wanders, due to a lack of material. Eminem,
> like all the best hip hop artists, has a tremendous sense of the acoustic
> material; some of his samples are stunning (e.g. Aerosmith's "Sing for the
> Moment"). The Slim Shady LP is still the best, musically, but all his
> stuff would be on my "Buy" list, if I did music-crit.
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> For those unfamiliar with Em: he comes straight out of post-industrial
> Detroit, so the raw violence you hear is real, the aesthetic documentation
> of the catastrophe of neoliberalism, sort of the radical voice of
> the white US workingclass. All his stuff is co-produced with Dr. Dre, one
> of the key players of the LA hip hop scene.
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> -- Dennis
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