> You mean Psycho-Boy?
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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'.
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> 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.
> >
> > 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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