i have to say, despite all the praise i'm hearing recently for eminem, i haven't heard much from him that grabbed me, much less impressed me. i still prefer the old PE and up through arrested development and some wu-tang clan stuff, but currently i'd just as soon listen to dj spooky with a killah priest or kool keith rap as eminem.
maybe i should sit down and give slim shady a genuine listen/chance, or maybe i'm just an old-timer, already, at 34.
j
On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 01:40 PM, pms wrote:
> Is this the blond guy who made nice with Elton John or some gay
> mainstreamer
> after making some anti-gay remarks? I always thought it was M&M.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Max B. Sawicky <sawicky at bellatlantic.net>
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 2:01 PM
> Subject: RE: Eminem
>
>
>> You mean Psycho-Boy?
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>> mbs
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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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> -- Dennis
>>>
>>>
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