― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jesse Fox (Jesse Fox), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)
― Trollwatchers Inc, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)
― Arnie (James Blount), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)
That's my opinion anyway.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)
Which you didn't, but hey, whatevah!
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― Robbie Turner, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― robotman, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)
― robotman, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fivvy, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)
Very unusual statement, and decidedly not true. Eminem haswide acceptance - from not only critics, but from other MC's and grassroots hip-hop fans - you know, thosepeople on the subway with huge headphones.
As for "My Name Is" being dated? Nah, not really.I listened to it yesterday and it's still one ofmy favorite Eminem tracks. Sure, it's goofy, butEminem never came up with a better chorus (withthe possible exception of "Criminal"), and the music is perfect: thudding, twiddly funk that demands attention.
My overall thoughts on Eminem: he's a good MC, with manygreat songs, but overall he's inconsistent. He's bestwhen trying to be funny or vicious, but his serioussongs tend to bore me.
― Squirlplise, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― Squirlplise, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)
Yeah, seriously Horace, where did you come up with *this* one?! It's okay to not like him, but don't be an offensive prick!
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)
?????
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)
And really, who in rap has been able to sustain a career more than tokenly? Even just take this as a purely poppist question, who in hip hop has been able to consistently chart for more than a few albums?
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)
This I don't agree with. I think this is a pop impulse (which its fair enough to discuss when we're talking about Eminem), rather than a hip-hop one. If this was true, Jurassic 5 (and Blackalicious and People Under The Stairs and etc) wouldn't sell any records. The "latest! greatest! up to datest!" movement seems to be the principal driving factor behind mainstream chart music at the moment (it may have always been so, I'm not too sure about this).
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)
I am quite down with the idea of Kool Keith killing Keanu Reeves. On or offscreen.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)
I don't think that was a dismissal so much as an observation that Redman has yet to achieve a level of success/greatness/prominece comparable to, once again, Bowie or Madonna (who I'd reckon everyone's Dad has heard of).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ben Williams, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)
Jurassic 5 are the obvious name to haul out when you're talking about retro--ie, the exception the proves the rule (and even there, I liked what Harry Allen wrote about them recently, where he said they were finding out "What's possible when you have the manpower equivalent of two Run-D.M.C.s onstage at once?")
― Ben Williams, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)
I'm not suggesting that the average Dad could debate the sonic nuances rife within the remastered version of DIAMOND DOGS, but simply that they're likely to have at the very least *HEARD HIS NAME* before.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)
I see Eminem quickly becoming like Lenny Bruce in LB's final performing days when he would just go onstage and read the transcripts from his obscenity trials. Eminem seems to really buy into his own cult of personality and believe that "his public" cares about every little detail of his nonspectacular life. "Cleaning Out My Closet"??? Come on! What's next, a rap about how math was hard for him?
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)
what's wrong with a song abt why maths wz hard for him? if it works, it works
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH.
Sorry. No need to repeat my full feelings about Eminem here, but this is my candidate for the most overrated song of the last five years...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ben Williams, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)
Your fan letters to me were far more coherent.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahaha.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)
Back on track:
artistically, but not commercially
Slim Shady LP=Dirty Mind (in which we truly introduce the new freek of the week)
Marshall Mathers LP=Controversy (where the story gets further fucked, and celebrity status comes into play)
Eminem Show=1999 (lyrically becoming a bit redundant, but the beats growing in idiosyncratic power)
8 Mile=Puprle Rain (moviewise, if IMO, not album quality-wise. I'll say "Lose Yourself" is his "When Doves Cry" in that both songs represented the artist's cry for Sympathy as opposed to the artist just thrusting their perversity at us. But in no way do I prefer the music of "Lose Yourself")
If this trend continues then Eminem's Around The World In A Day is right around the corner. Yow!
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)
I'd prefer his Jobriath move. Not necessarily separated at birth, but if you squint...
http://championstudios.net/jobriath/cover.jpghttp://zavarka.com/picture/eminem/1.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)
For the hell of it, let's say the first two albums are Eminem's indie stuff. Before Eminem as we know him and Prince as we know him were truly defined.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)
And where the fuck IS Jerome Benton these days? I miss him. I can't believe Kristin Scott-Thomas's career survived Cherry Moon and Benton's didn't.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)
Bootleggers, on your marks!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― Honda (Honda), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 1 February 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)
"who the fuck is this bitch called Kogan?ridin' Em's jock must be his slogan!don't got a clue so I'll give you oneyou look like the guy from the Scorpions!he thinks I'm a prude just tryin to be rude with my punk attitude...I didn't ask ya dude!say what you say but gay is gayand he's from San Francisco so hey hey hey!Village Voice critics always up in my grillI'm father of the year (nerd voice: but he says he's gonna kill!)I just might in the middle of the nightthanks to Mutherfuck Eddy, you boho suburbanite!But between all this porn it's hard to read the text!they're lucky...or else this Christgau'd be next!Give me an A-minus...my shit's an a-plus!I'll put my foot in your ass. Now please: discuss!Pazz'n'jop...I love you. ha ha."
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 February 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 February 2003 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:08 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)
l. said how much — not much thinking she wd — she LOVED 8 mile, not least cz of how GAY it wz: i said, you mean like it's basically a judy garland plot and she said NO SHE HADN'T EVEN THOUGHT OF THAT BUT THAT'S TRUE TOO, and reeled off abt ten grebt gay things abt it
so anyway the north london queer massive, aged punkah division, say reprazent, i guess
(later on she called van morrison "a stinking black hole of negative energy")
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:31 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 2 February 2003 04:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 February 2003 08:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― xx, Sunday, 2 February 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)