Evan C. wrote:D0llyShady wrote:^ Exactly. Lmfao, it's already funny as fuck. He can't even breathe in the microphone without people being all "OMFGHESUCKSOMFGOMFGI'MSONOTGONNABUYRELAPSENOWOMFGOMFG'' over it. A part of me gets really fucking annoyed by it, but a part of me just laughs.
Really, people. A person can't be the best 100% of the time. He put out 1 album that wasn't up to his standards. So what? He featured on songs that weren't any good. So what?! 3 classic albums is still way better than most of artists can show and a person just can't be perfect all the fucking time. Of course he hasn't ''lost it'' or ''fallen off'' or however you put it, it's ridiculous to even think of that option, you can't just wake up one day and find out you can't drive or ride a bicycle or whatever. It's the same with rapping. He just needs a good concept and c'mon, what the fuck are you expecting of a random club banger? What is he supposed to do? Ignore everything else and start rapping about going to the club, finding Kim there making out with some random dude and killing her?
Jesus. Just wait for the album and THEN start judging. I'm getting tired of all this crap already.
You're either in denial or just lacking intelligence.
I'm not expecting the CONTENT of a club banger to be necessarily good, but the old Eminem would have never put out a verse that embarrassing lyrically. He would have found a way to make it interesting. He wouldn't be going "Oooh wow/Boom pow/Blew Out/Throughout" and passing that off to his fans as a fucking verse.
But yeah, let's just pretend everything's fine and he didn't fall off at all.
The old Eminem had something to prove, he had that hunger to show everybody who he really was and how nobody can fuck with him. During the time he wrote the verse he used in ''Who want it'' everybody could see he didn't even try, he was tired of rapping and needed a break, he was making sad 30-second verses to hype the people he was working with or whatever his reasons were. Why he used that old crappy verse nobody other than him can say, but he probably just didn't give a fuck. It's obviously not the worst one he has put out - and hopefully since he's very busy making his new album and it fit and he just used it. We've all seen he's not the old Eminem who makes us gasp with every verse he spits. He once said he'd quit rapping once he can't make his new songs better than the last ones; after Encore being far below his standards (obviously he felt it himself too, as he is - or at least was - a perfectionist and if he didn't there should be something seriously wrong with his brain), he let himself go. With all those ''Peep Shows'' and other horrid songs he's participated in, it does no harm. No difference at all. He made the appearance Trick was hoping for effortlessly which, of course I have to admit, isn't what he would do in the 'olden days'. And yet I don't think he's working on ''Relapse'' just for the fame, money and boredom. He said himself he doesn't care about fame or anything like that anymore, he just wants to show people how he
used to rap. If he didn't realize his latest efforts have been horrid, he'd be retarded. Now he wants to show us he's capable of more. He wants to make us sure we'll remember the way he
rapped.
I'm not in a denial; my ears haven't been closed for the last 4-5 years. I probably dislike all his My-1-singles, Facks & Peep Shows more than a lot of us here. But rapping isn't something you can just forget. Look, most of us have had a stage in life when nothing really matters, things that used to be the best just don't matter anymore. I can say for myself I just let everything go then and look like a total moron while doing that whatever-it-is-I-used-to-be-the-best-at. I have a certain example in my mind as I'm actually quite a musician myself (has nothing to do with rapping, though) and for a year I just gave up. Everybody thought I had fallen off and even I thought it, actually. I was about to leave it all behind but then my passion for it came back and everything is like it used to be. Alright, this sounded like a miserable and cheap American-dream movie ending right now, but my point was; he's not Superman. Things like this happen pretty damn often, especially considering everything he's been through.
Neither am I in a denial or have a Stan-like faith in him, but I'm not narrow-minded enough to take things only in black and white like something just happened with a great big BOOM and he lost all his talent. He has gone commercial, I admit, though; the old him who didn't care about the money would've gone away from the rap scene after the first speculations of him 'falling off', but he stayed and made all those failures. And most of the songs on Encore were liked by the mainstream crowd who just need something to dance to. He got a lot of money and young 10-year-old fans by this. Looks like it doesn't matter for him how he makes the money that much - stuff that used to be a disgrace aren't that for him anymore. But however, after everything he said on the interview, I'm quite sure the new album isn't for the money. Quite the opposite; I think he's trying to prove it wrong.
So, I don't think the verses he has spit in the past 4 years mean anything. He's been fooling around, but now it's time for serious work. I'm waiting for the album. When I've put the CD in my computer, put it on my iPod, listened to it fully, it's the time I'm going to judge whether he's 'fallen off' or not. Call me naive, call me stupid, whatever you like - offensiveness has always been a great way to get your point through, it seems. But shortly, what I wanted to say was: he isn't the same. Things he value have changed. But he still has his talent. It's just whether he's using it or not. If he finds that hunger in him, he can do it. And I think he does have it; obviously he understands nobody finds him dope nowadays. And the way he said he wants people to remember how he used to rap makes me think he wants people to think he's just as crazy and brilliant as he used to be. Maybe I'm wrong and the new album will be bad, but at least I'm not going to prejudice it. He will always have the potential. I'm giving him a chance to prove himself. I hope he doesn't blow this one up.
