Rap God - 97 words in 15 seconds. Inspired Kendrick's Control verse. Rolling Stone: "Eminem rolls out a six-minute argument for his immortal hip-hop genius, and it's pretty convincing."
Love The Way You Lie - Unheard of subject matter for such a mainstream record. Video starring Megan Fox. Five Grammy nominations. Eminem's best selling single to date. Set multiple world records for downloads. "The refrain is based on a Gm–Eb(add2)–Bb–F/A chord progression; the verses follow a Gm–Eb(add2)Bb–Fsus/A chord progression. Rihanna feels confined in a cell of her own creation as she sings without vibrato while her voice subtly conveys the complex emotions in her head, backed by electric guitar and piano. Acoustic guitar, violin and drums accompany Eminem's tragic verses."
Stan Live - Elton John took everything about this track and made it better. Their embrace after the surreal performance was about when people started realizing just how tongue in cheek Eminem's music is.
Like Toy Soldiers - "The song Like Toy Soldiers has an eight-bar drum loop that sounds like marching-band drums. I took it home and I studied the pattern that it was doing. I wrote the rhyme right to it. Just memorized the pattern and learned it by heart. I tried to make every word hit on the kicks and the snares." Goat sample and the lyrics speak for themselves.
Lose Yourself - Written on set and recorded in one take in a mobile studio. It's clear Eminem is becoming unhinged as he succumbs to addiction but his skill has never been sharper. Quintuple platinum. Five Grammy nominations including the first ever song of the year nod for a rapper. First hip hop track to ever win an Oscar. 23 weeks in the top half of the Billboard Hot 100. Four VMA noms and one win.
Business - http://www.rapanalysis.com/2011/03/how- ... minem.html
The Way I Am - The infamous second single. Em's first beat, and he absolutely slaughters it. "From the perspective of traditional poetic theory, almost the entire song, excluding the chorus, can be described as being written in anapestic tetrameter. However, though this poetic label accurately describes the short-short-long pattern that dominates Eminem's flow in this song, it fails to capture the musical rhythm of his delivery, which in Rap is more significant. Eminem delivers his short-short-long "anapestic" rhythm in a highly syncopated manner which is completely off the beat: he rests on the beat itself, 1,2,3,4, and delivers his words on the other 16th notes (e & a), accenting the last 16th note, the same place where the kick drum hits. This highly syncopated rhythm gives this piece much of its dramatic tension and is identical to the rhythm of the piano accompaniment."
That's just my ten cents.
TWIA
