Em's a Poet

[theraven]

Hi guys, I'm a journalist from the UK who's just written an article about Eminem's lyrics, comparing him with Edgar Allan Poe. I hope you can read and enjoy it, and feel free to add your input at the bottom of the page or in this forum. Thanks.

http://thequietus.com/articles/04918-th ... per-eminem

[Fleka]

Nice read. Eminem is not gangster rapper.

[Devil'sAdvocate]

good read

[buffalo bill]

Great. This is the kind of thing I like to read. Eminem's literary genius (although he doesn't really show it a whole lot lately) is underrated even by many fans.

Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney gave him a lot of praise: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media ... 85469.html

[GenePeer]

Let’s play a game to get the ball rolling. I’m going to select a word or a place name, and I’d like you to ad-lib a little narrative using as much rhyme, assonance and consonance with that original word as you can, until it peters out or you can bring it to a fitting end. And it has to be in the Horror or Gothic genre. Feel free to add some extra rhythms or rhymes as you see fit, but it’s not essential. So I’m looking for a long, rhyming horror narrative. Does this sound easy enough? Alright, pencils at the ready. Let’s start with the word Mecca. Take as long as you please.

wow!

[Emadyville]

Holy shit that was a good read

[EminemBase]

I've only managed to read about half of that for now. I'm busy and I find it hard paying attention to text for long stretches of time lmao but what I read was very good.

You're right of course, there's no reason to discredit current day excellence as less authentic poetry than olden day works. And Eminem is an extremely worthy mention when it comes to modern minds to appreciate.

He has an awe-inspiring grasp of the English language and you really cannot even begin to appreciate it until you sit down and contemplate what he's doing line to line. Also to note, what a lot of people, people who can't appreciate true art fail to do is they often... Vaguely credit him as being talented but then bring in questions of morality in his writing and so on...

Like it matters. It's such a small-minded under-appreciation to start squabbling over political correctness when you have such incredible work on display. A true artist should not even bother to appreciate social morality for a second. If art should be anything it should be expansive and limitless. And our social views are by no means that, they're anything but. They're constantly refined and pigeon-holed so to start hampering art with them is a total dis-justice to art's true potential.

PS. I'm glad you picked out "Medicine Ball". His Relapse era is perhaps his most rewarding set of songs for the brain, or my type of brain at least. I could listen to songs like that and "Buffalo Bill" all day long. I just cannot understand people's fixations on the accent or even the content, whilst they come into it of course... They're such minor elements in comparison to the overall effect of his flows and rhyming on those songs. They're so systematic and yet hypnotic. I even saw some of the criticism of the album put in a negative light for that very reason. The fact that it all sounds so calculated, but that's not a bad thing to me. That's what makes it so appealing and addictive.

Anyway, I'll read the rest soon. Good so far though.

[remy3x]

Really good article.

[accutub]

Good article.
Em a gangster rapper

[Sam.]

now that's what i call a epic 1st post
thanks

[TommiTMX]

I honestly wish I could read articles like that more often!

Thank you!

[RossMc]

See I'm a poet to some, A regular modern day Shakespeare

[Jaz]

I've only managed to read about half of that for now. I'm busy and I find it hard paying attention to text for long stretches of time lmao

Have you ever read one of your own posts? haha.

Lmao right? Says he's too busy to read it all then writes a similar essay. We all know you aren't doing anything EmBase

Anyway, pretty solid read here. I don't know if I'd go so far as to compare him to Poe, but still you made your points well.

[EminemBase]

I've only managed to read about half of that for now. I'm busy and I find it hard paying attention to text for long stretches of time lmao

Have you ever read one of your own posts? haha.

No, I don't read my own posts are you insane. Have you seen how long they are

If other people want to read my reams of babble that's up to them. I just type it and speed edit.

[EminemBase]

I've only managed to read about half of that for now. I'm busy and I find it hard paying attention to text for long stretches of time lmao

Have you ever read one of your own posts? haha.

Lmao right? Says he's too busy to read it all then writes a similar essay. We all know you aren't doing anything EmBase

What does me writing a similar amount of words have to do with anything you idiot lmfao?

I didn't say it was a bad article. I said I can't pay attention to long stretches of text for long periods of time. So I usually read in bursts or speed-read.

As for me writing a lot of words too... What's your point? You dull cunts on here keep highlighting that like it's a point in itself. Yes, I write long posts. Yes we all know that. We get it, Eminembase wries very long posts. I do the opposite of writing short posts, I write long ones. Hey everyone do you have that down yet? Or do we need another lame fuck like Jaz to inform you of it. I write long posts, have you seen my posts? *waits for essay* oh, brilliant, haha the length man?! crazy. Nobody is forcing you to read the fucking things, but constantly re-enforcing something which is obvious to everybody anyway is beyond fucking boring man.

PS. I write long posts.

Doesn't mean I sit there and even read my own you degenerate. I just write the fuckers. Oh, and I WAS busy doing something. I was writing a sales pitch for somebody who paid me to do it. Which I can prove. So get fucked.