Whats Wrong With Em?

[xYnDart]

Since Eminem came back, Everything is changed about him, The thing that makes me sigh is the fact that he is socially so awkward! Look at the interview with Jimmy Kimmel (The one he is promoting Relapse), I've just noticed how awkward he acts, It's like...He just wants to finish it as fast as he can, It was never the case with him back in the days, He never appears on any show, Unless it's promoting his album, Nor never do surprise appearance on concert, Unless it's Dr.Dre or someone that is tight with him, He wasn't like that. Which got me to question...Does Eminem really want to do this anymore? How long will he go?

Thoughts?

[sbolli1]

We already knew he was tired of the fame all the way back in 2000, he's just finally found his way of managing it. The guy's a recluse, really simply as that.

Also, you can't really note his public appearances around the Relapse era. He had just spent years addicted to drugs and in hiding, and he was still "flushing them out" around the time of Relapse, so yeah he's going to probably look a little uncomfortable/frightened at being in the spotlight again after so many years out of it.

[HeySamantha]

He's an impostor, didn't you hear? The real one is dead. There is youtube proof.

[xYnDart]

He's an impostor, didn't you hear? The real one is dead. There is youtube proof.

That guy who made the video deserves the douchebag of the year award

[Sam.]

It's takes time for anyone HUGE as him to just come out of a condition and just face cameras just like that. Just listen to the 1st verse from beautiful, he somewhat says about what I just said.

[xYnDart]

I really think Em has two more albums in him and then he will finally call it.

[SajN]

He did the surprise appearance for Drake and Rihanna. He's fine, just 40 years old and uninterested in what the faggoty media has to say.

And he doesn't care about his fans at all.

[xYnDart]

Now, I wouldn't say he doesn't care about his fans, Every artist cares about his fanbase, He wouldn't be at this level if it wasn't for us

[Trimss]

Well he certainly doesn't show us he cares.

[Sam.]

The way he sits in an Award with practically no effect if he actually does win or not is great. He just makes Music for the Fans to like it. Fuck a critic.

[Trimss]

Well he certainly doesn't show us he cares.

why should he? all you do is bitch about everything he puts out.

Word, so do the 5 millions people who bought Recovery, the 80 000 people in every country he performs in who go to his shows, the 13 000 000 followers on twitter and the 70 000 000 people who like him on facebook.

I mean look at him, all he gets is negative feedbacks. Such an easy cop out.

[xYnDart]

Trimss is right, And bitching?! He has the most loyal fanbase in the world! His fans admire him, He is always praised, I think he just doesn't have that hunger anymore, He is just...Yeah whatever suits you.

[Trimss]

What do you faggots expect him to do?

I expect him to PM me on twitter and ask me how my day was. Rappers never ask me how my day was.

[EminemBase]

He's always been socially awkward.

Anybody who thinks he wasn't isn't very good at reading people...

I used to be / can be a socially awkward person; very withdrawn, depressive... and he is that character-type. In his early years he was trying to make an impression and so he used zany OTT humour and pretty much lived his alter-ego to overcompensate for lack of actual confidence...

And anybody who knows how to see beneath the surface will totally see his awkwardness no matter what time period we're talking. All those early interviews where he tries to act confident... watch him in-between questions or off moments or the nervous laughs or confusion... that silly exterior was just a way to be somebody else / not face his own awkward self, I know because I used to do it.

And his died hair and new style of thinking with Shady probably solidified it more in his mind that he had license to act crazier, so it made him feel more at ease with being silly.

Now though, he's not coming back as some fresh face you know nothing about with a crazy alter-ego and some never before heard groundbreaking art; he's just himself. There's no died hair or living his silly side as he knows the public know him, he's also older and he's just being himself. He hasn't BECOME socially awkward, he's always been that, and shy, the silliness is just an easy way to overcompensate and try and hide that. He just doesn't hide himself any more which ironically and contrary to how he looks and talks - actually makes him MORE confident.

Eminem is MORE confident now than he was in 1999. In 1999-01 he didn't have the confidence to be himself, to talk like himself or do an interview or have a moment of real thought or contemplation; he constantly play acted as it's a form of masking low self-esteem. Now, he's unafraid to show you what he's naturally like, unafraid to have natural reactions and thoughts, he's NOTTT AFRRAID...

It's almost like a delayed adolescence lmao.

When he first returned, he was trying to convince himself he was the goofy clown (awkward forced silliness in 09 interviews, aside from the Elvis shit which is fucking hilarious), perhaps he felt pressure to be that and maybe due to the fact he was trying to create his old artistry he felt inclined to be that... but that's not really him. Hence why he's not constantly doing voices and being stupid all the time now - real him is relaxed, thoughtful, smart, laid-back...

The most 'real' interview available, is his interview with a guy on NPR radio. If you go seek that out, you will hear some of the most naturally real Eminem thoughts ever, and you can tell he's extremely intelligent, just in the way he phrases things and is also totally on a level with the rather intelligent interviewer, which is probably why he's himself there. As, also like me, Em grew up intelligent but surrounded by idiots, so he developed a goofy exterior to use as a shell to fit in; as he was always afraid (HE WASSS AFRAAID) to show his real intelligent self in front of his dumb goofy macho friends most likely. Which is why his only other response when not comfortable is: withdrawn.

In that interview on NPR, he's talking to a real adult, somebody having an adult conversation with him, and so he's comfortable and lets his guard down. All those zany interviews back in the day he was nervous and afraid to show himself, so he play acted.

#VintageStyleLongAssEmBasePostsFTW

(It was my decision to return to long posts, I did it for me
Admittedly, I prolly did it subliminally for you
So I could come back a brand new Base)

[xYnDart]

Menzo - It wouldn't hurt if he tried to sell into the whole Twitter thing and maybe tweet his fans or something like that, I am not that big fan of Twitter, But it's a perfect way for a artist to communicate with his fans.