Hopsinshadie wrote:The guy should just quit.
He used to be flawless. The Monster is honestly just monotonously monotonous and demonstrably, monstrously, awfully, awful and that's demonstrable yo. He is so bad that he scares me like a Monster. He is done. We done too. He'll never be half or even a quarter of what he used to be. I don't know, maybe he just wants to cash in? He totally shows no respect for the first MMLP album.
He's just wasting his time, wasting our time by getting us hyped. Now the hype has died down. This was a big slap in the face, he totally doesn't care about being real anymore. I might not even buy his album at all.
Marshall, why don't you just do yourself a favor and just become a Facebook/twitter nerd? You won't disappoint people as much as you do now. Time to retire or find another career path. You keep f*cking around. You dared to stoop down to the pathetic level of today's music.
Go shove it. Take a hiatus and never come back.
you sir, are a fucking idiot who obviously does know how to listen to a hip hop record. Did you listen to the lyrics? Did you even bother to look em up? Did you only pay attention to the beat and Rihanna's chorus and decide that because it caters to a 'pop' (retarded adjective for ignorant music fans) sound? Give me and everyone else on this thread a fucking break.
Have you forgotten what CONTEXT is? 'Backstreet Freestyle' by itself sounds like a "monotonous" track about bitches and flaunting the ego, repping Compton in a very generic way but within the context of the album, it WORKS to an amazing degree. You, based on your mindless comment, must not be capable of understanding this concept.
Objectively, this is a quality track do the fact that Eminem avoids spitting skin deep, no substance having lyrics (a main critique of 'pop' music, it being surface level music created only to be sold). So, with that being, one can infer that Eminem has sought out to abandon the conventional standard that has been placed upon 'pop' music (just like he did with LTWYL and Not Afraid). Rihanna's chorus (while this may be subjective) was also solid. Keep in mind, it is obvious that is the only 'pop' (if we are to use the conventional 'urban dictionary' definition of this term) part of this track. The chorus is for radio play most likely which is understandable as this is an album being put out by fucking INTERSCOPE - there is money to be made off this release.
It is inevitable that Eminem, being an artist as big he is, will have a commercial track on his album. To sell as much as Eminem does, especially in today's music and hip hop environment, while the majority of the MMLP2 is art, a part of it is also a product. Stans continue to be surprised when Eminem has a commercial track on his albums. Stans will point to his first three albums, saying how he didn't have 'pop' or 'commercial' tracks but that was 10+ years ago - hip hop as, obviously, evolved since then. The behavior and critiques of these Stans not only an issue with Stans, for it can be observed throughout hip hop with other artist as well. These people are hip hop fundamentalist. It all reminds me of the critique of hip hop production when it started to evolve from boom bap production into more synthesizer oriented production. These two were hip hop fundamentalist. People must understand the direction and evolution of a genre and its artist if the artform is to survive.
