Jimmy Crack Corn...

[EminemBase]

Considering this was supposedly the height of Em's addiction, he hardly seems fucked here, seems normal. Obviously he had a real addiction and sometimes you could hear it, but I think he also exaggerates it sometimes to justify laziness and boredom with rap back then.

I think that's why Encore has so many silly tracks, not because he was high; because I've abused painkillers too, it doesn't make you silly; but because he was bored, so was just fucking around. Cause he still had a decent theme, imagery etc. so obviously not as fucked as he suggests.

I think he really did have some sort of desire to see how much he could fuck around and see who would still buy his shit.

I really think that's a semi-delusional idea from Em fans lmao. I really don't think he'd do that, he's way too conscious of legacy, his place, what he's doing and is doing etc. he's very selective, very careful, picks his titles and directions in a very particular way... I think it was part boredom, part writer's block, part depression of "fuck, I can't top it" and part trying to please what he envisioned as fans of 'Shady', which by that point had become a caricature, because it was no longer natural.

[Eedee]

Some dude was blasting this in the shower at my dorm the other day.

[Berry]

Yo fif call em & tell em.

I swear Em had a cold/flu on the day he recorded his vocals. Super nasally delivery.

[CrashBand]

If this was a fuck around, off the dome freestyle it would be pretty sweet.







Pity it wasn't.

[Eedee]

At least the beat is sick... and he has some multis in there, albeit forced.

[CrashBand]

Yeah, it reminds me of something him and Royce could've demolished in 98/99.

[kingmathers85]

IMO Em & 50 had tight verses on this

[_Hawk_]

Considering this was supposedly the height of Em's addiction, he hardly seems fucked here, seems normal. Obviously he had a real addiction and sometimes you could hear it, but I think he also exaggerates it sometimes to justify laziness and boredom with rap back then.

I think that's why Encore has so many silly tracks, not because he was high; because I've abused painkillers too, it doesn't make you silly; but because he was bored, so was just fucking around. Cause he still had a decent theme, imagery etc. so obviously not as fucked as he suggests.

I think after The Eminem Show and "Lose Yourself", he himself just recognized he'd hit a very high peak and felt like he couldn't top it in that moment. As he even said in a not-too-long-ago interview that when he wrote "Lose Yourself" he immediately felt like "fuck, I'm never gonna write another 'Lose Yourself'" and felt he hit the roof with The Eminem Show etc.

The height of his addiction? No, the height of his addiction was after Proof died, and Proof is very much alive in this video.

Eminem may have been concerned with his legacy, but that didn't stop him making tracks like 'It's been real'. At times he honestly didn't have a fucking clue what he was doing. He says in 'My First Single' that he's at the top of his game (and that it's not going to change) yet clearly this is absolute rubbish. He had peaked two years before. He may have been fucking around, he may have enjoyed making the music, he may have aimed it as a metaphorical middle finger to those who leaked the better tracks from the original Encore; it's pure conjecture.

[MikeNUFC]

Atrocious song.