faggy 2 dope and silent gay

Album Rating: 1.0

You better shut your trap.

Album Rating: 4.0

Zizzer, I mean I get how you don't like his voice and all, and not liking the content, but his lyrics being terrible? really? THAT is one of your reasons.



Not to mention the one reason i have this lower than most people is ignored by you anyways: the beats here just aren't that great.

Album Rating: 4.5

You crazy Oj? These beats is monster.

Album Rating: 1.0

I probably didn't criticize the beats because I don't listen to a ton of hip-hop and am not an expert on them.



As for the lyrics part, a lot of the things that turn me away from his lyrics go for most rappers in general, and I have a difficult time finding hip-hop albums (instead of just one or two songs) that I really like. I know the subject matter here is dramatically different, but the style is similar.



It seems like rappers go out of their way to add rhymes. I don't know why rhyming got to be so obligatory in hip-hop, but it seems like rappers twist their lyrics to make them rhyme and the end result is a very unnatural sounding line.



For example, from "The Real Slim Shady":



"We ain't nothing but mammals; well some of us cannibals

who cut other people open like cantaloupes.

But if we can hump dead animals and antelopes

then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope"



The phrases "like cantaloupes" and "and antelopes" serve no purpose besides making rhymes and come across as forced and out of place.



Other words or phrases are often forced to ensure the rapping flows well (each line has the right number of syllables). The first line would mean the same thing without the word "well," but with the inclusion, it seems forced. In real conversation, "well" would only be included there if it came about as an afterthought to the first statement, but since he's rapped those lyrics hundreds of times, that's obviously not the case.



Overall, even though he makes a good point, the lyrics still seem juvenile. I'm not crazy about rappers who rap about how rich they are or how many hoes they got, but at least I'm usually not expected to take them too seriously. Eminem raps about more serious matters (which I can't fault him for in itself), but the delivery comes across as frivolous (to me anyway).

Album Rating: 3.5

*delirium

Album Rating: 4.5

ummm. The record company made him write the real slim shady for a single that was in the same vein(vain?) as my name is. Of course it's going to be silly. And besides, that line and song are great.

I probably didn't criticize the beats because I don't listen to a ton of hip-hop and am not an expert on them.

As for the lyrics part, a lot of the things that turn me away from his lyrics go for most rappers in general, and I have a difficult time finding hip-hop albums (instead of just one or two songs) that I really like. I know the subject matter here is dramatically different, but the style is similar.

It seems like rappers go out of their way to add rhymes. I don't know why rhyming got to be so obligatory in hip-hop, but it seems like rappers twist their lyrics to make them rhyme and the end result is a very unnatural sounding line.

For example, from "The Real Slim Shady":

"We ain't nothing but mammals; well some of us cannibals
who cut other people open like cantaloupes.
But if we can hump dead animals and antelopes
then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope"

The phrases "like cantaloupes" and "and antelopes" serve no purpose besides making rhymes and come across as forced and out of place.

Other words or phrases are often forced to ensure the rapping flows well (each line has the right number of syllables). The first line would mean the same thing without the word "well," but with the inclusion, it seems forced. In real conversation, "well" would only be included there if it came about as an afterthought to the first statement, but since he's rapped those lyrics hundreds of times, that's obviously not the case.

Overall, even though he makes a good point, the lyrics still seem juvenile. I'm not crazy about rappers who rap about how rich they are or how many hoes they got, but at least I'm usually not expected to take them too seriously. Eminem raps about more serious matters (which I can't fault him for in itself), but the delivery comes across as frivolous (to me anyway).

Album Rating: 4.5

I like how EBT puts it. (:

Album Rating: 4.0

wow you seem to be taking a lot of effort to criticize this, but whatever.

Album Rating: 3.5

agreed with someguest...



wait what did i just say?

hahaha

"they can all get fucked just stay true to you"

Album Rating: 1.0

Well the things I pointed out go for all the other songs too, Counterfeit. And I don't see how artists putting songs they don't want to on their album just because the record label tells them to helps it out in being a classic.

Album Rating: 4.5

It's not that he didn't want it per se. It's just the album needed a proper single. Talk about Greeting Song off BSSM or Back to School on White Pony if you want to talk about songs that the artists didn't want on the album. (Which are also classics in their own right.) Little off topic, but yeah..

Zizzer's just being a cockmongler for the sake of being a cockmongler

Album Rating: 1.0

Okay I misunderstood you.



And no EBT, I really do not like it. I don't know why that's so hard for you to understand.

IM THE REAL SLIMSHADY

the real slim shady is so sick

Album Rating: 4.5

One of the best albums ever.

Album Rating: 4.5

bumped to a 5, too good