I wrote a positive review of this as a joke because I honestly couldn't believe that the ratings for this album, much less anything in this artist's discography were this high. eSHAM is a joke from Detroit who sounds like
Insane Clown Posse, only with worse lyrics and not having the creative input of
Mike E. Clark. Instead, he tends to opt for a rap-rock sound ala late-90's
Kid Rock, only, not as catchy, and with worse lyrics.
The guitar work and beats on this album are very bad. This guy's entire body of work -- which is excessively larger than it needs to be -- sounds like the kind of thing a TV show like
South Park would cook up to make fun of
Eminem and
Limp Bizkit. And eSHAM, unlike Fred Durst, doesn't have Wes Borland's talent as a guitarist to back up his putrified, awful lyricism.
The dual awfulness of "Thanx" and "But No Thanx" is a summary of how bad this piece of shit is, the former dedicated to the five people who actually bought this stupid ass album, the latter dedicated to everyone who downloaded it. eSHAM seems to be stuck in the Napster era, suggesting that if one of his supposed fans downloaded the album, they aren't a real fan. He is aware that people pay for downloads, right? iTunes has been around since around 2003. His albums are
ON iTunes. So, the people who bought this off iTunes aren't real fans?
Of course, the worst rapper on this album isn't eSHAM, but the album's sole guest verse, Daniel Jordan. Much as eSHAM sounds like a coked up ICP rip-off, Daniel Jordan sounds like the retarded version of Eminem.
