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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.
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Esham started rapping at the age of 13 (Boomin Words from Hell, 1989), and dropped about 14 or so CDs before Suspended Animation was released quietly to no critical reception, no mainstream promotion, no charts or airplay, and promoted in a Jeckel and Hyde fashion by fans of one of the artists Esham says "bit" his style and people who claim that Esham wants to murder those fan
His fans are meatheated thugs who call themselves "Suicidalists", but his music is damn smart, he's a Detroit outsider rapper, but he's not a Juggalo, he's seen as paving the way for the rap-metal boom of the late-90s, but his musical fusion continues to be smart and original even after outlasting the Korns and Limp Bizkits, and while he's credited as a major influence on Eminem (who he hates and says stole his style) and Octagon/Sex Style-era Kool Keith (who he signed to his label, Gothom Inc. in 2001), he's bitter about how fame has dealt him and blows up about fans who "download his albums" (presumably meaning pirate, even though Amazon MP3 and iTunes carry his albums) on "But No Thanx".
Epic run-on's
As Esham runs through traditional "Suicidalist" themes like murder, suicide, depression, politics, hardcore sex and drug use, his 30+ of beat-making and lyrical skills conjure up a volatile concoction of trip-hop, psychedelia, left-field lyricism and rock swagger, placing himself squarely in position as the black Ozzy Osbourne, hip-hop's answer to Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and the prototype for Dr. Octagon, Slim Shady and the OFWGKTA collective (whom some Esham fans have taken upon themselves to go to war with, even though Esham appears to be a fan of Tyler, The Creator).
This one as well. Plus, suicide is a topic of suicidalist? You don't say!
And i'm assuming you meant 30+ years?
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So.. another Suspended Animation? I hope his rhymes are more original than his album naming skills.
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XDDD I smell a failed attempt at a raid. FAIL!
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good review
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huh? lol if anything icp is a bad rip-off of esham... and kid rock and eminem were influenced by Esham. This is like saying Run-DMC is a rip-off of the Beastie Boys.
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Solid album with a colorful soundscape and refreshing variety of topics which keeps it fresh throughout the long tracklist. Respectable amd underlooked notch in the belt of a hip hop legend
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