Third Eminem thread today

Become this guy?

It was the '90s. Crazy shit went on.

He was white trash who grew up in poverty with a fucked up family life in a shitty city surrounded by shitty people.

Lots of other people grow up the same way, but they don't win multiple awards, sell over 100 million albums and end up being a celebrity worth close to a half billion dollars.

There are much more talented rappers who had a few albums then just sort of disappeared. Yet this guy is still around and people genuflect before him like he's God.

I frankly can't defend new hip hop because I prefer old school hip hop, so I never understood is popularity.

He's like a less fucked up Kid Rock who unlike Kid Rock, still has black fans.

Lots of BBC!

He looks like Novak Djokovic at OP

I know we have black posters here, so hopefully they can weigh in.

I remember the first time I saw the They Call Me (Slim Shady) video, I thought this guy was going to be a one hit wonder and disappear. Yet here he is decades later.

He had nothing to lose.

People wanted a Vanilla Ice with edge.

he paid attention in english class?

He has an ugly psychopath face. I think he exaggerated some of his childhood hardship. He was hugely popular among smarmy music critics in the 2000s. I think it was because he said all the vile things that they wanted to say but would get in trouble for. He's a simpering coward who always went harder on the easiest targets.

OP, that photo makes me embarrassed…

…for ALF!

I thought he got real fat and had a heart attack

Remind we what we hate him?

Thankfully he's not as big as he once was. I got so sick of hearing him either screaming obscenities or releasing some cheesy ode to his spawn Haley. I don't give a fuck about your brat you bigot trailer park freak.

He shore has a purty mouth.

Once he started working out he became incredibly fuckable.

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r13 I can’t go to the gym without hearing at least two of his songs. College kids still love him.

[quote]Infinite was a commercial failure, selling around 1,000 copies. Retrospectively, the album received mixed reviews from critics. In 1992, the rapper initially signed with FBT Productions, which has been run by brothers Jeff and Mark Bass. Eminem also held a minimum-wage job cooking and washing dishes at Gilbert's Lodge restaurant at St. Clair Shores for some time.[2] Infinite was recorded in 1995[3] and released under the Bass brothers' independent label Web Entertainment the following year.[2]

That alone should have sealed his fate as an also ran but he invented the Slim Shady character, released and EP, was picked up by Dr. Dre and became a huge star.

I'm always fascinated by these losers who somehow mange to succeed.

Kool G. Rap, Rakim, Special Ed were all better rappers than this guy, but most young people who claim to love rap and hip hop don't even know who they are. But everyone knows this idiot.

I guess I never knew his Missouri connection , I just thought he was pure Detroit.

Flyover genes.

R16 Thank you for taking a moment out of your glamorous life to post Ms Zeta Jones. Your agelessness continues to inspire.

Any other thoughts on this.

The guy really doesn't seem to have the kind of background that screams future success.

What did he have that so many others did not?

Charisma, and the hustle of it all.

Remember that episode of the Brady Bunch where Greg became Johnny Bravo because he "fit the suit"? Sometimes that happens in real life. There's some talent involved, but like R3 said, other people were as talented or more talented.

It always depressed me that he got famous. His songs were so relentlessly ugly and vulgar. It said a lot about how America was rotting from the inside. Look at us now.

Eminem probably rid Dre and others like Johnny Rapid. Sex really does get you pretty far in life. Nothing wrong with it. That's just how the world works. Nick Cannon did it with Mariah, so I don't know what his deal is.

R25 Like who, for example?

R28 see R19. Special Ed especially could put rhymes together like no one else his age or older.

And unlike Eminem, his lyrics fit the story, rather than just forcing rhymes to work even if they make no sense.

I think he's fabulous!

Special Ed, I Got It Made:

And I make all the money from the rhymes I invent,

So it really doesn't matter, how much I spent, because, yo

I make fresh rhymes, daily

You burn me, really?

Think, just blink and I made, a million rhymes

Just imagine if you blinked, a million times

Damn I'd be paid,

I got it made

He was 18 when this song came out. He was one of the first rappers to have his lyrics run into his chorus. Eminem does that today and people think he's a genius.

Most people today have no idea who Special Ed was.

^^^I mean he was 16 when his album was released.

R26 I wrote in another thread about his former manager/producer doing an interview and being disappointed that Eminem chose the angry, violent rap route after his first album was more about positive music.

I don't keep up with rap culture, had no clue who juice Newton was, but is he still relevant in that genre? Seems like he hasn't been relevant for so long.

Severe AIDS face these days.

R29 OK, sure. Special Ed? Lol. Eminem is widely agreed to be one of the best rappers of all time

A friend of mine who sold weed told me he went to a hotel in Times Sq to drop off a package and in the room was Em with his pants down surrounded by black guys.

Those stories are legion R37, but whether or not true is another thing.

The thing I've found interesting for years is the interview I mentioned in R33 and in the other thread which was once posted on the old Horsey forum. Someone posted that the club the former manager mentioned meeting Marshall in was a well known Detroit down low gay bar.

Then Ice Cube saying Dr. Dre was HIV+ and infected Eazy-E and Dre goes out of his way to find Eminem who was basically a white Eazy is interesting.