Quoted from Maccalvr

Eminem has no talent. If he had talent, he'd write songs that have real lyrics and actually SING them. Rapping can be a great art form, but it's also a great forum for the very untalented. Image goes a long way these days it seems and talent is just secondary. Can you imagine John writing lyrics filled with profanity? Of course not cuz he didn't have to. He knew how to express himself with more than 5 words at a time.

You're gonna make me do it, aren't you?

Look, you all have this preconcieved notion of what he is about, and therefore you are so caught up in the dictionary definition of the words that you just miss the point. Eminem is a self-parody. His career is a conceptual masterpiece. He is three personalities.

Marshall Mathers--The inner human, the man he is inside, the vulnerable artist.
Slim Shady--The evil side, the inner turmoil, the darkness. We all have it, its just that he admits to it and that scares us... So we label him a sicko.
Eminem--The messenger. The body in which two beings war.

There is a reason he calls his albums what he does. The Slim Shady LP is intended to be overtly obscene, because Slim Shady is evil. There is no truth in it. Slim Shady is, what the expierienced writer calls an Unreliable Narrator.
The Marshall Mathers LP is the war. In this album Eminem explores the social conscience. Listen to Stan. Its not a senseless murder fantasy. Its a true recognition of his actions and the fact that he shouldn't be held responsible.
The Eminem Show is an exploration of the world around him and how he interacts with it.
Encore is, then, the death of Slim Shady. The end of a transition. It is the message that Eminem is now an adult. Slim Shady is no more because good has triumphed. The end of Encore is simply a metaphor for the misinterpretation Eminem is assaulted with. Just as he leaves, he is painted as a killer and a phycho by OTHERS who don't understand.

That's it. Everyone shut up. I have explained this TOO MANY TIMES TO TOO MANY PEOPLE!


And to address you, Sandra, listen to the sentences, not the words. But of course you, and no one else on the opposing side will bother, because we all need to stay unpercieved.

Quoted from Maccalvr

I guess I haven't gotten through a whole lot of his lyrics. Although I've read some. I wasn't that impressed. It seems like he just writes different variations on the same theme. I don't know. I guess I don't want to hear about his life. So I won't rag on him anymore untill I become more informed. That voice of his also gets on my nerves, but that's another story.

Stan
Sing For The Moment
Whatever You Say I Am

Just read them and REALLY READ them.

This whole thread just pisses me off.

Thanks for the clarification--all this time I thought it was just one person who really sucked, now I know it's 3 that really suck. Sybill as a White black person--Rock on.

Quoted from andersonCouncill

This whole thread just pisses me off.

Whoa. We're only talking. Chance to put your point of view across and all that. I thought Sandras response was cool.