"FDT" is a million times more forceful (even with the Secret Service-prompted edits) and is actually listenable
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
(I get that it's not strictly a fair comparison)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
there's tons of media figures goin after Trump, but idk what constitutes "white pop star" these days tbh (or why I should care since they're such a minor part of the media landscape at this point - Em himself is mostly irrelevant)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
as long as you think calling Yam a bitch is socialist, voodoo
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, October 11, 2017 10:20 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
forgot my sarcasm font at home i guess
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
That Eminem, how dare he!
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
em is mostly irrelevant to people who actively pay attention to rap music, but he's got huge allegiances in parts of the country where rap is less popular
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
it's cool, you can just call them deplorables.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
Em just did.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
he's got huge allegiances in parts of the country where rap is less popular
Yes, and he's used this to devastating effect. Just remember how powerful "Mosh" was!!!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
lol otm
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
tbf I will fully cop to my ambivalence being at least partly rooted in the fact that I've never liked him. His technical skill is undeniable but his exploitative combo of self-absorption and opportunism (not to mention his 4chan-style LOOK HOW OFFENSIVE I AM schtick) has always put me off.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
I remind myself every few months that his sales have remained impressive for years:
In the United States, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling more than 792,000 copies in its first week, becoming the second-biggest debut of 2013 and the second-largest sales week of the year, only behind the debut of Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience, which bowed at number one with 968,000 in March. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 logs the sixth-biggest sales week of the past five years. The album also marks Eminem's seventh No. 1 album.[106] In its second week the album dropped to number two, selling 210,000 more copies.[107] In its third week the album returned to number one on the Billboard 200, selling 120,000 more copies.[108] In its fourth week the album dropped to number two on the Billboard 200, selling 199,000 more copies.[109] The album sold 1,727,000 copies in the United States in 2013, making it the second best-selling album of the year.[110] As of April 2015, the album has sold 2,244,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen Soundscan
TMMLP 2 was released before Soundscan included streaming. I wonder how a new album would sell now.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
opportunism otm - one of the other reasons I am so fond of "FDT" is that it predates the commodification of Trump-bashing
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, October 11, 2017 10:40 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
people should only make political statements with music if it causes demonstrable changes to the political environment
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
I was referencing the fact that it sucked
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
^^^
This is pretty much where I fall too. I didn't like him in 1999, don't like him now, and have always thought of his critical cheering section as suckers and enablers. So now we're supposed to line up behind this toxic asshole just because he's anti-Trump? No thanks.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
xxxxpost that "Rap God" video from his last album has 570,000,000 Youtube views.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
Some tough customers in here
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
i'm not arguing that it's a good freestyle but a few of you seem to argue that he shouldn't have done it at all, which I think is blatantly wrong
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
(not to mention his 4chan-style LOOK HOW OFFENSIVE I AM schtick)
honestly i know 4chan has to come up in every thread but can we correctly place Eminem in the context of 80s and early 90s shock rap and not something that did not even exist at the time?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
those things are connected!
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
ilx fifteen years ago ilx now basically the same people being wrong about rap music and rappers. cypher was fire though. eminem is one of the greatest rappers ever. i don't even fuck with him and i don't think i ever made an ilx post about eminem before.i mean i'll take some of whatever like some bullshit criticism it's not an important moment or whatever and he says he likes the military so it's garbage, but you know based on the reaction of people it was directed at, made for, i think it was successful and important.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
basically the same people being wrong about rap music and rappers...eminem is one of the greatest rappers ever.
self-pwned
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
also eminem is actually really popular on ilm no?
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
i put ass like that at #1 on my 2005 pazz and jop
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
i meant it in a in a respectful rap canon joe budden traditionalist way, where you nod along with his inclusion in a top 20 and say something like "yeah, em got bars," rather than in a visceral emotional response or true respect for his artistry.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
ha yeah no worries that makes sense I was just goofin on you. like I said I don't question his technical virtuosity and yeah of course he would show up "Best Rapper Ever" lists.
(but I still don't like him)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
fwiw I loved the Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers LPs
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
in a time where frightening things are happening and a lot of the criticism is wrapped in humour and cynicism and everything feels hopeless, it was heartening to see not so much em doing what he did, saying what he did--i think it's powerful because it's cringey and sincere--but the reaction to the cypher, and not so much the fuck donald trump part but the expression of solidarity with people who are under attack. right?can you just say you fuck with it on that level before going in on em is a washed up horrorcore rapper that's about to drop a single with pink?
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
that was basically my first post on this topic
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
let's talk about mysonne now.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
respect knuckleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE7P09ftXKU
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
knuckles?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
I've posted this before, but again, it takes balls to say this to your fanbase:
and any fan of minewho’s a supporter of hisim drawing in the sand a lineyou either for or againstand if you cant decidewho you like more in your spliton who you should stand besideill do it for you with thisFUCK YOU
Yeah whatever... he is a has been and he's rich as fuck already, why would he give a fuck? Well, he has an album coming out in the following months and he's really popular in states where Trump won by a wide margin like Wyoming, North and South Dakota. Source: (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/upshot/music-fandom-maps.html)
Eminem, the 44-year-old rapper from Detroit, has remained popular, with several hits in recent years, including “The Monster,” featuring Rihanna, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard top 100 in 2013. His fan base is strongest in whiter and more rural places: West Virginia; southern Ohio; eastern Kentucky; deep north Maine; the Ozarks in Missouri; across the Great Plains. And, of course, Eminem is popular in his hometown, Detroit.
He's pretty much turning on the people that gave him half or more of his fortune. This is for me the real meat not the rap itself. Look, I've never really liked him and it doesn't surprise me a bit he's popular in white rural America... they probably take the homophobia and mysogyny and all the shock factor at face value, but that statement against his own fans in the end is pure mad passion.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
it takes balls to do things that have actual stakes. this has none.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
When you're totally familiar with rap music pic.twitter.com/UVFRHw21Yf— Mark Agee (@MarkAgee) October 11, 2017
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
more like mark diceman
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
a thing that i'm finding funny is that a lot of the people who are praising eminem for "best political writing" for this cypher praised the eric garland game theory thing
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
Tweets that didn’t age well. A four act play. pic.twitter.com/jrNklSsVgX— Jordan Strack (@JordanStrack) October 11, 2017
― Spottie, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
I liked at the time (and still like) the first three Eminem albums - if only Encore was anywhere near as great and he'd stopped there. I'm not really interested in any of his post-comeback stuff.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:34 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
heh wait to see if it has impact before jumping to conclusions? it may matter to some people.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
i mean if there was ever a cultural phenomena that could be used as a trojan horse into the mind of republicans, it's Em.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
whiteness distilled into its purest form is mike cernovich is rapping at eminem to defend the president pic.twitter.com/KmZgfZu6Wq— TWO DAMNED MAUSOLEA (@2dAmMuslim) October 11, 2017
― gbx, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:23 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^yes, and
olbermann gonna find soundbombing 2 via burgeoning eminem fandom and get super into def jux and rawkus and rhymesayers. tale as old as time— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) October 11, 2017
― gbx, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/5khdtrx7h8rz.jpg
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
lol xp
shakey otm btw, good on em for doing this, specifically calling out his fans who support him. the music itself is whatever, fine for what it is i guess
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 11 October 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
lol...
....two years pass
@KeithOlberman President Trump REFUSES to make May 15th, the day Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein was released, a national holiday HAVE YOU NO DECENCY SIR?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
he sounds like a middling slam poet and the portentous staging makes it sound even worse
agree w/ this
but it does sound better than most of his releases for the past 1.5 decades have been
― dyl, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
he is soon releasing a duet with p!nk who just voiced her tentative support for trump earlier this week
― dyl, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
lol
I did think the presentation of it (no beat, out front by himself) was weird and maybe not the best cuz as you say it was portentous, it gave it this unearned gravitas. Like, if he had just dropped all that in the context of how those ciphers usually are presented (for ex. w/Primo on the turntables and a bunch of other rappers all taking turns) it would have actually been way more dramatic, a real "oh shit!" moment
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
"I really want to meet Eminem and I think this might help!"
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 November 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
stan is not a subtle song
― Left, Friday, 27 November 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
and this is quite the interpretation of the concept
― imago, Friday, 27 November 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
congrats 2 British Lisa Loeb
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 November 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
i am losing it to be quite frank pic.twitter.com/pKUGFluxlb— jodran (@femcelgirlboss) March 2, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
That is the single most embarrassing thing I've seen come out of Tik Tok yet. Shut it all down.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
just learning about genz vs millennial wars on social media and am very amused
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
I mean, the most positive thing I can say about that video is that the time she took to record it probably meant one less minimum wage earning store manager getting berated for being out of something. That cadence and delivery before she started the actual rapping is way too finely honed from years of condescendingly mocking baristas.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Don't Even Ask Me to Condescendingly Mock a Barista Until I've Had My Coffee
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link
I Got a Condescending Barista Mocker Permabanned
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FIQQVWNE1U
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 13 March 2022 05:02 (two years ago) link
.@minions got my back. Shout out to Gru and them… pic.twitter.com/zRWaqCF3u4— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) May 8, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 8 May 2022 05:52 (one year ago) link