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...Mama Africa.” The equally hopeful “Don’t Matter” does the same thing. Akon doesn’t so much leave his problems behind as successfully pretend that they don’t exist. Akon, who brings Eminem out of semi-retirement on “Smack That,” has publicly credited him-self with getting Slim Shady excited about music again. “Konvicted” suggests that Eminem should stay away while he still can—this hip-hop stuff is exhausting...
...best songs. Indeed, save for a few bright spots, this album is never more than a guilty pleasure. The Game’s lyrical style is a straight-up rehash of the harder elements of early ’90s G-Funk, adding one element—an Eminem-esque fascination with other rappers and their feelings. The results are decidedly mixed. Game openly expresses his overwhelming desire to be liked and accepted by his mentor and former producer, Dr. Dre, and it weighs down the album. And by “weighs down,” I mean...
...Best Rap Album prize, to congratulate himself for doing the work it took to become a star and berating the chumps who buy into a system that he believes slowly deprives them of their dreams. There are moments when West is as funny (and as petulant) as Eminem, but as his choir sings, "When it comes to being true, at least true to me/ One thing I've found, one thing I've found, oh no you never let me down," you will agree: he knows a few things they don't teach at Harvard...
Lady Sovereign’s generic home, the strange and wonderful London-based not-quite-hip-hop music known as Grime, is easy enough to pinpoint. But somewhere in between her North-West London home and Jay-Z’s Def Jam office, the S.O.V. started sounding like Eminem...
There’s a few different albums on “Public Warning,” and it’s unclear whether Sov will look to sell herself as Grime’s breakout U.S. star or a tiny, female, even more annoying version of Eminem. I hope it’s the former; the last thing we need is another rapper beefing with Triumph the Insult Comic...