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...apparently a concept album about the difficulty of maintaining both underground and mainstream success), but it's an allegory out of control. The nasty stuff sounds like the usual hard-core crassness, while the nice stuff comes off as treacly. The shame is that Xzibit wastes contributions from guests Eminem and Snoop Dogg and flavorful production from, among others, Dr. Dre. --By Josh Tyrangiel...
...more impressive for Michael Caine's perfectly graded performance as a tired Englishman whose political scruples - and sexual possessiveness - put him at odds with the blandly conniving Yank played by Brendan Fraser. Even Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile, the widely heralded acting debut of hip-hopper Eminem, has a political agenda tucked inside its rappin'-Rocky plot. It says that the white underclass should be as free as the black to mouth racist, misogynist, gay-bashing jive. Eminem is as yet no actor; he recedes into sullenness, and his intimate scenes with the smart, tarty Brittany Murphy lack juice...
Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) directs the widely heralded acting debut of hip-hopper Eminem. This rappin' Rocky says that the white underclass should be as free as the black to mouth racist, misogynist, gay-bashing jive. The star is as yet no actor; he recedes into sullenness. But Eminem has a face made for movies. He's Tobey Maguire with 'tude...
Nobody in hip-hop cherishes the word bitch more than Eve, and that's saying something. Male rappers use it all the time as an ostensibly neutral term for all women besides their mothers (or, in the case of Eminem, all women). But on her new CD, Eve-Olution (Interscope), the Philadelphia-bred queen of Top 40 rap applies it to herself and with fervid conviction. Eve sings about being a bitch the way Bob Marley sang about being a Rastafarian: it's what her album is about...
...summer hit One More Chance. Ashanti is smart enough to let the hook do the bulk of the work while her smooth voice flutters around creating a sense of longing. In a thin field, it's summer's best tortured ballad. Without Me is another chapter in Eminem's romance with himself. While a woolly sax laughs in the background and an upbeat snare marks time, Eminem raps, "We need a little controversy/ Because it feels so empty without me." It's the one summer song that feels a little dangerous, and that's not a bad thing...