Word: eminem
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...city: Detroit. A few years ago, white rapper was almost an oxymoron. In the Motor City, however, a kind of groundswell is under way. In the past few weeks Kid Rock, smarty-pants rapper Eminem and the horror-hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse--all from the Detroit area--have scored...
...three acts make music of varying quality. Kid Rock often displays a throbbing power; Eminem is a clever, albeit socially irresponsible, lyricist; and the Insane Clown Posse is just plain malicious and dumb. But all three acts do share some core attributes: they make jagged, angry music, full of violent imagery and snide, snotty humor; and they perform songs that grind and groan like auto plants closing down...
...marketing frenzies. Consequently, its prominent products comprise not much more than mediocre commercial formulas devoid of the creative zeal of yesteryear, aimed instead at providing new images for advertising agencies or at escalating the Billboard mountain. According to my boy, the recent Time "Hip Hop Nation" cover and Eminem's success story are symptoms of the culture's sad commercial zenith, comparable to the beginnings of the demise of every other form of black music of this century. It's all downhill from here...
Some people only see that I'm white," gripes Detroit rapper Eminem. But what comes out of his mouth is getting more attention than the color of his skin. Not since the heyday of N.W.A. has hip-hop served up a feast of violence and fantasy as fiendishly witty as Eminem's The Slim Shady LP. On a song titled '97 Bonnie & Clyde, a ripping satire of Will Smith's treacly Just the Two of Us, Eminem raps about pushing his troublesome spouse off a pier while their daughter looks on. "There goes mama splashing in the water/ No more...
Just a few weeks into its release, Slim Shady is well on its way to selling 1 million copies, but not everyone is laughing. Billboard magazine, in an unusual editorial, blamed the rapper for "exploiting the world's misery." Perhaps, but at 26 Eminem (whose real name is Marshall Mathers) has his own burdens to carry. As the first rapper on superproducer Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records, Eminem's success is vital to the future of the label. And as a white rapper, with the discredited image of Vanilla Ice still looming in the background, he very much needs...