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...problem with 8 Mile is fairly simple: not enough Eminem. He performs on only five of the album's 16 songs, and in one he is part of his hard-core junta/spin-off group D12. The rest of the album is filled out with solid tracks from the likes of Jay-Z, Nas and Rakim, but since their rhymes lack the confessional roar of Eminem's, the middle of the album sags. In fans' minds, these excess tracks will inevitably be forgotten and 8 Mile will be remembered as an Eminem album (just as Saturday Night Fever is recalled...
...Jay M. Harris
There is some hope that the mice rampage may be halted: Lowell Superintendent Jay Coveney has gallantly offered to seal off the radiator pipes of any students who register complaints about mice, citing this strategy’s stunning success in keeping the Yard dorms vermin-free...
...says he’s going nowhere. “You’re a super hero comic book rock star by night, a victim of the world by day,” she says. Brent’s best friend, an inventor named Ty (Jay Chaffin ’06), first appears on stage recounting a religious experience on the toilet. Perlman, who is also a Crimson editor, describes Ty as a “cutting edge QVC media mogul, always inventing another crowd-pleasing novelty item.” His invention du jour is the Oedipus 2000, which...
...seven years later, Detroit native Eminem, née Marshall Mathers III, is outselling artists like Nelly and Jay-Z by millions of records—and polishing five Grammy statuettes in his spare time. Tomorrow’s opening of 8 Mile, the fictionalized biopic of the rapper’s early career, signifies the next step of his campaign for cultural relevance and cross-media domination...