On occasion, he also regurgitates grotesque sexist and homophobic stereotypes. There has never been a rapper quite like Eminem, equipped not only with a unique and complicated map of brain wires but also the technical skill to make his odd visions come alive. Maybe it has to do with his past, maybe it has to do with the fact that as a white rapper from Detroit, he always had a lot to prove.
Check out the best Shady freestyles below. Porter alongside The Alchemist — November 2, Tags: Eminem. Share Tweet Send Share. Related Posts. In many cases, Eminem represents the total package. Since the mids, the Battle Rap alum brought the cutting wit, self-deprecation, and ability to keep the listener hanging on every word in his raps.
The MC had a tone, which in his mid-twenties featured substance abuse, fearlessness, and imagery of lower-class Middle America fast food jobs, Monte Carlo, mobile homes. While it was clear that Eminem was a B-boy, his experience stood apart from the common Rap narratives. With melodic beats courtesy of Dr. Dre, Bass Brothers, and others, Eminem was bringing oddball raps to an operatic-like stage. Infinite and The Slim Shady LP studied the great albums of the underground and the mainstream, and blended the architecture of the two.
By the s, entering his thirties, Eminem raised the stakes. The Marshall Mathers LP swapped some of the stand-up-like elements for more personal writing. Instead, the caricature became more of a character.
It led to a moral outrage and was widely decried, while others praised its unflinching introspection and brilliant wordplay. In the years that followed the release of the LP, for better or for worse, Eminem shaped hip hop in a way few others have. To mark the anniversary of the Slim Shady LP, we've picked out five ways in which Marshall Mathers changed the very face of rap.
In fact, Eminem was the best selling musician of the s across any genre. Even into this decade, with his artistic peak disappearing in the rearview mirror, his albums have been commercial hits — his latest LP, Kamikaze, still hit the number one spot in multiple countries.
He was the one who truly showed hip-hop could conquer the world not just culturally, but commercially too. In the mid-to-late 80s, Rakim revolutionised rapping.
His flows eschewed the rigidity of MCs before him and instead snaked between beats, his fluid rhymes appearing within the words themselves rather than just at the end of bars.
Eminem took that and pushed things into overdrive, rapping with a manic speed and erratic rhythm. His multiple personas — chiefly Slim Shady, Marshall Mathers and Eminem — allowed him to play with pitch and speed, in the process forging an inimitable delivery style. It cleared the way for other rappers to be experimental and bold with their flows; Kendrick Lamar , who flips between voices and personas often within verses, is a leading example.
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