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Originally Posted by Bane of your existence
What you don't seem to get is that "good music" is subjective. This is coming from someone who listens to a lot of punk. Do I think The Descendents are bad because they sing about vaginas and farting? Fuck no. The Descendents>your soul. So irreverent lyrics don't constitute bad music. His last jaunt was genuinelly funny. So as far as lyrics go, they were very good... in my opinion.
Dude is fantastic at all of these as well.
Now you want to stumble in here and act like you know something. You don't. If you did, you would understand that at the very least, Eminem belongs no where near any 'worst rappers of all time' list.
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I didn't say he deserved to be in the worst rappers of all time, someone else did. I was defending him.
Eminem up to 2002/3 - one of the greatest lyricists rap has ever seen (the best in my personal opinion). After 2002/3 his lyricism went down hill and is now nonexistent. Therefore making him about as lyrically talented as 50cent or any of the other talentless mainstream rappers - take your pick, spoiled for choice.
Good rap is based on how good a lyricist you are. It's very simple.
Perhaps (since none of you seem to have a clue about rap) i can try and turn this into something you might be able to relate to - rock for example.
Busted were a popular band, there music was catchy and millions of people around the world enjoyed listening to them. Guns n Roses were a popular band and millions of people enjoyed listening to them. The difference is that guns n roses are/were technically good. They had a great guitarist a good drummer ect. Busted were talentless. Just because it sounds good and sells records doesn't make it good music. Yes you might personally enjoy it and you think it is good, fine. But that doesn't mean it's
technically good.
I love watching steven seagal and vin diesel movies. As movies, the scripts tend to be horrible and the acting far below average. Technically they are not good movies, but i enjoy them.
How is it that noone here can see the difference between bad rap and good rap?
Eminem was a phenomenal rapper. Now he is a terrible rapper. Great pop star, great entertainer but shockingly bad rapper (although not in the 3 worst of all time).