Not many agree with me, and that's OK, but Eminem was and is the best the genre has ever seen.
Rap was a music form built on rage;originally, it was blacks raging against police brutality and racism and poverty--Eminem's anger was unmatched in its fury and its forcefulness. We were all FORCED to acknowlege him because of how frightening and dangerous he seemed to everybody. Not many have been able to pull that off, either before or since. I remember my grandma hiding "the Marshall Mathers L.P." from me when I was 10 years old because she was afraid that I'd turn into a nihilistic *******. She was right, but I remember the general sense of fear he instilled in parents around the country.
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