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Originally Posted by SATCHMO
Eminem is terrible... just awful. If people would take the time to listen to some actual hip hop instead of just accepting what the music industry serves them on a platter, they would realize this.
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I disagree with some of what you're saying here. Eminem is not terrible, his first 2 albums are among the best hip-hop albums ever made, with or without the commercial success that came with them. I agree that most hip-hop fans (or music fans in general) don't take the time to delve deeper into music to find better/more obscure artists, but that doesn't mean that every artist who has ever been signed to a major record label is terrible.
I will say his new album shows him moving in a completely different direction. He's made it clear he doesn't want to be the voice of a delinquent generation anymore. He avoids a lot of the dark subject matter of his older work and is working towards making an album with 15 hit singles on it, and that's fine if it's what he wants. It's time we stop looking as it as Eminem sucks now, he just appeals to a different demographic now. A bigger, more diverse demographic (being the pop music fanbase) that we might not all be a part of, and I am OK with that. I will still cherish his older work for how great it was and I'll keep my eye on what he does in the future. He'll probably be writing songs my kids will be singing along to someday.