Bash him all you want.. He has writing talent. Rap fan or not.
He does have talent, which is why it's so unfortunate when he squanders it away on juvenile efforts such as "Rain Man" or "Just Lose It."
"You make my pee-pee go 'da-doing-doing-doing!'" is one of the worst rap lyrics ever.
Like many artists of his ilk, his early stuff is his best. Once he became a millionaire he lost the same thing that made him famous to begin with. Many critics said the same about GN'R, but I think at least they tried to move forward artistically whereas Eminem is just devolving into completely immature stuff. AFD was juvenile in a lot of ways but they moved forward with UYI, whereas Eminem at least started off singing juvenile stuff about serious topics and now he's asking people whether it's gay if you stick your pee-pee in a quarterback's ass by accident before hiking the ball.
You really should educate yourself as far as Eminem goes. His "early" stuff such as the unsigned mix tapes and his first "real" album
pale in comparison to his second and third albums.
The Marshall Mathers LP (2nd album) is hands down the best rap album in the history of the genre, and it's followed very closely by his third album The Eminem Show. True, the forth album is pretty much a waste but seeing as the man had already released the first and second most incredible works of the genre, the wasn't really anywhere else for him to go at the time but down.
On a side note, I did some home theater installation once for Eminem and I had to show him how to use his equipment after I was done. This was about 3 years ago now and I happened to be wearing a GNR shirt under my uniform. I was hot enough doing the work that I had taken off my overshirt by the time we were introduced.
When he shook my hand he looked down and said "Oh, Guns N' Roses. You a big rocker?" and I said "Yeah, well actually I really like a ton of different genres. For instance
that (pointing to the platinum plaque for The Marshall Mathers LP) is the best rap album I've ever heard". He just smiled and said "Nah, thanks though and GNR rocks too".
Then things were kinda awkward for a sec. I wasn't sure if I should engage him in further musical discussion so I was just like "OH YEAH... You're stuff!" then I showed him the new equipment.
When I left one of his guards allowed me to take a picture of the platinum plaque with my cell phone and I still have it in there to this day. I've switched phones three times since then and I always make sure they transfer that one pic!
That's the coolest fuckin' thing ever.
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