eminem's brother? - Page 3

davdes5 · 10-19-2003, 08:21 PM

"and dresses up like a sailor.."?

what's up with that?

SliDe · 10-20-2003, 03:14 AM

I duno, i was watchin some concert and he was dressed up like a sailor (well at least he looked like one)

Not having a go at sailors or anything.. but yeh... he looked like one...

/rant

paddys · 10-20-2003, 11:31 AM

If Eminem had a brother what would he be called Fleminem (hes got a cold!!!) or Deminem (always wears baggy jeans). Ha Ha, my opinion is that the new skool really aint all that, although Eminem is a clever guy, he is clearly not as good as Public Enemy or Jungle Bros, Big Daddy Cain. Now we are talking.

I am going to be listening to all the old skool flavas on a Bose system, they are giving them away on a website, fill in a few questions and get a Bose Lifestlye 8 System, apparently they have been running a comp and no one has entered.......

Got to be in it to win it....

Peace,
Paddys

paddys · 10-20-2003, 11:32 AM

Didnt give you the webaddress --> www.musiccensus.co.uk

(e) · 10-25-2003, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BlackLabelChick
1) Eminem has a half-brother, Nathan Briggs-Mathers.
2) Eminem is extremely talented and you're a fool if you cant see that. He went out and made a name for himself doing something that everybody said he couldnt do.
3) Maybe you dont think Eminem is the best of all music, but when you listen to any other rap, all you hear is "Me and my ho's, we be rollin on twenty-fo's, all we do is drank and smoke and my ice is blingin". Eminem raps about what's real and what matters.

2) That doesn't make him talented or his music any good, it just means it's popular or it stands out. Celine Dion has made a name for herself but is she any good? She also has a good voice but does she use it well?

3) Just because he may be good compared to some crappy boneheads who don't know how to put a sentance together, it doesn't make him any good. I also don't think Eminem's lyrics are anything to brag about anyway...I've heard better...way better.

davdes5 · 10-26-2003, 12:44 AM

Eminem works within a certain genre, and a certain style. if you're comparing his lyrics with say, Captain Beefheart, or Nirvana, you're committing a sort of critical non-sequitar.

Eminem is more than just sex and violence. he filters sex and violence and the "ganster complex" through himself, and turns out a wildly exaggerated, bitter, oddly focused, mess.

I'm not sure how familiar you are with Em's work:

"that's the sound of a bottle, when its hollow, and you swallow it all and wallow in all your sorrow... and tommorow/ you're probly gonna want to do it again/ so what's a little spinal fluid between you and a friend?/ and what's a little alcohol posoining? and what's a little fight?/ tommorow you'll be boys again...

Eminem's work has it all: an expert, "commercial" side ("Eminem"), a tragic, bitter side (Marshall Mathers), and a surrealist/psychotic side (Slim Shady).

Perhaps I'm simply ignorant of all the other great rappers out there making amazing advances in their field. (and probably, I am ignorant of quite a few other good rappers). but I feel like most people who criticize Eminem do so (1) having had none, or at the most minimal exposure to his work, and/or (2) hating the rap genre altogether.

its like pigeon-holing the Beatles as an "oldies" band.

(e) · 10-26-2003, 01:22 AM

Well as for me, unfortunately I have been exposed to a fair bit of his work and yes, I do like rap.

davdes5 · 10-26-2003, 10:20 PM

all right, fair enough..

what is it about him that turns you off?

bec · 10-27-2003, 12:43 PM

nothing turns me off bout him but nothing turns me on!....................

bec · 10-27-2003, 12:44 PM

you know what i meant.....................