Eminem has a Relapse!!
Eminem’s latest album Relapse which had a soft launch on the 15th of May 2009, later officially released on the 19th May 2009, is in many ways a typical Eminem album with a song about his mom, celebrity mockery, for his daughters Hailie and Elanor. The tracks, “Crack a Bottle”, “3 AM”, “Beautiful”, “We Made You”, “Old Time’s Sake” were all top 40 hits in the U.S. Relapse debuted #1 on the U.S. albums chart, selling over 608,000 domestic copies in its first week and over 1,000,000 worldwide.
When a lot of folks purely detest the white rapper from Detroit, there is an even bigger population that follows him religiously, like myself. Why do we love him so much, what is so great about the short, white rapper that bags about his mother and disses everyone at the drop of a hat?
Personally, I am fan of his lyrics and rapping style. It isn’t just novelty rap that deals with disses. It is sheer poetry. To actually have the talent to implement thoughts in words, transfer emotion from heart to paper. Some of the greatest rappers like 2-pac & Notorious B.I.G were aces at doing this. Though they had all the talent, the art of rhyming two words that don’t even share the same spelling was only tackled by Eminem. And as far as RAP is concerned, if you could rhyme, then you had done more than half the job. But Eminem, not only could rhyme, he was also a modern day poet. All the ingredients for a legendary rapper. All you have to do is, search on the web for one of his song lyircs. Let me help you with a few songs “Cleaning Out My Closet”, “Mockingbird”, “When I’m Gone”, “Beautiful”, “Real Slim Shady”, “We Made You”, “The Way I Am”, “My Name Is”, “White America”.
I am not asking you to admire him or listen to his music or even stand him. Just spend sometime to go through his lyrics, read them, see if most of the words even rhyme, try and understand them, empathize with his emotion. Then listen to one of the above songs and the way he rhymes those weird words. It is out of the world.
For those of you who did not know what rap meant, it stands for Rhymes And Poems. It is not just obscenity, violence, anger, hatred. It can even be love, like Eminem has for his kids, anger for his mom for ruining his childhood, hatred for the world for putting him through misery. He does not even care for his fans, he has abused his fans themselves in so many songs like “The Way I Am” and still we love him. He has then thanked them later in another song “When I’m Gone”. He goes through a mixture of emotions as any human being. The only difference is that he pens it down and sings about it.
Why do we admire someone? Ever thought of that? We admire someone, when he/she has the talent or a mere capability to do something we can’t or much better than how we do it and rises to become the epitome of that. Even though a slim population listens to rap, when someone says RAP, who is it that comes to your mind, if you are not a rap lover? EMINEM. Why? It is because he is the epitome of rap. Chess – Vishwanathan Anand. It is not because Gary Kasperov is the worst, just because Anand is the best. Cricket – Sachin Tendulkar, Swimming – Michael Phelps and so on.
Like any celebrity he has had his fair share of trials and lawsuits. I can’t even count how many that man has had against him and filed against others. All said and done, when you are at the top, there are always people trying to pull you down. He has had his so called friends betray him a lot of times and embezzle money from him. To defend your position, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
This is his era….Let him bask in its glory. He deserves every bit of it.
Cheers!!!
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