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I think it's funny he's bald but wears that doo rag and baseball cap like nobody will ever notice

I can tolerate his music and some of it actually like.

Not crap, but with extra s'urp bitch boyz.

I think he's a great rapper. I could do without the fag nonsense.

I'm sure there's some kitsch-obsessed dweeb out there willing to part with his third copy of Cool As Ice.

Eminem has an annoying voice, even for a white guy.

Fuck him.

CRAP.

The Slim Shady LP was genuinely funny and disturbing, and I wouldn't hesitate to call it a great record.

His output slides bigtime after that because he started taking himself waaaaaaaayyyyy too fucking seriously.

Mostly Crap, but I still think The Slim Shady LP was a great record. "Role Model" is absolutely brilliant.

I'd still respect him if he hadn't gone all Jerry Springer with his family crap.

That song "Cleaning Out My Closet" is the second-worst shitstain he's made. The worst is the "Toy Soldiers" song. Sampling Martika for the WHOLE CHORUS! Terrible.

Was best on mixtapes by DJ Revolution.

Proof that being good at rapping is not sufficient to make one a good rapper.

Crap.

He was amazing when he was still properly angry. Everything kind of went to hell after "Lose Yourself," which, though spectacular, kind of displaced him. I hear he's working on new stuff. I hope it doesn't suck.

Though seriously, Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers LP, his verses on Dre's Chronic 2001... for a while there he was quite possibly the best rapper working. That delivery, so sharp, every line jumps.

Not Crap.

i haven't read this thread but here's my thought: since i've never seen him play an instrument, and i think dr. dre writes all his music from samples, loops, and machines, calling mr. mathers a musician is a bit of stretch isn't it?

i think the poll should be, "wordsmith: this white guy."

also, i remember a week or two before my senior yr of highschool i saw the video for his first single and thought, "wow, that'll never happen."

next week, a thousand slices of whitebread telling me their name is, their name is, the name is slim shady.

shows what i know.

that damned fly wrote:i haven't read this thread but here's my thought: since i've never seen him play an instrument, and i think dr. dre writes all his music from samples, loops, and machines, calling mr. mathers a musician is a bit of stretch isn't it?

Well, Mathers is as much a musician as any singer; that's not as relevant, though, as the fact that Dre typically uses live guitars, bass, and synths (though he's more likely to have session musicians play rather than himself - you can't drop basslines that smooth without skill).

The moral of the story is, judgments based on the process of creation are frequently flawed.