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 | Title : The Eminem Show
Author : Eminem
Release Date : 20020526
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $19.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Any lingering doubts as to the depth of Eminem's skills or his potential for raw yet compelling honesty are dispelled on The Eminem Show's first track. Armed with a quicksilver flow and a thundering rhythm track (the record was exec produced by longtime mentor and partner Dr. Dre), 'White America' finds Eminem ferociously mauling the hand that feeds him, lambasting his critics, the industry, and the racism that, in many ways, helped make Marshall Mathers more than just another rapper. 'Let's do the math,' Em sneers, 'If I was black I would have sold half/ I could be one of your kids/ Little Eric looks just like this.' After the bombast of The Marshall Mathers LP and Eminem's well-noted use of sexual epithets, this kind of material is made more controversial because it actually rings true. From a brutal retort to his long-estranged and equally troubled mother ('Cleaning Out My Closets') to a surprisingly tender ode to his child ('Hailie's Song'), Eminem examines his life, loves, arrests, addictions, failures, and successes with surprising insight, making this a funk-drenched hip-hop confessional well worth the hype.
Buyer Reviews :
I enjoyed the Marshall Mathers CD very much, recognizing, of course, that that CD is really just 'fun' music--not really exceptionally deep or artistic. In fact, Eminem is much overrrated. It is a crime, really, that albums like David Bowie's recent Heathen, loaded with depth and musical variety, will get no radio play here in the United States, while this CD (essentiallly the same groove throughout) will be played incessantly. Time will tell: twenty years from now, my prediction is that Heathen will be considered a classic and this album a flash in the pan.
That being said, I really loved the song Cleanin Out My Closet. What a brutally honest song, with cleaver lyrics and a catchy tune. Whatever his mother did or said to him, however, I feel quite sorry for her after hearing this vicious diatribe. Someday, when the artist grows older and has some perspective, I think he will regret castigating his mothers as he does. In any event, that is his problem. It is a great song--really the only one on the album.
Two stars because of one great song...
(by barton m. london)
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