And kid a put the final nail in british rock

Never understood the hate for the production on that or Eminem’s production in general. He had a unique sound back then. Sure it’s like a dark dramatic less impressive version of what Dre was doing around that time but I like the atmosphere of it. Nothing really sounds like Cleaning Out My Closet or The Way I Am anymore. I miss like sinister haunting sounding beats like that.

Till I Collapse and Rabbit Run surprised to find out those were his beats at the time

Very true...

I remember stealing my brother's cassettes and listening to Bone Thugs n DMX n being like DAMN this s*** goes hard.

Then I randomly found Gangstas Paradise on some old VHS I found n was like "damn what song is this??"

Then it turned into stealing their CDs and MP3 players

Then my brother got sick of me taking his s*** and taught me how to pirate

Definitely have not aged near as well as peak Outkast beats from that period

Arctic Monkeys though

I only had a couple years of stealing my big sister's rap music in late elementary school (puff daddy and Tupac greatest hits) but one of my best friends had a big brother that was into Wu-Tang, Big pun and a bunch of cooler stuff that really changed my life.

My dad’s ‘80s and ‘90s vinyl/CD’s

My brother’s Wayne bootlegs

Honestly, some songs on that album I really like, but it's always rubbed me the wrong way that they gave it to Em and not like... DJ Quik or Daz, you know, people that actually worked close with him... i feel like it couldve been a lot diff.

But ig Interscope assumed Eminem was a safe bet because he was quickly turning into a juggernaut.

Wonder what Mr. SHAQER would think about that...

They actually rocked unlike Coldplay and Snow Patrol

I’ll admit some of it is a bit over done. It’s like he was trying to elevate him into a god after his death with this overly dramatic large sounding production. It works for something like Runnin but not for some of the other material. Same problem with The Loyal To The Game project but honeslty I don’t mind that stuff that much either.

True but I never got into them

My bro for years would make fun of me like "Man, you only like what's popular"

Like damn I'm like 12 bro chill out

Even to this day, I listen to an album for the first time, choose my fav songs, n at least a few of those songs become the singles.

I'm a simpleton

But naw recently, Ive gotten into a lot of the old (and new) rappers loosies. It's like a second renaissance rn.

I feel like he should've left some songs entirely up to his old in house producers. I feel like his beat skills werent good enough to warrant him being like "alright ima do every beat on the album". He wasnt Just Blaze, Timbaland, even Quik or Daz level.
S***, Nate Dogg prolly woulda had that ost hooked up

speaking of holocaust films only 2 years till this gets let out of the vault @RASIE

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Clown_Cried

I can’t imagine how flagrant this will be. Also makes me wish Pryor did a similarly outrageous film set on a slave plantation.

funny you say that cause this also was too edgy to get released

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Fairy_Tales

"Filmed in 1968 by then-film student Penelope Spheeris (who went on to direct The Decline of Western Civilization and Wayne’s World), Uncle Tom’s Fairy Tales: The Movie for Homosexuals starred Richard Pryor in a satire in which the Black Panthers kidnap a white man and put him on trial for every racist crime in American history. Legend has it that Pryor and his then-wife Shelley Bonis got into an argument at a screening of the film and Pryor ripped up the negative, though Spheeris later found a surviving clip of the film in her archives and donated it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005."

This sample is bananas

good lord

Imagine Richard said “fuck stand-up” and followed Melvin Peebles as a blaxploitation director

Oh yeah I watched his 1979 Live In Concert for the first time the other day pretty good but honestly super lightweight compared to Live And Smokin mainly just talking about s***and farts and stuff never really goes in

Deon’s reaction to the Ike Turner joke

October 14 US release date

His movies are very weak compared to his albums. It’s a shame but what can u do

By ‘79 he was trying to get to Steve Martin status