Eminem ?

[Daltech]

Nappy are you a bot.

[Cross-Country]

The GOAT? It's not Em. Growing up and living in southern Michigan, he has a huge fanbase not because his work is good, but because that fanbase is suburban and rural white boys whose knowledge of the genre goes exactly that deep. The same kinds of people who insist he's from inner city Detroit, when he grew up on the northern edge in Conner Creek off Fairmount, just south of the 8 Mile. As the first non-plant to break the color barrier in rap, he was royalty for a time. A time which is long past, and that's not coming back.

The quality of his early work was the result of being hungry, that hunger and anger was how he gained fans among bored suburban white boys, and any remaining semblance of that ended eight years ago. Now, this is not a political statement, and I don't want it to be taken as such. It's merely a statement about a moment in time and its greater repercussions regarding artistic trends. I saw it in real time, and it was a profound moment. It was right after Em released the anti-Trump diss track, and he was giving a TV interview about it. He said that when he sees Trump, he "just get[s] so angry." I don't care what anyone's politics are, heck my favorite rap group, Public Enemy, is very political espousing views I usually don't even agree with. The opportunity to hear from different experiences of America is what makes art fun. What Eminem did by saying that, was he became the establishment. With that, came the exact moment if not rap itself, but at the very least him in particular, became hair metal in 1989. He hasn't been relevant since.

To answer the initial question, do people still listen to Eminem? Yes, but generally only people whose exposure to rap began and ended there.

[Riot]

Aesop Rock technically has the largest vocabulary.
What’s the criteria for GOAT?

(it’s still em.)

[Daltech]

And Roc also made the music to this track.

[Daltech]

[Daltech]

It’s not that you are incorrect, Nasir , Jason, Andre and Ricardo are solid rap artist, they are like the classics. Honestly, I’d say M&M is in that camp, it’s just I don’t personally admire anything he does, he feels like the Brittany spears of rap, he actually cross dressed as Brittany if you remember. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but Roc Marciano never had to dress up like Brittany spears to sell records.

[Chuck E Ducky]

That thong, th-thong, thong, thong
I like it when the beat go, dun-uh, dun-uh
Baby, make your booty go, dun-uh, dun-uh
Girl, I know you wanna show, dun-uh, dun-uh
That thong, th-thong, thong, thong

[Riot]

So 20 years ago there were people who wouldn’t admit he’s the greatest ever and now they still won’t? Man. When will the haters ever learn!?

You’re a fan for life and you haven’t heard anything made since 2004. We get it.

…Andre from OutKast, Jada, Kurupt, Nas.

[SignOfZeta]

People still argue Eminem isn’t the GOAT? That’s very 2004.

I bet those are the same people that claim the order of best goes Reggie, Jay-Z, Tupac, and Biggie…

(obviously taste and style are subjective, so I’m just busting balls, but if we’re talking numbers and influence, there’s no denying his skill is light years ahead of second best.)

So 20 years ago there were people who wouldn’t admit he’s the greatest ever and now they still won’t? Man. When will the haters ever learn!?

You’re a fan for life and you haven’t heard anything made since 2004. We get it.

[Cross-Country]

Public Enemy for life

[Daltech]

Those three artists made the music too, something else that M&M sucks at.

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