Well if we are talking about "success" I mean Jay-Z has 11 number 1 albums so he isn't the most successful. And although he is a lyrical genius, he isn't the greatest lyrical either so I don't think this claim is true either way. However, I do believe he is top 10 to ever touch the mic. Point blank period.
He is the best rapper ever and dont get the credit he is do because he is a white rapper the rap and black community know he is the best and hate him for it
Seriously, I'm not a hiphop guy, but I know a good flow when I hear it, and yeah, he is very skilled and shit, especially he's a decent battle rapper. However, he's best in nothing but selling albums. Snoop? Busta? ODB? Legions of much greater rap artists? To say it out loud: if he wasn't "white", he'd be third, fourth league at best and people would be like "Eminwhat? Like the chocolate thingies?". His flow and skillz didn't make him the worlds most successful rapper, his not being black did. Like Elvis, same old song: white man does the black thing a little less scary and makes more money than his "sources" combined. Now vote me down, you upper middle class whities. *dropsthemike
I always thought it was because he didn't say the n word. I love Kanye and J.cole and Kendrick way more but I can actually like rap along with Eminem. I don't know. I didn't think it was a race thing.
I'm old enough to remember when eminem first came out. Whenever people heard and asked about him, they laughed at the 'joke' that he was white. Everyone thought he was black and I know a few parents banned their kids from listening to him (good luck with that) because they believed he was black. It was only after he established himself that eminem being hailed as a white rapper became a thing. The rap game was much harder to get in back then and he clawed his way to the top like all true greats do. He deserves all the respect, skin color be damned. Btw, I'm a minority born to the lower class, get off your fucking high horse funsubstanceuser.
Hey Mr.. totally convincing, pretending to be a 40something minority born to the lower class, Marshall Mathers Inc. social media dude, I acknowledged his abilities and I get how he made himself a name in the game. But only when he was announced the great white hiphop hope he became the superstar he is.
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PS: "Everyone thought he was black and I know a few parents banned their kids from listening to him (good luck with that) because they believed he was black. " - thats so fucking over the line.... you should be ashamed.
The first time more than a couple hundred persons heard of Eminem was on fucking MTV. Apparently you are too young to know what MTV actually featured in the medieval ages of media: fucking music VIDEOS. So what, all the hip kids thought he was a fucking albino? And parents who wouldn't allow their children explicitly to listen to BLACK hip hop? So what, Vanilla Ice, The Beastie Boys and 1/3 of 3rd Bass were ok? Even in a bottomless ocean of idiocy like this page that is way too dumb a story to tell, and that's what you should be ashamed of.
Truly poor people don't have cable lol. No one in my neighborhood had mtv, some didn't even have TVs. But we did have radio and horribly recorded cassette tapes. All rap was looked down on by racists and no one believed (at least right away) that eminem was white, so he was "banned". You seem to have a more luxurious childhood then I ever did, so why are you so bitter lol. I don't let white skin get me angry, so why do you?
"Truly poor people don't have cable" - Starving, half-naked gypsy children living on romanian dumpster hills watch fucking TV. Stop flogging that braindead horse.
Oh yeah, sorry for repeatedly using the coitus-word in a discussion on the stars of christian-temperate love songs for jesus. Uptight little cunt.
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PS: "Everyone thought he was black and I know a few parents banned their kids from listening to him (good luck with that) because they believed he was black. " - thats so fucking over the line.... you should be ashamed.
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