Music Blog

As you know, we here at ENS have a big guilty pleasure thing for lists, and the good folks over at Stylus seem to share this as well. Stylus drops the top 50 Live Albums of All Time on us today. Here they are listed below.

Uzbekistan’s answer to Eminem, Uzbek Slim also has a page at the same site. Slim’s about page (also check out his photos) mentions that he and a few other guys are part of Uz Unit. They too, have a music.lib.ru site, and Umid’s site has more mp3s and links to other artists.

‘Awfully Deep’ displays the eclectic talent of the shy and humble MC perfectly. New to fatherhood, you might expect some more personal touches, but Rodney is no Eminem. That’s a good thing by the way. Unfortunately there are no ‘Sinny Sin Sins’ on his mind this time but there are plenty of the usual Roots-isms to discover. The first to instantly entrap you is the opening track, ‘Mind 2 Motion’. Starting strong with an underground bass line that conjours up imagery of a mass jungle rave, complete with Tarzan and Ace Ventura gettin’ down and grimy. Lyrics are absolute fire as you’d expect and Roots rides the rhythms better then anyone, particularly, and viciously manipulating his voice to the max’ for the chorus. Probably the greatest intro song to an album I have heard in years.

The new iPod ad starring Eminem bears an uncanny resemblance to a 2002 ad for Lugz, a brand of hip hop footwear.

Basically if your not brain dead, or if you didn’t fight in ‘Nam and loose half you’re hearing, when you sit down with any decent stereo or headphones (not the cheap Plaskool ear buds Apple throws at you) you’re going to notice that AAC has a very limited capacity, its going to drive you mad if you have any musical taste. Sure you might be able to listen to you’re favorite Eminem cd you bought on iTunes without noticing anything, but really the only people who listen to to this kind of music all the time are the ones blasting it through there Sony 18″ headphones because somehow they got it into their heads we like Rap, and we enjoy hearing about a white man beating his wife.

Most of the time when I’m at my computer, I have iTunes playing. So when I go to a website to read something and music starts playing without me telling it to, I get very annoyed. Because there’s not much worse than David Crowder and Eminem trying to sing overtop of each other.

Addressing recent reports that Eminem was planning to retire from making solo albums and touring, Proof says “I keep on telling people, Em will be 50 or 60 years old, and will be about to be an old man still playing with MCs,” he says. “I don’t think he’ll ever quit. He might even drop another solo album. I can’t see him not rapping — he’s too crazy.”

Bottom line? If you are a Christian and think you can still listen to AC/DC, Eminem, J-Lo or whatever it is you like remember this: if the song doesn’t Glorify God, who do you think it glorifies? Pray that the Lord will help you in this matter and give you a love for music that Glorifies Him and builds up your spirit. My own prayer is that you do.

David Wright sees similarities between the English renaissance poet John Skelton (ca.1460-1529) and American rapper Eminem.

Jessica Hopper writes an excellent missive about male privilege, as does Julianne Shepherd. Good reading for people who have ever wondered how, for some reason, black rappers slip under the radar and we can only call out Eminem for his shit, lest we look like crazy honkies who don't get it, and especially good reading for those who haven't.

In the past week Eminem a rap artist has broadcasted his new music video “Just Lose It” , the video features many images including embarrassing one's of the “King of Pop” Micheal Jackson. After viewing the video himself Jackson has become very upset and wants to see the video banned. He has expressed this anger by threatening to sue Eminem and those who display the video. As a result BET has pulled the plug on it.

All though I have not fully seen the new video by Eminem for the song Ass Like That, I know how most of his videos are a beyond just being a little controversial. Many parents feel that Eminem is rude, obnoxious, and is crossing the line and actually getting paid for his nonsense. It is one thing to express yourself and completely another thing to be making money by expressing your views about others such as, Janet Jackson, Brittany Spears, and Gwen Stefani just to name a few.

In the song, the rap genius jokes about Janet Jackson’s infamous Super Bowl incident, where she (accidentally or not) bared a jewel-studded breast. The lyrics also says that Britney Spears has “shoulders like a man”, and makes a rude proposition to “No Doubt” frontliner Gwen Stefani.

Eminem is just a gimmick, while 2Pac was the realest rapper ever. Not to mention an actor, poet, revolutionary, activist, and leader.

They don’t quite understand what kind of place the world is or what kind of animal human beings are. One sweeping generalization we can make about mankind is that at least 50% of all human being are outrageously crazy, prone to impulsive stupidity and dangerous acts of irrational self-destructive violence. This is more true of the audience of children raised on Eminem than some backwater in the Middle East. Nobody is more incredibly stupid or vicious than highly civilized people.

A protégé of Dr. Dre, rapper Eminem emerged in 1999 as one of the most controversial rappers to ever grace the genre. Using his biting wit and incredible skills to vent on everything from his unhappy childhood to his contempt for the mainstream media, his success became the biggest crossover success the genre had seen since Dre's solo debut seven years earlier.

Eminem gave protege 50 Cent a pep talk as the rapper’s career took off, urging him to stay out of jail.

50 tells the magazine that Eminem’s sage words helped him resolve his recent falling out with The Game.

When an artist has a song banned or has their song censored, they often tend to sell more records. Famed rapper Eminem sold more than half of what was projected in sales when his controversial Marshall Mathers LP c.d was released. Society's youth are the majority of the sales that occur with such "explicit " c.d's. Sure, this may be a problem for parents, however, if children are taught the importance of right and wrong then there is no danger in their children listening to the music. Parents cannot watch their children every minute of everyday so the values that they instill in their children will play a key role in what their children choose to listen to or buy.

And finally, Jim Henson's body will be exhumed in a special "CSI: Children Television's Workshop" episode with special guest star Eminem. Henson will have rolled over completely.

Driving to Al Qantab, I passed through a small, poor village. Goats roamed freely, munching on rubbish, while young boys ran alongside the car, waving excitedly. Passing an old, disused building, I noticed two pieces of graffiti, both in red paint. The first was in Arabic – a fairly standard scribble praising Osama bin Laden. The next was in block-lettered English – EMINEM, it said. As I whizzed out from the town, it occurred to me that these simple scribbles explained a great deal about Middle Eastern politics, and regional attitudes towards the West.

Sir Elton John has said that rapper Eminem is a talent equalvalent with Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger.

“From the start, I’ve always admired Eminem’s thinking. That’s the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked, despite all the nonsense talked about his being homophobic,” Sir Elton said. “Let the Boy Georges and the George Michaels of the world get up in a twist about it if they don’t have the intelligence to see his intelligence.”

Sir Elton made the comments in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, where Eminem is part of a special “Immortals” edition, which features the 50 greatest figures in rock ‘n’ roll history.

So I am hanging out at my friends place this weekend and he puts on the new eminem CD. At first I didn’t really enjoy this CD as much as I did the others. His other CD’s had more upbeat songs with a lot of jokes in them. This CD is more about the actual lyrics than jokes. So as the night went on I kept playing and it began to grow on me. Few songs stuck out most, "Ass Like That", "Puke", and "Mosh". The latter which I really did not care for, being the staunch republican I am, but the other two are hysterical. When just listening...

He's offensive. Flipping the bird is a way to show his offensiveness. Why does Eminem need to be offensive?

It was not the first time Eminem exposed himself that way: in 2001, he also appeared in the Cosmopolitan magazine, where he appeared completely naked except for a stick of dynamite strategically placed on the right place.

Why did Eminem chose nudity as a way of expressing himself?

Some of you may think: probably to attract lots of pretty girls. Maybe true, but you have to look further at Eminem�s way of expressing. He is never afraid to tell you what he likes and what he strongly dislikes. Since the release of the Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem has been mocking the sugarcoated bubblegum pop world represented by artists like Britney Spears.

Whatever bitchy mood George is in, I would suspect that it is jealousy, not political correctness, that motivates him. Whatever Eminem sings or raps about, he does so with a level of artistic honesty and imagination that simply outclasses both Elton and George. Elton at least recognizes that.

Controversial rapper Eminem's Manhattan Federal Court case with The Source magazine neared its conclusion yesterday with both sides claiming victory.

Slim sued The Source for copyright infringement after the publication distributed several of his old songs with its January 2004 issue. The CD featured a young Eminem spitting derogatory remarks about Black females and using the "N" word.

He recently blasted Elton John for duetting with rapper Eminem, who has been widely criticised for his homophobic lyrics.

For those who don’t know, Gracenote aka CDDB returns track names for physical CDs (not MP3s) when they are played in something like Winamp or Windows Media Player. Gracenote record the number of requests they have for particular albums, and keep a Top 40 on their website. Eminem’s latest album ‘The Eminem Show’ moved into position 2 two days before it was due to be released. Find out what happened at News.com, cos it seems like it’s not just Napster they have to really worry about anymore.

Yeah, no kidding. Marshall Mathers. Eminem. That guy.

The link is probably slow as stoned molasses, but... here's the direct links to the QuickTime movies (Parental Advisory... especially if you support Bush...):

...Let us set aside our differences and assemble our own army to disarm this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president for the present, and march for the future of our next generation to speak and be heard.

The radio heads want the outspoken former HOLE star to join their waveband of celebrity presenters, which include HOWARD STERN and EMINEM.

Results at Warner Music's rivals have been mixed. Universal Music, whose artists include Eminem and 50 Cent, yesterday said quarterly sales rose 4 percent. Operating income at Universal Music, a unit of Paris-based Vivendi Universal SA, jumped almost three-fold after the division cut jobs.

State prison officials plan to remove information on about 215,000 ex-convicts -- including rapper Eminem -- from their popular online database because they believe the system is being improperly used by employers and others to run criminal background checks, state officials said Wednesday.