[Jetsfan115]

I only liked him before he became big. His best music was years ago. And years before his first album came out

[Alcatraz]

Meh I dont like his new album. I prefer his older stuff and his third album best.

[Jetsfan115]

Wow JC u seem to have a large hatred for some people. Maybe try to lay off the dark music for a while. Lol.

Personally I don’t hate anyone working to get a paycheck, as long as there not hurting anyone

[Jetsfan115]

Limp biskit and everlast are mainstream in my opinion. I don’t like that kind of stuff at all so if I heard of them their mainstream. Also I should mention its just a stupid word. Mainstream. People tend to like Non-mainstream music because we all yearn to be different. In the end its what makes us all the same. Here’s a hint if your school teaches it. if your gonna be a senior take a physocology class. You’ll learn some interesting stuff. I never took one per se but I sat in on many cause I had the same teacher for social studies and I would cut my other classes to hang out in his. Most music to day is mainstream unless your talking about a garage band. But if they ever get signed they basically become mainstream. There is no such thing as going back to underground once your mainstream also.

[Jetsfan115]

Actually I have. I didn’t realize what ICP stood for but yes I have heard of them. And once again I have sen them on TV. They wear black and white face paint like clowns and I think there is 3 of them if I remember right. I have heard of slayer too. bands, people, whatever u want to call them in entertainment adjust to the market. With napster and limewire out more people are switching to underground to build a more loya fanbase but u can’t just switch. A rapper named cannibus (probably a top 3 lyricist all time) made 2 “mainstream albums� bothe flopped. He then made 2 more “underground albums� on an “independent label� wich most of them receive funding from bigger labels. The idea is to build it up into mainstream. A lot like master P who made his own label on 10,000$ he won in a law suit and sold CDs out of his van in 1989 then in 1998 he made 56mil, since then they fell off but they aren’t underground. It just means there slumping and trying to climb uphill again.

Underground means a talent that hasn’t been fully discovered, and is tring to make a name for themselves. For instance look at coleman. A 5th rounder can be considered equilivent to an underground artist. Now take the fact he had a good year. lets say he does for the next 3 makes the pro bowl then starts to suck. Did he go underground? Or did he diminish. There is a difference in falling off and going underground. Once u been to the surface there is no turning back. It’s a marketing image created to entice people that have the urge to be different. Face it it’s a marketing scheme

[x80NyJeTs28x]

best rapper of our age hands down, he is one of the few people who could pull off half the songs that he did. Now he made his money, is set for life, and can finally just settle in and enjoy the rest of life without working hard.

[Jetsfan115]

Umm I don’t think he is the best rapper of our time. Maybe was a top 10 lyricist for one year but that’s still a stretch

Pac, biggie, and jay-z would be the top candidate for the last 10 years

[Alcatraz]

I agree with you Jetsfan115 'cept for the Jay-Z part.

[TheUltimate]

http://www.newindpre...festyle&Topic=0

DETROIT: Rap superstar Eminem plans to make his last solo performance in Ireland in September, the Detroit Free Press, his hometown newspaper, said on Friday.

Citing sources close to the 33-year-old rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, the daily also said his current album "Encore" would probably be his last as he moves to full-time work as a record producer.

The final solo appearance of Mathers, the best-selling hip-hop artist ever, would be at a concert in Dublin, Ireland, on September 17, the Free Press said.

The newspaper quoted his manager, Paul Rosenberg, as saying no official decision had been made about the future of the Grammy and Oscar-winning artist who has recorded three top-10 albums.

But Rosenberg said Mathers' current multi-platinum album was "certainly the cap on this part of his career."

Mathers' spokesman at Interscope Records in Los Angeles could not immediately be reached for comment.

The Free Press said the rapper, who has sold more than $1 billion worth of records, has grown weary of the media spotlight and may be musically spent.

"Marshall feels he's said everything he can say as Eminem," one insider was quoted as saying. "The idea that he intended this ("Encore") to be his last record is something that everyone on the inside circle has known for a while."

Another source said "Encore," which was released last year, had been an especially difficult record for the artist to make. "Marshall really struggles to write for himself now, to speak through the voice of Eminem," the source said.

"He knows as well as anybody that there comes a point where you risk beating this thing to death."

The cover shot on "Encore" shows Mathers taking a bow, and its closing song is entitled "Curtains Down."

In the album's liner notes, and in his current concert tour, Mathers has also played up the figurative death of Eminem.

"This is how you go out with a bang, baby," Mathers says in one video," after pulling the trigger of a pistol that misfires on himself.

BYE BYE *beep*!

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U r such a hypocrite, you always say why do you pick on Limp Bizkit, if you don't like them then keep it to yourself. Then you make a topic about how much you hate Eminem, if you can say that, then I am gonna say Limp Bizkit suck big giant donkey balls, and the only reason they didn't advertise this time was cuz they are broke cause all of there fans left them after they sold out.

[TheUltimate]

I like Eminem, I think he last album was abit corny but it was still ok, I think it is good he gets out of the game now, until he starts to embarrass himself like Limp Bizkit did. I think he should be a good producer, I know he did that one song "Runnin" on the Tupac Resurrection soundtrack, that was pretty hot. I hope he comes out with another album but he should def. wait a few years, so he don't get played out. And whoever said Jay-Z ain't 1 of the best rappers is crazy, I think he is better then Biggie and Tupac combined. But that is just my opinion, everybody doesn't have to agree with it.

[TheUltimate]

That is what makes you mainstream, your liking of Eminem. First, there is no chance that Eminem is even close to as good as Biggie or 2 Pac. Not a chance in hell. I can even rap better then Eminem, you can even ask some people I know, I come up with these wicked rhymes. It's not that crap that Em does though, like "F that, F Him", and what not. It's real stuff, I do not have to curse at people in my lyrics.

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I honestly don't care if it is mainstream music or not, but most of the music I hear is music that is mainstream because that is what is always around me. I bet if I heard an unknown rapper and I liked it I would say that was hot, but just because Eminem is famous and has tons of 13 years girls liking him, I am not gonna say he sucks when I still feel he is good. It ain't his fault he blew up and made tons of money, all of those underground guys wish they could become mainstream.

[TheUltimate]

What do you mean the underground people wish they would be mainsteam, if they really wanted to become mainstream they just could do it just like that. BUT, they choose not to, which makes them underground. All the 13 year olds are pretty much the reason why I hate Eminem.

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No you are wrong, so you think all the underground people like not making money and they wouldn't want to be making millions of dollars? And if you really think that deep down, you are crazy. Underground is like the minor leagues, they do it for the love of it, but they aren't any good, but the best ones get moved up to the mainstream, which is the major leagues where only the best are, and where they make all their money. That is like a minor league baseball player wants to stay in the minors his whole career, instead of making it into the big leagues.