Eminem "The Eminem Show"

Posted on 05.26.2002

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Eminem
"The Eminem Show"
Release : 26/05/2002
Label : Interscope Records

Review :

Any lingering doubts as to the depth of Eminem’s skills or his potential for raw yet compelling honesty are dispelled on The Eminem Show’s first track. Armed with a quicksilver flow and a thundering rhythm track (the record was exec produced by longtime mentor and partner Dr. Dre), "White America" finds Eminem ferociously mauling the hand that feeds him, lambasting his critics, the industry, and the racism that, in many ways, helped make Marshall Mathers more than just another rapper. "Let’s do the math," Em sneers, "If I was black I would have sold half/ I could be one of your kids/ Little Eric looks just like this." After the bombast of The Marshall Mathers LP and Eminem’s well-noted use of sexual epithets, this kind of material is made more controversial because it actually rings true. From a brutal retort to his long-estranged and equally troubled mother ("Cleaning Out My Closets") to a surprisingly tender ode to his child ("Hailie’s Song"), Eminem examines his life, loves, arrests, addictions, failures, and successes with surprising insight, making this a funk-drenched hip-hop confessional well worth the hype.

Track Listing :

1. Curtains Up
2. White America
3. Business
4. Cleanin Out My Closet
5. Square Dance
6. The Kiss
7. Soldier
8. Say Goodbye Hollywood
9. Drips
10. Without Me
11. Paul Rosenberg
12. Sing For the Moment
13. Superman
14. Hailie’s Song
15. Steve Berman
16. When the Music Stops
17. Say What You Say
18. ’Till I Collapse
19. My Dad’s Gone Crazy
20. Curtains Close

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Eminem "The Eminem Show", by evan [2008-03-20 19:29:14]

i think hailies song was amazing !and so was white america, sing for the moment, buissness was amazing !!! and cleaning out my closet was a clasic ! eminem is the gratest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!