Royce would say anything to hype the album. Sounds like some, 'I'm going to try and be funny/clever while promoting the album' type shit. Em's affection for Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent worry me. Eyedea's E&A is a 'Hip Hop' album eons beyond anything Em will ever produce. Em's greatest talent is having a pulse of the industry and sinking his teeth into it. Problem is, he's BEEN the industry since MMLP. What I'd love for him to have done is forsake everyone and clown the circus that has become of the entertainment world in the last decade. He doesn't have to be a clown. MMLP was dope because the jokes were based in serious satire and criticisms of pop culture. Since then he's become a parody of himself. He has endless skill as far as rhyming and rapping go. His production is ridiculous, but MMLP was about him. SSLP was about being a clown, and himself. Eminem Show = him. He seems incapable, or unwilling to touch upon anything besides Hip Hop or himself. Most rappers touch on issues and what not.
Can't wait to hear what this sounds like.
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