First off, I'd like to address HELIOS on some of the comments he made here. I don't think that you realize that most of what you said is very racially biased and comes from an uneducated point of view as far as Hip Hop goes. When someone makes such hateful comments about race, it sets something off in me and I gotta speak on it.
You made the comment
...he really had to be in this industry cause lil white retarded, dumb idiots need somebody similar to them. They need somebody just like them.
Now for you to say that would be like me saying 'they needed Nelly cause dem ign'ant chirrens need dat funky jungle music.' One thing I can't stand is how racially biased hip hop has become, not to mention Rap music (yes, there's a difference). Music is universal, without color boundries, and it shouldn't make a difference whether some brotha from the ghetto or some sub-urban white boy makes it. You cant tell color on the radio. So why should it matter. Good music is good music... period.
Now on the Eminem issue... Face it, on the business tip, every now and then it takes a "white boy" to popularize rap music and bring it into the sub-urban environment. True, little Julie Blue Eyes probably never listened to Rap before Eminem came out, but the fact that she and millions of her friends now do is marketing genious if you ask me. And maybe she won't stop with Eminem. Maybe she'll pick up that new 50Cent CD, or look into finding that old Naughty By Nature LP, and maybe even pick up the latest by Birdman cause he bangin the charts now too. That's especially good news for the artist cause that's that much more revenue their CDs are generating. You gonna hate on him for that? I hope not. Rap is the marketable entity spurred from real Hip Hop from back in the 70's and 80's. Everyone wanted to rap and now everyone is. Now, it aint so hard to get a record deal because every major lable is signing everything that comes their way if they think they can market it and make millions off of it. So, you think it matters to Interscope or whatever lable Em is on now that he's white? Shit. He has only one color in the industry and that color is green... money green. But besides all that, it wasn't the "white" industry that brought him out in the first place, you have Dr. Dre to thank for that. Hmmm... A Black producer brought a White rapper into the game. What is this world coming to? (he said sarcasticly)
The fact is Em is a great talent and only the fact that he's white is why he gets so hated. He's taken it farther than any other white rapper and he's still going. And the fact that he's doing Rap music and strictly Rap music is why I respect him. He's a white rapper that is being nothing but a rapper. Unlike earlier tries from Marky Mark and (gawd, should I even say it...) Vanilla Ice.
Take a trip back to the 80's and dig up a crew called The Beastie Boys. Hip Hop's first white rap group. But they weren't truly rappers. They were a new wave/rock band that Rick Rubin experimented with to see if he could make a crossover Hip Hop band that would appeal to both whites and blacks alike. And he was highly succesful at doing so. But they showed their true roots as most of their music was rock oriented and their stage show only proved the same. But you know what? It brought Hip Hop officially out of the streets and into the homes of the suburbanites where little Betty Blonde grew up and first heard about rap music.
So what if Eminem wasn't white? Would you still hate him then? Would he still be as popular as he is now? Who knows. But I like him just the way he is. And think about this... he's one of the people responsible for bringing out 50Cent, and 50 is the hottest thing out right now. Still hate him? Okay. You're entitled to your opinion. But it's a fact in the music biz, the ones who aint makin no noise are always the ones hatein' the most.
You wanna hate on somebody because they got no skills is one thing, but if you gonna hate on him cause he's white well, then you're basically a racist. And most of the comments you made here are totally racist.
...lil white retarded, dumb idiots...
( those white aged people who go to church every week lol)
How about those black aged people that go to church every week? What you laughing at?
I don't know where you come from or how you came up, but it's obvious to me that you just plain got a problem with white people and you're just using Eminem as an excuse to air your racially motivated comments. So feel glad that you got this much out of me from this thread, because most other times I'd have simply just laughed at your ignorance and left.