I've been sitting here trying to think of what to say, and I had many thoughts, but the one I'm going with is this: that you are probably such an Eminem fangirl groupie that no matter what I said you would reply 'OMG EG EM is God! lol' more or less. At the risk of drawing this thread out , I just wrote a list to keep things short.
1) Do you know what freestyling is? It definitely is not 8-Mile, which is a fictitious - not true movie -not about Eminem, which is a movie that is rehearsed and anything but freeform.
2) You try singing a song in school about murdering someone! You tell me how that turns out. You should mention that you were just joking, so you don't get into any trouble. In other words, especially these days even joking about something like that... is inherently seen as wrong.
3) Tell me something EM has done in his lifetime to set the standard for worldwide controversy, and I'll tell you what Michael Jackson's done in one night.
4) If I'm not mistaken, Eminem was put to trial and was almost put in jail. Apparently, just getting angry because you're wife cheated on you and starting a fight over it is considered a crime these days? And that would be a deciding factor in a custody battle?
5) I doubt you listen to any other 'rap' besides what's playing on the pop radio station and MTV, yet there is more to hip hop than that mess.
6)I respect Em and his music. He's good but he's hardly one of the best of all time. It'll be impossible to convince you otherwise, and impossible to convince me that he is.
Eminem is cool I admit it, I don't hate. And I'm not up on Jin like some crazy fanboy. I'm familiar with their music. But save what's on MTV I bet, you haven't heard or seen much of Jin.
He's not the best, I admit it. But from old tapes of his competitions I've seen hes pretty damn good at his flow.
EM? I've heard all his freestyles on Hot97. Again, good, but not the best. He didn't rhyme for 10 minutes straight on air, like Jin did. Eminem flowed for 2 minutes at the most and then was quiet for most of the times he was on the radio. Keep on mind that was live.
7) If I said I was interested in what you response to this, I'd be lying. I'm just going to end this right now saying that you don't know enough about Jin or heard enough of his material to make a valid viewpoint on whether he needs training enough.
8. Maybe its because of race maybe partly because you are too infatuated with Em, but you are biased. Again (whoops ignore that) you judge things without even clicking the link, reading the post entirely etc etc.
In short, I like Jin and Eminem's music. I'm not such a big fan of either one of them, but I definitely have respect for Jin and his skills, and what he's trying to do for Asians. You bash Jin without knowing him, exactly the way you were. It is called irony.
ing cocky.
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