He makes his most overt nods yet to rock music, borrowing Aerosmith's 'Dream On' for the basis of 'Sing for the Moment,' and gets explicitly political about his job on 'White America' ('I could. 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. -Amy Linden -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. On the follow-up to The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem set out to broaden his already wide artistic horizons. "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. 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. The Eminem Show (CD, Album + DVD-V, Ltd, NTSC) Aftermath Entertainment, Universal Music Taiwan.
Armed with a quicksilver flow and a thundering rhythm track (the record was exec produced by longtime mentor and partner Dr.
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.
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