Dude, seriously, shouldn’t you, like, get a job or something?Įminem’s hits set Curtain Call may or may not address rumors of his retirement from his Slim Shady persona - he tries to shut them down on MTV, but ladles on the show’s-over imagery so awkwardly thick that you suspect the whole clunky setup came from Bush’s press people.
And three: that a rapper of this much verbal gymnastic ability is spending his mid-30s making gerbil-in-the-cornhole jokes is awkward and sad he’s like the guy who graduated three years ago but still tries to hang out with the high schoolers. Two: wielding faux-dangerous pop-culture references doesn’t make you the world’s most button-pushing MC, it sort of makes you “Weird Al” Yankovic. One: I can’t tell which ages worse, teen-pop or shock-rap, but I do know that the irony contained therein pleases me greatly. Thoughts on the career of Eminem, fueled by a mid-career hits bonanza that arrives just in time for the holidays:
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