>I don't know for a fact whether or not Em did have that >background as well, but if you look at his beat selection >post-Dre, its been dogshit and to me reflects his (lack of) >experience with the black musical tradition.
does this really matter? there are very few rapppers today who seem to have listened to anything other than rap for their entire lives. rappers people LOVE, and they couldnt tell you the first thing about the "black musical tradition". why not just say, "i dont like his beats"? are you really on the lookout for jazz scales in basslines, and would you know them if they were there?
>The beats he produces (poor man Dre beats) also hint that >this an artist without an appropriate foundation.
again, what is "appropriate"?
>There's people who understand hip hop in the context of past >genres that influenced it , and there's those who do not. Its >becoming increasingly clear that Eminem is the latter.