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13201968, RE: I'm interested in what you mean by this.
Posted by Nodima, Thu Oct-12-17 01:54 PM
"White America", "Square Dance", bits and pieces of "Sing for the Moment", and I feel like there were a few mixtape tracks/street remixes of these songs where he got more explicitly frustrated with the Bush administration, the Iraq war, and how he was subtly aware that his fans seemed to think he was endorsing those things with songs like "Till I Collapse" and "Soldier". I could be wrong, I'm no Eminem scholar, but I remember thinking that album was very liberal (or at least as much as someone who was like 14 at the time it came out could feel political about anything) and not many people agreeing with me.


if you mean the sober-not-sober comment, I just mean he was obviously on a lot of shit when he made Eminem Show/Encore, but one is a pretty good album and the other is a dumpster fire, with all the loosies he did afterward straddling a very fine line between the two if not outright becoming self-parody until his recovery.


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