53. "i agree with the above assessment mostly" In response to In response to 50
but there is one thing i noticed the other day while listening to My Name Is (i think) ok, he always LANDS on the snare, pretty much everyone has to do that or face wackness but actually it's the 1st and 3rd beats that get all the emphasis. both in the beats itself and his patterns. even if he doesn't hit it exactly you hear him waiting for it
and i was thinking about somethign ?uestlove said recently, about how 'non-hip' audiences always clap on the 1st and 3rd beats rather than the backbeat (2nd and 4th). i mean that's why it's called the backbeat because traditionally it's the 1st and 3rd that are emphasized.
so i'm wondering if Eminem's mainstream success (that was probably his blow-up single, right?) has anything to do with that. SOOO many people felt Em who had never really 'got' good rapping before. and i don't think it's because he talked about stuff they could 'relate' to or spoke in an accent/slang they understood. i mean i've always been skeptical about those reasons cause they pre-suppose the mainstream actually pays attention. of course though there is still the OTHER reason ppl bring up...
-------------------- Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs? Why do you choose to listen to R&B?
"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela