Sep 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM Imo YBR needs a new beat. Save for the piano parts s--- is yucky af. I want to remix it but haven't worked out a replacement just yet. Eminem editions of Runnin and Supposed to Die Tonight seem very possible. Since we can't go back in a time machine to kidnap Eminem and give him an intervention at gunpoint, it's up to us stans to pick up and rearrange the pieces and make our own 2004 classic. For ex, Black Cotton should have Stanley's Version (yes, Lil Matthew helped) in brackets: Another candidate for a 2004 album:
Sep 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM He coming soon. Industry talking, before end of the year. He waiting for Taylor to be done so he don’t get lil bro’ed
Sep 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM I was thinking the same thing actually a few days ago. Also the hook. The Cartman voice sounds very MMLP era-ish. Could still be recorded much later though.
Sep 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM When was his last hit? During the Obama administration. I guess 4:44 did solid, but it had one of the most expensive and promoted rollouts last decade. And it still sold less than Revival. Lol
Sep 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM I actually really like the Yellow Brick Road beat. I think it’s quite original sounding and even a step forward for Eminem and his teams production at the time. My ear is also telling me that judging by his voice, the first verse was recorded quite earlier than the second and third. Maybe even from the same batch as WAA and LYM. His voice is quite similar to those songs in the first YBR verse, but the next two are obviously Encore Eminem because you can hear the fatness creeping in and the struggling to hold his breath on certain lines. (And obviously the infamous Encore singing in the second verse). Even though the second verse tone drags on abit, I still like the lyric content of pretty much all the verses. It’s pretty much the first song he ever talked about his childhood seriously like that and meeting Kim and Proof etc. Yeah I’d give it a nice 7/10, which is very high for Encore standards. the only thing I don’t like is the weird intro with the guy talking
Sep 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM From the first verse: From the black side all the way to the white side Okay, there's a bright side, a day that I might slide You may call it a pass, I call it haulin' my a--- Through that patch of grass over them railroad tracks Here I think he's replying to Steve Harvey's remark that he "lost his ghetto pass" which he made in late 2004: Similarly, in that Stat Quo song: I never had no ghetto pass, you a------ You really wanna know, when I did live in the ghetto I kept a trespassing charge up at the railroad tracks If so then the vocal differences you hear in the 2nd and 3rd verses could be due to him being a little higher that particular day(s).
Sep 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM Hmm. That Steve Harvey thing is dated Oct 12. Seems a little risky to be working on and recording a brand new song less than a month before the album is due to release, when you take into account mixing, mastering, adding it to the album tracklist on CD covers etc… Im going with coincidence, or maybe he added that bit last minute after the remarks. (In fact this would make sense and explains the reason why he lazily repeated the last line like three times, if it was a rushed last minute change) If we forget the second verse for a moment, to me that first verse and even the chorus sounds way earlier than that third verse. I can’t unhear it. Try it yourself, skip back and forth between the first and first at quite a fast pace. to me the first is the brazen, calm and collected earlier Eminem and the third is showing signs of the drugged out, shouty pillinem.
Sep 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM And yet the most likely explanation it seems to me is that he made YBR at the eleventh hour after the black backlash from the Just Lose It video. I'm thinking that was the tube that broke the gerbil's back (? idk) spurring him to address the Foolish Pride thing, which had become impossible for him to ignore at that point. Plus the lyrics in Classic s--- are too similar anyway ([ghetto] pass ... railroad tracks) to be written off as a "coincidence". Reminder that Eminem responded to Whitey's Revenge within two months. The Warning took a month and a half. Any vocal differences within YBR we might agree on can probably be chalked up to Eminem's inconsistency during this period.
Sep 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM YBR записан в ноябре-декабре 2003 года. The Source публикует «Foolish Pride» 18 ноября 2003 года.
Sep 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM После выхода Encore Эм начал работать над новым альбомом, в основном посвящённым негативному приёму Encore. Для него было запланировано около 16 треков. У него не было ни названия, ни обложки, ни запланированного трек-листа, лишь неопределённый набор песен, которые в итоге были розданы или отправлены в архив после закрытия альбома. Больше об этом альбоме мало что известно. Работа над ним была прекращена довольно рано, после того как Эм отправился в реабилитационный центр в августе 2005 года. Песня, раскрытая пользователем, который сбрасывает информацию, вместе с текстом песни. Декабрь 2004 / Январь 2005. [Часть куплета 1] «Я вернул себе ствол, полуавтоматический Смит-н-Вессон, и я достаю его только по особым случаям , когда ситуация становится слишком напряжённой, и кажется, что мои пять футов пространства вторгаются обратно из-за чёртового спроса, мужик. Мне так чертовски надоел этот халтурный рэп от этих ублюдков, мы задаём темп, тебе понадобится чёртова клейкая лента, чтобы восстановить твоё лицо». [Часть куплета 2] «Я вернул себе ствол, полуавтоматический Смит-н-Вессон. Да, конечно, если ты гадал, вот ответ на твой вопрос. Мой совет: если пойдёшь в моём направлении, лучше надень на грудь чёртов жилет, если только ты не хочешь умереть. Меня уже дважды арестовывали за хранение оружия. Плюс, у меня есть эти уездные парни, которым я могу выдать четыре такта в песне, и ты будешь следующим».
