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Eminem Best Posts: Stay Wide Awake vs Music Box

  1. RG9
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    RG9

    Jul 18, 2017
    Soon as my flow starts
    I compose art
    Like the ghost of Mozart
    Even though they all say that they're real
    I know that most aren't
    Boy, you think you're clever, don't ya?
    Girl, you think you're so smart
    Come with me to another side
    In a world so cold and so dark


    d---, he flowed so effortlessly

    GOAT

     
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  2. Flacko
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    Flacko Too Blessed To Be Humble

    Jul 18, 2017
    Stay Wide Awake left me with goosebumps
     
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  3. Stevio
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    Stevio Goonio Da Boonio

    Jul 18, 2017
    Stay wide awake without a doubt
     
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  4. rapmusik
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    rapmusik 4

    Jul 18, 2017
    Music Box kind of sounds like a Recovery song with Relapse subject matter

    honestly not sure which one I'd pick. :thinkinghmmm:
     
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  5. deluxe wife
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    deluxe wife sun setting

    Jul 18, 2017
    I always thought the last verse of Music Box was beautifully horrific and tragically poetic. I don't think anyone has written about futile r--- and murder in this level of eloquence before.
    The time has come
    To tie her up
    Gotta roll me the ladder
    I've had enough of the chatter
    Climb up to the window, look at her
    Then climb in slow to shatter
    Her brain matter
    And batter her
    With a bat
    A matter of fact
    That will splatter her
    But before I do that
    I'll have a chat
    To flatter her
    Give her two compliments back to back
    Like, "Tabitha
    I'm your secret admirer
    I'm back to ravish ya
    So strong is your fight
    But you're no match for Dracula"
    Prolonging her plight
    As I go back to stabbin' her
    Dismember her limbs
    Simple as that
    Cadaver her
    Zoom in with the lens
    Then pan back
    The camera
    Stand back
    Cause here comes your man Jack
    So Pamela

    With Stay Wide Awake, the flow is incredible and I prefer the hook and the beat, but some of the lyrics are a little bit wacky. Overall maybe Music Box is my preference but SWA is one of the most lyrically acrobatic songs ever without coming off as nonsensical for the most part (unlike more recent offerings)
     
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  6. CSA
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    Jul 18, 2017
    Stay Wide Awake and for one huge reason. The hook. Music Box had a great hook sung by Eminem but he sh---ed on it by repeatin "my music box" all over the hook. It would have been flawless like Stay Wide Awake if it wasn't for that and I'd say both are flawless and classic.
     
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