Also I'm not that interested in this, at this point.
Back when Em had an artistic purpose, like, he was reacting to the world, rallying for free speech... Provoking idiots, inventing big stories and just being genius in general; he... felt more like 'something'. More like an artistic engima where you didn't know what he might create next. We still don't, but more-so just from a stylistic standpoint. He kinda just feels like a guy rapping now. Not so much with a purpose.
He's amazing at rapping, still, and still pushing in that area - but, I'm not sure what his artistic purpose is anymore. I still look forward to what he comes up with and hopefully he'll surprise me with the next material as he always does, and re-invigorate his purpose...
But as of right now, in my head that just feels like 'Nas rapping with Eminem the dude. Em the real guy rapping about his rapping and past rapping', I dunno, something feels more pedestrian about it, probably because of the recent obsession with autobiographical content again and a lack of concepts and vision...
But, back then, it felt like EMINEM THE GENIUS ARTIST working with Nas like 'wow wtf will they create'. I'm pretty sure what they'd create now.
