Best Posts: Nas x Eminem - EPMD Discussion thread

  1. Worm
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    Worm Big Perm Big Worm

    Aug 6, 2021
    song is good...people really over analyze these tracks lol. This isn't something I'll be playing a lot but for what it was I have no complaints
     
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  2. Antman
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    Antman No Cap

    Aug 6, 2021
    n----s having a meltdown and trying to use reason to force themselves to like it smh
     
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  3. Ricky
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    Ricky Hip-Hop CEO ™

    Aug 10, 2021
    I'm disappointed. It's not the type of song I wanted to hear from them... Don't get me wrong, Eminem pen game was sick and that beat switch part was hard, but overall it wasn't something monumental like Nas X Em song should be.

    I think the highlight of this track was EPMD back together. Nas verse only took off on the last few bars when he said something about Hip-Hop faking death etc. Em verse sounded like scrapped bars from Kick Off freestyle.

    I was hyped after first listen, but hype died pretty quick.
     
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  4. Michael Myers
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    Aug 6, 2021
    And still is!
    Thats because it happens more to people who only seem to listen to one artist lmao
     
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  5. Wreckless
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    Aug 6, 2021
    Jay-Z won. He got the better Eminem verse

     
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  6. Zebedee
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    Zebedee Banned

    Aug 8, 2021
    he has wrote some really clever lyrics in the past 3-4 years (even better than his prime in terms of his worldplay) just needs to not over do it and the fact its usually delivered in a skippy flow kinda masks how good they are. The last verse of Believe is up there with his best. And the violin outro to that song is the most eminem-sounding thing ive heard since tes.

    True statement, hate to go down this road
    But there's only one route to cross this bridge
    So I walk in this b---- with loose change
    'Cause all my dues paid, but this booth's takin' its toll

    some of his best bars ever imo.
     
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  7. BIGFOOT
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    BIGFOOT More than a myth!

    Aug 7, 2021
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  8. lil uzi vert stan
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    Aug 7, 2021
    Stop listening !!
     
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  9. Michael Myers
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    Aug 6, 2021
    I don't like this song but its not weird that songs grow on you. Lots of songs I didn't like initially I appreciated later after more listens. Not just em btw but other artists as well.

    I can understand that if the hype is really high a song can be a huge let down, but once that feeling wears off you might appreciate it for what it is.
     
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  10. Marsh
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    Marsh Nobody told you that I'm loco, ese?

    Aug 6, 2021
    To me, it's between meh and good, but not great or trash.
     
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  11. Neppert
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    Aug 6, 2021
    A song with both Nas and Em on it should never, and I mean never, be just 'meh'. They f----- up.
     
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  12. Michael Myers
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    Aug 6, 2021
    This. People are so focussed on Em (which I understand) but this is a let down from both
     
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  13. Michael Myers
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    Aug 4, 2021
    So, first collab between Nas and Eminem.

    Thoughts?
     
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  14. henzINNIT
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    Aug 9, 2021
    I want to believe Nas deliberately ended his verse on the word spaghetti.
     
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  15. hargydon
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    hargydon No investigation, no right to speak

    Aug 8, 2021
    Nas won with:

    Closed casket flow, all you n----s get deaded
    They don't give you one single rose while you can smell it
    So I pick from my own garden (Garden)
    Wanna go out in my garden like Godfather
    Grandkids and a Rottweiler got over the block trauma
     
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  16. Zebedee
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    Aug 7, 2021
    huge fax. I really wasn't a fan of how Mike mixed Recovery (vocal wise, but i guess part of that was his multi-layered shouting delivery) and most stuff he did up until Revival, lots of compression, but the mixing deffo got better from kamikaze onwards. All recorded on a Sony c800g aswell I believe. Still miss the classic analogue smoothness of when he was recording with the Bass Brothers which peaked in 2000-2002 tho, especially the ones that where mixed by Dre. MMLP is Eminems best album sonically speaking for me, the vocals are amazing and the Mastering is perfect., Who even mastered MMLP was it that Big Bass guy
     
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  17. Pandemic
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    Aug 6, 2021
    Interesting post. I respect your opinion
     
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  18. MichaelsMad
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    Aug 6, 2021
    Its I got Noel's (no L's) which is slick af

    The chia line is crypto currency

    That's alot of bucks flying when I'm making it reindeer.

    I got pills tylenol 3's, prolly 2 or 3 molly, "some are E", which reminds me of rap "summary" which is a song by big daddy kane...which ties into the kane refrence coming up.

    You're judging the set ups before he even gets to the analogy, or you just don't get or miss the entire refrence
    The pill lines are used to get to some are E/ summary to. Not every set up has to be the best godamn punchline ever, but his intertwining rhymes and refrences is incredible. Hes really good at utilizing homophones and alliteration now days. Most people on here cant name many literary devices a rapper can use but feel so confident in judging how he writes and delivers things. Bc if anything sounds different than what you're used to you say it's "off beat" which tells me you have no concept of what on beat means bc his syllables and phrases are always matching percussion and internal rhythms of the beats he's on. But you didnt even get the lines right so of course you're not gonna pay attention. You listen once and judge the first things you catch. Em word play and refrences get pretty dense at times. And yeah I know the response is gonna be " BUT ITS NOT SONICALLY PLEASING TO MAH EARS ITS THE MIXING" when you all dont even know what mixing is. Ppl keep talking about engineers and producers touching his vocals. All of eminems vocals are mixed by him and mike strange, they have been for many many years. When dre mixes a song he gets a vocal print of what em and mike did and just fits them to the rest of the track.
     
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  19. Wreckless
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    Aug 6, 2021
    One of the most common posts I see whenever Em releases iffy music.

    "It has grown on me". "It's not that bad after a few listens" "It's definitely a grower"

    Just say it sucks ffs. If you don't like something on the first couple spins then you don't really like what you're hearing so why try so hard to like it? If it wasn't Eminem you would have just moved on to the next song.
     
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  20. rapmusik
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    Aug 6, 2021
    I like it
     
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