{"id":97466,"date":"2015-04-03T08:02:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=97466"},"modified":"2015-04-03T08:07:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:07:25","slug":"eminem-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=97466","title":{"rendered":"Eminem Annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eminem is a chatterbox to beat the band on his Genius annotation page<\/a>! I don’t know much about Genius, but apparently artists discuss their own catalogs in the Annotations series, and amazingly, the reclusive Eminem just participated. So much good stuff there! I love his thoughts on how competitive he is with himself, on rhyming as many syllables as possible, inter-lines, throughout an entire song. <\/p>\n

I liked what he said about “Sing for the Moment”:<\/p>\n

“This is where I was dealing with critics who didn\u2019t understand why people were identifying with me. I realized I was becoming like the rappers that I looked up to as a kid. I identified with and loved LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys. I felt like if everybody didn\u2019t understand their music, it didn\u2019t matter \u2014 they were speaking to me. So that\u2019s what I was trying to make people realize on this track. I may not be shit to you, but there\u2019s a kid in fucking Nebraska, or somewhere, that I\u2019m talking to. I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re listening, because he\u2019s listening. That\u2019s who I\u2019m directing my material at.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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