The Eminem Blog

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Let me introduce you to an underground emcee from Buffalo, New York. Incisive in his words, confident in his way of rapping, Cyrus shoots at you with thousands of bullets accompanied by an army of rough instrumentals. His style resembles nothing you have heard yet in hip hop.
Get It In is a wicked Spongebob remix that probably won t leave the listeners indifferent. Innocently starting like the Spongebob refrain, the song suddenly takes another, more filthy turn. Cyrus astutely jungles with words within a crazy party atmosphere. Trumpets, car noises, chords in the background reeinforce the nasty atmosphere created by the inventive lyrics. Have a look at this Spongebob remix, I recommend it to you.
AR s is built on rapid drum beats combined with softer keyboard sounds. Cyrus stormy flow delivery will punch you right in the face and take you into his hustle.
Jihad Instrumentals is built on oriental melodies and instrumentals. The rhythm and the drum beats strongly suggest a war atmosphere and soldiers marching on. I partucilarly appreciated the use of the instrumentals that are a mix up of softness and combativity. Rhythm and instrumentals create a beautiful harmony. Bagpipes leave a place for freedom and poetry, despite the war oriented track. This is truly a must hear!
Grind Time is a song many people can relate to. Cyrus Phantasm summarizes the rough, struggling times. The Grind song is an encouragement to all of you who keep struggling to achieve your goals. If persevere till the end, you ll be a winner.
I loved the beautifully rhythmic song. Violins in the background totally enhance the beauty of the song.
In short, I d highly advice any of you to check Cyrus Phantasm s page. You won t regret it!
Copyright © 2007 by Isabelle Esling
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After a very short lasting second marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Marshall Mathers, better known to the world as Eminem, Kim Mathers decided to appear on air and to be the guest of different shows, in order to give her version of the facts.
One can say that Eminem and Kim have a long common history.
It goes back to their Lincoln High days, at the time both started dating.
Kim entered into Marshall s life as Debbie Mathers foster child at the age of 13, escaping from an alcoholics home and probably suffering abuse from her step dad. Her relationship with Marshall would soon turn into love. This love has nothing in common with the usual Hollywood glamour stories, but it could rather be described as stormy, volatile, and was marked by numerous on s and off s.
Christmas 1995 marked the birth of the couple s common child, Hailie Jade. Despite the joy of her presence, it didn t prevent the couple from many misunderstandings and wicked manipulations, mostly from Kim s side, if we check back into the available, unhidden details, I mean the details different media revealed us on the couple.
I remember watching an old video in which you could see Eminem, wearing glasses and flipping the bird numerous times. In fact, the footage I am talking about was an old footage, made just before the release of the Slim Shady EP, in 1998.
During a short time the young man was talking, and the subject matter was all about his baby s mama who wanted to forbid him to see his daughter.
There is nothing more hurtful for a dad not to be able to see his kid and I do believe that, in numerous occasions, Kim used Hailie as a weapon in order to get what she wanted. She also received a spectacular response through the 97 Bonnie And Clyde song, in which Eminem murders Kim and drops her dead body into the water with Hailie s help.
Eminem has probably swallowed a lot of pain and deceptions all over the years, but he found a way to overcome them through his music. Dissing Kim in a song was a powerful outlet for his rage. Eminem might have harmed Kim through his demeaning words, but one should also consider that unlike many (abusive) husbands, Marshall never laid a finger on Kim in real life. Debbie Mathers even testified it years ago. The same cannot be said about Kim, who was witnessed by Dan Carlisle aka Mc Hush and MC Rec (pictured as Cheddar Bob in 8 Mile) slapping Marshall in the kitchen during a violent argument, at Mc Rec s house, according to MC Hush s statements in Metro Times.
I am not saying that Kim didn t suffer from the public exposure she got through her ex husband s Cds. Of course she did and it must have been unbearable to be looked at as a monster by the media.
Considering Eminem s disses towards Kim from a writer s point of view, all I can say that writing and sharing with the world has always been an excellent outlet for my joys, emotions and pains. It has helped me to overcome many real life difficulties and always made me feel stronger, so I can fully understand the expression of Eminem s temporary rage feelings towards Kim s behavior through nasty lyrics.
Ok, those lyrics have harmed Kim and probably given her sleepless nights and depression days. Those lyrics did make her look bad in the public s eye.
We might not know Kim, but we don t know Marshall Mathers as a person either. Any reasonable person would agree with me that there is always a huge gap between the artistic character revealed through an artist s musical work and the artist himself as a private person.
That s also one good reason why one should always be cautious in judging or jumping to silly conclusions regarding his stormy relationship with his ex. We don t know shit, as Eminem stated it in his spicy Kim dedicated love ballad I Love You More that goes back to 2003.
He was so right about it. We seem to know through a few songs and a few media gossips, but the truth is that we ignore most intimate details of Em and Kim s very private story.
What really happens between closed doors is veiled to gossipers view.
( frankly, I am happy it is so; everybody deserves a privacy, even superstars)
But I digress…
Let s get back to the demeaning Kim songs:
On the one hand, they might have caused Kim some pain; on the other hand, the money and wealth that followed after Eminem s tremendous record sales have also helped Kim to live a better, comfortable life with her daughters.
Ok money doesn t buy you everything, nor can it sometimes compensate what an individual went through. But it also allows you to live a more comfortable and decent life with less material struggles, which is not insignificant, particularly when you have several kids to raise.
Eminem did the best he could to offer his daughter the life he could never have as a poor white kid from a dysfunctional background and it shouldn t be counted as nothing.
His recent actions in favor of peace within the couple, signing a Court agreement along with Kim, in which both parties agreed not to diss each other for the kids best interest, show his good will in stopping this useless public war.
Eminem and Kim went to Court on March the 26th and both signed the agreement named above.
What do we hear about next day? Kim prompts to criticize Eminem on Hot 97, which lead me to the following question: what does Kim really want? Publicity? Her ex back? More useless public arguments with Em? Or is she so desperate to reach the public s compassion?
When Kim first expressed on ABC, I respected the fact that she wanted to give the world her own version of the facts and to clear her bad image.
But her willingness to insist on filthy details regarding her former couple life on Mojo made me lose a lot of respect for her, honestly speaking.
Not even within a second did the thought of harming her own kids cross Kim s mind- kids who would probably have landed in a foster home if Eminem didn t take care of them when she went AWOL in 2003 because of her cocaine problems.
Kim might feel hurt in her feelings. Maybe she didn t expect her second marriage to end up so fast. But her kids shouldn t have to pay such a high price for a distasteful revenge will against her ex in any case.
That s one good reason why Kim should now move on.
She is a beautiful, young woman with lots of assets in her hand who could enjoy the good sides of life instead of being bitter. No matter if her plans for the future include Marshall or not, she should bury the bloody hatchet of domestic war and focus on life s brighter sides, for her kids and her own sake.
Copyright © 2007 by Isabelle Esling
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found at Macomb Daily, so credit to the newspaper and thanks to all of you who gave me the link to the article:)

credit to rap basement
It is called Don t Hate, it has some raw accents that are so typical of King Gordy s know how…listen to it here!
I am happy to see D12 back, moreover with skilled emcee King Gordy…enjoy:)

George Hunter / The Detroit News
MOUNT CLEMENS — Eminem and his ex-wife, Kim Mathers, have agreed to play nice.
The two signed a “parental cooperation” pact this morning, agreeing not to disparage each other, Friend of the Court referee David T. Elias said.
The rap superstar had filed a motion in Macomb County Circuit Court to prevent his ex-wife from trashing him in the media, because he said it could harm their 11-year-old daughter, Hailie.
Kim Mathers appeared in court this morning for a hearing on the matter. The case was assigned to Elias by Chief Circuit Judge Antonio Viviano.
Eminem did not appear in court, but spoke with his ex-wife via a telephone conference this morning, Elias said.
“I’m pleased to report that both parties have signed a parental cooperation order,” Elias said. The order states that both Eminem and his wife will refrain from making public disparaging remarks about each other.
Kim Mathers left the hearing without speaking to reporters. But a response to Eminem’s motion, which was filed by her attorneys Friday, said, “(Kim) states that after years of enduring (Eminem’s) public derogatory statements both in his lyrics, during his performances and in the media, she decided it was time for the public to hear her side. (Eminem) must forget the lyrics he wrote and the effect those lyrics have on the child.”
The response goes on to cite Eminem’s song, “Kim,” in which he raps about killing a woman named Kim.
“This song is a detailed account of how (Eminem) plans to murder (Kim). It is heard everyday by millions of people. It appears (Eminem) was not so concerned at the time he wrote these lyrics of how a gruesome and detailed account of how he was going to murder her mother would affect the minor child.”
The motion also said, “(Eminem) has a tattoo that is directed at (Kim) and depicts a grave with a tombstone that reads, “R.I.P. Kim, Rot in Pieces. Again, did (Eminem) not consider the effect such inflammatory statement would have on their minor child when he obtained this tattoo?”
Kim Mathers, is twice divorced from Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers. Eminem complained in his motion that Kim, who lives in Macomb Township, has recently granted television and radio interviews in which she has claimed Eminem is “slacking very much when it comes to the kids” and that there is “nothing positive” between Eminem and his daughter.
The couple was first married in 1999 and divorced several years later. They were remarried in January 2006. Eminem filed for a second divorce in April 2006.
Harvey Hauer, Eminem’s attorney, said this morning: “We’re very happy the court was able to bring a resolution. The most important thing to Marshall is Hailie.”
You can reach George Hunter at (586) 468-7396 or ghunter@detnews.com. You can reach George Hunter at (586) 468-7396 or ghunter@detnews.com.

As an occasional reader of the UK s Daily Mail, I was utterly shocked to read some statements made by columnist Melanie Philips.
According to what I read and if I understood well the points the journalist named above wanted to make, one should consider that slavery was evil, but a mea culpa from politicians and church is a little bit over exaggerated.
Melanie Philips also implied that, besides white slave traders, there were also black and Arab traders, so victimizing black people is a little bit too much of an exaggeration, as far as she is concerned.
Really? Do you really have a sense of proportion, Mrs Philips? I agree: there might have been a minority of black and Arab traders, but do you know how many white people participated to evil slave businesses?
Should I mention that Melanie Philips is white? Does her skin color matter? Yes, it does matter, because the columnist belongs to that category of white persons who think from their comfortable all white point of view.
In conclusion to what is supposed to be a brilliant demonstration of literacy and history, Mrs. Philips, extra poles on the current gang related problems that black people encounter in our contemporary society. Of course, those problems are not slavery related. Or maybe yes, they are.
If you consider that black people were leaving peacefully in Africa, in a simple, nevertheless organized society and demanded nothing to no one.
All of a sudden, huge crews of invaders from America, England, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and many more countries came to capture those people, put them into chains, made them travel in most inhuman conditions, sold them for money and used them as free working forces in their plantations, raping their wives and daughters, murdering the men that rebelled against their detention condition in a very merciless manner.
What is the link with today s society? You don t see the point? Here it is: the descendants of the many slaves are living here. Should I mention that your country built most of its wealth on those slaves sweat? Or this that just another unimportant detail of history to you?
The slaves descendants didn t ask for anything: they were born here and have the same rights as you!
If there are gang related problems, it is because those people don t have the same chances as you. Have you considered that black people are often singled out in dirty ghettos and have less chances to access a better education? That s the reality, but some of you middle class white persons seem to be blind to such problems!
As a white woman, I am advocating black people s cause, because I know how it feels to be singled out by your color. I have lived such situations through my bi racial kids. However, I am happy to have educated them to never be ashamed of their color, nor of their heritage from both sides.
Do you realize, Mrs Philips, that when you step out of our house, you will never be singled out because of your skin color? People will never describe you as a white woman, while they will single out a black woman because of her skin color. She won’t be described as a person, a woman, but most people will talk about her skin color first, which will never happen to you when you will step out with your comfortable middle class mentality.
Maybe Shilpa Shetty was right when she stated that middle class racism was the thing to fear in Great Britain.
Unlike France, contemporary Great Britain doesn t seem to have a big racism problem- in appearance only.
Racism is officially banned and you cannot be discriminated against in as a job seeker because of your color. However, having lived there now for 8 months approximately, I could observe that racism wears a phonier garment in the UK: people live side by side, but secretly hate themselves by communities.
Most white British people cultivate a secret hatred for Indians who can t stand Blacks, most of the time, and the list goes on.
In conclusion, I don t think we will ever erase racism from the roots of our earth.
But we can fight against it with our whole heart and apologize for history s evil mistakes, for the next generations to learn the lessons.
It is because of people like you, Mrs. Philips, that some people are encouraged to deny the Holocaust or other similar crimes.
Give a sincere apology when an apology is due. No matter if the prejudice goes back to two centuries, the new generations continue to carry the scars of their ancestors sorrows-in other forms of modern slavery.
Copyright © 2007 by Isabelle Esling
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I discovered E-Dro thanks to the UK magazine, The Hip Hop Connection. When I started reviewing his mixtape, I was impressed with E-Dro s skills. The DC artist has something consitent to say to his listeners regarding black folks condition, politics and much more…E-Dro kindly accepted this interview with me.
Discover more about him with the following interview!
1. What motivated you to become a rapper and when did you get started?
At an early age I loved music. I use to grab whatever I could find to use a mic and sing along with the lyrics on the radio. When I heard Run DMC, LL Cool J, Doug E Fresh, Fat Boys etc I loved it. I just knew I wanted to be a rapper.
2.Which artist influenced you most and why?
I would have to say that Tupac influenced me the most. His energy, style and character influenced me to push harder. I understood where he was coming from you know? I felt the good, bad and the ugly in his music.
3. In your song Black Man you are talking about the difficulties of the black community. As a mom of two bi racial kids I have been confronted with racism in my country too. Are there very strong racial tensions in the DC community at the moment?
I mean racism is and probably will always be around but to answer your question I would have to say yes. It’s not as in your face as in the past but black man live it everyday. From racial profiling to employment opportunities to affordable housing it’s all here. You know when you’ve reached the black side of town here. It goes from manicured lawns, no litter in the streets, the roads are smooth to trash everywhere, boarded up buildings, more police presence etc.
4. According to you, can hip hop help towards more fraternity between people?
Yes, Hip Hop has already bridged the gap for all races of people. It’s brought together the south and the north the east and the west. It’s Global. Hip hop is my generation and the generations after me voice in this world. We don’t stand up on Capital Hill voicing our views we do It in our lyrics. I think it reaches more people that way.
5.Tell me a little bit about your collaboration with DJ L.E.S…
That was really inspirational for me. I had the opportunity to work with someone who has been working with NAS. I grew up like damn those NAS tracks hot and here I am working with the same guy. Life’s crazy like that.
6.Nas recently ignited a huge debate, stating that hip hop was dead. What is your point about the current state of hip hop?
Hip Hop has changed. I feel where NAS is coming from. Don’t get me wrong there are some really good rappers today. But the game has changed. Back in the day rappers where in it for the long haul. It was more than just making a quick dollar or one hit wonder. That’s why today Ice Cube, Dr. Dre’ NAS, Scareface etc.still get major respect. A lot of performers today let the track do most of the work. The lyrics are not that great. But I do give respect to some of the artist today because they have that drive and want to be the best at what they do.
7.Which artists have you collaborated over the years?
There been so many. Known producers and artist are Chink Sanata, DJ LES, Ken Lewis. Video Director Gil Green, Upcoming artist and producers Phazed Out, Jett Black Fool “ The Real L.O.C”, Natalia, Melisa Duncan, Candice Will, B Love, Akir, Block Pounders, Dr. Mind Bender, Bob Smoke and so more. As for my current project I can’t release the details just yet still in talks.
8. How did you come up with the nickname E-Dro?
I use to go by the name Equipp and my brother O use to make fun of it. I decided to change it so I kept the E and at the time Dro was all I know and you can figure the rest..lol
9. What is the biggest challenge you had to face since you got started?
Capital has been a really major set back in my career. In this game it’s not enough to be a good rapper. If you don’t have the financial support backing you it’s almost impossible to become known. The second major issue was finding the right team, with the same direction as you. You can waste a lot of time if your not on the same page.
10.You collaborated with DJ L.E.S. Would you envision a collaboration with Nas?
HELL YEAH!! I love NAS’s flow. He be saying some real in his music. His Vocab is off chain. I just like him all around. He has never allowed the success to take him on a power trip at least in my eyes. Point blank I would love to have that opportunity.
11 Besides hip hop, what kind of music are you listening to?
I love R&B and of coarse the oldies. I really want to do a Rock N Roll track though. I love to challenge myself so any music for that matter I would be up to trying. I’ve already done a Opera track called “Katrina”. I’m just versatile you know?
12.If you could summarize your music and its message within a few words, how would you define it?
Original and Reality.
13.What inspires you to write your songs?
The tracks talk to me. They tell me what I should say. If there’s something going on in the news or my life that also influences the music I will create.
14. What is your preference: old school or new school rap?
I can’ t really give you one or the other. I like both. The old made the way for the new. I can sit back and listen to some NWA ,LL, KRS1 and still get hype. Or I can listen to some TI, Luda, Jeezy and get just as hype. In no way can I say one is better than the other just different times we living in.
Listen to E-Dro s music here.
Copyright 2007 by Isabelle Esling
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In our modern world in which rudeness is a way of life for many uneducated people, many of you might say that internet relationships don t matter and that friendships don t exist on the computer…I don t agree.
When you talk to a person on the net, no matter if you are nice or not, you are talking to a REAL person. When you are hurting through disgraceful and rude words, you are actually hurting some real feelings.
I have developed, through the years, besides my real life friendships, some friendships through the net. I also had the chance to talk to several of them cyber friends on the phone. I was even lucky to meet a fellow blogger who travelled 350 kms to meet me.
Kasey Jay of Pontiac was one of those dear internet friends. We both shared a common dream of success in the hip hop business and i did anything to help promote Kasey Jay s Flosse Wear, the best I could.
Not only did we share our dreams and hopes, Kasey also had this genuine passion for rap music in common with me.
Like me, he knew what it meant to come from a hostile environment and to keep grinding, having been raised by a single mom in the ghetto. Kasey was one of those young entrepreneurs that is very much needed in America. He was a model of courage and hard work to me.
At only 28, he had to die. The circumstances of his death are still unclear.
Dear Kasey, thanks for being a friend and a confident for a little while. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me on the Detroit scene. You will always have a special place in my heart. I will never forget you.
I will bring a symbolical rose to you today made of scented thoughts that represent the respect and friendship i had for you.
Your friend always and ever,
Isabelle
More about Kasey Jay can be found on his my space account and on my personal website.
Copyright 2007 by Isabelle Esling
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I would like to tell my readers that I just got a message from Uncle P from Detroit rap, telling me that a friend of mine, from Pontiac, Kasey Jay had been found dead in his appartment. I am deeply saddened by the news and I will dedicate the nice young man an article asap.
Kasey was a promising young man, with lots of good projects in the making, he had just launched his urban wear line, Flosse Wear.
Although I never met him, i have been talking to him for several years. Kasey has always been such a nice person. I have dedicated him a section on my personal website in order to promote his clothing line.
I will miss you, dude. May God bless your soul. You had a golden heart.
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