Can we talk about Eminem sales for a minute :mjpls:

[Freedman]

I think them joints need an asterisk because of the special circumstances he faces in the rap game
I was talking to my white roommate and he was talking about going buy the new eminem CD when it comes out and I was like never heard you listen to anything besides country what other rappers do you like and he copped pleas trying to name songs but legitimately couldn't even name another rapper so in my head I was like I know whats going on here. Im quite sure about a million of his sales usually come from these white Eminem only rap fans

 

[Black]

duh that's obvious.

 

[MiC]

Yeah the same million out there buying all those Paul wall, bubba sparxxx, yelawolf, MGK, Asher Roth, Mac miller albums every time they drop

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Welp, I don't know.. like the poster above me is saying why does Eminem go multi-platinum every time out while other white rappers go nowhere and disappear? There must be something about him that is different and more appealing than other white rappers

 

[Ultimate Warrior]

Yeah the same million out there buying all those Paul wall, bubba sparxxx, yelawolf, MGK, Asher Roth, Mac miller albums every time they drop

***snorts 29seconds***

Paul wall was thought to be black before he made it big, so white still see him as black because paul aint never did no white shyt, Paul has nikka tendacies too



and he married to a sister.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Welp, I don't know.. like the poster above me is saying why does Eminem go multi-platinum every time out while other white rappers go nowhere and disappear? There must be something about him that is different and more appealing than other white rappers

lets have kendrick explain it for us

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/...itely-influenced-his-style-calls-him-a-genius

 

[MiC]

Have yet to see a legitimate reason why no other white rappers can string 2 plat albums together, yet eminem is about to have 12 counting groups and compilations

 

[Luke Cage]

You have to give Dre some credit.

This nikka was somewhat responsible for making Cube a star, Snoop a Star, Pac an even bigger Star, and then Eminem.
All these nikka wear super talented but working dre brought out their inner classic (or in Cubes case beefing with dre did it.)
put bubba in the studio with dre instead of timbo when he made his debut and his career woulda been way different.

 

[jerzboy]

Lol. It's funny to hear rappers and their fans argue about sales and having that be a qualification for greatness..... Then you bring up Eminem and they want to cry wolf..... Hahaha

Another reason why Eminem will go down as the GOAT next to Pac. Between so many rappers talking about sales and hip hop making it a main focal point will only come back to haunt the genre in the long run..... I just laugh at it.

Y'all can argue day and night on this site about who's the greatest, but at the end if the day, history has been written.... With sales being so prominent in hip hop, we all know who the GOAT is..... Good day!!!!

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Welp, I don't know.. like the poster above me is saying why does Eminem go multi-platinum every time out while other white rappers go nowhere and disappear? There must be something about him that is different and more appealing than other white rappers

I think its a combination of both him being talented and him being white. I respect an artist like Macklemore for addressing that he wouldn't have had the success he did if he weren't white. But you really can't respect any white person who doesn't listen to any hiphop at all trying to say Em is the best.

 

[swerve]

I think its a combination of both him being talented and him being white. I respect an artist like Macklemore for addressing that he wouldn't have had the success he did if he weren't white. But you really can't respect any white person who doesn't listen to any hiphop at all trying to say Em is the best.

Macklemore said that shyt because he knows that's what black people wanna hear

 

[SunZoo]

***snorts 29seconds***

Paul wall was thought to be black before he made it big, so white still see him as black because paul aint never did no white shyt, Paul has nikka tendacies too



and he married to a sister.

Yeah the same million out there buying all those Paul wall, bubba sparxxx, yelawolf, MGK, Asher Roth, Mac miller albums every time they drop

What do you really know about any of those guys though? Eminem has a "story", not to say that it wasn't at all embellished but once he dropped his major debut, being white AND backed by dre is what got him in the door...what made it stick was the fact that he opened up his life to his fans.

Compare him to the next highest selling rapper of all time and what are the parallels? He and pac both had/have a relationship with his their fans that is a little more in depth than average, people connected with them because the really put bits and pieces of their life on wax and into peoples minds.

The shyt they spoke on resonated with large groups of people, you can say because he's white, or he's dead/controversial...but really it's about the connections.

Paul wall, roth, mgk, mac they are just rappers...not nearly elite talents and nobody knows enough about them to be invested into them once the song goes off.

Macklemore said that shyt because he knows that's what black people wanna hear

Ehh...I won't say that he doesn't agree with his overall point, but he seems like he's pandering to any and every social cause, his whole draw is really disproportionately based on his content over his talent which is odd. He is the "cause" rapper at this point, don't be surprised if this nikka puts out a song about global warming or saving the whales or some shyt.

You can't recreate what Eminem was to the industry, it's a different time, that energy has shifted poles, if there is a shot for them to create another Eminem phenomenon, it's going to have to be anti-Eminem in nature. Thus we go from homophobia and blatant misogyny to "i could draw so good in 3 grade that I thought I was gay".



shyt is extra obvious, and while I have nothing against dude personally I hope he flops, or at least stays in that "independent" gold artist at best lane, god forbid we have to wait around for "da white" savior to come and make hip hop progressive.

 

[itskontos]

Bruh its cuz its Eminem and he's reached such a major cross over he guarantees himself a mill first week

 

[BigF]

***snorts 29seconds***

Paul wall was thought to be black before he made it big, so white still see him as black because paul aint never did no white shyt, Paul has nikka tendacies too

Why he did he beat on that boy like that?

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

because those white rappers did not have the dre cosign, the interscope push, and the teenage fukk everything angst of eminem that appeals to suburbia. also he came in a time hip hop was getting so big, and a white artist to champion would've changed the game


there's a reason people who don't listen to hip hop cop eminem albums and no other white rappers. other white rappers arent being shoved on their radar like that. eminem apologists make me sick. eminem is crazy talented, and is a gateway for a lot of hip hop listeners, but to act like he didn't just pander to the same fanbase for 15 years and all his albums don't follow the same formula is just ignorance.

also it makes me when his fans will act like eminem doesn't talk about the same guns drugs money hoes shyt that other rappers do, no he comes up with shock-rap over the top homophobic kill/rape fantasies



i'm a fan of hip hop, detroit repping eminem, i'm not a fan of this trying to remain relevant em




bubba sparxx dropped a southern hip hop album over timbo beats
paul wall is essentially an htown rapper and nothing more
machine gun kelly is a clown
yelawolf dropped an awful album and his image is too 'redneck' for the east, midwest, and west