International Playa
Playa with a Passport
Eminem can rap, he has respect from a lot of emcees and he did his work in battle rap too.
At the end of the day he is still white. The industry needed a white guy that can rap and be marketable. And he was the one. When dude gets to work on tupac material when he never really knew him...that's white privilege.
Eminem had to work his ass off to get to the point where he was offered the opportunity, and he used it perfectly and made a hella career. Can't knock his hustle. But if a black man with equal skills and same gimmick was there instead of eminem, he wouldn't be a multi platinum artist with cacs worshipping him. Eminem skin color got him a bigger prize.
If a black man rapped like Eminem he would be clowned unmercifully. Em is great at wordplay, but his wordplay is shyt that teens in the 90s found funny. Listen to the lyrics to his most successful songs outside of "Lose Yourself" and tell me the majority of it isn't bullshyt. When Em raps like on "Til I Collapse", "Rock Bottom", "Sing for the Moment", & "Rabbit Run" he's a beast, but outside of that he's trash.
Eminem found his voice,style & told his story "white trailer trash", it worked for him. His first "underground" style didnt work
Same as Rick Ross & Jay-z their first style was crap, they reinvented themselves and blew up. Rick Ross played the king pin story & it worked.