Em1nem & other top picks (welcum 2 ma world)

[kaplan]

f1naLly a thread that will cater to ma innermost desire  

a mega-platinum recording artist & a certified lyrical genius  

1997 rAp OLympiCs MC battle runner-up  

with eleven GrAmMys (...n counting  ), an oscar, one of the best-selling music artists in the world  

...attending the aNg3r ManAg3m3nt Tour which took place in Detroit, Michigan some time of summer 2002  was one of the finest, most grateful day of ma life    The crowd was awwzum    and often gets in on the action too!!! The show was almost too good...looks like someone is doing a Milli-Vannilli job  LOL    EM sang 20 of his songs from Slim Shady LP, Mathers LP, Devil's Night and of course the Eminem Show. 'Twas all like circus and Proof was great as Em's hype man. Both were spontaneously connected the whole entire of the show. While coming out from behind the curtain, Em opened his act with Square Dance. 'Twas only an hour and something long but on the whole it was great though a really wanted more songs from the Eminem Show album. Definitely no one can ever diss the Slim Shady...not even that stupid, fatboy OFFICER...his lyrics are crap, he looks wack and he juz can't rap....admit it or not    bhoy, am a rhyming? 

Well, maybe a guess it's high time to pay HOMAGE foe ma avatar of exactly two and a half years now  
                                                              and lemme juz say.......



               


                                     

[kaplan]

Jul 30 2010 3:44 PM EDT

Eminem's Chart Streak: How Long Will It Last?
Slim Shady beat out Rick Ross for his sixth week on top of the Billboard albums chart.

By Gil Kaufman

 

               

 

Back in the good old days of the early 2000s, major artists sometimes sold a million records during their first week and topped the charts for months at a time. Thanks to Internet piracy, a precipitous decline in album sales and the rise of à la carte music grazing courtesy of the iTunes store, those days are mostly gone.
 
But apparently no one told that to Eminem. The rapper, who was one of the aforementioned acts back in the day, made it six weeks in a row this week atop the Billboard 200 albums charts, beating back a strong challenge from Rick Ross' Teflon Don, but, more impressively, seeing a miniscule 4 percent week-to-week sales drop, also practically unheard of these days.
 
So, how did he do it?
 
"It's no puzzle," said Keith Caulfield, senior chart manager and analyst at Billboard. "He's Eminem. He isn't deteriorating as fast as some would have thought. ... He was sale-priced at two big box merchants last week and he has a big single [with Rihanna] with 'Love the Way You Lie.' "
 
Billboard even posted a story last week predicting that Ross could, in fact, beat Eminem, putting the Bawse's totals somewhere between 150,000 and 180,0000, which would have given him his fifth #1 in a row. In the end, Ross' 176,000 beat the first week totals for 2009's Deeper Than Rap (158,000), but Caulfield said those initial projections based on interviews with industry sources began to fade as the week wore on and the race tightened.
 
"As the week progressed, things were getting closer and it could have gone either way," he said about the competition for the top spot, which Em ultimately won by a wide margin with sales of 287,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The key to Eminem's continued dominance is the combination of the mostly positive reviews for Recovery, a higher media profile and the chart-dominating hit single with Rihanna.
 
"It's impressive that he's been able to hold the top spot for so long, which is something you don't see much anymore. But Eminem is almost a relic from another era," said Entertainment Weekly correspondent Simon Vozick-Levinson. "He was one of the biggest stars in music when it was at its hugest in 2000 and he still carries some of that magic with him."
 
Vozick-Levinson said few artists today are able to debut big and then keep the top spot after a few weeks. But the run by Eminem says less about Ross than it does about Slim Shady's continued popularity. He said that while Ross is one of the most popular MCs in rap circles, he doesn't have the kind of pop crossover appeal that Eminem has, which is the key to dominating the charts.
 
"What is behind this is connecting with the hard-core rap audience and then the broader pop audience, which has been [Eminem's] big trick," said Levinson. "His team played it really intelligently this time, picking a great first single ["Not Afraid"] to introduce the album and then following with the Rihanna song, which was a savvy move that paid off."
 
The next question is: Can Eminem keep the streak going? The buzz from the Rihanna hit will eventually taper off, but the good news for Team Shady is that there doesn't appear to be much in the way of competition over the next few weeks.
 
Caulfield looked ahead and said the latest from Avenged Sevenfold, next week's Nightmare, doesn't look to be a major threat, and the August 3 release from Arcade Fire, The Suburbs, should do well, but might also not have enough to knock Em down if his sales trend continues. That takes us out to August 10, when the "Camp Rock 2" soundtrack doesn't seem like much of a real threat, though the debut from "Cooler Than Me" singer Mike Posner, 31 Minutes to Takeoff, could pose a challenge. In fact, you have to go all the way out to August 24 and the chart debut of Katy Perry's Teenage Dream to find a disc that could knock Marshall Mathers from his perch.
 
"Eminem has always been in a class by himself," said Levinson. "In between now and then [August 24], it's anybody's game."
 

 

 

[kaplan]

nyahahaahah  kakatawa talaga un nagpost ngayon lang dun sa thread ni yas 

kalain mong wala ng ginawa kundi mag-abang ng pagOL namin ni manong nyahahahah 

eh kakatapos lang ng endorsement eh, wla naman pasok si baracuda kaya pede pa ko manguyakoy

ng ilang minuto, eh gusto ko dagdagan un ibang news ke EM eh 

kalain mong katapos kong mag-out ng 9:50pm d2 sa musik eh bigla din nagpost ng 10:12pm tapos

bigla log-out nyahahahah      kaawa-awang nilalang nyahahahha.... hanggang sa POW thread

super pabida sa sarili nya...sige.... post ka ule kc bigla kong naisipang magpost ule eh nyahahaha 

kaawa-awa sobrang pagka-KSP nyahahaha    o pauwi na ako ha....sige tapos ko magpost,

log-in ka ule....tapos post ka ule then bigla log-out  nyahahah      magbantay ka samin ni manong

ha....obyusli naman eh eto lang ang buhay mo....ang PEP nyahahahha     

[kaplan]

Jul 31 2010 4:08 PM EDT

Eminem Is The 'Godfather Of The Hip-Hop Game,' G-Unit Members Say
Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks attribute Eminem's chart-topping success to his fan base.

By Shaheem Reid
 
 

His reign at the top is not short like leprechauns, but long like scowling giants: Eminem is enjoying his sixth week with the top-selling album in the country. Wednesday, on the set of Lloyd Banks' "Any Girl" video, G-Unit members Lloyd Banks  and Tony Yayo said the key to EM's success is simple and obvious: He has a very loyal fanbase.    (yah right  one good example...ako   
been hunting high and low foe all his albums...never missed any single piece) 

"Congratulation s, man," Lloyd Banks said. "Damn! I don't even know what else to say. I know he's happy and I'm happy for him. It's big. He might do seven weeks or eight weeks [at #1]. Em has a cult following and they ain't gonna turn their backs on him. He's gonna shine on the darkest day. I think he wasn't never afraid to bring people into his life, [but] at the same time you don't see Em. You don't see [him on] reality shows, you don't see him as much; you see him through his music. He brings you into his life. You know about his wife, his kids, his best friend. On that last album, he touched on a lot of those topics and other personal things he had going on, too. A lot of people can relate to it. I feel like his music is getting more and more powerful. The messages are bigger. With me touring and going all around, you actually see it. I just hope I get a record with him real soon."
 
"Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game," Yayo said. "In a time like this, when records are not selling, he's the only one that is selling. You know, Drake and all the other ones [did well], but Em did [close to] 800,000 his first week, and he's #1 for the sixth  week. It's incredible. I think he has a faithful fan base of people who have been following him for years. They're not going to stop following him and not stop listening to his music. Em said he didn't like his last album as much as this one. You can hear the difference. I like both of the albums. '3 a.m.' is one of my joints. But Eminem has followers that's gonna mess with him until the day he dies."

 

[kaplan]

o sige uwe na talaga ko ha, 8AM na eh  la-log-out ako bigla, alangan namang iwan

ko UN ko sa trabaho    pagka-log-out ko pede ka din log-in kagad saka kahit nde ka na mag-log-out

kagad kc tyak ko nde naman ako makakahawak ng pyuter sa bahay eh...empre tutulog muna ako ng

dalawang oras, andun naman asawa ko eh    pagkagising ko, ako naman magpapakain ke bubwit

para sa tanghalian     tapos papaliguan ko pa tapos sasabayan ko pa rin sya ng tulog sa hapon 

o baka mamya pede ding maglabing-labing kami ni baracuda....de pende sa mood     tapos pag

mejo nakatulog na ule ako ng kahit dalawang oras pa sa hapon eh magluluto pa din naman

para sa hapunan o pag tamad na kami eh, nagpe-place na lang kami ng order namin sa OL ng

chinese food o di kaya hahagilap na lang sa ref ng frozen food, ready to eat, ihi-heat mo na lang sa

microwave    tapos konting nood sa espn habang nilalaro ni impakta si bubwit nyang kapatid 

tapos papasok na naman sa gabi, kaya umasa ka KSP sobra ahahaha  di na ko makakahawak pa

ng pyuter, di ko masasapawan UN mo dito sa musik  , tiklop nga ako sa u eh hanggang POW

nyahahaha  ......kaw....b ising-bisi ka noh.....bising-bisi mag-abang kung kelan lilitaw ang UN

namin ni manong wilyam nyahahha     does that mean u don't have a LIFE

lol.....o sya gudlak sa pagbabantay mo samin ni manong ha....geek in the pink nyahhah 

anak ka ng lugaw na me tokwah oh 

[kaplan]

Jul 31 2010 12:23 PM EDT

Eminem 'Wanted To Connect With Radio Audience' With Recovery, Manager Says
Reaction to album 'has been gratifying' to rapper, Paul Rosenberg says

By Gil Kaufman

   

With a six-week chart run for Recovery that shows no signs of abating and sales of 5 million just over the horizon, Eminem has been on a winning streak lately. His hit duet with Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" has topped charts and given Slim Shady one of the biggest non-satirical crossover pop hits of his career, but according to longtime manager Paul Rosenberg, the path to success had plenty of obstacles.
 
Rosenberg spoke to HITS magazine and said the title of Recovery had a very literal meaning for the MC, who has openly spoken about his struggle with prescription drug addiction. After admitting that he made his 2004 album, Encore, in the throes of drug addiction and that last year's Relapse was part of the process of flushing the drugs out of his system, Recovery was about taking a step forward.
 
"EM was certainly gaining his footing after not being sober for awhile," Rosenberg said. "It took him a bit to get on stable ground and figure out what he wanted to do. After almost overdosing, everything looks and sounds different to you. He was really thrust back into the game and had to adjust."
 
Rosenberg sidestepped a question on whether he agreed with the rapper's assessment that Encore and Relapse weren't Eminem's finest work. "With respect to Relapse, we were just excited that he was focused and recording music again, that we could get the record out there and not make the fans wait any longer," he said. "And I think we accomplished that. He's a little hard on himself. Even at his worst, Eminem is still far better than most. He wants everything he does to be received on that level of excitement, wonderment and anticipation as his first couple of albums."
 
Saying EM was "really" smart in realizing what went wrong with those releases, Rosenberg said his star client has a clear understanding that his audience wants to connect emotionally to his music and realized he hadn't done that recently and needed to get back into that mode. "His mission was to create songs that would accomplish that. It's just good to see that when you make something great, people are still there for it. You can take a misstep, but you can still get back on track."
 
As for why Marshall deviated from his previous method of working with mentor Dr. Dre on Recovery, which only features one Dre production, Rosenberg said once the original plan to do a Relapse sequel was dropped, EM realized he'd turned a musical corner and wanted to keep moving in that direction.
 
"When EM started working with Dre on sessions for the second record in Hawaii, he turned a corner artistically," Rosenberg explained. "And at that point, he wanted to keep moving in that new direction. So it was an evolution. ... By the time Marshall started focusing on making a new album, Dre was already working on his own stuff. So we reached out to Just Blaze first, worked on several tracks with him, and that opened the door to the other producers — Boi-1da, DJ Khalil. Those three are the guts of the record. It was a natural progression, a matter of timing."
 
Not surprisingly, Rosenberg said EM is very happy with how his latest album has been received and the smash sales he's racked up so far. "He's really happy with it," he said of the rapper, who has come out of his shell a bit to promote the album with some viral videos and rare TV appearances. "He put a lot of work into it. He thought it was what people would be looking for, so the reaction has been gratifying. That his fans love it is the most important thing to him. Em feels he let people down because he didn't give what he felt he needed to give them. That's what drove him to make this album."
 
As for "Love the Way You Lie" giving Slim Shady his biggest crossover hit since the "8 Mile" smash "Lose Yourself," Rosenberg said the tune was an attempt to reach that elusive wider audience. "EM wanted to connect with a radio audience this time," he said. "He realized the last time that it didn't make it all the way like he wanted it to. He certainly had that in mind making this album." For now, Rosenberg said, there are no plans for a major tour and EM will stick to the two co-headlining gigs he's got booked with Jay-Z in New York and Detroit and an appearance at the Epicenter Festival in Fontana, California.
 
"We don't have anything else booked," he said. "He loves performing, but he doesn't love traveling, so we try to figure out a way to make that work. We'd like to find ways he can perform without going to different cities."
 
 

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Rolling Stone's 82nd 100 Greatest Artists of All Time 

Billboard's artist of the decade 

Billboard's best MC ever 

Vibe magazine's best MC ever 


Currently Charting:

#1 on Billboard's Hot 200 for 7 straight weeks now   

#1 sale on R 'n' B / Hip Hop Albums for 7 straight weeks now    

#1 sale on Digital Albums for 5 straight weeks now     

#1 sale on Rap Albums for 7 straight weeks now   

#1 sale on Canadian Albums for 5 straight weeks now   

#1 sale in Germany for 2 straight weeks now 

#1 sale in UK for 5 straight weeks now 

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ROLLING STONE: The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time 

1. The Beatles
2. Bob Dylan
3. Elvis Presley
4. Rolling Stones
5. Chuck Berry
6. Jimi Hendrix
7. James Brown
8. Little Richard
9. Aretha Franklin
10. Ray Charles
11. Bob Marley
12. The Beach Boys
13. Buddy Holly
14. Led Zeppelin
15. Stevie Wonder
16. Sam Cooke
17. Muddy Waters
18. Marvin Gaye     a remember bizkwit, is marvin gaye? 
19. The Velvet Underground
20. Bo Diddley
21. Otis Redddling
22. U2   
23. Bruce Springsteen
24. Jerry Lee Lewis
25. Fats Domino
26. The Ramones
27. NIRVANA 
28. Prince
29. THE WHO   
30. The Clash
31. Johnny Cash
32. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
33. The Everly Brothers
34. Neil Young
35. MICHAEL JACKSON 
36. Madonna
37. Roy Orbison
38. John Lennon
39. David Bowie
40. SIMON & GARFUNKEL   
41. The Doors
42. Van Morrison
43. Sly & The Family Stone
44. Public Enemy
45. The Byrds
46. Janis Joplin
47. Patti Smith
48. Run-DMC
49. ELTON JOHN 
50. The Band
51. Howlin Wolf
52. Allman Brothers Band
53. Eric Clapton
54. DR. DRE   
55. The Grateful Dead
56. Parliament / Funkadelic
57. AEROSMITH   
58. Sex Pistols
59. Louis Jordan
60. Joni Mitchell
61. Tina Turner
62. Etta James
63. Phil Spektor
64. The Kinks
65. Al Green
66. Cream
67. The Temptations
68. Jackie Wilson
69. Carl Perkins
70. THE POLICE   
71. Frank Zappa
72. AC / DC
73. RADIOHEAD   
74. Hank Williams
75. The Eagles
76. The Shirelles
77. Beastie Boys
78. The Stooges
79. the Four Tops
80. ELVIS COSTELLO   
81. The Drifters
82. EMINEM     
83. N.W.A.
84. James Taylor
85. Black Sabbath
86. Tupak Shakur 
87. Gram Parsons
88. Miles Davis
89. The Yardbirds
90. CARLOS SANTANA   
91. Ricky Nelson
92. Guns 'n' Roses
93. Booker T. & the MG's
94. Nine Inch Nails
95. Lynyrd Skynyrd
96. Martha & The Vandellas
97. Diana Ross & The Supremes
98. Roxy Music
99. Curtis Mayfield
100. Lee 'Scratch' Perry

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PROOF - perhaps the most underrated emcee in the game a think. Childhood friend of
                                 the SLIM and the best back-up rapper ever for EM. KON ARTIS aka Mr. Porter is
                                 also reliable too as EM's current hype man but not that good as PROOF once did.
                                 Always funny to see him interact with the audience. Without PROOF, there
                                 would be no EM, no SLIM SHADY, no D12...as the man successfully molded the
                                 SLIM into the finest of 'em all  winning numerous Grammy's and even an Oscar     
                                 Rest in peace dude!

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D12 aka Dirrty Dozen     EM's longtime buddies   D12 was formed in 1996, but only achieved mainstream success when one of its members, Eminem, rose to international fame and notoriety 

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New York Times
Friday, July 23, 2010
 
 
Arts Beat
The Culture at Large
 
EMINEM CONTINUES REIGN ATOP CHART
By BEN KEITH

Eminem has notched a fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, beating out new albums by Korn, Newsboys, Sting and M.I.A. Eminem’s “Recovery” (Aftermath/Interscope) sold another 496,000 copies in the United States just last week alone. What an amazing comeback performance for the white rapper.

Korn’s “Korn III: Remember Who You Are” (Roadrunner) is the highest charting new release, opening at No. 2 with 63,000 sales. Other new albums include “Born Again” (Inpop) by the Christian rock band Newsboys, which reached No. 4 with 45,000 sales; Sting’s “Symphonicities” (Deutsche Grammophon/Cherry Tree), with orchestrations of his hits, which opened at No. 6 with 36,000; the country singer Jerrod Niemann’s “Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury” (Arista Nashville), at No. 7 with 34,000; and “Stampede” (Epic) by the metal band Hellyeah, at No. 8 with 28,000. M.I.A.’s “/\/\/\Y/\” (released by N.E.E.T./XL/Interscope, and also known simply as “Maya”) opened at No. 9 with a tiny bit less than “Stampede.” (The numbers are rounded.)

Drake’s “Thank Me Later” (Aspire/Young Money/Cash Money) fell one spot to No. 3 with 50,000 sales and, in its 17th week on the chart, Justin Bieber’s “My World 2.0” (Island) sold 41,000 copies to take the fifth spot according to the official tally of Nielsen SoundScan.
 
Eminem's "Recovery" has sold a total of 4M copies last month in the United States alone and keeps on tripling its sales record. He became the first artist to log a fifth-week stretch at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since Susan Boyle began a six-week stint in October of last year.
 
No doubt "Recovery's" continued success is aided by its second hit single "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), which took the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 singles yesterday. It marked Eminem's his third back-to-back Hot 100 chart-toppers of his career. The album's first single, "Not Afraid," went to No. 1 in May. In all, Eminem has topped the Hot 100 seven times.
 
Meanwhile, incoming reports from outside the United States gathered that Eminem's "Recovery" album finally climbed to the No. 1 spot in UK, Germany,  Ireland and  Switzerland  and No. 2 in Norway,  Austria,
and the Belgian region of Flanders. 
 

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LLOYD BANKS  -  member of 50 cent's G-UNIT....been hatin' maself foe loving this man
                                                   foe quite a while now 

[kaplan]

Jul 30 2010 12:10 PM EDT 

EMINEM POSTS BEHIND-THE-SCENES FOOTAGE OF RECOVERYminem Posts Behind-The-Scenes Footage
OF RECOVERY PHOTO SHOOT

"It symbolizes how I've had to remove myself from society," Em says of 'glass-cube' cover.

By James Montgomery 

 

 

It was, to say the very least, unseasonably cold in Detroit back in April — like, 33 degrees cold — but that didn't stop Eminem from ditching his down coat to shoot the cover for his Recovery album.
 
Of course, he wasn't exactly happy about doing it, but at the request of photographer Nigel Parry, he shed his coat and sat in a makeshift living room in Detroit's Hart Plaza, joking, "Oh man, listen, take your time, listen, I am enjoying the weather so f---ing much!" while Parry snapped away.
 
All of this occurs within the first minute of a brand-new, behind-the-scenes video posted late Thursday on Em's official site. The video gives fans an exclusive look at the creation of Recovery's two iconic covers. In part one, we watch him shoot the so-called "glass-cube" cover, which, as Em explains, has a lot more symbolism than you'd think.
 
"It symbolizes, like, what my life is like right now because of the fame, but also kind of how I've had to remove myself from society a little bit, pull back to conquer my demons, my addiction and that whole thing," he says in the video. "It also symbolizes me never leaving Detroit, you know? I'm kinda just sitting in the middle of Detroit, watching TV. And it's kind of my living room, where people are just walking by."
 
The first clip ends with Eminem, Parry and a team of art directors piling into vans to go shoot the second album cover, which Em describes as "the road to Recovery." And then, in an extended gag — designed to make the rest of his crew as cold and miserable as he is — Em goes on a lengthy rant where he spouts self-help mantras ("You gotta take it one day at a time," etc.) while everyone huddles by a van, laughing.
 
At the end of the video, we see a quick scene of Eminem wandering down a deserted stretch of highway, and a title card promises that episode two of the Recovery behind-the-scenes footage will be coming soon.

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EMIN3M BEATS TOM JONES TO RETAIN U.K. CHART SUMMIT





by Paul Sexton, London  |   August 02, 2010 11:07 EDT


As Eminem's "Recovery" (Interscope/Universal) saw off a strong challenge from Tom Jones' "Praise and Blame" (Universal Island) to start a fifth aggregate week as the U.K.'s No. 1 album, new boy band The Wanted scored an instant chart-topping single with "All Time Low" (Geffen/Universal).

Jones' album had been ahead in earlier midweek sales data from the Official Charts Company, prompting Island to issue a press release last Tuesday (27) saying that the Welsh singer was "set to be the oldest male musician to have a U.K. No. 1 album." But "Recovery" overtook "Praise and Blame" later in the week to give Eminem a third consecutive and fifth aggregate week at the top.

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EMIN3M MADE HISTORY AT THE BILLBOARD CHARTS


August 2, 2010 - Rock and Pop | RB Hip-Hop

by Keith Caulfield and Silvio Pietroluongo

-- EMIN3M: The hip-hop king continues his reign at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as "Recovery" holds atop the list for a seventh week, selling 387,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan. With a slight 4% decline, "Recovery" distances itself from the No. 2 arrival -- Rick Ross' "Teflon Don," which enters with 180,000.


On Billboard HOT 100 Singles

-- EMIN3M: His "Love The Way You Lie," featuring Rihanna, holds at No. 1 for a third week, widening its points lead over runner-up, and former chart-topper, "California Gurls" by Katy Perry, which stays steady at No. 2. The rapper also maintains his No. 1 standing with the title for a fifth week on Hot Digital Songs (1,332,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan) and for a fifth frame on the Billboard 200 with "Recovery",  becoming the first artist in the digital age to concurrently hold the No. 1 spot on all major categories for five straight weeks.