He actually wasnt for that ablum. He was on probation at that time and had regular d*** tests. For SSLP and MMLP he did weed and X but he pretty much never recorded high. He said that in his book. It probably did give him some inspiration though.

The 8 Mile era is when the d*** problems started kicking in, especially because he had 4 hours of sleep a day between recording that soundtrack and the movie.

Nah it wasnt.

Right and IIRC Em was sober at the time

He's still mostly around blacks. Wtf you talking about lmao

Encore was actually even darker and more serious until a lot of the songs leaked and then he had to record others but because he was already an addict by then and he had almost no time until deadline he put bullshit songs on the album.

I think Em listened to a lot of 2Pac at the time.. TES sounds like his most Pac influenced album to me

it is .. but TES is a close second.

Agree

tbh I always considered old eminem (mmlp-curtain call) to be the closest thing to pac when it comes to versatility

It's a great project. Some eeh songs on there though. Deffo better than Recovery though lmao

Disagree

Relapse has very little to come back to.

Recovery has a lot

Soldier

He was def obsessed with Pac at the time.. even produced a posthumous album and wrote a letter to his mom.

Stillmatic/God's Son era really reminds me of Pac as well, bc of how angry and paranoid Nas was.. OG version of God's Son had disses to every popular rapper in the game just like the OG version of 7 Day Theory. Nas was lowkey fanboying over Pac too and even dressed up as him while doing a cover of Keep Ya Head Up.

Hello, Old Time's Sake, Crack a Bottle, Deja Vu, Underground, Careful What You Wish For, Buffalo Bill

Careful what you wish for was bonus doesn’t count

And déjà vu is the only one id go back to out of this list, Buffalo Bill was an insane rhyming excercise though (like most of relapse)

I appreciate the rhyming but I can’t keep listening to nothing music

I think the way Em doubled his voice on tracks, called himself a "soldier", plus some of his flows and rhymes gave off Pac vibes as well.. like the influence was just undeniably there.

He freestyled one of the verses back in like 03? It must be a TES-Encore leftover

He's a huge fan of pac too
Then when the ja beef came around him and d12 dissed ja for wanting to be/imitating pac 💀

lmaooo the irony

Yesterday when I heard TES a member of D12 literally did a hennessy/enemies rhyme

Em's voice was dope with the double voice thing.. but he overdid it with Recovery bc he was also yelling.

This has to be one of his best performances ever

I mean...childish content aside...you could obviously see he had the technical skill and lyrical ability to create great music.

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