Description:Any lingering doubts as to the depth of Eminem's skills, or his potential for raw-yet-compelling honesty, are dispelled on The Eminem Show's first track. Armed with a quicksilver flow and a thundering rhythm track (the record was exec-produced by long-time mentor/partner Dr Dre, "White America" finds Eminem ferociously mauliAny lingering doubts as to the depth of Eminem's skills, or his potential for raw-yet-compelling honesty, are dispelled on The Eminem Show's first track. Armed with a quicksilver flow and a thundering rhythm track (the record was exec-produced by long-time mentor/partner Dr Dre, "White America" finds Eminem ferociously mauling the hand that feeds him, lambasting his critics, the industry and the racism that, in many ways, helped make Marshall Mathers more than just another rapper. "Let's do the math," Em sneers, "If I was black I would have sold half….I could be one of your kids/ little Eric looks just like this."
After the bombast of The Marshall Mathers LP and Eminem's well-noted use of sexual epithets, this kind of material is made more controversial because it actually rings true. From a brutal retort to his long-estranged and equally troubled mother ("Cleaning Out My Closets") to a surprisingly tender ode to his child ("Hailie's Song"), Eminem examines his life, loves, arrests, addictions, failures and successes with surprising insight, making this a funk-drenched hip-hop confessional well worth the hype. --Amy Linden
""Sing for the Moment"
That's why we sing for these kids, who don't have a thing
Except for a dream, and a fuckin' rap magazine
Who post pin-up pictures on their walls all day long
Idolize they favorite rappers and know all they songs
Or for anyone who's ever been through shit in their lives
Till they sit and they cry at night wishin' they'd die
Till they throw on a rap record and they sit, and they vibe
We're nothin' to you but we're the fuckin' shit in they eyes
That's why we seize the moment "
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l. Curtains Up / 2. White America / 3. Business / 4. Cleanin` Out My Closet / 5. Square Dance / 6. The Kiss / 7. Soldier / 8. Say Goodbye Hollywood /
9. Drips / lO. Without Me / ll. Paul Rosenberg / l2. Sing for the Moment /
l3. Superman / l4. Hailie`s Song / l5. Steve Berman / l6. When the Music Stops / l7. Say What You Say / l8. Till` I Collapse / l9. My Dad`s Gone Crazy /
2O. Curtains Close .
Released - O5.28.2OO2"
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Tracklist :
l. Curtains Up / 2. White America / 3. Business / 4. Cleanin` Out My Closet / 5. Square Dance / 6. The Kiss / 7. Soldier / 8. Say Goodbye Hollywood /
9. Drips / lO. Without Me / ll. Paul Rosenberg / l2. Sing for the Moment /
l3. Superman / l4. Hailie`s Song / l5. Steve Berman / l6. When the Music Stops / l7. Say What You Say / l8. Till` I Collapse / l9. My Dad`s Gone Crazy / 2O. Curtains Close .
( Favorite Song : White America )"
"The song's title refers to a character from the 1991 horror thriller Silence of the Lambs that Clarice Starling has to confer with Hannibal Lecter about. The lyrical content follows the storyline of the movie version fairly closely, as Slim Shady cuts and skins women and severs limbs.
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