Comments by "Morgan King" (@MorganKing95) on "Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums for People Who Don’t Like Hip-Hop" video.

  1. +Nacirema Well, I can't blame them; Eminem's raps sound more like dramatic monologues than your typical rap
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  2. +Jack Hawkins Idk, my grandparents didn’t mind Eminem, and I have performed Eminem regularly at the karaoke bars in the city where I live and made people in their 50's up to the 70's dance and enjoy it (and those people were usually very critical and seemed to be indifferent to performers no matter how good you were). Yeah, "Infinite" and "The Slim Shady LP" may be too distinctively Hip-Hop, but "The Marshall Mathers LP", "The Eminem Show", and maybe "Encore", could work
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  3. +Silver Enigma Let's see here: - "The Way I am": pressure of being a celebrity and topping your successes, as well as not being left alone in the public - "Lose Yourself": The nervous feeling when you're about to enter the stage, as well as how the celebrity life changes your personality and alienates you, and about still standing up when you've been through a lot - "Like Toy Soldiers": protest against violence in the Hip-Hop community and how beefs and rivalries lead to murder - "Mosh": protest against Bush and the Iraq War - "Mockingbird" and "When I'm Gone": how his life as a celebrity affects his relationship and quality time with his daughter and how he became a rapper to earn money for his family and giving his daughter a better life than he had - "Headlights": apology to his mother, and although "Cleaning out my Closet" was aggressive, you kind of sympathize with him when you realize what he had been through, and he directly said that he didn’t release it as a diss track but instead as a revealing of his secrets and his past. - "The Real Slim Shady" and "Without Me": satire about his celebrity life and how everybody imitates and worships him despite making it seem like they loathe him - "Just Lose It"; although being offensive against Michael Jackson, it's meant to simply be about putting controversies and stress away and just let loose - "White America": another satire about his celebrity life and how everybody loathes and praises him simultaneously I can go on, but you should get the picture. He's also performed live with Elton John and embraced him, and he's been trying to make it clear that his offensive and inappropriate lyrics was more part of his Slim Shady persona and not himself.
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  4. +Splash Gang 100x His lyrics were pure golden and could easily appeal to everyone (reading through "Me against the world" was like reading a moving one-act play), but I think there's something about his flow that sound too distinctively Hip-Hop for the haters to give his songs a second listen
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  5. +Nacirema Eminem is one of the best choices to give haters a new perspective though. I love Hip-Hop today and have listened to most of the legends, but I hated the genre and wouldn't give it a new listen until I heard Eminem.
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  6. +kdnladner93 Well, "The Slim Shady LP" is quite distinctively Hip-Hop and many audience take the songs too seriously and literally
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  7. +Berserk GA Old, conservative, and narrow-minded traditionalists (Hate them so much)
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  8. +AMC Band Official NWA were banned from performing "Fuck tha Police" and were extremely controversial at the time; I don't really think they are the first group you should suggest Hip-Hop haters to listen to in order to get new perspectives
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  9. +Matthew Davies It is iconic, but gangsta rap is the genre that Hip-Hop haters think rap only consists of, and the album was incredibly controversial upon its release. Also aside from "Fuck tha Police" and "Sonething 2 Dance 2", most of the other raps talk about the gangster life although the members have tried to say that they were not trying to glamorize it
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