Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Vintage Eminem

I came across this a while back, but I hadn't really given it a listen until it came up on my iPod shuffle while I was waiting for the bus last night. It's from his first album, "Infinite". He's a bit more laid back--not a single f-bomb, and the beat sounds like it could have come from a Tribe Called Quest album. Sample verse:
In this slaughtering house, caught up in bouts
With the root of all evil
I've seen it turn beautiful people crude and deceitful
And make them do shit illegal
For these Grant's and Jackson's
These transactions explain a man's actions (lyrics)
He gives the context of the recording in "Yellow Brick Road" (lyrics).

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