why did you guys ignore one the best east coast rap groups in your little evaluation? the beastie boys, nigguh... i'll only say this because i like both east and west... east has better poets, west has better beats...
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i'm posting here because i am on my 4th pass thru the new eminem CD in the past few days... i like it better than recovery, which i thought was severely overrated... it's better than relapse too, and i'm probably the only one that liked that CD... old slim is much better, but being more humbled hasn't made him any less of a rapper, he still has one of the smoothest flows in rap... in actuality, his last two CD's have spanned across numerous styles of music showing off his vast range as well...
people might be sick of hearing about him, but he's still the real deal... he's one of the living legends of rap... he deserves all the praise he gets, and i'll keep listening to anything new he has to offer... his old stuff though, nothing tops it, and on his new CD, you can tell he knows that he'll never find that same magic again...
and dre was back on board with this latest one... his style is unmatched in rap, and it's present in the new CD, it's easy to spot which songs he's producing...