Funniest lines

[STEMINEM]

I'm ready for combat man
Get it, calm Batman?

[RKOunion]

There was this line I forgot what song it's from. It's old - 1998/1999 era. It's something about falling from a building and shooting every window on his way down or something like that.

[KickflipCaleb]

I remembered this magic trick
Ta ta ta ta tan...
Go go gadget dick!

Thisthisthisthisthis.
I laugh out loud everytime.

[Sam.]

I feel ya. ^ Now, it seems some what deliberate.

[Relapse.]

In Drug Ballad when he's like "back when mark wahlberg was marky mark" and then in the background you can BARELY hear it buts hes like "fuckin dick.."

[CrashBand]

A line that always gets me, mainly due to the delivery is..

"Ecstasy is the worst drug in the world,"

..from The Kids.

It's just such a ridiculous statement. Eminem had brilliantly subtle humuor back then.

[MikeNUFC]

A line that always gets me, mainly due to the delivery is..

"Ecstasy is the worst drug in the world,"

..from The Kids.

It's just such a ridiculous statement. Eminem had brilliantly subtle humuor back then.

Fucking hilarious. That whole song is absolutely genius. Totally rips into the lies kids are fed about drugs. Should have made MMLP, along with Bad Influence. Get rid of Under The Influence, put those two on and the album is virtually flawless.

I could honestly quote pretty much any line from 97-00 from his non 'serious' songs (although there's quite a bit of overlap between his serious and funny songs back then) for this thread.

[CrashBand]

Yeah, I've always been disappointed The Kids wasn't on MMLP. Embarrassingly I always thought Bad Influence was more SSLP era.

I do feel Under The Influence does slightly tarnish the album albeit a very impressive Em verse.

[MikeNUFC]

Yeah, I've always been disappointed The Kids wasn't on MMLP. Embarrassingly I always thought Bad Influence was more SSLP era.

Some of it (possibly all) was written/recorded in the SSLP era. One of the verses acapella is on the SSLP special edition.

But then, there are a few songs on MMLP (Kim for eg) that were made in the SSLP era, so it wouldn't have been a real issue, and it fits MMLP well enough.

[Willy]

He used to have quite a subtle sense of humor, and I feel this verse is the best example, line-for-line:

The ill type, I stab myself with a steel spike
while I blow my brain out, just to see what it feels like
cause this is how I am in real life (mm-hmm)
I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice (uh-huh)
How you gonna scare somebody with a gun threat
when they high off of drugs they haven't even done yet (Huh?)
So bring the money by tonight - cause your wife
said this the biggest knife she ever saw in her life (Help me! Help me!)
I try to keep it positive and play it cool
Shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school (Stay in school!)
Cause I'm the one they can relate to and look up to better
Tonight I think I'll write my biggest fan a fuck you letter

He still shows glimpses of humor and wit in interviews. Not so much in his music.

That's a good one, but don't you find he sacrificed rhymes to write that verse? He has some great lines, and I really love this one:

Shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school (Stay in school!)

But it wasn't littered with rhymes like most of his stuff was. Of course I'm just glancing over it and not looking for anything hidden, but nothing jumps out.

Rhyming is important, but is just one weapon in the arsenal of a lyricist. I actually think its hugely overrated on this forum, as anyone can rhyme their ass off and not say anything.

[SliK]

I always liked the line "a stick figure with a dick bigger than mark whalberg"

[Sam.]

Rhyming is important, but is just one weapon in the arsenal of a lyricist. I actually think its hugely overrated on this forum, as anyone can rhyme their ass off and not say anything.

True. But, Rhyming coupled with humor, story telling without breaking the momentum is indeed great. It's takes great amount of dedication to get that type of lyricism. Hence, the dope rhyming that he did in this song needs to be addressed.

[Willy]

Objectively analyzing art is a difficult thing for me to completely grasp... like... If an artist's intention is to make you laugh with two lines, and he achieves that goal, rhyming is a non-factor. The artist achieved his goal with the work.

Now, you guys are saying if an artist writes a piece with MORE rhyming and achieves the same goal of making you laugh (for the same reasons), then his work is better. It may be objectively better in terms of difficulty to write, but that doesn't make it any funnier. And trust me, I realize one of the reasons why Em is so great is because of his ability to craft intricate rhymes without compromising subject matter/flow. However, there are a lot of things to consider before dismissing a piece as a lesser work of art simply because it rhymes two syllables instead of three.

For example, there's a certain cadence with two syllable rhyming that you can't get with three syllables. If an artist wants that shit, I don't believe his work is automatically inferior to pieces with more complex rhyming.

[rapaddict92]

Objectively analyzing art is a difficult thing for me to completely grasp... like... If an artist's intention is to make you laugh with two lines, and he achieves that goal, rhyming is a non-factor. The artist achieved his goal with the work.

Now, you guys are saying if an artist writes a piece with MORE rhyming and achieves the same goal of making you laugh (for the same reasons), then his work is better. It may be objectively better in terms of difficulty to write, but that doesn't make it any funnier. And trust me, I realize one of the reasons why Em is so great is because of his ability to craft intricate rhymes without compromising subject matter/flow. However, there are a lot of things to consider before dismissing a piece as a lesser work of art simply because it rhymes two syllables instead of three.

For example, there's a certain cadence with two syllable rhyming that you can't get with three syllables. If an artist wants that shit, I don't believe his work is automatically inferior to pieces with more complex rhyming.

thank you

[gburg_hicks]

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