Eminem to join Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg at Coachella 4/20

[Squiggles123]

Well, if you listen closely in the last bit, he did try to sing along.
His voice was clear, maybe he's afraid to fuck it up. He knows people heard him saying it 3 times with no back-up voice back in the days, he doesn't wanna try because he knows he can't and even if he could it wouldn't be as impressive.

It's not even that hard to do though, thats what I don't get? Is it the pace that he's afraid of? Because I can rap that part easy and he can rap much much faster then that as we've seen of recent. What is he afraid of?

[_Hawk_]

He just can't do it anymore. On albums he records the verses in sections (or even re-does the verse line-by-line) so obviously it will sound like he can maintain an ultra-fast flow. The last time we actually saw this was when he performed Forever in 2009 (less intuition from Mr Porter then).

He just can't stand on stage and perform calmly.

[Guess_Who]

He just can't do it anymore. On albums he records the verses in sections (or even re-does the verse line-by-line) so obviously it will sound like he can maintain an ultra-fast flow. The last time we actually saw this was when he performed Forever in 2009 (less intuition from Mr Porter then).

He just can't stand on stage and perform calmly.

Are we watching the same videos?

Well, if you listen closely in the last bit, he did try to sing along.
His voice was clear, maybe he's afraid to fuck it up. He knows people heard him saying it 3 times with no back-up voice back in the days, he doesn't wanna try because he knows he can't and even if he could it wouldn't be as impressive.

It's not even that hard to do though, thats what I don't get? Is it the pace that he's afraid of? Because I can rap that part easy and he can rap much much faster then that as we've seen of recent. What is he afraid of?

He doesn't sing the hook because his voice is not that pitched anymore, has nothing to do with rap faster.

[_Hawk_]

I'd honestly like to see him attempt to perform the chorus (he can still make his voice go high) but the amount of breaths he takes when performing even a couple of tracks live makes me doubt that he could actually sustain the chorus.

EDIT: and for the record, he's never performed it three times in a row on stage. Twice at the most, and bear in mind that he usually only performed only half of the second verse before his verse.

[Mr Change]

Thing about Em today is, he's out there to entertain, used to he'd be out there to straight perform


Not saying it's totally a bad thing tho

[babyjane]

He just can't do it anymore. On albums he records the verses in sections (or even re-does the verse line-by-line) so obviously it will sound like he can maintain an ultra-fast flow. The last time we actually saw this was when he performed Forever in 2009 (less intuition from Mr Porter then).

He just can't stand on stage and perform calmly.

Calm? It's a show, it's Coachella. It's shouldn't be calm it should be energetic. You want calm go watch Norah Jones.

[Squiggles123]

^ Haha, very true. I'm sure he could just rap the chorus anyway, why does it have to be in his higher pitch voice....I'm not convinced that he can't spit fast live now.

[Squiggles123]

If you read above that was my original point that its not even that fast. I just don't get the point in not doing it, I guess its a bit of a break in between verses

[_Hawk_]

He just can't do it anymore. On albums he records the verses in sections (or even re-does the verse line-by-line) so obviously it will sound like he can maintain an ultra-fast flow. The last time we actually saw this was when he performed Forever in 2009 (less intuition from Mr Porter then).

He just can't stand on stage and perform calmly.

Calm? It's a show, it's Coachella. It's shouldn't be calm it should be energetic. You want calm go watch Norah Jones.

You've got the wrong end of the stick. He used to get the crowd pumped by standing on stage and CALMLY spurring them on, assisting in vocals, and then launching into a mesmerising performance.

Now he's replaced his vocal qualities with childish antics. It is a fucking show, but if I want to see pandemonium on stage Odd Future can get me hyped just as well and for a lot less money.

I'm not suggesting at all that the performance needs to be on a level of soothing calmness, just that his demeanour now is a lot more timidly stressful than it used to be.

And by the way, controlled calmness and crazy manicism used to go hand in hand in his old performances.

[Eminemeatinm&m]

there's no more videos f the fuckinng shite!

[JAGODA]

There's a good quality of Em's part at Coachella (weekend 2):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoD4Yt2R9xk

Damn, I like Em's performances more everyday, he makes a huge hype.

[trinell05]

I watched 20 seconds of it and Eminem is great.