Is Eminem considered mainstream right now?

[venomous_volatile]

He's the biggest thing in music right now, of course he is

[slimsoxshady]

He's def. more underground now. Listen to the radio, thats whats mainstream now (it sounds nothing like Eminem). He's still gonna outsell everyone but his music is no longer the most "popular". His name is selling, not his style of music.

[slimsoxshady]

Of course he's mainstream.

Selling 600,000 in one week is anything but underground.

But don't you think that his name sold 600,000? His style of music on relapse is the furthest thing away from popular music these days. I mean yea he's mainstream, but after listening to the radio, it's hard to put him in that category.

[slimsoxshady]

yeah but he's different than the rest of the mainstream...thats the point
no shit Eminem is the most popular rapper ever

We Made You didn't sell 600k...That thing with letters that starts with an E next to the title of the album sold it

[slimsoxshady]

yeah but he's different than the rest of the mainstream...thats the point
no shit Eminem is the most popular rapper ever

he may be "different" but he's mainstream none the less... and that was the question posed by sac.

yea i figured i was going no where with it...

[Apollo355]

His fan base is more rap centric while lil wayne appeals more to radio mainstreamness. A 16yr old girl will probably recognize a lil wayne song over an eminem joint.

[DrunkenDeath]

your friends don't know enough about eminem

[heva]

of course he is..damn stupid question..sorry sac

[Cypher456]

literal interpretation.

"Mainstream" (adjective)
belonging to or characteristic of the mainstream

now what is "the mainstream"?

"mainstream" (noun)
the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts

is Eminem belonging to or characteristic of the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts? i don't think he is.

mainstream does not mean popular.

Wow maybe you should look up what dominant trend is. It's quite similar to being popular. And hes definitely a dominant trend in Rap. Nice try attempting to sound intelligent though.

[Cypher456]

literal interpretation.

"Mainstream" (adjective)
belonging to or characteristic of the mainstream

now what is "the mainstream"?

"mainstream" (noun)
the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts

is Eminem belonging to or characteristic of the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts? i don't think he is.

mainstream does not mean popular.

Wow maybe you should look up what dominant trend is. It's quite similar to being popular. And hes definitely a dominant trend in Rap. Nice try attempting to sound intelligent though.

i wasn't trying to sound intelligent. i was interpreting the word mainstream literally.

& no, "belonging to" the dominant trend doesn't necessarily make you popular, dumbass. the dominant trend on this forum is to make moronic replies to posts without reading them properly. & the twits who do this (yourself included) aren't popular.

eminem doesn't subscribe to the dominant trend in opinion in rap music. fucking girls with umbrellas is not a very popular, widespread fantasy, believe it or not. he doesn't even dress mainstream now. he's done away with the rags & shit.

Wow dude you're the biggest fucking turd I've ever encountered on these forums. Are you seriously that stupid? Do you know what popular is. Eminem made it in the rap game and got accepted by being white and has sold more albums than anyone when he first blew up. He was everywhere, which made him popular you dumbass. I think the swine flu is ripping a huge chunk of your brain cells apart.

PS: Just because he doesn't sell that many albums and doing tours anymore hes still mainstream and popular. If you're recognized by the majority of people on earth, you're popular.

[Cypher456]

I see what you mean now, thanks for explaining it.

You consider rap that sounds like the rap on the radio, to be mainstream. Being popular doesn't play into it, besides that genre of rap being popular.


I consider any rap music that a ton of people like, to be mainstream. I don't think the type of music, defines it as being mainstream.

There isn't a right or wrong answer. So I guess this is just a draw.

I took way too long to fucking write that.

yep. draw.

i appreciate you arguing with me civilly, too. not like that simian shit-chucker cipher over there.

You call me an idiot yet you're too illiterate to know how to spell my name with a y. I appreciate the fact that you were talking about eminem being popular and then you go and say you didn't say that. Make up your mind you fucking idiot, hes mainstream, get over it.

[Cypher456]

You call me an idiot yet you're too illiterate to know how to spell my name with a y. I appreciate the fact that you were talking about eminem being popular and then you go and say you didn't say that. Make up your mind you fucking idiot, hes mainstream, get over it.

i was calling you cipher, as in, an irrelevant & insignificant person. a fucking non-entity. get it, fuckwit?

"I appreciate the fact that you were talking about eminem being popular and then you go and say you didn't say that." no, i said that i didn't say he was NOT popular. seriously, reading comprehension is not one of your strong points. mind you, you don't seem to be good @ anything, but reading seems to be comparatively harder for you.

is there a bigger irony than a nun having sex? yes, it's Cypher456 calling someone illiterate.

you said popular to rap music right, wherever he is people recognize him as a RAPPER. so he is definitely mainstream. now shut the fuck up.

[Heffernan]

the highest selling rapper of all time is not underground

[Emadyville]

Of course he's mainstream.

Selling 600,000 in one week is anything but underground.

But don't you think that his name sold 600,000? His style of music on relapse is the furthest thing away from popular music these days. I mean yea he's mainstream, but after listening to the radio, it's hard to put him in that category.

I have to agree with both of these arguments, yes he sells incredibly well which is nothing but mainstream, if he was underground he prolly wouldn't sell more than 10,000 cause it's underground. But his lyrics are not mainstream at all, even his first single didn't chart well for long because it was not mainstream as of todays standards.

[Ice_Scarred]

On some real shyt, the name "Eminem" as stated by SlimSoxShady is a famous name. He was once on the top of the world, causing massive controversy and was seen everywhere. All of the hype from 1999-2004 is what sold his name big time. It was when he was massive. Now he's been downsized quite a bit, and while still holding on to his fame and some recent buzz generated from Relapse / The Warning etc., he is definitely not as popular as he used to be. Thats just a fact, sorry. Like Sox said his name is what really sold units.

Crack A Bottle was the only song I heard getting serious Radio-play and that died out after Relapse was released. His only other singles that received decent airplay was WMY and Beautiful, and WMY's buzz died out after about a week. To this day I only heard it on the radio twice.

In terms of Mainstream (like popularity) he's not as popular as lets say Wayne is. He's more famous, but lets face it...Wayne's general popularity is higher by a good margin. Relapse isn't exactly a radio-friendly either. I guess he was trying to be dark....MMLP was dark but had songs that could generate insane buzz too.

Sorry is some of the shyt i'm saying doesnt make sense. I'm in my twisted, tired, ranting mood right now...