what's your favorite eminem lyric

[sugarcubes]

Just trying to buy me some time, then I remembered this magic trick
Den Den Den Den Den Den, Go go gadget dick!

as the world turns. amazing

[Fleka]

Hmmmm...
"My rap style's warped
I'm running out the morgue
With your dead grandmother's corpse
To throw it on your porch"

[shadyblogger]

My most recent one is:

"So mow the fucking lawn, your asses are blades of grass
And I'm fucking up this whole landscape of rap
The GOAT just ate eight acres, an eighth of that
Was just to make a path and take it straight to your favourite rapper"

I love the way he says the same vowel sound there three times in a row. It's so cool.

[shadyblogger]

Recent one that comes to mind:

"I'm way too old to cry
This shit is painful though but Ma, I forgive you,
So does Nathan, yo
All you did, all you said, you did your best to raise us both"

[sugarcubes]

srs answer:

That's why we, sing for these kids who don't have a thing
Except for a dream and a fucking rap magazine
Who post pin-up pictures on they walls all day long
Idolize they favorite rappers and know all they songs
Or for anyone who's ever been through shit in they lives
So they sit and they cry at night wishing they'd die
'til they throw on a rap record and they sit and they vibe
We're nothing to you, but we're the fucking shit in they eyes

god. that ties.

[slims]

im the bad guy who makes fun of people who die in planec rashes and laughs as long as it ain't happening to him.

nah, oneof them is
serial killer hiding murder material in a cereal box on topof your stereo, here wr go again, we're out of our medicine, out of our minds and we want in yours. let us in.

[yoda you can call me]

Prove that if you were half as nice, your songs you could sacrifice virgins to UGHHH. one of my faves atm. also the one Menzo posted

[EminemBase]

I dunno, but, ''I said shut up when I'm talking to you... you hear me? Answer me!'' pretty brilliantly encapsulates a lot of what Eminem is, in one concise line.

You got the play anger, an imaginary violent scenario, the play on fem hate, the psychosis and a beautiful ironic punchline all in one. And it's delivered like a dramatist-meets-comedian-pro-actor.

But, despite the musical inconsistency of the ''new Em era'' (09-14)... he's come up with some pretty incredible lyricism and all-time great lines and phrasing since his return. He may not be able to put albums together the same way, but his skullfuckery of words and expanding lyricism is still right in the upper echelon.

If we're talking more recently... ''To be truthful - the blueprint's - simply rage and youthful exuberance'' and ''everybody loves to root for a nuisance'' are right up there. Not only what he's saying, which for the first time in a while is genuinely eloquent and smooth - but for ''youthful exuberance'' and ''root for a nuisance'' to rhyme in such a consistent context... it just reminds me of how I used to feel in his prime when the sentences seem to just naturally rhyme and I would think ''why the fuck haven't I noticed that those words rhyme together before'' and it almost seems too convenient. Like rhymes are just falling in to place as he speaks.

What I mean by that is not that you would casually speak in that way, as you wouldn't; I think phrase formatting SHOULD be elevated and sound quite affected. As it's art, not conversation. There needs to be some poetry in how it's put together. BUT, with 90% of rappers - whenever they do multi's especially, and especially even so called god-underground rappers: it sound so blatant the way they've slapped phrases together in bunches or just a really clunky sounding sequence, using words unintentionally out of context and just sounding like you can hear the messy labour in their work. Where as ''everybody loves to root for a nuisance'' is a perfectly eloquent and smart phrase which stands on its own, and it perfectly multi-rhymes with the previous (also smart and smooth sounding sentence) phrasing, without sacrificing the feeling of organic expression.

And he comes up with such cool-ass ways of expressing ideas. A lot of rappers would express those ideas in a much more simplistic, first-person kind of way such as ''I'm raging, I'm ... '' as apposed to ''Well, to be truthful - the blueprint's... simply rage and youthful exuberance'' - as if he's engaged in conversation and responding and looking outside of himself etc.

Similarly, to refer to himself as a ''nuisance'', although seeming like a purely convenient rhyme choice for exuberance; it downplays what he's doing, is self-aware and tongue-in-cheek in a way where most similar kind of rappers would exaggerate rather than nonchalantly and quite accurately describe themselves (and also communicate about or to the listener in a more generic way aka ''you people'' or ''they say I'm...'' ), but again in a self-referential, parable kind of way... ''everybody loves to root for... '' (prior to downplaying himself, he recognizes the stature of what he's done and is doing, just like on MMLP1, in that wording. Characterizing the mindset of a fictional crowd watching a showman, as apposed to just generically addressing the listener) - commenting on the minds of the listeners and implying what he is, in a really concise and badass way. Little three dimensional elements on how to express ideas like that, is what truly separates Eminem. And it's the kind of thing dumb-ass shit rap fans who love to lazily throw around ''he's overrated because he's white'' card miss regularly. Most people focus so much on content only, and think they focus on how it's delivered but really just care about rhyme and flow.

[mwm5952]

Marshall Mathers the rapper's persona's half a facade
And Matthew and Stan's just symbolic
Of you not knowing what you had 'til it's gone

[Mathers]

''I'm the bad guy who makes fun of people who die''

[TheBoss123]

I dunno, but, ''I said shut up when I'm talking to you... you hear me? Answer me!'' pretty brilliantly encapsulates a lot of what Eminem is, in one concise line.

You got the play anger, an imaginary violent scenario, the play on fem hate, the psychosis and a beautiful ironic punchline all in one. And it's delivered like a dramatist-meets-comedian-pro-actor.

But, despite the musical inconsistency of the ''new Em era'' (09-14)... he's come up with some pretty incredible lyricism and all-time great lines and phrasing since his return. He may not be able to put albums together the same way, but his skullfuckery of words and expanding lyricism is still right in the upper echelon.

If we're talking more recently... ''To be truthful - the blueprint's - simply rage and youthful exuberance'' and ''everybody loves to root for a nuisance'' are right up there. Not only what he's saying, which for the first time in a while is genuinely eloquent and smooth - but for ''youthful exuberance'' and ''root for a nuisance'' to rhyme in such a consistent context... it just reminds me of how I used to feel in his prime when the sentences seem to just naturally rhyme and I would think ''why the fuck haven't I noticed that those words rhyme together before'' and it almost seems too convenient. Like rhymes are just falling in to place as he speaks.

What I mean by that is not that you would casually speak in that way, as you wouldn't; I think phrase formatting SHOULD be elevated and sound quite affected. As it's art, not conversation. There needs to be some poetry in how it's put together. BUT, with 90% of rappers - whenever they do multi's especially, and especially even so called god-underground rappers: it sound so blatant the way they've slapped phrases together in bunches or just a really clunky sounding sequence, using words unintentionally out of context and just sounding like you can hear the messy labour in their work. Where as ''everybody loves to root for a nuisance'' is a perfectly eloquent and smart phrase which stands on its own, and it perfectly multi-rhymes with the previous (also smart and smooth sounding sentence) phrasing, without sacrificing the feeling of organic expression.

And he comes up with such cool-ass ways of expressing ideas. A lot of rappers would express those ideas in a much more simplistic, first-person kind of way such as ''I'm raging, I'm ... '' as apposed to ''Well, to be truthful - the blueprint's... simply rage and youthful exuberance'' - as if he's engaged in conversation and responding and looking outside of himself etc.

Similarly, to refer to himself as a ''nuisance'', although seeming like a purely convenient rhyme choice for exuberance; it downplays what he's doing, is self-aware and tongue-in-cheek in a way where most similar kind of rappers would exaggerate rather than nonchalantly and quite accurately describe themselves (and also communicate about or to the listener in a more generic way aka ''you people'' or ''they say I'm...'' ), but again in a self-referential, parable kind of way... ''everybody loves to root for... '' (prior to downplaying himself, he recognizes the stature of what he's done and is doing, just like on MMLP1, in that wording. Characterizing the mindset of a fictional crowd watching a showman, as apposed to just generically addressing the listener) - commenting on the minds of the listeners and implying what he is, in a really concise and badass way. Little three dimensional elements on how to express ideas like that, is what truly separates Eminem. And it's the kind of thing dumb-ass shit rap fans who love to lazily throw around ''he's overrated because he's white'' card miss regularly. Most people focus so much on content only, and think they focus on how it's delivered but really just care about rhyme and flow.

Love everything about this post especially the part where it feels like the words fall perfectly into place, iv had many a discussion about that. it really is incredible.

these line from white america are some of my favorites " hip-hop was never a problem in harlem only in boston, after it bothered the fathers of daughters startin to blossom" & "see the problem is i speak to suburban kids/ who otherwise woulda never knew these words exist/ and moms prolly woulda never woulda gave two squirts of piss/till i created so much motherfuckin turbulence"

recently " But in my head, theres a voice in the back and it hollers/ after the track is demolished i am your lack of conscience/ im the ringing in your ears, im the polyps on the back of your tonsils, eatin your vocal chords after your concerts....." really that entire verse lol is fucking incredible.

"think youre one of a kind like you got some platinum vagina" makes me laugh everytime, maybe im just really immature but i love that line haha.

[Mr Change]

Marshall Mathers the rapper's persona's half a facade
And Matthew and Stan's just symbolic
Of you not knowing what you had 'til it's gone

Underrated line.

Now that I think about it, tons of stuff from the finale of Bad Guy is definitely some of the best imo

[Jaba]

Not my favorite but i love
"I still am a CRIMINAL! Ten yr old degenerate grabbing on my GENTITALS! The last Mathers Lp done when diamond and this time im predicting this one will go EMERALD!"

[yoda you can call me]

Fuck money, i don't rap for dead presidents. I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said but i set precedents

@Embase great post

[gutawafang]

No matter how many FISH in the sea
It'll be so empty without me

I love that line a lot because my name is FISH in real life. That's what everyone calls me in real life. It's amazing.