CrashBand wrote:Blu wrote:Uh, Eminem could have still made it without the Slim Shady gimmick. The majority of Em's fans enjoy his emotional music, *cough* Aftermathers *cough* more than his darker music.
If Eminem perfected Infinite a bit, it could have been the album that got him noticed. His music would have just taken a completely different route. Imagine no The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP.
You can't say "what if Infinite got noticed." The alternative would be if he didn't release the SSEP and SSLP and stayed on a similar path as Infinite or a completely new path do you think he would've made it? I think not.
The Eminem Show and just Introspective path as Blu pointed out most people enjoy his Emotional Music basically the path of records like Rock Bottom, If I Had from The SSLP, Albums like The Eminem Show,, records like Mockingbird, Toy Soldiers etc from Encore, records like Beautiful and Albums like Recovery
Just the Marshall Mathers Emotional path and no Slim Shady gimmick
Basically Lyrics about his life experiences only, the Singing thing he does on HOoks and just a variety of diffrent Emotional and Deep records