Drugs did nothing for Em

[Guess_Who]

I remember he said he had to learn how to write and perform again. But this doesn't mean he didn't know how to do it before he started with drugs. When the addiction became severe it was affecting him (remember that 106&park with 50) and after quitting drugs is not that easy.

"I had to learn to write and rap again, and I had to do it sober and 100 percent clean," Em said, explaining the more mature, focused nature of his rhymes on Recovery. "That didn't feel good at first ... I mean it in the literal sense. I actually had to learn how to say my lyrics again #8212; how to phrase them, make them flow, how to use force so they sounded like I meant them. Rapping wasn't like riding a bike. It was [as much] physical as mental. I was relearning basic motor skills. I couldn't control my hand shakes. I'd get in the [recording] booth and tried to rap, and none of it was clever, none was witty and I wasn't saying it right."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/164779 ... gain.jhtml

[cheeseburger]

Agreed that it didnt affect his skill in anyway. It made him cope with the life though and maybe keep on going in the tempo he had.
Another thing drugs did was give him inspiration to write. Im not talking about that he got creative when high, I mean drugs as a theme was great for him.
I read in The Way I Am (that I got from my girlfriend for christmas, best gift evaaaaaaaar) that he didnt even take drugs until he started writing about them.

[Supershade]

Agreed that it didnt affect his skill in anyway. It made him cope with the life though and maybe keep on going in the tempo he had.
Another thing drugs did was give him inspiration to write. Im not talking about that he got creative when high, I mean drugs as a theme was great for him.
I read in The Way I Am (that I got from my girlfriend for christmas, best gift evaaaaaaaar) that he didnt even take drugs until he started writing about them.

Just finished reading The Way I Am, really enjoyed it and I hate reading

[cheeseburger]

Yeah same here. Loved it, but I generally hate reading.
Read it out the day after christmas lol. My girl told me she was about to buy the book his mom wrote, but she changed her mind last second. Thank god for that shit.

[SliK]

Cheeseburger you should read the book his ex bodyguard wrote. It has a dumb name like "Shady Bizness" or something, with some retarded letter that doesn't belong.

[cheeseburger]

Cheeseburger you should read the book his ex bodyguard wrote. It has a dumb name like "Shady Bizness" or something, with some retarded letter that doesn't belong.

If its free, I will read it. But it problaly costs money, so I wont

[Trimss]

^ mediafire.com/?vvmxeawcxdb0ew0

Free.

[Jimmy Conway]

You can't really say either way. We don't know. We don't know how the scalp mmlp, eminem show and encore would have been without drugs. A lot of artists say it helps them. You can say it does or doesn't. But that's just you talking out of your ass cause you don't have sober em to compare it to. Em did drugs at some level through most of his career. We don't know how he would have sounded sober, so we can't honestly say.

[Kill You]

Yeah anyone who says he should get back on drugs is an idiot. I think it wouldn't harm him to smoke a little bit of weed from time to time though. Could bring out some crazy emotions for him.

[JAGODA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOY0jY_mDxQ



Like this?

I'd be so happy if he did lol

I just love his spitting there, it's awesome as fuck!

[BronekPoland]

I wish Em was smoking some kush, his recent music would have deff improved.

[Elision]

I've said this a million times and I'll say it again. Em was on the wrong drugs. Aside from his early psychedelic use he was mostly taking downers. But had he replaced those downers with, say, MDMA 5-methyl-MDA, miprocin, or more/better LSD he would've made a ton of extremely intense music. Those who have been on any of the above (or relatives of them) will agree with me.

It's all about properly manipulating this machine that we call a brain for whatever task is at hand. And the bottom line is that Em was taking the wrong shit for music. That's how things like Difficult happened. You can hear it in the voice. It's a complete lack of serotonin as a result of what he was taking at the time.

[SliK]

He wasn't taking the drugs with the intent to make good music though. He simply needed them to cope.

[Elision]

He wasn't taking the drugs with the intent to make good music though. He simply needed them to cope.

I didn't say he was. I was responding to the thread

[SliK]

Well your posts suggests he never had MDMA and made music, which is entirely wrong. All he did was eat ecstasy and drink vodka for years.