Menzo wrote:EminemInsider wrote:"So there's nothin' for me to fallbackon"
That's equally as frustrating/annoying/"sloppy" as Em cramming in "I'm not gonna be able to top a My Name Is" or his closing bars on "Say Goodbye Hollywood".EminemInsider wrote:The 3rd verse of So Far is a great example of where his lines alternated between being too short or too long for the tempo and he had to dance around to make it fit.
You're entitled to prefer that if you'd like, but it kills me when the meaning and feel of poignant writing becomes completely buried in Eminem's forced flows.
I feel like sometimes people think that if Em isn't rapping straight through with an "unbroken" flow and does a choppy or bit of a stutter than it's cuz he's trying to cram or fit words in as opposed to a stylistic choice.
Yeah, The Way I Am seems to be Eminem quickly trying to write a rant down on paper and finding ways to make things rhyme, and in that particular section he was a syllable off in rhyming stop with the fables/not gonna be able, which threw off his canned flow.
The ending to Say Goodbye to Hollywood is a mouthful that he has to fit into the bars, but it's not the result of Eminem trying to hit each syllable in a specific place on the beat. He just picked a word with 3 extra syllables, "alienated," for was to give Hailie/us to live (ali)enated because the word expressed what he wanted to so perfectly, and ending a verse on non-rhyming syllables makes it the last thing you remember, so he added in "so I'm sayin'" to try to tie it together a little better. The difference here is Eminem was not thinking about syllabic placement, he was thinking about his voice acting as he kept tempo. In his modern work, it's the other way around.
