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[0118] how the fuck can I be white? I don't even exist
The week continues to fly by, but I actually stayed up late last night and weirdly feel much better as a result? I think I really just do need my nights to recharge in a way that sleep does not grant me.
Mercury's been topping 30 pretty consistently in the afternoons, so spending the beautiful days out on the deck, bronzing my hot dogs and reading Lovecraft, has also probably helped my mood.
Finally ordered a new phone. So I've got that to look forward to.
Wikipedia Sez: The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album by American rapper Eminem. It was released on February 23, 1999, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. Recorded in Ferndale, Michigan following Eminem's recruitment by Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the album features production from Dr. Dre, the Bass Brothers, and Eminem himself. Featuring West Coast hip hop, G-funk and horrorcore musical styles, the majority of The Slim Shady LP's lyrical content is written from the perspective of Eminem's alter ego, named Slim Shady, whom he created on the Slim Shady EP (1997). The Slim Shady LP contains cartoonish depictions of violence and heavy use of profanity, which Eminem described as horror film-esque, in that it is solely for entertainment value. Although many of the lyrics on the album are considered to be satirical, Eminem also depicts his frustrations of living in poverty.
Genre: Rap
Styles: Contemporary Rap, Hardcore Rap, West Coast Rap, Midwest Rap
Prior Familiarity: High.
What I Did While Listening: Started a load of laundry and then spent an hour trying to pretend I was 12 again, because everything was just so much easier then.
Verdict: It never got under as my skin as much as the Marshall Mathers LP did, but every single track of this just hits so hard, even more than twenty years on with the edge very much off the blade; I don't think liking Eminem is cool anymore, but he really meant a lot to me as a kid (there was nobody else in the mainstream saying things so angry, and not the nice, sanitized kind of angry I grew up seeing/hearing everywhere and internalizing as the only 'okay' kind of anger to feel, but the kind of angry where you think absolutely heinous, unforgivable shit in the moment and he literally single-handedly made me realize those sorts of feelings were normal and healthy and didn't mean I was secretly a bad person, actually!) and idgaf, that hasn't gone away even a little bit.
Favourite Song: Rock Bottom
Mercury's been topping 30 pretty consistently in the afternoons, so spending the beautiful days out on the deck, bronzing my hot dogs and reading Lovecraft, has also probably helped my mood.
Finally ordered a new phone. So I've got that to look forward to.
Wikipedia Sez: The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album by American rapper Eminem. It was released on February 23, 1999, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. Recorded in Ferndale, Michigan following Eminem's recruitment by Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the album features production from Dr. Dre, the Bass Brothers, and Eminem himself. Featuring West Coast hip hop, G-funk and horrorcore musical styles, the majority of The Slim Shady LP's lyrical content is written from the perspective of Eminem's alter ego, named Slim Shady, whom he created on the Slim Shady EP (1997). The Slim Shady LP contains cartoonish depictions of violence and heavy use of profanity, which Eminem described as horror film-esque, in that it is solely for entertainment value. Although many of the lyrics on the album are considered to be satirical, Eminem also depicts his frustrations of living in poverty.
Genre: Rap
Styles: Contemporary Rap, Hardcore Rap, West Coast Rap, Midwest Rap
Prior Familiarity: High.
What I Did While Listening: Started a load of laundry and then spent an hour trying to pretend I was 12 again, because everything was just so much easier then.
Verdict: It never got under as my skin as much as the Marshall Mathers LP did, but every single track of this just hits so hard, even more than twenty years on with the edge very much off the blade; I don't think liking Eminem is cool anymore, but he really meant a lot to me as a kid (there was nobody else in the mainstream saying things so angry, and not the nice, sanitized kind of angry I grew up seeing/hearing everywhere and internalizing as the only 'okay' kind of anger to feel, but the kind of angry where you think absolutely heinous, unforgivable shit in the moment and he literally single-handedly made me realize those sorts of feelings were normal and healthy and didn't mean I was secretly a bad person, actually!) and idgaf, that hasn't gone away even a little bit.
Favourite Song: Rock Bottom