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Normalize listening to Eminem tbh

A friend I made back in high school told me recently that when he was in middle school (diff school), people would mock him for listening to Eminem and said he should be listening to Tupac and Biggie. I told him that these people can fuck right off, there's nothing wrong with listening to Eminem or any other artist YOU like. Music snobs suck ass. I like Pac and Biggie, but I don't idolize them, they're not special heroes to me because I'm pasty white and from another continent entirely. I don't know their struggle even. I don't know Em's struggle either (shocker, I know, but my mom isn't a drug addict and hasn't sued me, nor are my friends getting gunned down), but I like his flow and the anger in his earlier songs. Best part is, we both would've been around 1 when Pac died. Some 10-13 years later, the kids saying "oh you should listen to Pac and Biggie not Eminem" are probably saying it because they've HEARD they need to like Pac and Biggie if they're into hip hop. I could barely tell what was going on in their songs when I was 13 or 14, took me until much later to even know anything about the culture.

Eminem's had banger tracks in every single album he's done IMO. Tbh I might've missed one or two of the newer albums, but I doubt it's changed. The man can murder with words.

If I was a snob, I'd say you need to be listening to Aesop Rock for style and vocabulary or Immortal Technique for commentary, but fuck that, you can like multiple artists and they don't all have to be struggling, or have a deep, message, or anything really. Plus eminem is a GOAT in his own right at this point.

Yes I'm a huge Eminem fan, but much of this applies to any other artist too. If your favorite metal band is Metallica... So what? Yeah they're mainstream and they're assholes, but the music isn't bad, you're allowed to like it.