Ohhhh yeah. It's the race factor. Trump would've had no problem opening his dumb saggy mouth if a black rapper had gone to town on him.
So unbelievably transparently racist. Real Racist-American representation in the White House right now
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Eminem draws the red line in Hip-Hop Awards cypher
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Ohhhh yeah. It's the race factor. Trump would've had no problem opening his dumb saggy mouth if a black rapper had gone to town on him.
So unbelievably transparently racist. Real Racist-American representation in the White House right now
Always-honest
Banned
Haha, holy shit that voice!
I hope they rhyme Bannon with Calamity Ganon.
bobbychalkers
Member
Ehh....one good freestyle doesnt undue stagnation, and frequent homophobic lyrics. Tyler the Creator has shown more growth as an artist from his first album to his last than Em has in half the time.
I do not think it is an impersonation, it is pieces of different audio clips edited together.
Dyson Industries
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LMFAOThe internet over the last 24 hours -
No, JL Caulvins Trump impression is just that good. Watch his videos and see.
Teknopathetic
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LOLL Britt McHenry
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Felt so good to hear.
jellies_two
Member
Twitter must be broken
One retweet and one like for his posting of the rebuttal?
https://twitter.com/jlcauvin/status/918206100952043521
Most likely someone famous quotes it with a snark comment and that gets retweeted instead of the original.
He obviously thought about subjects he wanted to hit, but this wasnt something he had writing out otherwise he would have flowed straight through, you tell by him stopping and starting
You really think Em cant come off with that stuff off the dome come on now, dude is a freestyle legend
Jest Chillin
Member
Nah. The starting and stopping style of flow is something popularized by live rap battles, which are also acappella. Those aren't freestyled either.
Almost no one actually improv freestyles anymore. It's no longer important to most fans. They prefer to hear clever bars rather than people stumbling over and repeating their words as they try to improvise.
I thought of it as him putting more emphasis on the message he presented. It's not the typical Em flow, more akin to battle rappers who use the stop/start flow as a tool.
He was also a battle rapper, so it makes sense.
So yall saying em cant freestyle off the dome anymore?
It was most certainly written, or had parts of it written. There's just no way the fantastic 4 joke could have been improvised on the spot. The pauses were just so idiots could keep up with him.
Jest Chillin
Member
No. We're telling you this wasn't freestyle in that manner. Em doesn't even freestyle in that manner. His style of freestyle is always more about tons of multi-syllables and twisted imagery than actual punchlines.
On top of that, when BET films these cyphers, they tend to do multiple takes with various camera angles so they can edit it in more interesting ways.
For example.. this is the Shady Digital Cypher filmed the same day that actually has two of Boogie's takes shown side by side.
It's not about what he can or can't do. We can tell what's prewritten and what's improvised. This was clearly prewritten. That it was slowed down and broken up is irrelevant, that's just a just a format change.
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
Fuckin yes Em
Yeah, this one had a pretty bad beat.
Lol what beat?
The Jazz Cabbage Master
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Has an uncensored version been posted? I wanna see that
Net_Wrecker
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There's audio and video of Em freestyling. Like forreal forreal off the top freestyling. This is not that. Not even close.
Plus people haven't cared about that in decades. Actual spontaneous freestyling is cool, but very few rappers have the talent to pull that off. Most every "freestyle" you've heard in your life is a memorized verse.
It's also worth pointing out that written freestyling came first, then improvised freestyling came into fashion later, but writtens never actually stopped being a thing. Both kinds always served the same function - wowing the cypher with clever one-off lines in a verse with decentralized topics.
You could technically argue this doesn't strictly count as a freestyle since it actually has a central topic, but it also does count because of the wow factor in the context of a cypher.
Captin Quacker
Member
scrachin my head on that one as well
Y'all didn't hear the Detroit noise in the back?
Nabs
Member
He's clearly talking about Eminem's musical output.
MiloHoffman
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Fuck Trump
My only problem is calling prewritten a freestyle. Yeah, you can go to your goto line you already crafted, but I've always been more of a fan of the top of the dome.
I think it was an old 106 and Park(?) episode where Wu Tang was freestyling and Ghostface straight up pulls out his notebook to recite his rhymes. Which is fine, but not what I was expecting. Pulled the curtains open for me.
holy shit that is the best impression of him i've heard
travisbickle
Member
I think there's a lot of young Trump supporters who really don't understand anti-establishment.
Stick with conservative country and western music guys.
Stick with conservative country and western music guys.
What's the correlation between a celebrity gaining twitter followers and alt-right people?
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Michael F. Assbender
Banned
I didnt like the beat on this.
Common sense would dictate losing a great deal of followers for going against something so mighty to such fanbase, not the complete opposite lmao.
TheLaughingStock
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Eminem should run for president.
OG Shaka Zulu
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I've been playing 2pac's Letter 2 the President for the last 15min. So according to Keith Obermann, Eminem must have traveled back in time and gave 2Pac the idea to criticize the president in a song?
BarringGaffner
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did he say it was the first time a rapper criticized the president or just that he liked it?
Drifter_InA_Cage
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Because boost is life.