Because of this Em earned tremendous respect from his peers, those who could throw down just as vicious and had been honed by the same hardcore Detroit rap scene. He rap battled his way to notoriety, treating lyrics not as a means to an end, but as a lifeline to survival. Secondly, Em wasn’t some rich kid from the ‘burbs who thought Hip-Hop would be a cool hobby. He didn’t just have the ability to string together complicated, multisyllabic, rhyme schemes he also was able to craft cinematic visions amidst the layers of wordplay. First, and most importantly, the white boy could rap. When Eminem shattered the mirror in the opening track of his underground 1997 debut “The Slim Shady EP”, he not only shattered his ego, unleashing the infamous id we know as Slim Shady, but he also shattered all expectations that came with being a “white rapper”.
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