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Dre, and Interscope Records-took notice of a stark alteration in Eminem’s rhyme style.
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It wasn’t until the 1997 release of the Slim Shady EP that the industry-and more specifically Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Eminem could out-rap anyone else in the room, but that didn’t mean people were going to listen. Infinite, though, fell flat as a commercial jumping-off point. Marshall Mathers is a born lyricist, hellbent on maneuvering his way through rhyme patterns and metaphors with a sailor’s knot of tongue-twisting lyrics with clear influences, ranging from Ice-T to Big L to Masta Ace. Infinite was an admirable but conceptually milquetoast album filled with technically intricate and colorful lyricism, yet devoid of an engaging personality. Three years removed from his independently released 1996 debut, Infinite, frustration over poor sales and stalled buzz had begun to set in. That polarity is the foundation for his grandest achievements and his hardest falls and can be found most prominently in his earliest days as an artist. As all iconic outlaws and antiheroes of pop culture often were and are, Eminem’s career is a study in both the importance of how one becomes a legend as well as their limits.
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Throughout the course of hip-hop history, no artist has epitomized the tragic characteristics of the gunslinger figure better than Eminem.