I remember a brief glimmering moment Eminem was actually a good rapper. This moment only lasted for 1 song on Dr. Dre's 2001 Chronic CD and for only possibly one or two good songs on Marshall Mathers LP. Thereafter, he sucked.

I think Karol that it is now time that you accept that Southern Rap or Crunk is always better then the Northern stuff.

It's funny that you commented on the excessive smoking at the show, I saw Dave Matthews two years ago in Cleveland and... all I can remember is the chords to "Crash" and a giant cloud over the whole venue.

Ok, I admit it. I had to look up 'Crunk' because it was something I heard of, but wasn't able to use in a sentence...

Anyway, five minutes of surfing later, I find this:

http://www.howcrunk.com/crunk_test.php

And I'm 38% crunk. That's an F-minus.

I dunno.. You and Dawn must have had a pretty good time for blogging to start this late in the day for you and not at all for her. Sure she was objecting to ALL the second hand smoke?

Crunk BLOWS. Ugh.

I think you need to accept the future of hip hop is across the pond. Grime, 2 Step, whatever they're calling it these days...
Dizzee Rascal is an innovator, while 50 Cent's nothing more than a cartoon character.

Your boys got in some trouble

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/336018p-287007c.html

Last night was truly dissapointing to me. Not being a huge fan of 50's, I was very much looking forward to Eminem's performance. Having attended many rap shows, I can say after this one, that rap is not for stadiums. It's for small clubs where you can actually hear the words of the artist. The current state of hip hop is sad. It's uninspiring, not very creative, and certainly socially irresponsible. I'm glad G-Unit got arrested. I don't respect anybody that can have the audacity to say "Fuck the police" in a city where so many officers rushed into flaming towers to save so many New Yorkers. As for hip hop and it's coffin, maybe The real slim shady will step up again, but I doubt it.

Why didn't you write about how they turned the very light-hearted hip hop hooray 'hands in the air if you just don't care" into the less fun armed robbery type "put your hands in the air motherfuckers before we bust a cap in your ass"?

There was a lot of funny things about last night I actually forgot to mention in this post.

1. Emptying my wallet of the dozens of quarters before leaving and then discovering my phone wasn't working and Dawn had left hers at my place.

2. 50 asking the crowd if they were with him or with Game. Then asking his people to say 'G-Unit', which most of the crowd did. Then, stupidly, he said 'if you're with Game say G-U-Not', which a sizeable portion of the audience did, seemingly angering him.

3. Eminem calling Britney's husband Kevin Fagoline. I'm glad Moby is a fan now. Just saying.

4. Em playing Mariah messages.

5. Dawn actually running into someone she knows in the first 4 minutes of us being at MSG.

well, I guess i am more old school than i thought, cuz i never even took eminem seriously as a rapper. actually I think he is a clown(and not in a good class clown sort of a way). 50 cent sound like he got cotton balls in his mouth and is just another "party anthem maker" with good beats and no rhymin' skills what so ever(I give who ever markets him mad props). It is a sad day for me when i have to say that Jay Z just may be the best rap has to offer. I will not run off the names of all the rappers that the above couldnt hold a candle to, but there are plenty. I should not be surprised since yesterday, I saw Nelly on 7th ave. and he was mobbed by people lookin to get his autograph(some kid had a pizza box signed). He had a diamond in his ear the size of a jaw breaker. Not that i dont see celeberties all the time, it's just that they are almost never surrounded by autograph hounds. I only bring this up because i think Nelly is the least talented human being on the planet(recently surpassing Keanu Reeves). Nelly has weak beats and absolutely no skills at all(I have heard kids rappin to themselves on the train that I would pay to drown out the noise Nelly makes), and i am baffled how he is not only popular, but a monster in the rap industry.Mobbed on the streets of newyork!!! Biggie walked down soho and the only people who said a word to him was my friend Zach and I, sure some people acknowledged it was him, but he was certainly not mobbed. I have seen some of raps true greats(krs one, guru, diamond d, biggie for god's sake)and Nelly is the 1st I have seen mobbed. Sad, Sad day in the pheelepok household.