Originally Posted by
FlyingJesus
Before him the only mainstream white rapper was Vanilla Ice which is kind of an unfair handicap seeing as how Vanilla Ice is clearly handicapped himself. In the underground though white rappers have been around since forever - ICP were idols of Eminem even though he'd never admit it now because of old beefs, but the idea that white people couldn't rap before Eminem is one held only by non-rap fans
Fair play on not liking most of his stuff, I personally don't either but I'm not going to deny his talent just because I don't like some of the actual tracks. As for wishing he was ghetto you couldn't be further from the truth.. he doesn't do any ghetto raps, he writes about his life not the life of a gangster and I'm assuming you only think that because he's a rap artist rather than a singer in a rock band, because there is no evidence of it anywhere.
I've come across as a real Eminem fanboy here but I'm truly not, I just don't like it when people are so wrong about something I have an active interest in (in this case, rap)