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  • Single Life (Short Version): G’N R & Eminem

    Two of the most anticipated singles of the past couple of years have hit radio waves over the past few days. What’s the verdict?

    Guns ‘n Roses Chinese Democracy:

    A day that many of us thought would never come is fast approaching: “Chinese Democracy” hits stores on November 23rd, after a fifteen-year wait between Guns ‘n Roses albums. Although G’N R are stiffing retail by making this album available at only Best Buy stores, there’s no doubt that fans will beg, borrow and steal if they can to get their hands on this release.

    The first single is the title track, and…it’s not bad!! Axl is in full snarl mode, the guitar (played by whom, I dunno) is G’NR-like, and my only qualm is that the song has no chorus. Even the band’s most aggressive stuff (like “You Could Be Mine”) had a singable quality to it, and this song is fairly deficient when it comes to pure ear candy. Nevertheless, the fans will eat it up, and Axl can rest easy and make us wait another fifteen years to put out an album.

    …and am I on crack or does the beginning of the song remind you a little bit of “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” by The Darkness?

    Chinese Democracy – Guns N Roses

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  • It’s Wayne’s World, We’re Just Living In It


    So how ’bout this, folks?

    Lil’ Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” LP, which was released this past Tuesday, sold nearly half a million copies in it’s first day of sales. It’s on pace to sell 850-950,000 copies in it’s first week, which would make it the biggest first week sales of 2008, the biggest first week sales for an album in almost a year (since Kanye West’s “Graduation” last September), and would place it 4th on the list of biggest hip-hop first weeks, behind the aforementioned Kanye West album and the second and third Eminem albums. It would also immediately make it the 4th biggest selling album of 2008 to date, behind Jack Johnson, Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys.

    So I ask you, reading public, what is it about Lil’ Wayne that makes him so special. ‘Cause, I’ll be real here. This guy’s been around for a decade and some change and has made not one single song that’s moved me. While I don’t mind his guest appearances on others’ records-most of the time (he ruined the remix of Usher’s “Love in This Club”, he’s always outshined by whatever artist he appears with. I also raise an eyebrow at his sudden transformation to “Best Rapper Alive”, simply because a) as long as Rakim, KRS-ONE, Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick, Jay-Z, Nas, Ghostface Killah, Common, Talib Kweli and a host of others are still alive, Weezy shouldn’t be mentioned within 500 feet of that particular conversation, and b) if anyone remembers how Wayne sounded back in the early days of Cash Money, it’s hard to imagine that he got as good as he is (which is still not mind-blowing), without help from someone else (and several folks have gone on record saying they’ve ghostwritten for Wayne).

    All of this to say-why do *you* think Lil’ Wayne is so popular?

  • Your Music Help Is Here, But Where Is Eminem’s?

    This is the first ever post by me, Chris, King of the Music Help Web universe. I’m actually a big fan of democracy so for now you can call me the President of Pop Music. Anywho, this is where you can find regular updates on what’s going on in the world of music. As my venture into the world of bloggin’ continues you can be sure look forward to updates on a regular basis.

    Coming this Monday will be the first MIXTAPE MONDAY. Each Monday you can come here and find out about the hottest, must-have mixtapes in the underground hip-hop world. Let Music Help Web guide you through the complicated world of the mixtape, and lead you to ultimate lyrical nirvana.

    Oh but this blog isn’t just about hip-hop, it’s about all music. We’ll take on all things music from rap to rock and even a little bit of country.

    Without further ado…. Today’s whammy by far goes to Marshall Mathers or for those of you not big on hip-hop, Eminem.

    Unfortuantely, the love sick Marshall Mathers (Eminem) and now twice ex-wife Kim are splitting after Marshall filed for divorce on Wednesday. Their second marriage lasted less than 90 days. As we have come to find out through Eminem’s music, Kim Mathers isn’t the kind of woman to just go into the night quietly, and she was ready to give her side of the story right away.

    Kim called the popular Detroit radio show Mojo in the Morning on Thursday, just one day after the divorce was announced and said, “I was hoping we could go to counseling and work things out, but he sent an attorney to my house with papers and said that [Marshall] filed for divorce.” She went on to say that Em hadn’t spoken with her over a month.

    Kim also talked about how Marshall has fallen back into his old drug addiction, an addiction that she herself has experienced: “I see him doing a lot of the same things I did when I had my problem. I see exactly the same pattern that I was falling in.” Just last year, Eminem checked himself into a drug rehab center for an addiction to sleeping pills.

    However, Eminem’s camp didn’t hesitate to respond to Kim’s allegations. According to the same site, Eminem responded by email, “…a few of Kim’s statements in the interview this morning need to be addressed. First, her allegations regarding my status post-rehab are both untrue and unfortunate. Second, she was aware that I was filing for divorce. We both tried to give our marriage another chance and quickly realized that a wedding doesn’t fix the underlying problems.”

    Eminem has in recent months claimed he was done making music himself in order to focus on production of other artists. A contingent of rap fans that felt that Eminem’s last album, Encore, was mediocre. Some critics feel that as Eminem’s fame and money have grown, he has lost things to rap about — his edge.

    Could this most recent development between Marshall and Kim light a fire under this once great rapper’s ass and motivate the old Em to get back in the studio? Rap fans hope that the Eminem from The Marshall Mathers LP comes back and records another classic.