Opening The Marshall Mathers LP 2 is a seven-minute set-piece called "Bad Guy." The beat is, for the most part, a two-tone blinker reverb'd to sound like hightops squeaking on a basketball court: left, right, left, right. Eminem starts in at the fifth bar, fastening his lines with deadpan end rhymes; the effect is sustained tension, blank space piercing the verse like a gasp for air. Gradually, the rapper revs his engine, opening up with assonance, inverted constructions, slant rhymes, triple-de...
Opening The Marshall Mathers LP 2 is a seven-minute set-piece called "Bad Guy." The beat is, for the most part, a two-tone blinker reverb'd to sound like hightops squeaking on a basketball court: left, right, left, right. Eminem starts in at the fifth bar, fastening his lines with deadpan end rhymes; the effect is sustained tension, blank space piercing the verse like a gasp for air. Gradually, the rapper revs his engine, opening up with assonance, inverted constructions, slant rhymes, triple-de...
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