And on your last point about big name rappers only working with other big names... my question is... why? Why does someone in his position have to work with someone of the same status in the industry? Why wouldn't it be based off of ability and mutual respect, like in any other form of art? That's what he claims to be right... an artist?
because D12 were all big name rappers? Sticky Fingaz, RBX? Trick Trick? B.O.B?
I'm still going to hold my position that you're just pissed about your favorite half-talented underground artists you love not getting any love.
lol @ Eminem being an "industry puppet". The industry's fuckin jaw dropped when this white boy came out spitting the way he did about the shit he's been rapping about the past 10 years.
Truth is, Eminem made the rap industry HIS puppet for a decade. Ask Paul McCartney the only musician who outsold the Beatles from 2000-2010.
Em did it his way, nobody else way. Industry puppets follow a cookie cutter mold and answer to every record executive and agent they have following them around- the last thing Eminem is.