Dementia wrote:
] ] "What we heard back from him (Rosenberg) was that Eminem
] ] was fine with me having the parody on my album but said
] ] he was afraid that a Weird Al video might detract from
] ] his legacy, that it would somehow make people take him
] ] less seriously as an important hip-hop artist," Yankovic
] ] said.
]
] Oh come on! Al's done parody videos of Michael Jackson,
] Madonna, Coolio, Dire Straits - and Eminem is afraid it's
] going to "detract from his legacy"? Even Kurt Cobain said "I
] knew we made it as a band when I saw the Weird Al parody on
] MTV." I'm firmly convinced that Eminem, whose name sounds like
] a candy, for chrissakes, takes himself much too seriously.

Eminem is a goon. I agree with Cobain - an Al parody truly is the barometer of having made it in music.

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