With a piece as awkward and poorly realized as this, it's hard to know even where to begin-- one feels like the gourmet food critic at a free casino buffet, each neon-lit steam section of lard-coated Frenchbread pizza, pitifully cold "hot" wings and possibly fatal under-iced shrimp demand their own uniquely grotesque attention. Why, in 2003, does he pander to the sickeningly ironic? Why even attempt the self-referential, in a format so attractive to the indolent and trend-hungry that it's already been done there a thousand times before? And why, for Christ's sake, on the very website where all the earlier Pitchfork scavengers at least reached postmodernism's corpse before it was just the dry, greasy bones being artlessly propped up here. These supposed "journeys" into the writers creative mind (where, as even Joyce wrongly thought, we apparently think without correct punctuation) are as uninsightful and lame as diaryish writing-about-writing can be, and a truly awful dramatic exercise between forgotten early-90s novelty rappers "Kid'N'Play" comes off as wholly unmoving even under the low, ironic standards of this sort of dialogue. Honestly, why do it?? Is he flailing in the ultimate impotence of the worried music critic, cowardly preempting his own inevitable criticism?? Is he that much in love with the ugly mental voice of his own feeble writing process that he feels he must proudly share it with us all, instead of actually working to produce coherent journalism? Or, as I suspect is probably the case, is he simply incapable of any coherent product, unable to produce anything in the proper, accepted form, and so resorts to this self-satisfied mishmash of uninformed genre dabbling and faux-confession. Perhaps the author believes that in the present enviroment of near-inescapable postmodernist criticism he can provide some definitive statement by reheating that same old dish once more, but the horse having been long-dead already doesn't make one's self-conscious flogging any more interesting. An utter failure. -- Mullah Omar
Bare interior.
Grey light.
K: What is this? Is this the Eminem song?
P: Yeah."Drips".
K: Do you actually like this?
P: Yeah, of course I do... what, do you?
Okay, just got home, a few hours before my deadline, and once again it comes down to this-- is Obie Trice worth an actual paragraph?? Fuck, I honestly don't know if I can bring myself to plod through it. Right, okay, so: "Got Some Teeth" (track title) is the single (background information) with a bouncy, cartoonish beat (does that tell you enough?) by Eminem (identifying the producer, important), though Obie's (truncuation of artist's name) jokey rhymes (lyrical content) come off as sub-Eazy E (reference to previous artist who "did it better"), especially considering (ooh! burn!!) he's meant to be the "clown" of Shady/Aftermath (I am not fooled by this artist's marketing).