Subject: Eminem

• Hubris Alert: Phil 'Short List' Bredesen Shares His Awesomeness With Esquire

  Short List Phil in some heady company I thought my fellow Pithster Jeff Woods might have been too hard on Phil Bredesen when he recently referred to the guv's Jupiter-sized ego, but after reading Beverly Keel's Tennessean column yesterday, I've come to see the wisdom of my curmudgeonly co-worker's gubernatorial assessment. Apparently Bredesen is in Esquire's All-American Edition, in which representatives from all 50 states share their thoughts in the magazine's "What I've Learned" format. An

  December 18, 2008

• Haystak Calls Out Eminem

  YouTube user HAYSTAKRULESWHITERAP (wonder if [s]he's affiliated directly with Haystak?) recently posted a video of the illustrious local calling out de facto white rapper supreme Eminem at a show. As you may or may not be able to make out from the video, Haystak spits some hot fire that sounds pretty well-received before saying something (apparently directed at Marshall Mathers himself) along the lines of "Ya'll reckon that'll make that bitch-ass white boy make another album? 'Cause I'm tryin'

  February 5, 2009

• Six Degrees of Feist

  November 15, 2007

• Hope and Glory

  Regina Spektor rebounds from a bad relationship, makes a terrific album

  November 8, 2007

• Young Buck

  A local rapper rises above the cycle of poverty, violence and drugs to become the best-selling rap act outta Music City

  September 2, 2004

• Turned Off

  Local television ratings are, thank God, crashing

  June 3, 2004

• Our Critics Picks

  Cage, Tuesday, 6th

  February 1, 2007

• The Best of 2006

  Scene writers round up the year’s highlights so you don’t have to

  December 21, 2006

• The Sun Also Rises

  The bluest skies you’ve ever seen are in Seattle. So were some of the best bands.

  September 5, 2002

• Beatin’ the Rap

  A roundup of local releases

  July 27, 2006

• Suburban Turmoil: Your Space is MySpace

  June 29, 2006

• Our Critics Picks

  Thursday, 15th-Sunday, 18th * Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival

  June 15, 2006

• The Spin

  June 1, 2006

• The Spin

  April 27, 2006

• Holy Moments

  Even the catchiest pop song can be an out-of-body experience

  January 12, 2006

• She Loves Them

  They broke up when Mom was in college, but The Beatles still rock

  December 8, 2005

• Our Critics Picks

  Peter Guralnick

  November 10, 2005

• The Spin

  September 8, 2005

• Our Pick of the Week

  Our Pick of the Week

  August 25, 2005

• Hoss of a Different Color

  "Hick-hopper" Cowboy Troy raps to a country beat

  May 12, 2005

• The Spin

  Where the action was: dispatches from the clubs

  February 24, 2005

• A Face in the Crowd

  February 17, 2005

• An Embarrassment of Riches

  Fall's best poetry books—stocking stuffers for the literary set

  December 23, 2004

• Al Be

  September 2, 2004

• Group Therapy

  Lipstick—or Not—Welcome Here

  February 12, 2004

• Michael Perry ♦ Monday, Nov. 11

  Music

  November 7, 2002

• Breaking It Down

  A status report on hip-hop in Nashville

  September 26, 2002

• Immiment Cancellation?

  Rapper Eminem’s shtick grows old on his transparently narcissistic new album

  June 20, 2002

• Keeping the Flow

  New releases from rapper El-P, rock wunderkinder Weezer, hip-hop maverick Cee-Lo Green and more

  June 6, 2002

• House and Home

  Pet Shop Boys deliver a change of pace yet still flex considerable pop prowess

  May 23, 2002

• Color Blind

  Maybe, as this year’s Oscars suggest, Hollywood is finally able to transcend race

  May 2, 2002

• Unromantic Notions

  Celebrities know as much about love as the rest of us, probably less

  March 28, 2002

• Free Verse

  Thorough biography offers illuminating look at female Jazz Age poet

  November 15, 2001

• Top of The List

  By Ben Taylor

  November 1, 2001

• ARTRAGEOUS ♦ Saturday, 9/29

  Music

  September 27, 2001

• The Filth and the Fury

  July 19, 2001

• They Don’t Know Jack

  August 2, 2001

• Men Spin

  Enough of ivillage; where are the Web sites for men?

  April 12, 2001

• Gross-Out

  March 1, 2001

• Pop Life

  Oops...they did it again

  January 11, 2001

• Medium Cool

  2000 was a year of sometimes dubious, sometimes noteworthy achievements

  December 14, 2000

• The Stuff of Legend

  The Rep reinvigorates a musical theater classic

  December 7, 2000

• Bad Charlotte

  What is it with the commodification of rebellion?

  November 2, 2000

• In Living Color

  Nashville rapper crosses color line and finds local success

  September 14, 2000

• Over the Top

  Jay-Z's dazzling, if disturbing, hip-hop is fraught with fear and paranoia

  March 23, 2000

• In Defense of Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty

  On Tiny Cat Pants, Aunt B. takes Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to task for telling a group of young GOP'ers that in order to return to prominence, their party needs to get mad. Just like Eminem did after getting aerially 69'ed by a bare-assed Bruno at the MTV music awards: I mean, good god damn, where does one even start in on how hilarious this is? 1. I wouldn't call Eminem a Democrat, but he was for sure one of the only mainstream artists to get a protest song out against Bush before the 2

  June 9, 2009

• Fall Guide: Country: Miranda Lambert serves another full tank of kerosene atop the fall's standout releases

  September 17, 2009

• Cream of 2009: Our Top 10 Most-Viewed Bloggings of the Year

  ​Have you decided what you're going to say yet, "twenty-ten" or "two-thousand ten"? Do you know where you're going to be tonight? Do you? We've only got a few more hours of Aughtiness left, so for this, the final day of 2009, we sliced open the belly of the blog and sifted through the statistical guts to find out what were the 10 most-viewed posts of the year--at least according to Google Analytics. 10. Paramore or Less: Hayley Williams and the Charismatic Frontperson Problem In which we

  December 31, 2009

• Wanna Hear Snoop Dogg in the Car at all Times? Get GPS.

  Perhaps no contemporary entertainer understands the need to diversify his or her portfolio better than Snoop Dogg. In fewer than 20 years, the Doggfather has managed to go from Long Beach Crip to gangsta rapper, murder defendant, actor, entrepreneur, high-school football coach, medical marijuana advocate and voice-over of a generation. It's an impressive trajectory. Snoop has had his irons in so many fires that he might as well just change his name to OG Crossover. Rappers typically have a she

  January 7, 2010

• Essayist, scholar, and novelist Randall Kenan responds with passion to the legacy of James Baldwin

  January 28, 2010