In 2009 he had a hit with I Love College obviously due to him being white the obvious comparing to Eminem was gonna happen. He obviously was never gonna do Eminem numbers but he had that hit, he was marketable in the sense he had a lane for the college crowd to be his main audience and if anyone actually buys records it's that college crowd. He was from that J Cole, Drake, Kendrick, Kanye, Kid Cudi, Macklemore space where they just regular dudes being real to them self they not street so don't rap about that, they not from a struggle type back round so don't rap abut that literally just regular dudes that rap.
So why did the album flop and he basically a 1 hit wonder? i do not want to make this thread about Em but the question gotta be asked has Eminem been a curse on white rappers? look at Macklemore he went platinum with The Heist then after that album he flopped with his next album his career is done sales wise just had 1 album that sold. We know Macklemore is never gonna have another gold or platinum album or hit or ever win another grammy
So there is a truth that Em has blocked other white rap artists success since he came out in 1999 no other white rapper has been able to consistently sell records and consistently make hits and consistently pick up grammys. A J Cole can go platinum but an Asher Roth couldn't go gold, a Kendrick could consistently go platinum and gold but a Macklemore can only do that once and after his career a wrap, a Chingy when he was out in the same era as Paul Wall Chingy was doing multi platinum numbers in that era easily while Paul Wall just had 1 gold album and the rest flopped
Iggy Azeila numbers were never close to Nicki Minaj's we talking about somebody with platinum albums in Nicki were as Iggy just flopped couldn't even sell 100K with her album
So why did the album flop and he basically a 1 hit wonder? i do not want to make this thread about Em but the question gotta be asked has Eminem been a curse on white rappers? look at Macklemore he went platinum with The Heist then after that album he flopped with his next album his career is done sales wise just had 1 album that sold. We know Macklemore is never gonna have another gold or platinum album or hit or ever win another grammy
So there is a truth that Em has blocked other white rap artists success since he came out in 1999 no other white rapper has been able to consistently sell records and consistently make hits and consistently pick up grammys. A J Cole can go platinum but an Asher Roth couldn't go gold, a Kendrick could consistently go platinum and gold but a Macklemore can only do that once and after his career a wrap, a Chingy when he was out in the same era as Paul Wall Chingy was doing multi platinum numbers in that era easily while Paul Wall just had 1 gold album and the rest flopped
Iggy Azeila numbers were never close to Nicki Minaj's we talking about somebody with platinum albums in Nicki were as Iggy just flopped couldn't even sell 100K with her album