Dear Eminem,
The FansDown Movement was created on November 15th, 2011 with the direct purpose of reaching out to Eminem about his recent music. Founded by Studioleaks.info, one of the biggest hip hop forums, it was an attempt at voicing their frustrations along with plenty others who were disappointed in Eminem’s recent offerings.
Starting with Encore, Eminem went from unprecedented heights to unprecedented lows in a flash. At one point, Eminem was regarded as one of if not the best rapper alive. That all changed in 2004. From 2004-2009, with exception of a few songs, Eminem dropped music of low quality and no doubt disappointed fans everywhere. In 2010, Eminem somewhat regained at least a portion of his former glory with Recovery and definitely made a step in the right direction lyrically.
However, as fast as he gained his fans’ appreciation back, it disappeared with the release of the collaboration EP, Hell: The Sequel. It didn’t stop there as punch lines about Walmart, K-Mart, fast food restaurants, piss, penises, and diarrhea were littered all over his guest features. Not only was this a direct insult to his fans after promising that he was back in full force, it was almost as if he didn’t care anymore. It was 2004 all over again. Only this time, it wasn’t because of drugs, which made it even harder for fans to comprehend.
Ever since the movement started, there have been particularly negative responses towards us as people called his haters and refused to believe that we were real fans. This is a statement from the FansDown Movement to tell everyone that we are indeed fans. We are not here to hate on Eminem. We don’t like hating Eminem’s music. We want to see him do well. We believe that the music he’s dropped lately doesn’t reflect the amount of talent and skill he has. Eminem has so much freedom of creativity that most artists would love to have. Eminem could make the worst album ever made and it would still sell so much because he has such a following of devoted fans that will listen and buy anything he releases. Eminem is possibly the only artist that his label doesn’t have to worry about because of that fact. He should be dropping gems and genius masterpieces of music but instead he decides to give his fans lackluster punch line raps that don’t resonate anywhere near as much as his older classics.
That’s not to say he’s failed 100 percent because he hasn’t. He’s given us creative material like Déjà vu, Seduction, Almost Famous, Cinderella Man, and a few others. However, it’s few and far in between. Especially in 2011 where he hasn’t dropped one great song. So this is our way of trying to communicate to Eminem. We don’t necessarily want him to capture that 2000 feeling as he’s older now but he can find a new sound. Something that will blow us away. He has the talent and skill to do so. When Eminem is creative, he can be the greatest hip hop artist the human race has ever seen. When Eminem isn’t taking his music seriously enough though, we get some of the worst music we’ve ever heard.
We want to speak to Eminem. Whether it’s directly or indirectly, that doesn’t matter. We want him to know that he can do so much better and that his real fans won’t support his recent offerings. We’re not criticizing his music because we’re haters. We criticize because we care. To the people who think we’re good for nothing haters, we hope this clears everything up for you. We want you to understand why we’re doing this. Maybe you’ll join the FansDown Movement because of this. Maybe you won’t. Either way though, we hope you understand us a bit better now.
Eminem, if you’re reading this, you’re one of our favorite artists of all time. To some of us, you’re THE favorite. Don’t ruin that by dropping more material like the Throw It Up verse and Hell: The Sequel. You can do better. You know it too.
The FansDown Movement
#fansdown
http://www.youletthefansdown.com/
these guys who made this site is going hard on Em in the tweets, lets hope we get the old Em back
