His hotly anticipated return to hip-hop after a long absence drove first-week sales of over 600,000 — the highest first-week sales of the year so far. But then Em retreated to the lab, where he spent the summer crafting Relapse 2. From June to September, Em all but took himself out of the public eye, while other MCs generated week-to-week heat with mixtapes, guest appearances, performances and Web activity. Eminem is one of the best ever on the mic. His track record is undeniable. The Hottest list deals with right now, though. If the Brain Trust had compiled the Hottest list back in May, there’s no doubt Eminem would have made the Top 10.
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Neh, I’m not buying it dude won by a land slide on the fan poles, how about y’all?
10-9-2009
Em should ve bin in the top5, no doubt
10-9-2009
top 3 easy son
10-10-2009
apparently they don’t count his verse on forever, which he kills everyone else on the track…just an example of how hot his verses are.
10-10-2009
stupid excuse i don’t want to hear it, the hottest mc list is officially bull shit
10-10-2009
Em needs to get back on his grind, he’s starting to put albums out like dre, one every 3 years. i know ima get some heat for this one but i think the list is good as it is.
10-10-2009
so they based their top 10 on appearances….WTF. So appearances matter more than lyrics…this is how you know that list was BULLSHIT. A real top 10 can only be made through fan votes
10-10-2009
If they wanted to play that card, they should’ve put top 10 MC of the moment. Either way I don’t like the list, but I don’t generally like most peoples top 10 list anyway.
10-11-2009
Str8 Bullshit PERIOD….!!!….
10-11-2009
this makes sense, all of the mcs on the list guest on tracks, EM has been on nobodys track, the only track he has been on is Forever, and plus his new album wasn’t that good.
10-11-2009
yeah i know wat u mean man, like he kind ov went pop abit on it
10-12-2009
Em should’ve been on that list….i dont buy that excuse.
I honestly think Em didt want to be on the list for some reason cuz thats the only thing that makes sense.
11-5-2009
i qwote from jay z who was number 1 on the list “I think you do the credibility of this list a disservice if you don’t thoroughly explain his [Eminem's] omission,” Jay said in a statement. “As of this second he has the highest selling rap album of the year and a scene stealing verse on the best ‘posse’ cut of the year.”
qwote from JD “My question is how do you feel about Eminem not making it?” he wrote in all caps. “I personally think the list just lost its credibility by not including him. Not only did he make [an] album this year but that album outsold 75 percent of everybody on the list. To me this is why so many people keep saying hip-hop is dead. In these bad times of the record industry he should’ve made it for [the]fact that he still had the power to move 600k record[s] his first week.”
11-5-2009
now eminem is all over the place doing cyphers for bet concerts and now performing at a music award plus another album agree with the dude Sexual Chocolate they should put hottest mc at the moment not 2009 because last time i checked relapse came out May 2009 not 08 07 and out sold most them artist on the list and some of the people on the list dont even have albums out so MTV your lost credit to alot of fans u even did a poll which eminem had over half the votes for so we dont count when were the people who buy the albums sort your shit out
10-22-2010
LEMME GET THIS STRAIGHT…WAKA FLOCKA FLAME IS NUMBER #8 AND EMINEM ISNT EVEN ON THE LIST!!! TOTAL BULLSHIT IF U ASK MEH…
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