Relate the Marshall Mathers EP to FDR providing aid to countries fighting Nazi Germany In March 1941, effectively bringing the US into WWII.

I definitely agree with you though – that album was HUGE from a general pop culture standpoint but I think it was pretty much a stylistic dead-end.

Lately I’ve been listening to a shit ton of hip hop and I think from a straight-up music standpoint Wu-Tang’s “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” was a much bigger step forward.

If you haven’t listened to this album lately, or if you’ve never listened to it, now’s a good time to start.

Here’s something for fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITLNzPoEqs