![]() Smiley that the REAL reason Eminem’s album was pushed up was a marketing gimmick, and that “online bootlegging” was just a good excuse.Īs if to prove me right, I walked into a K*Mart store in middle America while on vacation this Saturday (I won’t say which or where, you’ll see why in a minute) and saw “The Eminem Show” with a “limited time only limited edition DVD” packaged inside sitting on the shelf over in entertainment. With more time to consider my answer and a longer format show, I would have told Mr. To this I smiled, knowing that historically in rap the release dates of rap albums are usually pushed BACK as opposed to FORWARDS. Of course, I was prepared with an on-the-fly answer about online bootlegging (people want to preview albums, not steal them) but after the interview was over and my nerves settled down (you don’t talk to Tavis Smiley every day) I thought about what he just said: Eminem’s new album got pushed up a week. Smiley is that he’s always got the latest scoop because halfway through he said to both of us, “Eminem’s new album has been pushed up a week due to online bootlegging. I honestly have no idea if this interview already aired, hasn’t aired yet, or never will but last week I spoke via phone to Tavis Smiley (formerly of BET, recently of NPR) about hip-hop and the internet along with Felicia Palmers from Support Online Hip-Hop.
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