Emotions Run Deep As Oceans Exploding

Boom Selection is currently hosting the best new bootleg mix I’ve heard in a few months – a thrashing rock version of Eminem’s “Cleaning Out My Closet”. Hats off to Jack Knife Lee, the remixer, who has accomplished the best you can want from a bootleg version – he’s improved the original by stripping out Dr. Dre’s godawful music and giving the lyrics a much more appropriate accompaniment. The chorus, which sounds limp and mawkish in the original, now sounds as venomous as it clearly should. Of course, making superior bootleg mixes from Eminem tracks is a little too easy since just about anything is an improvement over what Dre puts behind the poor guy. If Eminem should be mad about anything, he should be mad at Dre for making his music sound so damn weak and flimsy.