Inheritance
Harmonic minor
Despite Eminem's outspoken disdain for the boy bands of the '90s, many of his early songs inherited the harmonic minor scale from those very bands.
An anti-Backstreet and Ricky Martin
Whose instinct's to kill *NSYNC, don't get me started
Those fuckin' brats can't sing, and Britney's garbage
— Eminem, Marshall Mathers (2000)
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Inheritance
32nd-note pair
Eminem's rhythms sometimes contain a pair of 32nd notes, often to fit an unrhymed syllable into a multisyllabic rhyme scheme. In 2003's Soldier, the accompanying lyric suggests an intentional stylistic reference to 2Pac.
