TWO * GREATEST SONGS

.-  ' TROUBLE '  by Eminem [ 2024 ]

You could be forgiven for thinking ' Trouble ' was just another of Eminem's skits. But it's actually bona fide song, and one which tackles the dynamic between Eminem and his alter egos, Marshall Mathers and Slim Shady head-on.

Although the track does begin with the spoken-word set-up so familiar with his skits, it soon moves into rap.

The Slim Shady alter ego launches one of his most offensive tirades yet, so deliberately get himself,  Marshall and Eminem '' cancelled ''.

This one's not for the faint of heart.

.-  The News [ A wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft ] by Deltron 3030 [ 2000 ]

At the dawn of the new millennium, while other hip-hop artists rapped about money, women and violence, Deltron 3030 [ comprised of Del the Funky Homosapien, Dan the Automator, and Kid Koala ] had their eyes on something altogether different :

A dystopian hip-hop space opera set over a thousand years in the future.

The vignette comes midway through the narrative and sees Icelandic singer Hafdis Huld delivering a spoken word piece in her native tongue over a drum and harp backing track.

It's as spectacular as it sounds.

The World Students Society thanks Associate Professor Glenn Fosbraey, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Winchester in the UK.