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'Soldiers Song' by Styles P sampled Eminem's 'Like Toy Soldiers'. Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs. The Backing Track Extraordinaires - Like Toy Soldiers (originally Performed By Eminem) [backing Track].
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Contents. Content 'Like Toy Soldiers' tells the story of Eminem's attempts to calm a violent community of rappers.
Eminem speaks openly about problems with magazine and its editor, as well as the situation between and and his label, which Eminem felt went far beyond the vs. The song finishes as Eminem offers a truce to his enemies. In addition, this song also reveals that Eminem had tried to stop Ja Rule & 50 Cent's feud, but lost it when he heard Ja Rule making fun of his daughter on a track called 'Loose Change' – ('The Ja Shit, I tried to squash it, It was too late to stop it, There's a certain line you just don't cross and he crossed it, I heard him say Hailie's name on a song and I just lost it'). In the song 'Loose Change', Ja Rule says Eminem claims his then ex-wife is 'a known slut' and his mother 'a crackhead', and then asks him 'so what's Hailie gonna be when she grows up?'
'Like Toy Soldiers' was later included on Eminem's in 2005. Throughout his career, Eminem, at most, only alludes to, completing a line in this song, 'my intentions were good, I went through my whole career without ever mentioning.' Styles P used the instrumental version in his song 'Soldiers Song', in 2006. As a result of this song, Eminem refused to get himself involved in some of 50 Cent's later feuds, including, (both of whom he collaborated with in 2005),. Critical reception highlighted the song. A positive overview came from J-23: 'Like Toy Soldiers' is among his best work here, from his production (complete with Martika sample), to his gripping recount, assessment and conclusion of the Benzino and Murder Inc beefs.' Was also positive, calling it: a public hand-wringing over the feuds that Em and 50 Cent have been drawn into, the consequences of these battles, and- most importantly- the toll they've taken, both physically and emotionally.
The martial beat is a bit heavy-handed, but it's counterbalanced by the pleasantly surprising chorus' sample of Martika's 'Toy Soldiers', perhaps a nod to either Kanye's helium-vocaled samples or the 00s trend toward trance-pop covers of 80s hits. Wrote a favorable review: 'Like Toy Soldiers’ is a case in point. The best track of this album, and probably any album this year, it should be appalling. It interpolates (by which we mean ‘steals’) the chorus to a long-forgotten ’80s power ballad by Martika, which would be a surefire route to disaster in anyone else’s hands.
Instead, with its martial drumbeat, unashamedly vast-scale soft rock dynamics and that similarly monolithic chorus, it is perhaps hip-hop’s first genuine lighters-in-the-air stadium anthem. And yet it’s probably the most personal track on the album.as Em tries to draw a line under the various beefs he and his cohorts have been embroiled in. “Even though the battle was won/I feel like we lost it/I spent so much energy on it/Honestly I’m exhausted”, he admits. If the sheer volume and widescreen sweep of ‘Like Toy Soldiers’ is a cover for this exhaustion, then it sure works.
Magazine described: 'it's really mature, as when the Martika-sampling 'Like Toy Soldiers' renounces battle rhyming and its deadly consequences.' Noted: 'A military drumbeat drives Like Toy Soldiers, in which Eminem offers an explanation for his beef with the Murder Inc. Rap clique, The Source magazine and its rapper/owner Benzino, and his part in a dispute between 50 Cent and Ja Rule. He seems to wish none of it had ever happened, and he's ready to move on.' RapReviews was less positive: 'Continuing to wring out sympathy from his tear-soaked towel of a life, Eminem doubles-up with 'Like Toy Soldiers,' another self-produced, self-sorry introspection on the Slim Shady saga.' Was happy of sampling: 'Like Toy Soldiers, about Ja Rule and Benzino, is similarly brilliant.
Set to the album's one genuinely fantastic backing track, involving a military drumbeat and a sample from Martika's forgotten 1980s hit Toy Soldiers, its lyrics switch from truce-calling to belligerent indignation and back again, often in the space of one line.' Described: 'Like Toy Soldiers,' scheduled to be the next single, recycles the 1980s pop hit by Martika so that Eminem can rehash his beefs with Ja Rule and the Source. But the vitriol is mainly gone, and he sounds sad and clear-eyed, ending the rhyme by proposing a truce: 'It's not a plea that I'm coppin'/I'm just willing to be the bigger man/If y'all can quiet poppin'/Off at the jaws with the knockin',/'Cause frankly I'm sick of talkin'/I'm not gonna let someone else's coffin/Rest on my conscience.' , however, is a bit negative: 'perhaps you don’t mind that Em ruins maybe the best musical moment on the record, the Martika interpolation of “Like Toy Soldiers”, just so he can recapitulate ad nauseum sic the details of his pitiful n-word controversy (and somehow indirectly blame Afrocentrism for his youthful idiocy).'
Was very critical of the song: 'Instead of addressing other matters that extend beyond his immediate universe, he wastes time attacking his sworn enemies at The Source in both 'Like Toy Soldiers' and 'Yellow Brick Road'.' Called it a 'self-knowing anti-anthem'., however, seemed to put the song in a different light: 'On 'Like Toy Soldiers,' over a stirring, '-style loop of Martika's doleful '80s hit, Eminem brings light, not heat, to a couple years' worth of beefs, from 50 Cent's feud with the Murder Inc. Crew to Em's conflict with rapper Benzino and The Source 's edit staff, stating his case while resisting the urge to pour gas on any fires.' Music video Released on December 3, 2004, the song's video starts with two young boys, one who is white and one who is black, reading a book called 'Toy Soldiers,' which contains the lyrics of this song. It begins at the hospital where Eminem and other rappers are watching, in despair, the doctors trying to save member (played by fellow D12 member ), who was killed in 1999. Eminem is then seen in a series of scenes rapping the song in a deserted alleyway, before the video goes through a series of scenes showing the various feuds mentioned in the song. They include seeing the news, rappers battling in studios, and street encounters.
Near the end, Eminem stands shocked seeing the shooting of Bugz. It switches back to the hospital, where Bugz dies, and finishes at his funeral, which has a choir in which the black child and the white child from when Martika starts to sing. Cameo appearances in the video include, and D12.
Dead rappers including, and are also shown in animation form at the end of the music video to show the fatal consequences of rap wars. In a case of life imitating art, Proof himself was shot and killed on April 11, 2006, after an altercation broke out at a nightclub in Detroit, Michigan. 'In the year after Proof died, I would stare at the ceiling and think about that video (Like Toy Soldiers).
Did karma cause that to happen in real life? You always want to point the finger at somebody else when something like that happens, you know?' Track listing Digital download No. Title Length 1.
'Like Toy Soldiers' 4:56 2. 'Just Lose It' (DJ Green Lantern Remix) 3:30 Total length: 8:26 Digital EP No. Title Length 1.
'Like Toy Soldiers' 4:56 2. 'Rabbit Run' (Soundtrack Version) 3:10 3. 'Like Toy Soldiers' (Instrumental) 4:43 Total length: 12:09 UK CD1 No.
Title Length 1. 'Like Toy Soldiers' 4:56 2. 'Rabbit Run' (Soundtrack Version) 3:10 Total length: 8:06 UK CD2 No. Title Length 1.
'Like Toy Soldiers' 4:56 2. 'Rabbit Run' (Soundtrack Version) 3:10 3. 'Like Toy Soldiers' (Instrumental) 4:43 4. 'Like Toy Soldiers' (Music Video) 4:56 Total length: 17:05 UK DVD No. Title Length 3. 'Like Toy Soldiers' (Music Video) 4:56 4.
'Like Toy Soldiers' (Making of the Video) 3:00 Total length: 7:56 German CD Single No. Title Length 1. 'Like Toy Soldiers' 4:56 2.
'Just Lose It' (DJ Green Lantern Remix) 3:10 3. 'Like Toy Soldiers' (Instrumental) 4:43 4. 'Like Toy Soldiers' (Music Video) 4:56 Total length: 17:25 UK CD2 No. Title Length 1. 'Like Toy Soldiers' 4:56 2.
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