Imagine Slim Shady being a character in Street Fighter. How would he handle a Hadouken being thrown at him? What would his own powers be?
While there are no plans for Eminem's alter-ego to be a character in the hit video-game series, he is going head-to-head with Street Fighter in a different way.
On Wednesday, the website PigeonsandPlanes.com posted the Marshall vs. Capcom mixtape, marrying Eminem's intricate rhymes with Street Fighter soundtracks in what has to be one of the most creative mash-ups to ever hit the Internet.
The mixtape features 15 Eminem tracks, ranging from hits such as "Lose Yourself" to "Cleanin' Out My Closet," "Stan" and "The Way I Am" with various instrumentals from the popular video game series. While the sound creates quite the juxtaposition, it's impressive, considering Eminem is one of rap's most-gifted and complex wordsmiths and the producers of the mixtape — the Otaku Gang — did an admirable job layering the Street Fighter tracks around his rapidly-rhymed bars.
Tech Times also loved the cover for the project with its touted tag line, "A remix battle by Solar Slim."
Hey, who knows ... maybe Slim Shady can pop up as a hidden character or downloadable content for the series in the future.
Coincidentally, this mixtape hit the Internet in the same week that another rapper grabbed headlines with Street Fighter near his name — Lupe Fiasco.
The Chicago MC, who is already considered amongst the top tier of rappers, joined video-game royalty on Monday night by defeating professional gamer Daigo Umehara — known as "the god of 2D fighting games" — in a Street Fighter V exhibition match in San Francisco being livestreamed on Twitch.
Umehara, playing as Ryu, fell to Fiasco, playing as Ken in the first match of the best-of-five series. Umehara bounced back to win the next two, though, being one match away from clinching victory.
That's when Lupe tapped his thumbs to near perection, delivering an onslaught that even Umehara couldn't figure out, as the rapper took the improbable 3-2 win and made the gamer community lose its mind on social media in the process, turning the match into a trending topic.
The Otaku Gang might feel compelled to give Lupe the Street Fighter mash-up mixtape treatment now.
