Instead, TMHU appeals are deliberately left in because they can serve a number of purposes.
Some TMHU demands arise from necessity: Rapping, after all, requires a strong sense of rhythm and a firm grasp on the beat, and not being able to hear the snare in your headphones could be the difference between a hit recording and another failed take.īut even the most elementary recording equipment could snip out a TMHU. The fact that these requests persist years after Chappelle’s Show proves that the “turn my headphones up” (TMHU) is much more than an isolated or thoughtless phenomenon. Mathers), and Dave Chappelle wrote a brilliant sketch exclusively about the phenomenon.
There are whole Facebook groups dedicated to Eminem’s famous “ I have no snare in my headphones” complaint in “ Cleanin’ Out My Closet” (snare volume seems to be a recurring frustration for Mr. In fact, it’s so familiar that you’d think that sound engineers would have learned to keep rappers’ headphones loud already. At the beginning of his new track “ Theraflu,” Kanye West asks “Can my headphones go louder?” It’s a familiar request.
