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Best Posts: Justin Trudeau Presents: Album of the Week Club

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Omar Little A man's got to have a code

Jul 23, 2024
Expect my thoughts on saturday just like I expect my thots on friday, only difference is my thoughts WILL come on saturday

edit: you know the s---'s underground as h--- when I can't find a healthy torrent for it
(I still like my s--- on my Ipod while I work out and do other s---, f--- all of you, f--- spotify, f--- everybody, f--- y'all if you doubt me, I'm a piece of old head s--- and I say it proudly, here, tell this people something they don't know about me)

edit 2: Found a direct download link, album's already special, making me work hard to get it lmao

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Justin Trudeau

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Ordinary Joel said

Y'all I slip in and out of posting consciousness but I'll try to be more active

Not gonna say much about this album yet coz I don't wanna sway anyone's perceptions before they dive into this listen (that is, if they've never heard this album before).

It is a dense listen and Ka is criminally underrated, that's all I'll say for now.
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I thought for the longest time you just handed out free likes lol

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hargydon said

You’re so based man
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Mfer needs to start posting more, his voice is needed

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jankland said

0 I AM GOING TO TRY TO BREAK THE YAP STREAK (I'm not gonna talk about skits that don't have rapping but I like them all)

Renaissance:
Great intro, can be a little redundant at the end with his last couple intros but it's well written and the flow is immaculate so idc. 9/10

Habits: I like most White Gold collabs and I think his writing here is pretty good, it starts off the self critical examination of him as a hypocrite in the third verse which gave me hope for the rest of the concept on first listen, beat is good too! 8/10

Trouble: Makes me laugh every time and the self awareness throughout the album is appreciated and makes the things I would think are stupid hit for me. 8/10

Brand New Dance: I really didn't care for this song the first couple listens because outside of a few tracks I'm not too huge of a fan of the goofy Encore tracks but it grew on it, it's pretty fun and I love the bridge. 6.5/10

Evil: This is the start of the best run of the album, he's gotten much better at hooks as of late and the rapping is great 8.5/10

Lucifer: One of the best songs on the album, him and Dre barely miss when they're together and I dig the Sly Piper contribution here. The Candace Owens diss is great, not because of the politics even it's just the rhyme scheme is so good and prime shady. 9/10

Antichrist: I still really like this song but I think I'm not as high on it as others, still great tho. Has some great parts and a classic beat, I'm kinda mad they gave a beat that good to Bizarre but he was entertaining as h--- so I'm alright with it lol. 8/10

Fuel: I'm a dickrider idc, this is one of the best rap songs of the year they both killed it. 9.5/10

Road Rage: this song is one of the worst on the album but after coming to terms with my criticisms of it I'm more okay with it, the hook grew on me after i realized it just sounds like a compton song lol. 5.5/10

Houdini: we talked about this song enough, it's great. 7.5/10

Guilty Conscience 2: interesting direction to take a sequel to a classic and I really appreciate it, reminds me of stuff like My Darling but a bit more direct. The part where Slims voices gets layered a bunch goes hard on every listen, one of the best on the album. 9/10

Head Honcho: I honestly don't mind Ez Mil here but he's gonna just dead space until the Em verse, his transition into Tagalog is jarring every time I hear it, his hook is good tho. Eminems verse is great and carries the song. 6/10

Temporary: I appreciate the message and the song did grow on me but I think it's the worst flow on the album by far, the recordings are genuinely emotional and Skylar didn't do bad. 6/10

Bad One: this is one of the more disposable on the project, feels like a MTBMB throwaway but I really enjoy the hook. The verses are fine I guess. 6/10

Tobey: hot take, but in terms of the songs that don't line up with the concept to me I still like it, we also already talked about this one enough tho. 7/10

Somebody Save Me: I like this one more than temporary but the sequencing on this leg of the album is f-----, putting this right after Tobey and a Ken skit is a really strange decision. I think this gets the message of Temporary across but with a wider scope which ups my enjoyment. 6.5/10

I think the last few songs have time to grow on me and up my overall score cause I still haven't listened to the album as much as y'all lol. But this is definitely Em's best album in a long time and I hope he pushes into the direction of making more concept records cause I think it could really give him a second wind.

OVERALL RATING
8/10
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Get Janked whispered a promiscuous @hargydon.....

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stepdad enjoyer said

I am so sorry about this being so lengthy and all over the place fellas
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Dw I'm also lengthy and all over the place

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I am so sorry about this being so lengthy and all over the place fellas

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Jul 19, 2024
@Eminem it seems a lot of people are enjoying your new album. What’re your thoughts?

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I DID NOT BREAK THE YAP STREAK

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Yeez said

Head Honcho
Not really a fan of Ez Mil and Em's verse doesn't have anything mindblowing
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I'm not the biggest fan of the song but saying Em doesn't say anything mindblowing is crazy. We've all been crying out for the "Ronnie" song from MMLP era for as long as I can remember and this is the first time he has ever touched on what actually happened in a song.

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Justin Trudeau

Jul 18, 2024
The Offspring- Americana has scored a 7.1

It's in a 3 way tie with J Hus and Clairo for 3rd place!

Don't forget to review The new Eminem album

New album on Sunday by @Ordinary Joel

I'll do the new schedule tonight or tomorrow morning!

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@Yeez excellent review man, great read

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Justin Trudeau said

You posted a few scores didn't you? I thought you did anyways
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I only did it for Cilvia Demo and then been lurking since lmao

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Omar Little said

The Death of Slim Shady
WARNING - LOTS OF RAMBLING AND s--- so forgive me if this post seems all over the place (I may add more to this or not, won't lie, I'm willing to answer s--- if you feel like discussing some of this schizophrenic verbal diary of diarrhea)

After a couple of listens, I love this s--- to death at some points though it's got its flaws of course but nowhere near as many as I expect from a modern Eminem album
I now believe that the main reason I was so confused by it is because I couldn't believe what I was hearing (in a good way) I never thought I'd get a concept album from Em (you probably saw me throw a fit when Tobey came out and I thought it f----- up my hopes of that happening on the main Em thread)

In order to get my thoughts in order let me separate what I liked and what I didn't:

WHAT I LIKED:
This seems like a big step in the right direction, flows, autistic lyricism a la MMLP2 without sacrificing the idk "musicality" of the songs? ("sonically pleasing" anyone?)

The production and hooks are such a big step up from what's been happening since Recovery/MMLP2 (granted, s---'s been steadily improving since Kami with some pitfalls here and there)

It's a concept album from Em, one of my dreams come true and it didn't become a nightmare

I've seen a large portion of people claiming this has no replayability, I'm on the complete oppossite side of that, I keep finding new s--- every time I listen to one of the songs

"Guilty Conscience 2" is one of the most self aware Eminem tracks we've gotten in a long time (far f---ing cry away from some of the s--- on Revival for example, where he makes it seem like he's being introspective but he was just making excuses for s--- or the s--- that came AFTER revival which was often pointing the finger at other people)

WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE:
I've said this before and feel like I'm on an island with it but I felt like the Slim Shady character was oversimplified in a way, he's always referred to as the guy that throws slurs around and says outrageous s--- for the sake of it (WHICH HE DEFINITELY IS, don't get me wrong) but that's PART of his character, he was also the guy that used this "IDGAF" act to hold up a mirror at society sometimes ("You want me to fix up lyrics while the president gets his d-ck s----d?") I hope I'm making myself clear here cause I don't want this to be seen as me pretending I know more about Shady than Em himself but imagine if someone asked you what "Walter White" was about and you responded with "Oh, it's a guy who sells drugs", sure it's true, but there's a lot more to the character than that no?
(I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this cause I'm totally open to the idea that this is me glorifying the character (nostalgia, idealization, whatever) rather than Em oversimplifying it)

I feel like as much as I LOVE GC2 (probably one of my favorite Em tracks post hiatus, not just from this album) that Slim went a little easy on Em tbh (never once mentioning he used him to get out of the possibly carreer ending move that was revival, right after releasing that pile of dogshit, he quickly turned around and said "YOU WANTED SHADY? YOU GOT IT") and I understand that Shady's portrayed as Em's demons and flaws too but Slim also never mentioned that whatever Em did, he did to himself? (drug addiction, divorce, being absent as a father)
Disregard all of this if what he meant by doing this is showing us how he uses Shady to deflect all criticism regarding his flaws, if this is the case tho, I feel like it could've been fleshed out a bit more and better executed

Some of the bait Shady uses is way too obvious and doesn't land the hit (somebody needs to explain to him what Gen Z is and the pronouns bit feels like it's idk almost a decade late, not because it's offensive cause that was the f---ing point anyway, but because it feels out of touch a bit) this point ain't a dealbreaker for me and it doesn't really take away MUCH from the album cause I can see what he was trying to do at the end of the day

I can't really do anything with the last quarter of the album, some of the songs grew on me no doubt (I GOT A BAD ONE) but it feels so out of place and if it was meant to show us what Em can do without Slim then it's some worrying s--- (in the short run at least) cause it ain't horrible at all (mostly) but it's some mid s--- that can't even compare to the first dozen or so tracks

Final Score as of today (monday after the album came out): 8/10 (Lyricism is top notch even if some of his bad habits are still shown here, and the concept is successful for the most part, production is such a f---ing step up from what we usually get with those bland a--- trap beats and it's one of his better projects in a while overall)

If it ages well I can see this one staying at a 7 or 8 and becoming part of my top 5 from his discography

If it ages badly It could sit at a comfortable 5 or 6/10 and would still be on the upper half of his discography for me (him trying something new is so important to me that even if I end up not liking it as much in the future, I'd still appreciate the fact that he tried a concept and did it in such a way)

@AOTWClub
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Oh brother, buddy just wrote the novelization of TDOSS

but fr, very good review!

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people at the train station loved this s--- so not sure what you're on about, they even dropped coins and bills at my feet as I was saying all this, h--- they even called the police to let them hear me talk

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Omar Little said

I can understand the message but I just think the song sounds bad and overstays its welcome which is a shame cause if done right it could've been what you described
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I think the subject is too random and he rambles on about it too long. But if he just did a few lines it would be a typical shady thing imo

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Gonna do mine now, track by track

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Jul 14, 2024
the death of slim shady ........
Slightly better than most of the albums he's dropped since he fell off but still MID. The AI proved how much better he used to rap. After the first listen I can't make it more than 2 or 3 songs with out getting bored.

5/10

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Justin Trudeau said

17. TOBEY- 5/10
I don't like babytron, he's a---. He actually f---ing sucks, kids these days will accept anything, I'm better than babytron. Big Sean's verse and ems verses are good, this song just doesn't do much for me and the music video sucks.
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Read this and decided to give the album a 1/10 when my review drops

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I completely forgot about the americana album.. f---. I'll listen to that on a later time because I wanna keep up with this & this way (the review club) you'll get to hear all sorts of stuff.

Probably way too late for the deadline but gonna listen to it somewhere next week.

In the meantime, still letting TDOSS marinate, if someone pointed a gun at me for a rating I'd say 7.5 right now, but I prefer TBT ratings over general ratings tbh.

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Omar Little said

on the first couple of listens, I'm so f---ing mad about the last quarter
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YUP

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