Jul 11, 2015

Word on the street is you're a fa----


But anyway, You gotta have no soul if you can't enjoy this song.

 

Jul 11, 2015

I f---ing love this song. Show me who doesn't

 

Jul 11, 2015

Spoiler

lol jk

i know there is a video about it somewhere but this interview is really good and he talks about it

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/may/17/eminem-urban-music-relapse

Dre produced every track bar one on Relapse, many with Eminem as co-producer. The exception is Beautiful, the most revealing tune on the album, produced by Eminem alone. It follows the tradition of cuts such as Rock Bottom and Hailie's Song in frankly detailing Eminem's depression and chemically enhanced ennui. Its anthemic style is equally different from the rest of the album, too; it's more mid-tempo rock song than window-rattling rap track.

Eminem: It was a relief for me to not worry about the beats and strictly focus on writing and what the h--- I wanted to say. It took a lot of the stress off. But Beautiful is a different story. That song is the only one out of a whole batch of songs – probably three or four albums' worth of material – that I recorded in the time I was gone. I did all of that when I wasn't sober and that is literally the only song that's on this record. I don't know if any of the others are going to make it to Relapse II, which I plan to release later this year, because I haven't picked out those songs yet.

AB: Is this the best of the bunch? Or is it the only one you're willing to let the world hear?

Eminem: It's the only one I could actually listen to and feel OK about. It brings me back to a time when I was really depressed and down, but at the same time it reminds me of what that space is like and what never to go back to. There is a lot of honesty in that song that I wouldn't want to just throw away. I started writing the first verse and half of the second when I was in rehab going through detox. I didn't have a beat in my head or anything like that… I wrote the verse and just knew I wanted it to be a bounce-style, I guess. I got that first bit out and finished it when I got out of rehab, when I relapsed right back into taking pills. If you listen to that song and how it starts off, I'm just so f---ing depressed.

AB: Where were you exactly when you wrote that?

Eminem: I was sitting on the end of the bed in detox, not fully committed to it and not fully detoxed. They give you medicine to make your detox not as rough. I wrote it during that period – the first two days. I was sitting there not knowing where I wanted to be in my career. I didn't even know if I wanted a career any more, because this s--- was too much. It just wasn't worth it.

 

Jul 11, 2015

word on the street is, s80 doesn't like this song



i hope this is not true...

top 5 eminem song...

 

Jul 11, 2015

the verses were written at different times throughout 05/06 and recorded together in early 08 iirc

edit: apparently i recalled incorrectly

 

Jul 11, 2015

One of the last Eminem songs with an old "Eminem" vibe. (with My Darling and BCWYWF)
I love it.

But Top 5 oat ? idk man

 

Jul 11, 2015

I agree with this, I feel like I'm one of the only ones on the forum whom loves BP to death

But on topic, I really like this song. One of the last "real" eminem tracks per say, and the way they used the sample is great

I wish more of relapse had that tone

 

Jul 11, 2015

top 5? no way. but its still a good song, i like it

 

Jul 11, 2015

from ‘09 interviews:

“It’s the only song on [Relapse] that I actually recorded from that time period when I was high. That time period was f---ing horrible for me, but it captures that, I think. It’s actually the only song that I feel like was good enough and made sense to use for the record.”

“It's the only song from the batch of records that I had when I was really going through it that I felt was really special.”

in 2008 he was recording the rest of Relapse, not battling addiction.

sources:

http://www.hulkshare.com/eminemaudiointerviews/shade-45-eminem-the-prelapse-to-the-relapse