Jul 22, 2015 And it would've been if Em didn't JUST get sober, he would have knocked off the accents, and put some intended Relapse 2 and/or King Mathers tracks on there
Jul 22, 2015 Relapse gave us Deja Vu, so it had one shard of redemption But a 2006 recorded King Mathers album would've obliterated it
Jul 22, 2015 Pretty much stating the obvious. It was pretty s-----y overal so it could have been better obviously
Jul 22, 2015 Of course it could have been. Same with Encore. Things that are bad in hindsight always could have been better.
Jul 22, 2015 Encore and Relapse both had so much potential. Beautiful is still one of my favorite Eminem songs. But this topic has been done to death. It could have been better.
Jul 23, 2015 Deja Vu, Must Be the Ganja, Hello, and Stay Wide Awake are all gems in my book but overall it could have been a lot better. Accents were definitely overdone, but at least he actually had a fluid flow, I'd take it over the choppy stop and go s--- any day. Crazy to think he randomly dropped The Warning in between Relapse and Recovery, it got me so hyped, I thought he was actually returning to form. Then I just got yelled at over s-----y production.
Jul 23, 2015 Right now, everyone rides on Kendrick... That's it. Kendrick says "She eyeing me like a [...] don't exist, girl I know you want this d-ck" and it's an amazing line according to social media. Em says "I'm the butt police and I'm looking at your REAR, REAR, REAR!" and the 'hip hop heads' say he fell off and how it was such a terrible line. Kendrick works with Taylor Swift, a country singer transitioning to pop, and it's known to be such a great duo. Em works with Rihanna, an R&B singer known to work with hip-hop artists like Jay and Yeezy, and he's known to be a washed up poppy sellout by, once again, the annoying social media. Kendrick makes an album about the struggles that black people have to go through every day and the hardships they've overcame, something he hasn't personally gone through but rather the previous generations as well as the masses today, then brings out the hip-hop legend who has gone through those challenges (Tupac) at the end of his album and it has an immense amount of respect. Em's last two albums had him speak about overcoming a drug addiction that nearly killed him; shared how losing his best friend crushed him; talked about how he truly feels about his high-school sweetheart / love of his life; created a sequel to Stan and linked the story with his real life and the dilemmas and battles with his inner conscience he always has to deal with; closed the chapter and made an endeavor to heal the damaged relationship between himself and his mother. What is the mass reception from the hip-hop fans? "He needs dre to produce his beats lulz dey suk" "why he always yelling nao" "he need 2 go bak on drugz n den rap" "y he workin wid nate reuss n rihanna tf". It truly is a tragedy because he has memory loss due to the aftermath of his long battle with drug addiction and he's forgotten his work ethic before his hiatus and how he achieved those accolades. Imagine if you did something you love doing a lot and became really famous due to the tremendous work ethic you implement into that thing, then you lose your memory about all of that and you remember you love that thing so much but you have to relearn how to do it again and people give you respect for the person you don't remember being rather than the person you are now. The only way people would give you that same respect is if you started doing the thing you love by going back to what nearly killed you and made you lose your memory. People assume if Em rapped in the same style for 15-16 years, they'd admire it greatly. What they don't realize is his age / maturity and how that correlates to his older material. I'm a high school graduate (not gonna say the year) and I said a lot of s--- I regret in my early teens. For example, I had a huge problem with swearing and I couldn't form a sentence without one cuss word. Surprisingly, that was when I listened to Drake a lot and that stopped when I started listening to Em again. Anyway, just reading old conversations I had makes me cringe very much. Like, I'd take my personal problems up to social media and show such childish angst towards the matter, calling so-and-so "a motherfucking stupid gay ugly a--- cocksucking fa---- prick a--- b----". If someone ever told me to get angry like that again, I'd say "no" in a heartbeat. So, I can kinda get the gist of the dilemma Em is faced with . . . Whether to rap more maturely or go back to his roots. I just hope one day people will stop comparing him to his older stuff and treat him like a new artist that came into this game in 2009, albeit whilst acknowledging and respecting his accolades he reached throughout his whole career in the back of their heads.
Jul 23, 2015 I didn't really read much of your post. What I got from it.. Other rappers can get away with saying crony sh-t and Eminem can't. That's just how the internet works man. People are always going to find something to bash. You just have to remember it's their opinions [until proven otherwise].
Jul 23, 2015 Thing is the butt police is a f---ing terrible line. The Kendrick line isn't a masterpiece, but it certainly blows the butt police line out the water. I skimmed through most of what you said, but there's a lot of people that hated on the Kendrink x Taylor collaboration. The whole argument with Em is that he never done those sort of features until Recovery came along. And the ones he did do with Rihanna are certainly a lot more poppy than her features with Jay, even Yeezy
