Eminem - Relapse
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Free Music Review: Guess who's back? It's about time!
Hit: 5 Stars
After the release of Encore I had lost my faith in Eminem as it sounded like he started to follow a formula. Encore was not in any way in the same league as his previous 3 albums. I'm happy to say that this album brings the Eminem we all loved back to us. If you're a long time Em fan like me and were disappointed by the Encore era music then you will be pleasantly surprised by this album. Once again Em and Dre have constructed a work of art from start to finish. I listened to this album all the way through and fell in love (even the skits were excellent), though when I first heard the 2 singles, I was less then impressed. The singles took a few listens but when I heard them in the context of the album they fit perfectly.
The lyrics are dark but necessary in fitting with the tone of the album. The beats are as good as anything Dre has done for Em before. Relapse has everything an Eminem fan is looking for in an Eminem album and everything that wasn't in Encore. It is so deserving of a great review that I created an account on Amazon for the sole purpose of writing this review. And I'm not much of a review writer. You don't have to miss Eminem any more, he's back again and strong as ever. I for one am looking at his "relapse" as a godsend as music sucks right now. Relapse is a breath of fresh air and a much needed album for a long time Eminem fan.
Free Music Review: Relapse is the Finest of Art
Hit: 5 Stars
I was worried sick this album was going to be silly . . . Em murdered that concern (literally). Eminem represents the tone of Detroit and the whole tone of the nation right now. We're all getting laid off, life sucks, most of us are looking in the mirror seeing failures and dealing with tortured parts of our souls. Some people may have wanted him to discuss what's going on in the world, but this is a more appropriate trip to the dark side of the soul ~ this is art not social commentary. This album feels so right for the moment.
Lyrically Marshall Mathers has taken the tongue out of his cheek to move beyond rap and into competition with Shakespeare. And the subjects are there too- rape, murder, addiction, and conversations with inner demons.
I don't get the accent that the panners are talking about, his style changes twice a minute and dre has tuned his voice to weave beautifully as part of every beat. Cracked me up when I read a "pro" review that said the beats were monotonous, I guess the "pro" didn't notice that dre made the tones of Eminem's voice double as an instrument.
Well, people looking for hot singles or an album they can sing along to may be dissapointed . . . but this twisted journey of "Evil Thoughts" creates art that is going to be around long after everybody writing on this board is dead.
Free Music Review: 5th solo is a Classic and his best
Hit: 5 Stars
It's been almost 5 years since his last solo album and 2 and a half years since he put out his Re-Up Compilation album. If you ask me the time off has paid off cause this is his best album he has put out. With 15 songs, you get 2 classics, 3 almost classics, 2 ok songs, the other 8 are good, most being real good songs. Guests are minimal, rapping on 2 songs and doing the chorus on 3 others. As usual, some will find the lyrics and content of the songs disturbing, while myself I find them entertaining and funny, not to mention very clever and his flow, as usual, is very good. Production is great as well, no surprise as Dr. Dre did every song but 1 (which Eminem did), on about half the songs Dre got help from Trevor Lawrence, Mark Batson, or Dawaun Parker. A must have album for his fans.
#2 - 8
#3 - 9 (nice beat)
#4 - 9 (nice beat)
#5 - 10 (CLASSIC with great beat)
#6 - 9 (another good beat)
#8 - 9.5 (tight beat)
#9 - 6 (annoying song -- f/ CharmagneTripp)
#10 - 9.5 (tight beat)
#12 - 7.5
#13 - 9 (f/ Dr. Dre)
#14 - 8.5
#16 - 10 (CLASSIC)
#17 - 9.5 (deeper more personal song)
#18 - 8.5 (f/ Dr. Dre & 50 Cent)
#20 - 9.5
Marshall Mathers -- b. 10/17/72 -- b. St. Joseph, MO moved to Detroit, MI
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Free Music Review: Something unheard of
Hit: 5 Stars
Once you see past some of the glimmer and glam of this record, you notice that this is some of the most carefully crafted pain Eminem has ever written. On the one hand, I think he is returning to his style of tenish years ago. But on the other hand he is doing something completely new. He has clearly learned something new from acknowledging his problems with addiction; he has learned that addiction is a demon that the addict is in almost constant battle with.
But a couple of other things that I think people misunderstand:
Eminem is not "homophobic." A "phobia" is a pathological fear of something, an irrational fear. Intense dislike or hate is not the same thing as "fear." If that were the case, then why does not one say that Eminem "fears" women because he seems to hate them as well? No one says he "fears" women (gynophobia), but that he thinks they're trash (misogyny). If gynophobia and misogyny are not the same thing, then neither are homophobia and merely despising homosexuals.
To judge this record "as rap" would be a mistake, for again, I really think in this record he is venturing beyond his original concerns. I think he is trying, as an artist, to express his newfound understanding of evil, within himself as well as within our dysfunctional modern society.
Free Music Review: Guess whose back? And it's about damn time!
Hit: 5 Stars
I was skeptical. As a huge Eminem fan it wasn't until 2005 where I found an album of his I wasn't too crazy about. Encore was ok, but nothing above mediocre and all the bits and pieces of material being released were not so promising.
However, I am happy to say my favorite artist is back again and doing it WAY better than I ever could have expected.
My main wish was for Eminem to go back to his old Slim Shady persona and rap like he did on his first two albums (I highly doubted he could or would at this point), to my surprise he did just that. In fact, this is by far his most controversial album in my opinion to date! He took what everyone wanted him to do and soared with it. Production is amazing by Dr. Dre as ever (who does all but one track on the album) and Eminem's lyrical wit and sharp flow has never been better on point. Only negative is the accent he puts on some of the songs is a bit...weird even to me, but you get used to it the more you hear it.
If you are a fan of the old school Eminem I recommend this album. In my opinion, not one bad song, all of them are hard and catchy. I wasn't so sure either at first, but this album proved the real Slim Shady is definitely standing up prominently in the rap game once more.