Not really its just that it wasnt nearly as good as his other albums before that but it was still a solid album and lots of people thought so and i like the album i think the accent is pretty stupid tho im still gonna but it when it comes out tho
I like Underground a little bit more, but the awful hook really throws it off. And did anyone else think it was weird there was no Proof dedication song or anything? Probably saving it for the second album this fall, but I was really expecting that.
Yeah I'm pretty sure he's holding off the serious shit for Relapse II. And as for the lyrical content of this album, I never really expect earth shattering stuff from Eminem. I'm more like an enthusiastic yet casual listener. For lyrically strong albums I got the underground rappers.
I know there are better lyrically, it's just that normally he at least finds something new to write about with each album. Maybe that's the case somewhere in the second half.
I haven't passed judgment on the overall quality yet... I still need to give it more listens... but all I gotta say is Slim Shady is absolutely insane. He is disgusting. He is sick in the head and in the rhymes.
Haven't listened to it yet. I fear most songs will have the accent similar or the same as in the song We Made You.
Didn't like this too much, but then again i did like Encore unlike many people, so this seems underproduced in contrast.
My opinion is that the album is a complete failure. Beautiful's a good song but other than that I'm sick off Eminem's stupid new rapping style and I'm starting to think that he's got nothing to write about anymore.
His best friend was shot dead, second marriage collapsed, and he's spent the past 2 years being a drug addict. He's got something to write about, he just decided somehow this was a much better route to take.
After listening to it a good number of times I think it's an okay concept album. It would have been a lot better if he had chosen a different topic, instead of the 'crazy druggie/serial killer' idea. He really didn't have much to talk about in this album. Some of the songs, for instance My Mom & Bagpipes from Baghdad, seemed like totally recycled crap. In terms of production it was very solid though. Though I expected nothing less from Dr. Dre.
I'm assuming that someone, somewhere told him that if he wrote about those topics then he'd basically just be re-writing the Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers LP's. I'm also assuming that Eminem thought to himself "fuck it, whatever I write people are gonna lap it up."
The three or four articles I've read he says that's exactly what he set out to do, "relapse" into the same type of things he was doing in his first couple of albums. I didn't think he'd really actually go out and attempt to do the same shit he did ten years ago, though I guess I know better now...
Really like the album. Can someone clear somerthing up for me though...I've never heard of anything by Jessica Simpson in my life but is it really her in 'We Made You'?