The hooks are platitudes, the production often sounds like Rubin tracked at an airport, and Em’s verses are so hamstrung he fails to land both punchlines (an Anna Nicole Smith joke in 2017?) and polemics (nothing here as on-point as that BET cipher). He’s also using his privilege for good by calling upon such fellow icons as Beyoncé and Rick “99 Problems” Rubin to assist him in eviscerating police racism and the callousness of this presidency. Revival comes with the most noble intentions of any Eminem record, and admitting to his past abuse and manipulation of Kim - as well as his regrets about Hailie and nearly dying from his pill addiction ten years ago - are all brave subjects to tackle. At his low point, it’s still incredible how well he could flow, even if the content wasn’t necessarily all that.Įminem’s newest album comes at an unfortunate historical juncture: a time when he’s called upon to say something meaningful about the world’s fraught state to the largest audience of anyone in his genre, and an age where he is absolutely struggling to rap like he used to. Dre turns in some amazing beats here towards the start (“My Mom,” “Insane,” “Bagpipes from Baghdad”), and Eminem himself earns a couple showstoppers on the arena-ready “Medicine Ball” and the closing “Underground,” whose bizarre rhythm is unlike any you’ve ever heard in rap, yet he never strays from the beat. The serial-killer schtick feels creepier and more gratuitous than ever because it rarely leads to a new or funny situation on tracks like “3 A.M.” or “Stay Wide Awake,” and singles like “We Made You” and “Beautiful” were diminishing returns of lighthearted and impassioned fare like “Without Me” and “Mockingbird” respectively.īut Dr. Marshall Mathers himself considered this a low point only a year later, commenting on Recovery that he “ran them accents into the ground” - and he’s not wrong. Here are his eight major-label efforts, ranked in ascending order of greatness.
You’re welcome to come still knock on my door.The most imaginative and morally tortured rap superstar to emerge in Biggie’s shadow, Eminem has been shocking us, surprising us, and making us laugh out loud for nearly 20 years, as well as annoying and infuriating us plenty. Like Dre and 2Pac my record would be selling now…Īnd since you laid on my floor like you said before “You could have looked out,you could have come and baled me out, Young Zee also responded Eminem’s ‘Fine Line’ in the song named ‘Dear Shady’ where he raps: Recently Pace Won released new song ‘He Said It’ where he responds to Eminem’s ‘Fine Line’. Pace Won and his friends even made the diss songs towards Eminem, one of them named ‘Rap Music’, where he raps: ‘You made noise, but then turned your back on your boys.” The reason was that when Eminem became extremely successful he forgot the friendship with his first ever group Outsidaz. Inside I’ll, I’ll always be an outsider, My life has been turned inside out…” (via Genius)
Rhyming’s all we ever wanted to do and regardless how life has turned out, You vouched, I will never forget that and how you guys accepted me for meĪnd pace I love you too, you slept on my couch and I’ve been thinkin’Ībout the time when I slept on the floor at The Outhouse, “It’s been on my mind lately how Zee, you always supported me, In 2014 Eminem and Shady Records released a compilation album Shady XV. The album includes a song named ‘Fine Line’ where Eminem mentions his old friends Young Zee and Pacewon who were members of hip hop group Outsidaz in the early 90’s.