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I'm a living walking paradox

Why is everyone complaining about the come blow my mind bit. He said right before "I tell a bitch like Bizarre:..." So he was mocking Bizarre's style

can we get this stupid shit off the front page

Album Rating: 2.0

The review is very good and deserves the front page though.

Album Rating: 3.5

I liked all of the songs besides "Right For Me" although there are definitely moments in the songs I liked that were poor such as the end of the title track and both Em and Royce's verses on Psycopath Killer which were far too long and became uninteresting. Em's technical skill at this point is just ridiculous but as the reviewer noted, sometimes it results in him saying virtually nothing at all (again, see "Right For Me.")

Favorites are Twisted, Fine Line, and Vegas.

Album Rating: 3.5

It ain't about the money

ima blow it all!

I made my own lane



Let's RooooooooOohhhhhhhhhhoollllllllllllllllllllllllll!



Let's RooooooooOohhhhhhhhhhoolllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!

Album Rating: 2.0

Yelawolf's combined contributions boosted my score by at least .5

Album Rating: 3.5

What I don't get is: Eminem has never changed and people all of a sudden don't like him (i still

like him, i just gave this a 2.5 cuz the beats and hooks are complete trash). He's always been

virtually all about technicality, he just subs in a few random violent stories and focuses on

rhyming. He has always said immature shit just to say it. He has always been making songs about a

"lonely road". He's always been facetious.



Virtually no rapper ages well. Eminem did pretty well relatively. Don't see all the hate for him, I

think its really just people trying to convince themselves MMLP was a true classic when really its

not that much better than his new shit minus the stellar production. It's easier to say an artist

fell off than to admit to yourself that you listened (and still listen to) to some extremely

immature music (MMLP etc).

Album Rating: 2.0

People don't like him now because everything he says is forced, his flow has changed and he's just not that fun to listen to anymore. As people have pointed out, he's too busy flexing his technical abilities and collabing with awful pop stars these days, than working on solid material.

Album Rating: 3.5

He never used to be great at anything but his technical abilities though.

Album Rating: 2.0

Lamb, I love you man, but if you're telling me his rapping technique hasn't changed you haven't been paying attention.

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At least he isn't a complacent shit like Jay-Z and with last year's Magna Farta Holy Fail

Album Rating: 2.0

Jay Z is balls agreed.

So did you just listen to the album one time and then go read all of the lyrics?

Any worth for your review is minimized right off the bat after reading your first statement, "I'm starting to think Eminem doesn't understand how this Slim Shady thing works." You are implying that you know better than he does; and that's just ridiculous. I agree with you on some things but not a lot.
The "unprovoked attacks aimed at people" is indeed a little much on the album; however, Em was doing this at the peak of his career too. Yes, it was funner back then when he had something to lose, but to say there is risk in those things now is crazy. He never threatened to rape Iggy or Nicki; their names just fit in a rhyme, just like Rihanna's and Madonna's. It's all just fun and games now. But I could go without it.

Although not his greatest work, to say that ShadyXV is "not fun," dour," and "oppressive" is inaccurate. The Slim Shady LP is more dour and oppressive than this album, and that (in my opinion) was his greatest album. I almost stopped reading when you mentioned that his lyrics are awful, but it was amusing to read what you had left to say...
The line from "Vegas" is awful when you read it like that, but if you actually listen to it in the song, he begins the verse by stating he's going "tell a bitch like Bizarre" and then raps something awful like only Bizarre from D12 would. I find the lyrics in the album to be fun, funny, witty, technically complex, and a great showcase of talent that only Eminem can provide. To say that he "raps in the exact same clenched throat flow through the whole album" is not smart of you to say, that's just simply not true. He delivers many different rap styles and flows, come on man...and I'm unsure how to take "it's the same shit we've been getting from Eminem for 5 years now." Relapse was a good album and the best product he could have produced at that point in his life, and even Em himself admits that he thinks that CD is "trash"; Recovery is simply fantastic, every song on it is great and there's a reason why it did so well and continues to do well; and The Marshall Mathers LP lacked great beats and the wow-factor but still, definitely not "shit."

I have never been much of a D12 fan and yes, "Bane" is a terrible song, but it's still very admirable how Em puts them on and supports them, it's pure love. But you say that Slaughterhouse fails to leave an impression? "Psychopath Killer" and "Ya'll Ready Know" are standout tracks in my opinion, and those four rappers are without a doubt some of the best lyricists in the game right now. I love how Em and his cohorts approach "rap like an advanced calculus problem" and don't just rap about money, clothes, cars, and women.
For me, the most troubling part of your review came at the very end, when you imply that Eminem signs bad talent to his record label. You finished your review the same way you started it, very condescending and completely inaccurate. I hope you don't get paid for these reviews. If you think Eminem has produced "shit" over the past five years, well, then, my guess is that you are a Kanye West fan and give his albums great reviews and 5/5's.

Album Rating: 2.0

"I love how Em and his cohorts approach "rap like an advanced calculus problem" and don't just rap about money, clothes, cars, and women."



LIKE ALL OTHER RAP THESE DAYS AM I RIGHT GUYS!!!



and obviously rapping about beating and raping women is so much better

Album Rating: 3.5

2GONZO He used to rap a bit slower, with more emphasis on rhymes, in a smoother voice, that is about

it.

That's really not a drastic shift at all, having rapped for two decades now. If anything his rapping

has gotten BETTER. It is his beats and features/hooks that suck now, not his raps.



He used to be nothing but gay jokes, sex jokes, fart jokes, name dropping and shock-value violence.

I'm not trying to be offensive, I like MMLP too, but it was actually designed for junior-high white

kids. Now he is not even concerned with selling (well, not as much as he was), and hes at least

introspective and clever and appealing to more intelligent audiences.

What I liked about classic Eminem (up until post The Eminem Show) was that he was a perfectionist. He wouldn't put a bad verse out. I'm sure he would throw endless sheets of paper away trying to perfect a line. Because that's what true artists do. They tinker and mold until the art they are creating feels just short of perfection.

Classic Eminems verses were all so tightly wound and perfect that it seemed like rap was a scientific equation, but he was the only one in the rap game with the formula to solve it. What bothers me about Eminem nowadays isn't so much that he is no longer rapping about the same crazy stuff (though I do admit I do really miss that), but it's that he is no longer holding himself to that lyrical quality standard that he once used to. Every word he used to choose would fit concisely and the word's syllables and beats timing were matched to sound like clockwork.

That type of art he was creating is gone (the art that made people like myself label him a genius). He has for some reason resorted to the early 90's rap technique of ending a word halfway though and starting the next sentence with the second half of it. He also has a lot of pausing to let the beat catch up at times when the syllables don't match up. Classic Eminem would never had settled for that mismatch in timing. That strive for perfection is gone and it seems he no longer has the formula to solve the equation. And I miss that. I still appreciate what he's done and wish him the best, but I feel like I have the right as a fan who has supported him for the past 15 years to stop and ask...what happened and why??

nuff said. I like that post, picked it up under one vid on YouTube I think

that's as far as his performance goes. but I agree with Lamb when it comes to the beats and hooks.
just terrible. how do you get from "White America" to "ShadyXV" as an opener? it sounds so bad,
flat, 2-dimensional - embarrassing! that guitar... lord have mercy. and the hook shenanigans,
especially on Recovery & MMLP2, don't get me started!