Eminem Stanleys assemble.
As difficult as this may be.. we have to accept the cold hard facts. We have took an L the size of epcot center tonight. Someone check on the wellbeing of
@SunZoo, I'd wager that he's on suicide watch. I called this shyt, brehs. As soon as I saw the track listing.. as soon as I knew that sunglasses wearin fakket Rubin was involved, as soon as I saw that coke whore Skyler Grey was anywhere near this nikka, I knew that this album was going to be hot garbage. I swear cacs fukk up everything black related, it's like what the fukk is this "rap." This album is the equivalent of finding out that your only son is gay. shyt hurts my soul heavy, family.
This album should not have been called Revival, this shyt should have been called Repugnant. How are you going to call this album Revival without reviving your career, Em?! False advertising.
There has to be some behind the scenes troubling, restrictive shyt going on with this nikka. The album feels like Lupe's Lasers release to me, like a corporate music abortion. I'm getting the visual of some high level culture vulture cac chuckling endlessly, rubbing his hands like birdman thinking about all of the money he's going to make from this "i dont like rap, but I like eminem" rhythmless and emotionally bland teenage cacs out here.
Frfr, this album was supposed to be Eminem's 4:44 -- him changing his whole shyt up, by doubling down on what works while stripping away all of the shyt we've been criticizing him for for YEARS.
I defended EM for the longest, but there's no defending him now. This nikka is officially a target in the rap game and is WASHED. His legacy is officially tarnished. How can black people make rap look so effortless?
That being said, I do like some songs on the album, but off first listen.. It's NOT better than MMLP2 and definitely not better than Recovery. Relapse is seriously the last great project he's made.
Remember Eminem before the Recovery "punch-lines", the poppy hooks, the excessive rock guitar?
The successful run of Recovery ruined him. If I were him, I'd gut the hell of this album, take those annoying ass rick rubin tracks off and replace them with the anderson paak, two chains tracks etc before Friday's release. Not sure if possible, but I'd take the OVERWHELMING negative response on the chin and try to save face at this point.