Albums Eminem - REVIVAL (Discussion Thread)

[Carlton Banks]

Just means your taste sucks too.

 

[Carlton Banks]

When you're shouting out Kool Keith on a song with Rhianna it's clear there is a conflict of interest. You writing love letters to the OUTZ on fine line but if you actually went and kicked it with Pace and worked with him you'd be more in your element than you are with Ed Sheran.

Facts

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

did nikkas really have Eminem in their top 5 in 2017????

if Em dropped when you were 7 or 8 he could easily be your goat..

he dropped when i was a teenager so he's like top 20ish for me. i give this new album a 3/10

 

[Dontay Flaco]

Man Gillie is retarded.

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

Still haven't listened to the album but....a Nas or Jay caliber emcee needs to stop being scared and shyt all over this dude

He's touted himself as this sleeping giant for so long . He needs to hear all of these criticisms in the form of insidious verbal assaults by someone relevant enough to really bruise his ego .


And I say this as a fan, can't defend the BS anymore

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Joe Buddens retired from rapping

Oh I know. But when you're an artist, you're never truly retired.

I would bet my life that Buddens releases an album or at least an EP within the next 5 years.

 

[Nicely]

ONE horrible project?

Encore, Relapse, and Recovery weren’t horrible to me. Just bad. Especially Encore.

 

[KingSol81]

Oh I know. But when you're an artist, you're never truly retired.

I would bet my life that Buddens releases an album or at least an EP within the next 5 years.

Yeah, I actually think he will have something out next year. It's just funny how he like likes to point it out all the time on ES.

 

[altruicsense]

My beef with this album is there aren't enough songs like Heat on there. I wanna hear him rap about dumb bullshyt like stalking some woman and blacking out and killing her. I don't wanna hear him rap about his daughter and his ex-wife and struggles. He's not a serious rapper so he needs to quit trying to be taken seriously. My favorite songs by him are more inline with Stay Wide Awake and Rain Man rather than Walk on Water or Bad Husband.

 

[trillanova]

1 starred off GP

 

[KingSol81]

Encore, Relapse, and Recovery weren’t horrible to me. Just bad. Especially Encore.

If you don't think Encore is a terrible album your'e buggin breh. I Could make make an argument for a handful of his albums being trash but some of that would be based off preference, however, when you have tracks like Puke, My 1st Single, Rainman, Big Weenie, Just Lose It, Ass Like That and Crazy In love on the same album how can you classify it as anything but terrible? To be honest he shoulda been laughed outta hip hop completely after this album.

 

[Hammer]

In Your Head is dope

 

[Nicely]

If you don't think Encore is a terrible album your'e buggin breh. I Could make make an argument for a handful of his albums being trash but some of that would be based off preference, however, when you have tracks like Puke, My 1st Single, Rainman, Big Weenie, Just Lose It, Ass Like That and Crazy In love on the same album how can you classify it as anything but terrible? To be honest he shoulda been laughed outta hip hop completely after this album.

Encore was pretty horrible to be honest. I’m tired of making excuses. Real talk.

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

This review

It is at this moment I realised I entirely misinterpreted "Walk on Water". It is a statement of intent, but the statement does not promise a return to his earlier work. Instead, it states that his newer style is what he wants to do. He is stating that the work that made him famous also damaged his family, something he apologises for repeatedly throughout this album. The work that made him famous took him to drug addiction, depression, and near death. Revival was not intended as a return to his previous heights, but as an embrace of his current artistry and a relieving of the crushing pressure to recreate past successes. It ends with Em flushing his medication down the toilet, a symbolic rejection of his past self. These overarching themes are laudable, and it's great that Eminem is atoning for past mistakes and comfortable enough to make what he wants to make.

But unfortunately, the album closing on a flushing toilet is the most fitting moment of all, because all this thematic depth means nothing to the listener when the music is as unpleasant, uncomfortable, and downright bad as it is on Revival.

 

[KingSol81]

Encore was pretty horrible to be honest. I’m tired of making excuses. Real talk.

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