I believe Em really wanted SH to win. I'm going to have to listen to the album again to see just how bad these beats were because honestly, as big of a fan as I am of everybody in the group and "rippity rap" in general, I didn't even like the album they put out BEFORE shady that much, real shyt.
So I don't remember me not feeling the album because of the beats. I was more so kind of exhausted from switching my attention between 4 different guys who didn't have that much of a difference in style.
I also believe that Em and Joe are both in their feelings, as indicates by their music and could probably talk about this situation more honestly now that it's out in the open. This narrative that Em didn't go hard enough for them is false IMO. I also believe that he's fukking tone def and should really only produce for him self seeing how a lot of those came out perfect for his style of rap. Seems like Joe was going through a lot (family stuff) when this deal went down and that was influencing his behavior which is understandable.