Eminem "fans" actually inadvertantly asked for this...Eminem gave us one of his best albums with Relapse, certainly his most lyrical....Post-encore everybody was saying he fell off and that they wanted Slim Shady back...and what does he do? he comes back as Slim Shady on crack, displayin flows and crazy, fukked up lyrics like never before, ie "relapsing to his old style" and what did ppl do? They shytted on it to the point where Eminem himself convinced himself it was wack...then comes "Recovery," where he basically felt the need to comeback on a commercial/pop level because Relapse lacked those big singles.....dont get me wrong it was a good album, but it completely changed his artistic direction....it ends up selling a shytload of albums and once a formula works, it's not gonna change....so here u have it guys, this is what eminem is now...your run of the mill pop artist, for better or worse...I'm still a fan from the beginning, so i will listen and I'm sure there will be some good-great songs ( and some wack ones, u can just look at the tracklist and know whats gonna be the next single...i dont even wanna know what the song w the lead singer from that gay ass group fun is gonna sound like
) but i'd be lying to u guys, and most importantly myself, if i said i had high hopes for this album after hearing these 4 singles....cautiously excited is all i can muster at this point