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Started by Oldboy, Nov 28, 2014, in Eminem Add to Reading List

Relapse vs recovery

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  1. The Lyricvore
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    The Lyricvore My balls are gone.

    Sep 3, 2019
    That would actually be cool as f---.
    He could come up with another alter ego. One for relapse albums. Slim shady when he’s releasing music and marshal when he’s doing interviews and s---

    Just release EP’s or something. He’s always been about that serial killer s---.
     
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  2. zuttn
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  3. Immy
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    Immy yikes

    Sep 3, 2019
    lol what

    Belive is nowhere near top 5. It's not even top 3 on Revival.
     
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  4. Immy
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    lol what
    SOA >>>>>>>>>>>>> Duppy.
     
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  5. MichaelsMad
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    Sep 3, 2019
    I would be in for some of it if it was executed like framed. Bc he writes so much better now than he did during relapse and he dialed his voice in perfectly for it. It's funny how much the opinion of relapse has changed over the years lol. I listen to a few songs off that album still

    My mom (b---- you ain't my keeper, I'm sleeping, tf you keep on, f---ing with me for? Slut you need to a, leave me the f--- alone I ain't playing, go find you a white crayon and color a fuccking zebra) makes me chuckle still
    Stay wide awake
    Must be the ganja is cool
    Sake song and dance
    Underground could of been alot better, he had some bad lines in there but good ones too.
    Drop the bomb on em is dope that second verse is crazy

    My main complaint with relapse is the writing. He was coming off drugs so I get it. But it's kind of like recovery too bc the way he worded and phrased alot of things was very ehhhhh. It's crazy to see how far his writing has come from relapse and recovery to now. Framed is f---ing insane, if he did an album like that I'd be 100 percent the f--- in
     
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  6. Michael Myers
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    Sep 3, 2019
    Huh, apart from castle and walk on water what song do you think is better? Maybe arose
     
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  7. Z Gangsta
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    Sep 3, 2019
    Tragic endings framed offended top 3
     
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  8. Spatula
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    Spatula Relapse is a masterpiece

    Sep 3, 2019
    I disagree man. His writing in terms of imagery and rhymes is top notch on relapse. No word went to waste and the flows were sick to match it. Its out of this world actually.
     
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  9. MichaelsMad
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    That means it's just a regular day (hah!)
    And this is the kind of s--- I think of regularly(the way he stretched the word regularly)
    Have Michael Myers lookin' like a liar, swipe his powers
    Replace his knife with flowers and a stack of fliers
    Hit Jason Vorhees with a 40; stuck a suppository
    Up his a---, and made him tell me a story
    Gave Hannibal Lector a f---in' nectarine
    And sat him in the f---in' fruit and vegetable section
    And gave him a lecture
    Walked up Elm Street with a f---in' Wiffle bat drew
    Fought Freddy Krueger and Edward Scissorhands too
    And came out with a little scratch, ooh
    Lookin' like I got in a f---in' pillow fight with a Triple F.A.T. goose (those were the most basic words to rhyme with those guys and a horrible excuse for punchlines about them....and then the prosthetic arm crushing his hard taco

    Old time sake had alot of bad word choice and pronunciation stretches as well

    3am pushing em into the stinking tub
    My point is it's really basic writing or stretching the pronunciation awkwardly and I dont mean the accent I mean like really f---ing reaching and making some of them sound weird. And him saying taking a pee, the stinking tub. And hannibal lecter. Giving him a nectarine and a lecture?? Lol it's very basic and elementary writing. Esp when you look at his metaphors for hannibal since then. Hit a f-- with onions and splitting a bag of funyuns....lot of line wasting and bad writing in the album
     
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  10. Immy
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    Immy yikes

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    Imo
    Castle
    Arose
    WoW
    Framed
    even in your head >

    Believe lacks substance, most of the first and second verse are filler. The second verse, in particular, is sooooo average. The final verse is great but the hook is meh, you can clearly tell that during the past few years Em is struggling with artistic vision, especially in being able to make a song. The hook isnt easy on the ears. His hooks are everywhere for the most part and he relies on generic youtube hooks.
     
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  11. joeyp363
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    What about Heat, Remind Me, Bad Husband? All classics
     
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  12. Spatula
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    Spatula Relapse is a masterpiece

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    Ok but that's one song. I hate the way he stretches "a-ga-ain" to rhyme with "villain" on Nice Guy and that's 2018.

    I could list more examples where the rhyming and imagery is impressive than not. Just listen to Microphone freestyle.
     
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  13. MichaelsMad
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    One song? I talked about underground, 3am and old time sake lol. And microphone freestyle is crazy and he also didnt use the accent in it. And it's not on relapse. I get what you're saying about imagery and I agree on that. I'm just talking about his overall writing. His word choice and phrasing, and how he gets to the punchline. And good guy is a little different. That parts almost in a melody. Here we goooo agaaaain. My main point is just you could tell he was rusty and shaking the cobwebs off during that time. Hes alot sharper and clearer now than he was then.
     
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  14. Spatula
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    Spatula Relapse is a masterpiece

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    Back in relapse era he didnt mess with wordplay and double/triple entendre. That started with recovery in a clumsy way and evolved into what we have today, layers under layers of multiple meanings in a line. Thats really impressive but its a different style from relapse so its not a fair comparisment.
     
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  15. Sodium Chloride
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    True. Yet he released Framed.
     
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  16. Marshall III
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    I can see him releasing Relapse 2 album “for the fans”.
     
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    Sep 3, 2019
    They’re too greedy with their material, it won’t ever happen, if it did, it would only work as a promotion/celebration of relapse/and or charity like the stupid bricks.


    & that’s if he even kept any of the material he did during that era!
     
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  18. froboy6942
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    He clearly didn't hate Relapse as much as people think or he noticed the cult fan base for it because he f---in' made Framed.. with a video. Who would have ever guessed 2017 Eminem would being using Relapse era accents again on his album?? What a weird year. Maybe next album will have another song like that!
     
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  19. Sodium Chloride
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    Yeah but framed has terrible flow and accents are fake, as weird as it sounds. Beat is terrible too. It is a shameful song for 3AM sequel
     
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  20. The Lyricvore
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    The Lyricvore My balls are gone.

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    If it was up to Eminem I think he would actually release a lot of music “for the fans”.

    But it’s not up to him what gets released.
     
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