Dec 4, 2014

I feel everyone should have already accepted the fact that he's not gonna become the old Em again. You either like his new style on MMLP2, Recovery, etc or you don't. It amazes me I still hear people say stuff like 'If Em would just do this..' or 'if Em would just go back to' or 'If Em would just stop doing...'. It's not gonna happen and even if it does, he'll just replace it with something equally as weird/bad. It's like when he stopped doing the accent from relapse and eventually started yelling, singing and doing awful punch lines instead. Lately he's had that stop and go flow or whatever you wanna call it.

I guess what I'm saying is I just can't understand why anyone would still hold out hope for the 'old Em', it's been 10 years, he's gone...You either like his new style or don't, but I don't see reason to still believe he'll go back to his old ways. If you still have hope, please explain why cuz I don't get it.

 

Dec 5, 2014

I originally gave up on Eminem after Encore came out and he was supposedly retiring. I knew the drugs had gotten the best of him and that vintage Eminem would never be heard again.

Still, as others have mentioned, he's managed to show glimpses of greatness through the years. More recently on MMLP2 there was Bad Guy, Brainless, Don't Front, Baby, and Ground Hog Day all of which I enjoyed very much. Oddly, three of those songs didn't even make the album (what the f---). Then we have the recent cypher verse, which was impressive, but then again, how many times can you listen to a ten minute acapella rap? The answer for me was twice.

I was hoping he could translate that energy into actual songs on the new album. Unfortunately that was not the case, and what we got instead was further evidence of Eminem's disintegrated talent and some of his worst music ever. He never seems to focus the best energy in the right places, and gets too caught up in overdoing a specific style ... which is now cramming as many words as possible into each bar, no matter how bad it sounds.

 

Dec 4, 2014

The warning is definitely reminisciant of 2002 Em.