Dec 14, 2024

Honestly,

If he saved Castle - Arose- Framed for TDOSS it would be a classic.

Having Houdini - Framed - Breaking News - GC2 - Castle - Arose would have been nuts

 

Dec 14, 2024

Eminem should have saved 'Jimmy, Brian & Mike' for TDOSS. Hearing a throwback that old would have been crazy. The album could have had an entire disc of old tracks and I would have eaten it up. A cool way to do a 'Lost Tapes' too.

 

Dec 16, 2024

Temporary wasn't executed perfectly (choppy In My Head flow) but I still appreciate it / think it's fine, and as cringe as a Jellyroll feature is, I really like Somebody Save Me. It might not reach the same heights as Arose but it's still a touching end to the album. I love an introspective / vulnerable Em, especially at this point in his career / life

 

Dec 12, 2024

Haha. Love.

Fax though right? I mean, this here, everything after GC2:



...Is just a fkn mess.

I can't believe this is the best way to order and end the album he came up with, every spending SO long on this. We know for a fact he was working on it from at least early 22, with the superbowl Em v Shady s--- and I think Luis Resto confirmed since 2021 actually. So, I'm amazed he had the discipline to keep the... rap style all consistent throughout, because the first 9 tracks especially sound so at home... and there's nothing jarringly out of place sonically like usual, so maybe he's REALLY learned how to keep albums consistent from a sonic perspective again, after MMLP2 & Revival debacles...

But like, just conceptully, those songs, how filler they are, how random in placement they are. I can't believe after YEARS thinking on this concept, that's what he did.

He's got a serious issue with f---ing up albums in little ways lmao. Like 'okay everything's going great!... 'nah, leme jus throw a curveball here, or end it terribly). Even 'Temporary' being randomly sandwhiched in between fkn 'Head Honcho' and 'Bad One', of all tracks, after ordering and structuring everything to that point so carefully too.