Your ideal title for the album?

[eminembound]

redemption

Eminem insider Henry Winkler already confirmed this.

can you post a source?

[eminembound]

Eminem insider Henry Winkler already confirmed this.

can you post a source?

LOL do you know who Henry Winkler is? He's an actor. It was a joke. Winkler accidentally called Recovery "Redemption".

my bad for not knowing who that is

[radioactivejaber]

"Detroit"

[EminemBase]

Don't have one and don't want one. I want to be surprised; if I had a title in mind, I'd have some kind of sound or direction or 'type of album' in mind, I don't want to have any of that. What's made Eminem continuously interesting (and the true reason he continues to sell through the roof) is that he fully understands the power of the mystique; him and Paul do, very well. And they very purposely leave you wanting more, and never knowing too much (about the process or how he's gonna sound).

At this point; given that Em has gotten the latest 'life fuel' out of the way with Relapse and Recovery, in terms of the whole 'addiction/recovery period', I'm very very excited to see what he comes up with. As, people say it every album, that, "he has nothing left to talk about" but this is truly the first time that he's like fully up-to-date with chronicling his latest trouble and strife; is in a good creative, focused space and I don't believe he will go backwards.

Recovery was an important album and showed many signs of evolution, even with like "Love the Way You Lie" - the fact he committed to a theme (domestic violence) and kind of rapped in character again just to try and nail a subject to a wall, and he used his skill/rapping like an painter would a paintbrush; just to create a picture in your mind, rather than simply relaying his own issues.

A lot of people (dumb critics) seem to think "Love the Way You Lie" is about Kim, just because they're SO used to everything Em writes now being about his real life in some way. But Relapse was an attempt to make it more abstract and in-character, and a lot of people didn't get it; they couldn't get the 'in-character' aspect, they can't separate Em's paintings from the man himself, so, that's obviously why he went back to being more true-to-life. But, as also with "Space Bound", he's showing signs of separating the two again and becoming a better writer in that sense, he's growing.

So I'm very interested to see what he does now; in terms of moving away from pure introspection and boxing himself in artistically - he's taken the first step with some of the material since in return in terms of creating fiction, and being more creative again. And I think he recognizes that he's going to have to do more than rap from the heart now, so, let's see. But, I don't want to predict it.

[Fleka]

He should make "I`m 40 and I`m still better than all you faggots" album and bash the shit out of anything he finds stupid with incredible rhyming, flows and beats.

[PurpleCityRiderMuzik]

Tommorow Is Never Promised: My Journey

[Kill You]

I honestly just want the title to be self-titled. Just "Eminem" with some neat artwork or something.

[shadymathers313]

my username minus the 313

[Blu]

Tommorow Is Never Promised: My Journey

Jesus, it's a title for a rap album not a Lifetime documentary.

[Man1x]

Tommorow Is Never Promised: My Journey

Jesus, it's a title for a rap album not a Lifetime documentary.

Oh shit, lmao. The sequel to that could be "Inside My Casket."

[_Hawk_]

Don't have one and don't want one. I want to be surprised; if I had a title in mind, I'd have some kind of sound or direction or 'type of album' in mind, I don't want to have any of that. What's made Eminem continuously interesting (and the true reason he continues to sell through the roof) is that he fully understands the power of the mystique; him and Paul do, very well. And they very purposely leave you wanting more, and never knowing too much (about the process or how he's gonna sound).

At this point; given that Em has gotten the latest 'life fuel' out of the way with Relapse and Recovery, in terms of the whole 'addiction/recovery period', I'm very very excited to see what he comes up with. As, people say it every album, that, "he has nothing left to talk about" but this is truly the first time that he's like fully up-to-date with chronicling his latest trouble and strife; is in a good creative, focused space and I don't believe he will go backwards.

Recovery was an important album and showed many signs of evolution, even with like "Love the Way You Lie" - the fact he committed to a theme (domestic violence) and kind of rapped in character again just to try and nail a subject to a wall, and he used his skill/rapping like an painter would a paintbrush; just to create a picture in your mind, rather than simply relaying his own issues.

A lot of people (dumb critics) seem to think "Love the Way You Lie" is about Kim, just because they're SO used to everything Em writes now being about his real life in some way. But Relapse was an attempt to make it more abstract and in-character, and a lot of people didn't get it; they couldn't get the 'in-character' aspect, they can't separate Em's paintings from the man himself, so, that's obviously why he went back to being more true-to-life. But, as also with "Space Bound", he's showing signs of separating the two again and becoming a better writer in that sense, he's growing.

So I'm very interested to see what he does now; in terms of moving away from pure introspection and boxing himself in artistically - he's taken the first step with some of the material since in return in terms of creating fiction, and being more creative again. And I think he recognizes that he's going to have to do more than rap from the heart now, so, let's see. But, I don't want to predict it.

Again you are over-emphasizing Eminem's abilities and showing a complete lack of understanding for what it truly means to evolve. From the 80's up until 1999 Eminem had clearly evolved: starting out from something simple and developing into something much improved. Evolution is a gradual process, but it's a constant process of achievement. You certainly can't say that post Lose Yourself Eminem continued to evolve. He peaked. And you certainly can't claim that Recovery showed Eminem's only notable cases where he slipped into another character: '8-mile' was B-Rabbit (which towers over LTWYL and Space Bound) and before that he has tracks like Demon Inside and of course the first three verses from Stan. All of Eminem's 'emotional' tracks or character personas bear some sort of relevance to himself, whether in Marshall, Em, or Shady form. As you say, critics mistake LTWYL for being about him, but it's relevant to scenarios he himself has experienced.

With this in mind, it's only right to wonder what he can rap about which is truly unique. Nothing on Recovery was: he played around with thoughts on the rap game, personifying it and inherently attacking it to a degree, but his forms of character portrayal paired with the emotional depth he added to the record was certainly not different. With Eminem production the album would have been extremely similar to TES, and would have contained tracks like 25-to-life which would easily have fitted into Encore.

Again, with this in mind, Eminem hasn't even evolved from Relapse (Refill included) if we are to uphold character portrayal as a sign of evolution (note: you said it, not me) as the storytelling in Relapse was far ahead of anything on Recovery.

Lastly we have to consider the fact that his albums have been formulated in reactionary cycles and thus you can't draw evolutionary parallels to forms of character portrayal and development. The reasoning behind most of his albums hasn't given him the space to be as creative as you desire in terms of writing as different personsas. As the World Turns was vividly imaginative and could easily fit into Relapse's sphere of imagination, yet Em would't follow the SSLP with an album full of similar concepts and stories (a la Relapse) because it wouldn't fit his revisionary process. The MMLP was an organic extension to his first major release, and his other albums followed suit.
With his upcoming album Eminem once again has the opportunity to effectively start afresh, but bear in mind that his previous released have included such a plethora of styles, ideas and concepts that it will be incredibly difficult for him to come out with an album that sounds 'original' or 'unique' in comparison; unless of course he really focuses on the production and aims to make it blend seamlessly together, almost in MBTF fashion.

[Arrinef]

Just "e"

An all black cover with a backwards e on a corner somewhere

[Notalius]

Sorry Hip-Hop this game is over !

The reunion (shady is trying to get back into marshall/eminem) - i've got a whole story for that album with 4 skits and it's long, but if anyone wants to hear it i'm gonna post it xD

[sbolli1]

He should make "I`m 40 and I`m still better than all you faggots" album and bash the shit out of anything he finds stupid with incredible rhyming, flows and beats.

Haha it's funny I have a fantasy of Em's next album doing exactly this. Just call it like "Fuck Everyone" and bash anyone he feels like bashing, like Benzino (his apology is bullshit), Wayne, the fans, etc., etc.

I know this isn't going to happen that's why it's a fantasy but if I wasn't given the credit I deserved as the case is often with Em, then I certainly would be compelled to just say fuck it.

[Willy]

Fast and choppy flows with fat and sloppy hoez