If Eminem retired from rap after Recovery...

[Satire]

Would you have been satisfied with his career?

'Fuck you Hip-Hop, my life sentence is served, bitch'

Obviously you'd be saddened at the fact that your favorite artist stopped rapping, I know this, but it's going to happen eventually like it or not. Before I go on, I'll say don't interpret this as a 'Is Recovery a good enough album to leave off of?' because even though that's part of it, it's much more than that.

It's timing. Summing up his career, Em hit the ground running with SSLP, an amazing album, then used the controversy and reception of that to craft the masterpiece that is MMLP. Then he took his personal life into introspect and showed even further growth as an artist with producing the Eminem Show, which, imo, was his peak musically. It was a nearly perfect, if not perfect album.

After an attempt at creating a legacy to carry on with signing the Hip-Hop superstar 50 Cent and the reasonably successful Obie Trice, he followed up to his classic with what I believe is the most disappointing album ever. I've said it before, in terms of the "Good artist, shitty album" collection that includes Nastradamus, Curtis, Kingdom Come, and others, this is pretty much the king of it.

'The Eminem Show was fantastic, but Encore didn't have the caliber to match it'

After this Em took a break from the industry to "work on producing other acts" (lolno) and get away from solo work for about 5 years. He could have left at this point, but there were so many open ends on the drama that circulated around him while he was gone. Proof died, everyone knew about his addiction, people were going at him while he left, etc.

Then he returned to form with Relapse in 2009. I thought this was a very good album, but fans and critics were disappointed. The media called Eminem 'irrelevant' when he came back with shit like Crack A Bottle & We Made You. Nobody liked the accent, nobody liked the subject matter, it got hardly any radio play.

'Let's be honest, that last Relapse CD was eh. Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground'

Recovery was his official answer to what people didn't find in Relapse: He addresses Proof dying, his addiction, haters, people he thought about dissing, and finally puts his issues with Kim to rest in the last few lines of GTC. Though his technical skill didn't show as much in this album as it did in previous releases, he was EVERYWHERE in 2010 with this album. Love The Way You Lie & Not Afraid got a fuck load of rotation and Recovery was a critical and commercial success.

So basically, Em had:
A starring role in an oscar-winning movie
3 amazing albums
2, imo, good albums
1 shit album that he should erase from existence using the money he has.

Now with all of that said, here is my question to you: If he left after Recovery, would you be satisfied? Would you be happy that he left with that album? Would you be happy with everywhere he went over his career?

I'd be unhappy that he's quitting, but I honestly think this could have been a good album to leave on. Hell, it sounded like he was with songs like "25 To Life" on it. I don't have enough faith in him to believe that he's going to leave the same way he entered (with a classic album), so I would have been alright with Recovery being where he left off.

[Solace]

No I would not be satisfied with Recovery being his last album.

[mdemaz]

fuck no

[BILI]

No I would not be satisfied with Recovery being his last album.

[xxTrigger1989xx]

No. I love Recovery, but I want him to make another true classic before he drops out of the game. I think he has it in him, he just needs inspiration. I want him to go out with a bang. Like I said, Recovery is great, but it's not a big enough bang

[mdemaz]

No. I love Recovery, but I want him to make another true classic before he drops out of the game. I think he has it in him, he just needs inspiration. I want him to go out with a bang. Like I said, Recovery is great, but it's not a big enough bang

What age do you think he will call it quits?
50?

[Satire]

No. I love Recovery, but I want him to make another true classic before he drops out of the game. I think he has it in him, he just needs inspiration. I want him to go out with a bang. Like I said, Recovery is great, but it's not a big enough bang

What age do you think he will call it quits?
50?

I can't see him rapping past 40.

[mdemaz]

No. I love Recovery, but I want him to make another true classic before he drops out of the game. I think he has it in him, he just needs inspiration. I want him to go out with a bang. Like I said, Recovery is great, but it's not a big enough bang

What age do you think he will call it quits?
50?

I can't see him rapping past 40.

I can..
XDDDDD
I know a lot of energetic 50 year olds though..

[BILI]

No. I love Recovery, but I want him to make another true classic before he drops out of the game. I think he has it in him, he just needs inspiration. I want him to go out with a bang. Like I said, Recovery is great, but it's not a big enough bang

What age do you think he will call it quits?
50?

I can't see him rapping past 40.

I can...producing and dropping some verses for Shady Records artists.

[Master Chief]

In order for Eminem to leave, he needs to create his best album ever. Yeah, I have that much faith in him

[mdemaz]

Em would probably just keep producing for the rest of his retirement..

[xxTrigger1989xx]

Nah, I don't see him rapping past 50. Maybe 'til 45 or so but not too much longer than that

[Cube23]

No. Nothing he creates will ever be a good album to end on, imo. It just won't be good enough to capture his career and how great his first three albums were.

[mdemaz]

Then how can Em go out with a bang?
Redo 'TMMLP?'

[xxTrigger1989xx]

Then how can Em go out with a bang?
Redo 'TMMLP?'

No, do something totally different and original. First-off, he makes songs with his "The Warning voice" so no one is bitching about that. Then he produces a good amount of the album himself, with some Dre, Just Blaze, maybe some good Khalil beats as well, so people aren't bitching about the production. And then he stops spitting punchlines and starts storytelling and being real, but funny and ironic at the same time, so no one is bitching about the content

Then, and only then, do I think his fans will finally be satisfied lmao