paperboyslim wrote:Em fell off, BIG TIME. Hes not the dude the majority of us like. Relapse was OK. thats about it. We wait so long for an album after shitty encore drops and he gives us Relapse???
Dude honestly ive lost hope for eminem, i love em till death but now i see how shit really is. HES OLD AS FUCK. HE GIVES A FUCK. HE DOESNT DO DRUGS. HE AINT THE SHADY WE FELL IN LOVE WITH.
ALL YALL PRASING RELAPSE NEED TO JUMP OFF SHADYS DICK I LOVE EM PROBABLY AS MUCH AS YALL BUT LETS FACE IT SLIM SHADY IS DEAD AND HE AINT COMING BACK....
Eminem hasn't fell off. I don't know about you but I only consider a rapper having fell off when they either lose passion for their art. So, they become lazy with their lyricism, don't care about the reasons for doing it anymore. Can you honestly say his technique is lazy? He's more buzzed than ever.
Either this or they sell-out. And Em never has sold out. Just to clarify for anybody who jumps on this point, selling-out means to compromise your art for the sake of money. And for his fifth album, doing a horrocore album, talking mainly about rape, pills, eating unborn babies and murder in such a complex way is NOT selling-out. You can say he's sold out when he's making track after track bragging about success, in videos with gigantor chains and endorsing bullshit products. COUGH, 50.
If you don't like his new flows / accents or subject matter. Fine. You should say you think he's shit now or you don't like the new Eminem. But that ain't falling off. His lyricism and ambition are as stark, inspiring and big as ever. He's really pushing himself again.
You say he ain't the Shady you fell in love with. Well, again, just me maybe but I didn't want Relapse to sound like his past efforts. One of the primary reasons Eminem is so exciting to follow for me is the fact he sounds totally different every album. So if Relapse sounded like The Slim Shady LP I'd be disappointed. Not only because it would be a repeat performance but that's not where he's at now.
He also purposely avoided talking mainly about personal issues. Not because he fell off but because he did it from 02-06 and personally, I'd heard enough off it. What did you want another 20 tracks about his guilt about leaving Hailie, his unescapable fame and how he's not appreciated enough in rap? He did it to death. I'm totally glad he didn't do this. Serial killing is exciting and cinematic.
I have his past albums when I feel suicidal but for now, I'm loving his new sense of fun with rap.
You're right, he's not the Shady I fell in love with. He's provided me with a new Shady to fall in love with. I sure as hell wouldn't wanna be without "Stay Wide Awake" or "Buffalo Bill". He's on another level now. Before he was a cocky rapper with a smart mouth. And I loved it. But now he feels like a manic wordsmith. Such poetic phrasing, light-years ahead. And awe-inspiring flows.
But, just as a finishing point. His psycho-talk, obsession with wordplay and twisted humour all pre-date his bitching and personal-driven rapping. So he actually IS the Shady everyone fell in love with.
