Does Relapse 2 have to be atleast borderline classic.

[embm]

i thnk hell do jus fine

[EminemInsider]

Are we sure Psycho was recorded after Relapse? It sounds like something that Em could have made in the middle of the production of Relapse to me. "Me and Dre and 50, we will never be caught by the cops" are still the most stupid thing I've ever heard from Shady. And what is "BET Cypher"?

What? Why? How is that stupid?

That didn't even make me think twice. There are hundreds of ridiculously stupid things he said from 2003-2007...things that make me cringe.

[MikeNUFC]

that's exactly it, the formula became boring & predictable. If he wanted to do upbeat song, I want him to do the kind of chill out song like Drug Ballad, not the same old celeb bashing, it's really old.

he always use a celeb bash song at first then he´s gettin more serious.

You dont get it do you? The formula got boring!!

People are bored of it. The song could be good quality, good lyrically whatever but that worked in 2000 cus no-one had ever done it before. Now people are like "Yeah we've heard the same - your 37 years old - dissing celebrites aint funny".

[Elision]

he won´t reach MMLP or TES that would be to difficult.
Also he´s not the same anymore.

KAY

[UofLCard]

You dont get it do you? The formula got boring!!

People are bored of it. The song could be good quality, good lyrically whatever but that worked in 2000 cus no-one had ever done it before. Now people are like "Yeah we've heard the same - your 37 years old - dissing celebrites aint funny".

This

[EminemBase]

First of all. He doesn't need to do anymore to cement his legacy. Even if he brought out 5 awful albums in a row now, it doesn't wash away what he's achieved.

SSLP + MMLP alone cement his legacy as one of the greats. TES hammers it in firmly. Nothing can damage the beauty of the first three, improvement every time. No other solo rapper I can think of has released 3 classics in a row that all better the previous and which were totally different each time.

Let alone produce the majority of the actual music themselves too.

I just hope that R2 is a classic but I have good reason to suspect that it will be. Relapse just slightly missed the classic mark for me but purely because of the inclusion of "Beautiful" and "Crack a Bottle". If he had gone all out on the concept, lost the silly and unrelated shit it would of been something all in itself. He nearly did it but was off-kilter and confused in how he wanted to present his image still IMO.

But now he's looked back on that and is supposedly in a clear mind state now and can't stop writing etc. I think R2 could be his best yet. Never seen him so focused lyrically.