R.I.P. The Eminem I used to know 2000-2010

[exaltedangel09]

People change fuck. Why are you posting your bullshit?
The guy has 50 million dollars.. why should he be wearing hoodies and screaming rape?

Dude has to be a role model man.. his daughters going to be 20 by 2015..

[M15HKA]

We know Em always tries to be different to set himself apart from the rest. He said that 10 years ago. He still does this, he grew up he's mature now his daughter is in her teen years he chose to do something different in his music but keep his style to compliment his old fans but do new things to bring new fans. 25 to life which is about his love for Hip Hop makes me go 14/17 tracks i loved. After two listens. I didn't have this reaction with some of his albums.

[ChristinaE12]

What 4 or 5 songs are you saying are songs for girls?? I think you are misinterpreting some of it.

[CB Productions]

Yea man I'm in the same boat as you. Who knows, I could grow to love the album (and don't get me wrong, I still think it's really good), but even now after I've been relistening to the album a few times, something just feels off to me. It's way to early to make any sort of judgement for me, cause I've been listening to his other albums for years (minus relapse) so to compare an album that leaked hours ago to those albums isn't fair. But it definitely feels like his most pop/mainstream album but hey at least he didn't use autotune.

And honestly I want(ed) Em to grow as a person and as an artist but I guess I was just expecting something different.

[infiniterap]

Look at all of these people who can't understand the meaning of these songs. He had maybe...2 songs that were actually about girls.

He did them the right way. He stuck to true rap. He didn't make any Lollipop or some other shitty song. I agree, this is his most commercial album. However, that DOES NOT have to be a bad thing. He did it the right way.

If you don't like these, then you aren't an Em fan, to be honest. They have a lot more meaning than just the first listen. He went through some serious shit in his life before this album, and that made the meanings of most of these songs just that much more powerful.

[DanWS]

Meh, you want the old Eminem? Go listen to his old stuff. I dont want the same old Eminem, I want him to evolve and grow as a person.

[goblue418]

Well its not about "growing up", its about what he stood for when he first came out.

A big FUCK YOU to the industry and manufactured artists.

he is the industry now

[Leviathan]

THE DUDE WHO STARTED THIS THREAD...IS A ...F-A-G-G-O-T DO LIKE T.I SAYS AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! OR FUCK, DO LIKE LIMP BIZKIT SAID AND SHUT THE FUCK UP! This album is about RECOVERING! HE'S DONE BEING IN THIS DARK ASS WORLD HE ALWAYS WAS PERSONIFYING.. HE IS HUMAN JUST AS, UMMM...WE ALL VISITING THIS FORUM ARE, YOU DIPSHIT.. Infinite had love songs, you like Infinite? Probably not cuz your a fuckin duesch bag..Space Bound is also a metaphor you fuckin faggot. Listen to it, your too dumb to realize that...god I just got done hoopin with the album playing out the car, I come in, and your fuckin ass just ruined my whole damn day...SHUT...THE...FUCK...UP...go play Stan, and Kill yourself...

[Leviathan]

AND THE FAG WHO CREATED THIS THREAD PROBABLY THINKS 25 TO LIFE IS ABOUT KIM...YOUR A GOD DAMN CUNT

[Drucifer]

It was time for Slim Shady to be put to rest, its started becoming a bad joke the minute just lose it came out.........I didnt want to see Em out here like Snoop Dogg, playing the pimp role in his Mid-40's when we all know he got a wife and kids at home........Real artists mature and reflect that in their music, Others do the same thing over and over and become laughing stocks, which Em was seriously about to become if this album had sucked.....

[EminemBase]

This album ain't commercial just because of the features man. He's just decided to stop acting stupid and try merging his psycho style with more serious themes.

His lyricism and flows are hardcore as fuck. This is old Em on crack. "Cinderella Man" is like another "Till I Collapse" and "Almost Famous" is just amazing.

[Mxracer6y]

Let me start off by saying this : Recovery is a good album, I do think it's a better album in general than Relapse. But,

The Eminem that I use to love, that became my favorite artist is just plain dead and gone. This has to be the MOST COMMERCIAL Eminem album ever, there's no denying it.

It's like, he went against everything I use to love about Eminem. Eminem never made songs for girls/about girls where he "seduces" them. If you don't count the Kim songs, the old Eminem just didn't roll like that. That's exactly what Superman was about, it was a song for girls but truly an anti-girl, a satiric song. There's like 4 songs on this "Seductive, Space Bound, Love the Way YOu lie, So Bad". Especially Space Bound and the Rihanna song, that is just weird to hear Eminem make such songs.

The old Eminem didn't do features with the cool new artists, that's exaclty what he did.

The odl Eminem didn't make forced club songs. WTP? More like WTF??

Eminem was not a suck up, he sucks up to current artist and he sucks up to us the fan.

And the finale : The Proof Song. Seriously, he should never have made a Proof Song, it just sound way to corny, from the Hook to the beat.


Now before I get flame, like I said, Recovery is a good album, but it's NOT an Eminem album, at least not the one those of us in their 20s fell in love with.

But I can't deny, that on every songs, he kills it lyrically. Verses are great.

Man you have NO idea what you're talking about. How can you call yourself a fan and say the things you said? You obviously didnt understand ANY of the songs.. WTP is HARDLY a club song. WTP is JUST like modern day "business" or "drug ballad" ... u gonna say those are club songs too? fuck outa here.

The love songs are hardly 'love' songs at all.

And how the HELL are you gonna address the proof song as corny.. it was his fucking best friend. I dont think you understand what its like to truly lose a BEST friend.. someone who's like a brother. Your jackass of a personality shines through the ignorance in your post. it just makes your opinion as relevant rick ross.

Idk how any of you can complain about ANY of his new stuff since relapse.. who the FUCK else would u rather listen too? Eminem may not have the same personality he did 10 years ago... but hes still the GOAT and his shittiest songs > any other modern hip hop song

Anyways.. this album is an instant classic... it will definitely go down as one of his best albums ever.

[imhavingarelapse]

This album ain't commercial just because of the features man. He's just decided to stop acting stupid and try merging his psycho style with more serious themes.

His lyricism and flows are hardcore as fuck. This is old Em on crack. "Cinderella Man" is like another "Till I Collapse" and "Almost Famous" is just amazing.

are you gonna do a song by song review of Recovery? that'd be dope

[da r star]

Wow, it's funny how people just DON'T read.

I've said it like 3 or 4 times, that I like the album, but I'm just saddened by the fact that the Eminem that became a star is doing things he just wouldve never done before.

Basically, what I'm saying is this : Good bye Old Eminem, you were the greatest artist ever. Welcome New Eminem, you're killing the game right now.

And even songs that I didn't like the content I had to listen a second time because the verses were great, like Seduction, when it first started I was like "What the fuck?" but then he kills it and I had to listen again.

[RealSickLindley]

If anything, i think he gives less of a fuck now..

It ever entered your mind that perhaps he came across a beat before i thought, 'Pink would sound sick on this, but my fans would rip in to me for doing it..'

He likes all the artists on his album, he's a fan, he likes them, and they're talented..

So please.. PLEASE.. Tell me why them being popular should stop him making an album of music he likes?