Recovery Lyrics Explained

[RTiii320]

Pretty good read, you can click on a song, scroll over the highlighted parts and it says a little bit about the theory behind what Em was spitting. Some things seem off, but for the most part its pretty good.
http://rapgenius.com/posts/Eminem-recovery-all-the-lyrics-to-every-song-explained

[MackBook]

This forum doesnt need that lol but good find

Man can that site have wayne's cock any further down their throats?

[Emadyville]

thats actually pretty fucking cool, good find

[MackBook]

That site says Em sings the space bound chorus.....what????

[RTiii320]

yeah, there is DEF. some dumb/wrong stuff on there. but cool to look at nonetheless, imo.

[Raids-God]

hhhmmm This kenco coffie's alright.
might Switch to it before school might wake me up a little. never Know.

[buffalo bill]

cool

[Devil'sAdvocate]

Dope,

[dR3]

Pretty good site.

[Throwback24]

this is quite helpful

[Timekeeper]

Fuck that site, they show Mariah's Em parody from Obsessed as a picture of Eminem for 25 to Life.

[HereHere]

Lmao at 25 to Life being about Kim
Other than that, it's pretty cool.

[iball]

Yo, Rap Genius editor here, thanks for the love as well as the suggestions for corrections.

If you see anything else we get wrong, leave a comment on the site and we'll make the fix.

[iball]

Fuck that site, they show Mariah's Em parody from Obsessed as a picture of Eminem for 25 to Life.

We thought that it was pretty obviously a joke, but I changed the picture of Eminem anyway: http://rapgenius.com/19600

[MikeNUFC]

Lmao at 25 to Life being about Kim
Other than that, it's pretty cool.

It doesnt think it's about Kim at all

About 25 To Life

Like Common’s “I Used To Love H.E.R.” and 2Pac’s “Me and My Girlfriend”, this song isn’t what it seems at first glance. It sounds like a kiss-off to a jealous, neglectful, emotionally abusive lover—Eminem has recorded plenty of those—but the ending reveals that it’s a kiss-off to a jealous, neglectful, emotionally abusive little art form called hip-hop

This ode is not without its problems: just what about hip-hop is Em blaming for treating him so poorly over the years? Is it the industry? The audience? The media? The medium? And how seriously can we take the claim that Eminem is divorcing hip-hop once and for all when it comes to us on an album billed as his triumphant return to it?

Exegetical fodder aside, “25 To Life” is a cleverly nuanced testament to Em’s refusal to fade into oblivion without a fight: he’s flipping the script and hating the game, not the player