The Relapse Project -- one year later.

[forgot_about_matt]

People are totally over exaggerating about the features on Recovery...sorry.

Agreed. I could do without Wayne on "No Love", but the other features all work well.

[forgot_about_matt]

People are totally over exaggerating about the features on Recovery...sorry.

Agreed. I could do without Wayne on "No Love", but the other features all work well.

Meh, I don't mind Wayne's verse. It just builds up for Em's awesome delivery

With another long Em verse in place of Wayne (who is merely alright), that would be one of Em's all-time best songs.

[14Shots]

still a mediocre album imo

To each their own, I suppose. Relapse is like a breath of fresh air for me, and his voice sounds really smooth and easy on the tracks. Nothing forced. He made the complexity of lyrics look so...easy.

i think the best word to describe it is effortless.

he made it look so effortless.

whereas a lot Recovery (the wordplay and the yelling) comes off as forced.

[petey]

Relapse >>>>>>>>>> Recovery.

I think both are weak comeback albums, too.

Don't get me wrong, both albums have some great tracks on them...but the albums as a whole lack when comparing to his earlier material (sorry, it's just the way it is).

Why I think Relapse shit's on Recovery is because Relapse is at least Eminem staying somewhat true to himself as an artist and who he always claimed to be. I respect that. I also respect branching out as an artist and growing, but with Recovery I felt Em did that in complete sellout fashion. Jumping on tracks with Wayne, Pink and Rihanna was just disappointing...as was the whole tone of the album. It's basically a semi-twisted love album that teenage girls can vibe to. This is not Eminem.

Relapse, again while not that good either, at least had even an underground feel to it. You really felt that Em was doing it for his real fans, even though it was a miss. Recovery was just to ca$h in, straight up, and take the easy ride to #1 again.

absolutely. relapse was for the REAL fans, had a bit of an underground feel to it and he stayed TRUE to himself. it wasnt even as great lyrically/flow wise as people make it out to be, decent comes to mind but it was interesting and has great replay value for me. recovery was just a bad album, boring, boring, boring. and he completely listened to his casual listeners like a dog with his tongue out and gave them what they wanted. CONCEPT album would be nice, but drop the fricken relationship crap and have a mix of songs where he just tears up the beats with wit and no forced shit.

[Devil'sAdvocate]

welcome back forget abt matt.

I fuckin love relapse,shits all over Recovery.

[venomous_volatile]

Bump the relapse threads from when it leaked, I didn't really read that much hate..

And I was on TR 24/7 when it leaked

It's just when Recovery dropped it grew faster on people so Relapse looked weak.

Now that ppl have had time with both albums they both seem great

[xxTrigger1989xx]

ANOTHER one of these "______ would have been better if it had these tracks" topics?

[accutub]

Last month I realized it a GRRREEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT album