Gimmick wrote:IMO, Relapse was really good, if you just listen to the whole album ONCE, you won't like it. If you listen to it again, and again, you'll start to like it more and more. Relapse is a classic, better than any other rap album that was released in 2009, it was a "The Marshall Mathers LP" with an accent, he did NOT sell-out or anything, it was straight raw hip hop. Relapse only got hate for the accent, no one actually looked at the lyrics. It took a while before people started to think "OMG, this is a good album".
If you have to listen to an album multiple times for you to really like it, then that says a lot about the album itself.
But when Recovery was released, he became automatically a whack rapper? He sold-out? He's whack? That's bullshit. He made one, JUST ONE album that is a little more "newschoolish" for teens and it got shitloads of hate, saying he fell off. But the new fans are annoying though, I agree with that. Not afraid got hate too. Not afraid is like a newer version of The Way I am. Everyone was crying and saying " OH HE'S SCREAMIN' ON EVERY TRACK, I MISS THE OLD SLIM SHADY".
People 'hated' on it for embarrassing punchlines(fillet smoking weed, monopoly board, haters drop dead like bees, etc), wack beat selection, not just the annoying yelling delivery on some tracks. You seem to dismiss the "screaming" complaint as unnecessary bitching, but I fail to see how it is. If someone thinks the delivery is bad, why can't they complain about it? And Not Afraid is far from being the new "The Way I Am", as I see it, they're exact opposites. On one he's talking about fans alienating him & pressure from Interscope to release hits. While on the other he's sucking up to Stanelys who didn't like his last album.
He did what you guys wanted him to do, he released Hell: The Sequel, it only had one song that was a little more mainstream. And it was Lighters, only one song. Every other track sounds like they could've been released in the 90's. Now Hell: The Sequel get's hate because of one song? And some people say that Hell: The Sequel wasn't shady. Almost every track was a Shady track, he just doesn't have the high pitched voice that he used to have.
H:TS doesn't get hate from "one song", son. Where the fuck have you been? It's "hated" on for it's overuse of shit/diarrhea/dick/ fast food & retail stores references (check SL, that's the main complaint) and Em flowingliket his. Also, every song except Lighters sounds like it's from the 90s? C'mon son, just because it has "shady" content doesn't means it's equal to the wit of SSLP material.
This is like the reason why Eminem hates his fans, he does what you guys want him to do, and when he does it, he gets hate. If I had fans like you, I would kill myself, lol.
Eminem shouldn't being trying to please his fans at all.