FakeAlias wrote:Obviously Slaughterhouse is going to need "singles."
I just wish their singles were as good as what Kanye & Jay put out.
My Life & Throw It Away are okay and all...but they don't fit the "timeless classic" Slaughterhouse is hyping their album to be.
Also, Eminem's Relapse was not "just for his core fans." It still had the same corny pop culture first single as every album - We Made You - which is probably his worst. It also featured him rapping in an annoying accent, which isn't something his core fans were asking for. I guess Relapse featured him as a more consistent horror core character, but everything he said - Christopher Reeves jokes, murder/rape fantasies - he had done before on previous albums...in my opinion, better. "Stay Wide Awake" is a gem, though. Anyway, Relapse wasn't much of a departure.
I love the accent he used on Relapse.. I was hoping for the darkest album possible and he gave it to me. He was gone for so long and there is no way he thought Relapse was going to be a commercial appeal in the current industry. He made it for his fans. Then he went the opposite direction with the garbage album known as Recovery. But that's a different story for a different day.
It seems like everyone is forgetting that all four of these guys have dabbled in poppy music before. Does no one remember "Pump It Up"? How about those tracks Crooked I did with The Thong Song innovater, Sisqo? Joell has worked with the likes of Akon... and Royce, of course, has featured Bruno Mars. And those are just examples off of the top of my head.
I don't get the people jumping off of the bridge here... and I, in all honesty, am not big on Slaughterhouse. After hearing Recovery and Yelawolf's debut, people should not be surprised about stuff like this from Shady Records. I don't like it because it's Eminem and his label. And I like to still believe that he is above the money chasing. But he has finally succumb. Expect these kind of singles from all of the Shady Records members from here on out.
Just my two (or maybe four or five) cents worth.