Eminem

"just shit on my last chick and she has what my ex-lax"
okay i'm out

dear lord

she said she'd be my Gwen Stacy, despite her man

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"Trump is gay as hell" - Eminem

so #woke

https://www.theringer.com/2017/12/18/16788430/eminem-revival-donald-trump-white-america

this take seems pretty OTM to me. a lot of my classmates were big into Em in the late 90's and I feel like nearly all of them turned into #MAGA ironybros.

Huh.

https://genius.com/a/stream-eminem-s-surprise-new-album-kamikaze

Is this a whole album about how everyone hated the last album?

— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) August 31, 2018

sounds much better than the last one

Had rock bottom expectations for this one, but I'm loving it. My friends and I (all ex-Eminem fans who think everything he has done after 2005 is total garbage) have a WhatsApp group chat in which we're all unexpectedly losing it over this.

I'm not losing it but def the most inspired I've heard him since yes 2005 or smth

I've never really been an Eminem fan at all but I dig some of these tracks mostly for the disses tbh

I've never really been an Eminem fan at all but I dig some of these tracks mostly for the disses tbh

he gets instant points for the sub-75-minute running time and what seems to be a reduction in big syrupy chorus hooks

...but I got tuckered out around the fourth song. I can't deal with his voice/persona for more than 10 minutes at a time anymore and I re-remember this every time there's a new album.

hehe I can relate to that

Via Variety:

When Eminem dropped his surprise album “Kamikaze” late Thursday night, hip-hop fans of a certain age immediately noticed that the cover was both an homage to and a spoof of the Beastie Boys’ 1986 debut album, “Licensed to Ill.” A rep for the rapper confirmed that the homage was intentional; a rep for the Beasties said the group had not yet commented.

Ok this is pretty good

Love dummies who don't get that tribute art has been a thing in hip hop since forever

Idk why this shit so funny to me pic.twitter.com/uyPvTzp1Vb

— 💜NAT PUFF💜 (@LeftAtLondon) November 19, 2017

this album is brutal
I really feel bad for him, he seems so stunted ... imagine being his age and dropping homophobic slurs about Tyler who's like 15 years younger than him

he's like the Yngwie Malmsteen of rap at good point, so much effort and technique going into songs no one will remember 2 months from now... it's kind of impressive in like the way it's impressive to watch the slam dunk contest during the NBA all star well, but not really musical in any way

also I really hate the thing where "real" rappers define themselves by what they're not, as if shitting on Lil Xanax or whatever SoundCloud rapper is actually meaningful

otm. and his voice is just not pleasant to listen to.

Other successful rappers in their 40s tend to become moguls and stuff, don’t they? I guess he’s just About the Music (even if he’s embarrassing itself, going by some of these reviews)?

I felt like Em lost most of his humor and ability to create classic albums by The Eminem Show.

i was really excited about this album when i heard he was rapping about venom but it turns out he's just rapping about the spider-man bad guy and not the trve cvlt metal band, so fuck him

lol rapping about Cronos would be dope

there's plenty of rappers his age and older than still make good records

I don't know if 4:44 was completely successful but at least Jay was trying to make an album from a real perfective of where his life was at the time

Lol rusho

Eminem's the 40 something gamer who yells QUIT SPAMMING MOVES in tourneys

Eminem's the 40 something gamer who yells QUIT SPAMMING MOVES in tourneys

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal)

turns out dude is legit a world-class donkey kong player

new Ghostface is promising, Snoop could become the Willie Nelson of rap, comfortably releasing variations of the same good album every year

can't think of more high profile rappers +40 doing well but I'm not thinking that hard either

but yeah the Yngwie Malmsteen analogy is otm

as the kids say... I'm dead

This funniest shit I’ve seen all day g. He say this how Eminem raps. pic.twitter.com/9lc8cWA5yd

— Larry Legend (@larryislegend) September 2, 2018

can't think of more high profile rappers +40 doing well but I'm not thinking that hard either

E-40? more like E-50+

also DJ Quik is 48, Run The Jewels are both 43 and at the peak of their careers

oh yeah Quik!

You can already sense the climate is startin' to shift
To these kids you no longer exist
Went from rainin' cats and dogs in this bitch
To tiny drops, little drips
And by the time your reign is over, you'll hardly be missed

And my favorite orange soda is Sunkist

He’s more self-aware than Malmsteen. Also I think he’s about to break the record for artist with more consecutive #1 albums (9). Had no idea his previous albums went #1.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8078653/eminem-revival-makes-chart-history-with-eighth-consecutive-no-1-debut-on

This was the previous album. I assume this one will get to #1 if Revival did.

Who holds the record presently?

(xpost – I see that article answers the question)

Was driving around the other day and my wife was in control of the music. She starts playing something and I'm all, what the hell is this? And she goes, it's the new Eminem. And I say, why, you didn't listen to the last three or four new Eminems, and they were bad, too. And she says, hey, I just saw this was out to today and wanted to listen to it. (30 seconds goes by) Yeah, she goes, this is bad. And then she turns it off.

Folks making fun of his style are endlessly funny to me. Sometimes when I'm out for a walk I start coming up with ridiculous angry Eminem rhymes. "Like a constable I am constantly able to beat your head on a table til you bleed red like Day-glo or Fay-go or whatever shit glow, no, flow, 12 inches of snow won't stop this shit show, like a ho you don't know showing up wrecking homes were you go when you want to be alone and atone for some shit that you done, like signing your name in the snow with number one, or worse, number two that I got from you when you shit your pants like you were two, wrapped it up once your ass blew, oh whoops, did I offend you? whoopiedoo..."

That said, I just played the Oops! Slim Shady Did It Again mashup a couple of hours ago, and I still absolutely love it.

I kind of like the backing track in The Fall, sounds like a Jim Jonsin production and I love his work. he has worked with Eminem in the past so it could actually be him but no idea if the credits have been published for this one.

Production-wise this is probably his best album in a while. I haven’t been following his career much tbh but I can’t remember liking any of his backing tracks for like a decade.

"More self aware than Malmsteen" might be a new standard in faint praise

that Chris D'Elia clip just kills me, I can't get over it

Malmsteen at least seems to be having fun

Em was fun once (or at least, jokey)

yeah that's the thing he's lost the kinda antic Looney tunes "hi kids do you like violence?" aspect

yeah in some weird way his stance now is more that of an offended person