He’s not willing to make the same risk again. It seems as though, from Eminem’s perch, the backlash to the freestyle was louder and more pronounced than the applause of those who enjoyed his risky brushing off of our bridezilla president’s fans.
‘Cause I’m determined to be me, critique the worshipīut if I could go back I’d at least reword itĪnd say I empathize with the people this evil serpent Has the court of public opinion reached a verdict I’m watchin’ my fan base shrink to thirdsĪnd I was just trying to do the right thing, but word That line in the sand, was it even worth it? Oh and he putting quite a few in a body bag too ?! ? Now if y’all think this “Kamikaze” album isn’t ? you’re just hating and incompetent of lyrics/cadence/breakdown of his raps. Perhaps he had to go through the experience of critical and commercial failure with Revival to arrive at an album like this, one that earned a coveted LeBron James endorsement: Aside from one absolutely unlistenable song, Eminem is either in top form or close to it throughout.
#Eminem album order series#
Over a series of beats made by himself, Mike WILL Made It, and a slew of other producers, Em’s technical skills are impressive as ever, weaving clever, biting wordplay into dextrous, tongue-twisty speed rap that even Twista would appreciate. Eminem sounds hungry to reclaim his tarnished legacy here in a way that resembles how hungry he once was to get rich and earn his spot in the pantheon. My one-listen hot take is that Kamikaze is way more in line with what I expected after that BET freestyle, rather than Revival. Admittedly, that’s sort of what I’m doing here, with this very post. Part of Eminem’s beef with how Revival was received is that, in his view, critics seemed to just give the album a cursory listen before reviewing it. This (unintentional) crash landing is the origin story behind Kamikaze. What arrived instead, though, was Revival, an album that earned him some of the worst reviews of his entire career. After turning in his best performance in 15 years, expectations were sky-high for the album that followed a couple months later.
To recap, the former Slim Shady captured the world’s attention last fall with an explosive anti-Trump freestyle on BET. By that point in the album, more than two-thirds in, you will be intimately familiar with how 2017 played out for Eminem. “Last year didn’t work out so well for me,” the rapper says at the top of the title track.
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