Sep 17, 2020 Down to the T. Anyone who considers his last album anything near Prime material are mentally challenged
Sep 17, 2020 We're living in it. 2018-present. Relapse always had its love, but he didn't see it through and there's a couple blemishes on it; Recovery was huge but obviously very flawed, MMLP2 has a lot of amazing rapping, some great songs, but also a lot of confusion and s-----y compromises & Revival is f---ing garbage. The result of an extremely confused artist at his lowest. Then he comes back with Kamikaze - watertight, musically and thematically. Nothing is out of place, the whole thing works and he finally showed some restraint and that he does still know how to put a cohesive album together again - then 'Murder continued that; a little more experimental, a little more varied, but still super cohesive and great. Two great albums in a row. We're in his 2nd prime.
Sep 18, 2020 Lol cant believe some people consider Recovery era as a prime for him. His popularity grew bigly no doubt, but music was meh. His second prime is from 2018-still to this day. Hopefully it continues til he hangs it up.
Sep 19, 2020 2010 was his second prime 2020 will be potentially approaching his third prime; with what he said in the Kid Cudi song from "Fk's goin on man?!" onward about masks; & the election coming up; covid; BLM; "current events" in general et al, maybe he'll again seize the moment cheah!!! If so imo he def needs to really really slow his speed down and enunciate his words like he did '98-02 (the Kid Cudi and Fat Joe verses give me hope toward this--that people can finally again understand the words he's saying on the first listen). anyways cheahcheahchehacheahhchea!
Sep 19, 2020 Recovery era was iconic. Chloraseptic remix onwards has been a great era too though, especially coming after Revival. Think Murder’ could have been slightly more trimmed and cohesive which would have sealed the third prime.
Sep 19, 2020 It's weird. In 2010-2013, I wasn't really feeling Eminem's music like that as a fan but that was the period where he had tons of bandwagon fans, especially high schoolers. You had people who only listened to Not Afraid and Rap God calling themselves stans...lol. It was a good time to be a casual Eminem fan or seeing the love he got but, imho, it was not a good time to be a core Em fan. 2018 and onward, Eminem doesn't really get the same casual or bandwagon fans like he had in the 2010-2013 era, but his albums have definitely improved and are more geared towards his core audience. So, for me, 2018 and onward is his new prime as far as albums/rapping goes but Em is also simultaneously more loathed in this era which is kind of funny to me.
Sep 19, 2020 How the f--- can the majority opinion be 2010 as his 2nd prime? lmaoooo wtf He literally hasn’t missed since Chloraseptic Remix right through until 2 weeks ago on Big Sean’s album?
Sep 19, 2020 Personally I like where he’s at right now. Whether you like his music now or not, it at the very least doesn’t sound forced. It sounds authentic and feels like Eminem. Which is refreshing after that huge dip in quality starting with MMLP2 (which I liked don’t get me wrong, I just feel his music at this era was starting to feel inauthentic). Right now he sounds like he’s enjoying himself again. I find it hard to believe the same person who made ShadyXV, made MTBMB.
Sep 20, 2020 Recovery era he was definitely a huge star but the music was lack luster at times especially looking back but I had so many friends on Facebook with Not Afraid, No Love, Space Bound, You're Never Over, and Seduction on their MySpace page and hearing him all over the radio. In terms of quality I would say Chloraseptic Remix to now is his second prime in terms of quality and consistancy.
Sep 20, 2020 well said. its like, define ur terms. second commercial/popularity peak? def 2010-2013. but creatively? relapse aside u gotta say 2018-today. were u in hs during recovery era etc?