Sep 13, 2016 This popped in my head yesterday after class and I started to connect the dots and found out that my claim has potential to be at least partially factual Lets get the obvious connection out the way There were an albums worth of Slim Shady shock raps. The only problem was they lacked the subtlety and cartoonish punch of SSLPs which was replaced with a wild jamaican serial killer and raps more akin to horrorcore Ok so here are other connections yall may not have caught initially: Dr West skit makes a reference to the SSEP skit, reintroducing Slim Shady to Em's psyche by showing him as a rehab doctor in disguise in his dreams My Mom fufills a prophecy Eminem made on SSLP "My mom does more dope than I do, I told her i'd grow up and be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her Insane is another one of those "my brain is f-----" songs so it could be seen as a continuation of Brain Damage (sounds like a reach i know) Hello shares the same sentiment of My Name Is, a song introducing (reintroducing in this case) Slim Shady to the masses We Made You sounds like at an attempt at another dance song with Dina Rae (c-m On Everybody anyone?) The Paul skit although one has appeared in every solo before this record Em and Dre return on Old Times Sake. It isn't the same concept as Guilty Conscience as both parties are now on the "evil side" If I Had and Rock Bottom mirror Deja Vu and Beautiful. If I Had has Em lamenting about his poverty struggles, Deja Vu has him telling the somber lamentful story of his near death experience due to his struggles with wealth and traumas. Both Rock Bottom and Beautiful speak on his very heavy depression Underground is basically Still Don't Give A f--- 2. He raps about how he doesn't give a f--- about anyone from Michael Myers to a crippled lesbian. Its The signature Eminem outro that doesn't hold anything back and rounds the album out with shock raps and evil sentiments. Plus... "A lot of people ask me....." If only there was no accents, serial killer obsessions, more wit, and more comic relief with the shock raps then maybe the album wouldnt be a waste of Dres beats and would be worthy to be mentioned along SSLP quality wise. There could be more connections that I haven't touched on or most of these could be just reaches. I just wanted to write my thoughts out. Discuss my fellow stanleys
Sep 14, 2016 I like the idea presented by OP, but I'm not so willing to call Relapse a worthy SSLP2. Some good observations though
Sep 14, 2016 Shut up don't ever put my threads under the same "Eminem has fans in Asia" umbrella. If it wasn't for Me Rick James Sillk and a small few others this section would be the equivalent to full blown aids
Sep 14, 2016 Take away the accent and relapse >>> sslp. The accent has grown on me even though most hate it.
Sep 14, 2016 I've always assumed Relapse was his attempt at going back to his 'shady' persona. In fact, he kinda talks about that in interviews when he was doing promo for it. He basically was saying Mr Porter was like "where is that crazy shady s--- at? Back in the day, when you were battle rapping and just saying wild s---" (or something to that effect, i don't feel like wasting 5 minutes googling this, just trust me here). He even found himself rummaging through old raps on paper to *spark* some creative juices, so he was kinda using those as a jump off point (hence the lame old Christopher reeves and Maria lines). If you remember, he said he had to 'learn to rap' again, so those old books helped put him back in the mind space, except he was 10 years older and it was way less funny... All of that said, your theory kind of aligns to what Eminem was trying to do (imo) but I don't think it was a literal, track for track translation to output as SSLP2 ... that's crazy talk bro.
Sep 15, 2016 I think OP has good points. It does seem like he tried to make a modern version of SSLP.
Sep 15, 2016 I thought that was common knowledge. Relapse is great btw. On them accents he raps tight.
