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Eminem Best Posts: POLL: how would you rank Side B?

  1. lil uzi vert stan
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    lil uzi vert stan

    Dec 18, 2020
    Hi. It's me. What a time we are in, stans. For perspective: think how ~~labored Em albums used to be. From Recovery to MMLP2 - three years. Then a huge drought, four years for.... Revival. In hindsight you can see how adrift, and unfocused the guy was. Like from Recovery to Kamikaze has some ~OK material, but nothing like this output. From 2018, after the Chloraseptic remix or whatever has really been a second (or third) kind of Golden Age to be an Em fan.

    Which leads me to Side B. The capstone on this period of productivity, the emergence of a looser, somewhat more musical and effortless, more confident and funny Em. Some of you are just completing your first listen - for others, you're already giving it multiple spins. (Shady Records people, if you're reading this, hire me. You won't find a more charitable writer who isn't an utter hack, tbh.)

    How would you rank it? vote away!
     
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  2. Michael Myers
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    Dec 18, 2020
    B. Solid project. Could loose a few songs but none is actually bad / unlistenable. Lots of great moments too.
     
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  3. Sav Stanfield
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    Sav Stanfield

    Dec 19, 2020
    Its a solid B for me at the moment. And better than Side A tbh. Obviously needs much more time to sink in and Em albums have a tendency to age poorly but I'm just loving how natural this all sounds, like there's an actual f---ing human being rapping again rather than the soulless machine he's been for the past 10 years.
     
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  4. Swizz
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    Swizz

    Dec 18, 2020
    B-/C+ range. I still find this stuff to be scattershot and inconsistent, often juvenile and obsessed with ideas he should have moved past years ago. But I agree on your point - he at least feels like he is having fun now, less fixated on his towering legacy and what we want to hear, and more focused on just making music that interests him. So while this (and its predecessor) really isn't for me and I don't expect I'll be playing it much, it does seem like the type of music Eminem "should" be making 20 years in. Not vital, but with much more purpose than, say, Revival
     
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  5. lil uzi vert stan
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    lil uzi vert stan

    Dec 18, 2020
    yeah there's still this lingering sense of roteness or something. i dont mind the 'punchlines' necessarily or how utterly generic some of the records become (skylar grey intro? a decade after LTWYL?) .... but its all camouflaged in his passion for the artform, the fun rap nerdiness of the proceedings and goings on, that i think it ~works far better than some previous endeavors. in other words i think the juvevile stuff almost is forgivable imo bc its packaged with this notion of what He thinks a rude throwback emcee should sound like. something kind of workmanlike about it that i appreciate
     
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  6. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

    Dec 18, 2020
    I'm mostly in the same boat as Swizz—like with side A this is probably something I'll give a handful of listens the first couple weeks then won't really revisit much, but even as someone who doesn't really listen to Em like that anymore it's nice to hear him make something that actually feels like an Eminem album. With a few exceptions, everything from recovery thru revival just feels so robotic, soulless, and/or tryhard. Stuff like the closing track truly captures the magic of a prime eminem song which imo is something he hadn't really done since relapse until these two albums.

    I've only listened once but if the worst offenders on here are more of those copy and paste relationship songs—that's not bad! There's no Stepdad on here lol. I think Side A is a C+, which would make this a B-.
     
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  7. Fitzy
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    Fitzy BeliGOAT

    Dec 20, 2020
    Sslp
    Mmlp
    Tes
    Side b
    Kamikaze
    Side a
    Recovery
    Relapse
    Mmlp2
    Encore
    Revival
     
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  8. Ricky
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    Ricky Hip-Hop CEO ™

    Dec 20, 2020
    I'll go like this:

    TES
    MMLP
    M2BMB
    SSLP
    MMLP2 / KAMIKAZE
    RECOVERY / RELAPSE
    INFINITE
    ENCORE

    r--- BY HOMELESS






















    ANOTHER r---















    REVIVAL
     
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  9. Apocalypse
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    Apocalypse I’m the G.O.A.T

    Dec 18, 2020
    I’m give this B side a solid A. Eminem definitely brought that heat.
     
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