Jan 24, 2021 Absolutely his best song post-hiatus. Nothing comes close. Not Bad Guy, not Believe, not Arose, Framed, Deja Vu, none of them come close, as brilliant as they are. Like someone else here worded it, this was a Tour De Force on an all time scale. The dark, haunting, brilliant production. The way he immaculately glides over every drum kick with every word (2nd beat). The incoming haunting keys and creeping, subtle cellos accompanied with immersive introspection (3rd beat). Aside from Gnat this has been in constant rotation. I’m obsessed with this track.
Jan 26, 2021 I think this is recency bias. Sure, it's great, and especially for modern Em... But Top 5 Em ever? - So already let's name Brain Damage, 97 Bonnie and Clyde, Just Don't Give a f---, Still Don't Give a f---, k--- You, The Way I Am, I'm Back, Criminal, White America, Till I Collapse... / So there's 10 of Em's best and classic songs - so Book of Rhymes better than at least five of those? Not even close for me, and it's not just nostalgia, it's the writing... it's the power of the choruses, the concepts and overall songs. It's all just much better; Em may be better at cramming a lot of syllables and maybe even rhyming in general (in terms of just rhyming more) but it's still also crammed with really corny and bad similes, puns and the overall songs are just not as memorable or powerful.
