Nov 9, 2015

One thing I think is important to take into consideration with Relapse is everything that happened from Encore to Eminem's overdose and finally rehab.

Look at Encore. It was full of simple, below standard songs. The rhymes were simple and lazy. He couldn't write at the time. And he was stuck in this kind of writer's block for years.

It's a major change in life to go from being addicted to substance to going cold turkey and getting sober. Especially for someone like Eminem who hasn't been sober in a long while, practically never wrote or recorded sober. You don't just snap back to normal.

At certain point Eminem started writing complex rhymes again and felt some clarity in thinking. Being so out of touch with the rest of the world he didn't know how to sound when he gets back with an album. The rhymes are there, the flows are there, it's just the subject matter that's not there. He wanted to sort of reinvent himself, he wanted to do the Slim Shady, but couldn't quite get it right yet. He asked Dre what do people want, and Dre said "they want you to go crazy again". That's how Eminem interpreted "crazy" at the time.

Think of Relapse as finally being able to rhyme properly. After the Encore slump, just being able to rhyme with complexity to it was a huge milestone. We can't imagine what it was like to get out of that drugged out zone and how clouded his thinking was.

My point is, say what you want about Relapse, but it was certainly a huge step forward from the drugged out Encore style writing he couldn't get out of for years. The content is not working for a lot of people, but the context of what was going on behind the scenes is important to recognize.

Eminem was proving to himself that he can rhyme again. The content may have been a misguided take on "go crazy again" but it's not important. He was out of the lazy drugged rhyming pattern and that was enough for the time being. Honestly, it's amazing he got out of his addiction alive.

 

Nov 9, 2015

Well done, i agree with every word. Relapse is one of my favorite albums, the best horrorcore i've ever seen in an album. The whole ''serial killer'' thing was great, it show us where Em was going with his own mind, almost going insane in his house isolated from the world.

 

Nov 9, 2015

Everything about the album was Dope af except for the accent at times. Sometimes it was cool like "Same Song And Dance", some times, it just got plain annoying af...like on "Old Times Sake"

 

Nov 9, 2015

I'm just so f---ing depressed, I just can't seem to get out this slump

 

Nov 9, 2015

He f----- up OTS with that d--- accent.

 

Nov 9, 2015

I cosign this powerful thread cheah

 

Nov 9, 2015

I'M DANCING IN MY RED PANTIES

 

Nov 9, 2015

Here's the thing, the album is bad

 

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Nov 10, 2015

Relapse is great if you just bob your head to the dre beats and wonder "what the f--- am i doing with my life right now?"

 

Nov 10, 2015

I don't mind the idea of it. Just minus the accents and a little bit of the weirdness and I would have liked it a lot more.

 

Nov 10, 2015

Exactly. Cool for Eminem that he got sober and all, but it's no excuse for the s-----y music. Some of you are approaching this as if you're his mother.

 

Nov 10, 2015

Uh, the beats clearly arent bad tho

 

Nov 10, 2015

What rapper u know gonna say a certain album of theirs is in the trash like dont even listen to that s---...lol that takes guts and honesty....so in reality Relapse cant be taken seriously because of Ems statement

 

Nov 10, 2015

I read the title in the Relapse accent

 

Nov 10, 2015

don't need a defense for liking it

i think it's one of his best albums to date

 

Nov 10, 2015

Relapse was a huge step to right direction yeah, like Recovery was a huge step to right direction. Oh wait, so was The Marshall Mathers LP and after that h---: The Sequel and then SHADY XV.
How many steps does Eminem have to take to be in that "right place" already. He keeps takin the steps but he aiN't reaching nowhere. Except 4-5 songs Encore is a lot better than Relapse to me tho...

 

Nov 10, 2015

Besides Beautiful and Deja Vu which are classic songs and 10/10 perfect songs and Crack A Bottle which is a 8/10 song. The rest of Relapse is trash

Not including the bonus songs as they are both 10/10 classic songs too

The fact that everyone loves Beautiful but hates the rest of Relapse say's it all. Imagine how much more Relapse would be hated if Beautiful wasn't on it

The only great thing about the album is the hooks