Another week, another new unreleased Eminem leak! Judging by the accent it's better safe to say that this track was meant to be on Relapse 1 or 2.
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Another leak that wasn't meant to see the light of day for obvious reasons, judging by his flow and accent it's safe to assume this is a track that didn't make the cut to the Relapse 1 or 2 album.
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VIBE: How'd you feel about the response to "Forever"?
Eminem: The response was great. I didn’t really look it like I’m competing against these guys. I’m on a record with them, but I just wanted to make a good song. Certainly, the response helped, as far as me being able to feel good about myself again. It took me so long to just even be able to do that. I was pretty down for a few years. I went through some things and not just with addiction, some personal setbacks and I was down. Just being able to get back up again feels good. I think everything played a factor of where I’m at now.
On Recovery, you have this one line on “25 to Life” where you talk about taking control of your relationship with hip-hop. How have you done that?
What the whole song is saying is that I have a strange relationship with hip-hop because I love it so much. I go through this thing in my head a lot, which I’m sure every rapper does, where you give your life to this thing. You literally give everything that you got. I come to work some days wearing the same thing two days in a row—baggy sweats—just dedicating my life to this. And there are times that I feel like I get the respect that I deserve and there are times where I feel like I don’t.
Like when MTV excluded you from their Hottest MCs of 2009 list?
That hottest MC list that I was left off, it was one of those things that I was glad that I am at where I'm at. I’m glad I’m in this place now, because a few years ago I would've let it bother me more than it did. I took it not as a slap in the face but more so like, "Maybe I’m not on that list for a reason. Maybe I’m not doing the things that I need to be doing. Maybe I need to look at myself and step it up." I don’t know what I would have thought being in the mind state that I was in. I just felt like maybe I need to do better.
As a person, are you proud of yourself?
I handle things a lot differently now. I’m proud to be able to say that I’m an addict without any shame in it. I’m proud that I’m able to admit that I have a problem with a certain thing and I have to leave it alone and accept it. I’m proud that I’m strong enough to be able to walk away form those things.
When did you realize that? During rehab? Therapy?
I got some tools in rehab when I went in 2005. I got the tools that I need, I just didn’t use them. I got the information, the analysis—I don’t know if that’s the word—of my personality. What type of person I am, why I have this addictive behavior, why I need instant gratification from certain things, why I feel a certain way because my childhood was this way or that way. I got all of those tools, which made me understand why I had to leave that stuff alone. But I didn’t use it and that’s why I went back to it.
Why did you decide not to release the songs you'd planned for Relapse 2?
On a record like the new record, when I mention the third verse of “Talking to Myself,” I try to sum up the last two records in a nutshell. Mr. Porter, who produced “On Fire,” had this analogy of Encore and Relapse that stuck with me: “Encore I was on drugs, Relapse I was flushing them out.” His view on Relapse was that I was flushing the drugs out my system and looking back at it, I probably was. My mind was coming back, my writing skills were coming back, so I was able to write again because I had writer’s block from the pills. I was backed up. I was writing so much and so quickly that I didn’t have a chance to stop and say, Are these good songs? Are they great songs? I was just going. I was like, 'I got so much material for three albums, but let’s narrow it down to two. Let’s put out Relapse 2 months later. That was the original plan. There are so many drug references on the last album; that’s just where my head was at. I came to life again and everything was like new. When they say 'in recovery' or 'in rehab', it’s like being born again when you get clean and sober. You start appreciating shit that you never thought you would appreciate, like, 'Wow, look at those trees. Look at nature.' Before, it didn’t matter. I just started appreciating things more. I got happy when I got sober, broke free from the chains—not to sound corny. I broke free from the chains of addiction and it was just like 'Ahh, I’m happy again. I’m not a prisoner.' I was just happy to be back.
To start this off let me get this out of the way yes Eminem is my favorite rapper and I think he's the best to ever pick up a mic,but I won't be biased at all I'll call it as fair as can be.With that being said everything hearing Relapse I didn't have high hopes for this album,and all the verses he did after Relapse I didn't really enjoy either.Sure he had flow,but he seemed to have lost his fire and wasn't the same old Em.That all changed when he released his freestyle over the "Over and Beamer,Benz,Or Bentley" beat.Marshall was at tip top form and was using metaphors that you couldn't catch all the first time.Now that the album released can it live up to the classic first three albums or will it turn out to be just another Encore or Relapse? Let's start the review!
The album starts out with the track "Cold Wind Blows" and wow! The beat and lyrics are so nuts, this is the Eminem people love he rips this track and it's the perfect way to open up the album because it gets you hype to hear what else he has in store! Basically the track is all about how he returned back to the beast Eminem, (Welcome back Marshall!).The next track "Talkin' 2 Myself" features Kobe (he did hook on the Fabolous album) this track deals with Eminem feeling jealousy of the rappers that blow up in the place of his absence and feeling due to the loss of Proof and his drug addiction.This track is special because it has Eminemopening up and giving his fans a glimpse of what he was going through will he was down and out."On Fire" deals with Marshall lashing out to critics.Again his lyrics are on point, but I wasn't really feeling the beat and I can already tell that it's a track that I won't really listen to over and over again.
"Won't Back Down" features a apperance from Pink and it's the second song to leak off the album.The first time I heard this track I wasn't feeling it,but if you listen to it over and over again he rips this track.I can understand why some people won't feel this track it's more rockish than rap. "W.T.P." stands "White Trash Party" the track starts off bad but once it hits the hook and goes to the second verse he redeems himself."Going Through Changes" channels in the serious side of Marshall Mathers,and he does what he does best and that's rap with his heart on his sleeve.This track will probably go down as one of the best tracks Eminem ever did and that's saying something."Not Afraid" is the first single off the album and it deals with the trials and tribulations of Marshall finding his path to sobriety.The metaphors are sick and I was so happy that he made this his first single instead of something stupid.
"Seduction" deals with a unfaithful girl and it's a track you wouldn't expect Eminem to do.I liked the beat the lyrics are alright and the hook is dope.So basically it's a hit or miss song depending on what you like."No Love" features Lil Waynein their third collaboration they did together.I must say Lil Wayne went in on his verse and I had thought at first he outrapped Eminem,but after a second listen I don't know what I was thinking to say Lil Wayne outrapped Eminem.This song is probably the best one they've done together so far."Space Bound" deals with and dysfunctional relationship that Eminem doesn't want to end.I love Eminem love songs cause I can relate to all the crazy shit he says in them!
"Cinderella Man" is the first real song I didn't like at all and it gets the skip button! "25 to Life" is like "Space Bound" content wise but the twist is he's referring to Hip-Hop as a girl who's breaking his heart.If you liked "Space Bound" you'll definitely like this track."So Bad" changes up the content a little bit and is this album's verison of "Superman".This track is alright but what's up with all this girl songs slim!
"Almost Famous" is like Eminem just read what I wrote and it deals with Eminem before he was famous trying to get into rap all the way to how he became famous.He goes in on this track and it reminds me of the first track he did on this album."Love The Way You Lie" has Eminem joined by the lovelyRihanna.Marshall agains makes a track that caters to the women but on each track he expresses something different that makes all the songs unique and out of the three tracks about love this is the best one.I smell another #1 hit with that record! "You're Never Over" is the best track on the album.On Relapse I was expecting a track dedicated to Proof and now on Recovery my wishes were fulfilled.This track is so deep,kudos to Marshall for making this song and R.I.P Proof. "Untitled" is the last track on the album (Boo!) and he should have switched this track position with the track for the Proof one.It's a good track but it would've made more sense to end it with the other track.
So in the end will all Eminem fans be satisfied? Probably not they're the hardest fans to please,but I think Recovery is the best Eminem album since The Eminem Show.I wish he would've trimmed down the track listing a bit and focused more on personal songs then girl songs.Reguardless this album is sick and is worth a listen to and about 1 million more listens to after that! I can't wait for the next project Eminem does (if he does one) after this one! 4 shots out of 5
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Released in 1996 this is the 1st official album released by Eminem.Only 1,o00 cassettes and 100 vinyl records were made of this album.The album features a different rapping style then most Eminem fans are use to hearing him rap.This rapping style was criticized for sounding to much like Nas & Az.In 2009 this album was released as a free download to add to the hype over Eminem's then new LP ,"Relapse".
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“I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year,” says Eminem. “But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title.”
"Recovery" is set to hit stores June 22nd goodbye to Drake's 2nd week & Rick Ross' 1st week sales !
The album features production from Just Blaze ,DJ Khalil, Jim Jonsin & Boi-1da
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