Great review. I’ve listened to the Relapse album and it is absolutely amazing. Back on his old stuff, and then with songs like “Beautiful” and “Underworld”, this album is incredible. I would bump it up half a star and give him 4 1/2 out of 5, if not a perfect score. But what do I know, I’m not a Rolling Stones journalist. Just a fan of Eminem

The best album of the year by far. Best rap album in over 2yrs and may actually help save hip hop. I am amazed at how hard he came and focussed he is on Relapse. Anyone who purchased this album will be impressed.

I personally agree with the review. I have listened to his entire album, and I was shocked to see how good it actually was. I am a big fan of his, and I feared that he was not going to bring all of his talent back with him when I heard “Crack a Bottle.” But I must say, after listening to that intro that brings him all the way back to The “Slim Shady EP” album. . I just knew that what laid in store for me as I listened was going to be one masterpiece. 4 and 1/2 stars for me as well.

Great album, its dark and disturbing, Em’s always been the realist rapper out there and only get more real on this. Maybe Dre’s best work since Chronicl, 4 1/2 out of 5, no doubt.

First off, I’ll start with the same rating as 4 out of 5 stars. I have been listening to this album since friday afternoon, and have been through it a few times at this point. I have had mixed feelings over the course of these few days. My first impressions were that the beats were incredible (due to production by Dr. Dre), and Eminem’s voice was extremely annoying when he does that accent (what is that about anyway?). In a day or two I had completely written the album off as horrible. While I do still feel that he tries a bit too hard at times to promote his signature ’shock rap’, I am coming to terms that this is what Eminem is- an entertainer who fabricates lyrics to cause jaws to drop. Songs like ‘insane’ are hard to listen to, and I myself feel embarrassed that this is on the album. However, accepting the fact that this is what Eminem is, I am enjoying this album the more I hear it. As I hear and internalize what he is rapping about more each time throught, it is quite evident that Eminem’s talents continue to shine as a storyteller. The highlights of the album are- Bagpipes from Baghdad, Hello, Same Song and Dance, Medicine Ball, Stay Wide Awake, Deja Vu, Beautiful, and Underground. Considering that there are 16 musical tracks on here, and that is 8 of them. By today’s standards of a good album, that makes Relapse great. And please, if you downloaded the leak like I did, support Eminem and buy the album on May 19th like I will. It is worth the purchase.

I like many have been looking forward to this album for a while. When i heard Crack a bottle and We Made You, i was kinda iffy about Relapse, but then 3 A.M leaked and it completely got my attention. Relapse brings back the sick twisted mind of eminem’s alter ego, slim shady. Its a very dark album. The Gems of the album are
“Insane” “Same Song and Dance” “Stay Wide Awake” “Old Time’s Sake” “DeJa Vu” and in my opinion, the best track on the album “Beautiful”. All the tracks are produced by Dr Dre and the beats i must say are incredible. A good preview for Detox which will be released later this year. I give Relapse 8.5/10. It’s a must buy if your a Hiphop fan.

Relapse will not be tha best album of the year…Relapse 2 will!

and underground is unbeleivable

How come no one metions Dr. Dre’s beats ?? They’re incredible !! Nothing short of amazing.

Let me guess – A dozen songs about how he’s Eminem, doesn’t care what you think and tells it like it is, etc. – but never actually bothering to say anything, other than the juvenile gay-bashing and mysogyny.
It’s Vanilla Ice meets Rush Limbaugh.
Thanks for glorifying crap, Rolling stone.

This album is lyrical grade A heroin. Me and Mariah secretly cant get enough of it.. When you listen to the whole album in its entirety in order and conceptulize his lyrics they blow ya mind.

i would give the album like 4.9 stars out of five honestly im only deducting for the song crack a bottle. but the album is genius when heard in entirety, the skits pull it all together. at first the voice,yes, was anooying but now i find myself wanting to hear it. and someone said it was probably about him bashing and saying he doesnt give a f*ck, your wrong. while he takes shots at many pop icons, he’s attacking himself more than anyone. buy the album.

some mediocre songs mixed with some of the illest songs of his career, His flow is ridiculous on this album.

it fuckin wonderful to c eminem not going about gays lesbians dont get me wrong i luv that and there is a bit of it in here but its his first album dat he actually talks about his demons and shit bsides crack a bottle nd we made u relapse is an emotional journey into eminems private life rather than ’shut up bitch im gonna kill u’he raps about his fing tru feelings we can do without the bubblish accent rather than that ill give this album a perfect 10 out of 10 not bcos of the beats or tunes simply the LYRICS it is an emotional slim shady lp a must buy for marshall mather fans

just 4 da crack top 5
1 eminem show’white america’say what you say’sing for the moment’cleaning out my closet’without me’superman’buisness’hailies song
2 marshal mathers lp’drug ballad’kim’stan’the way i am’real slim shady’kill u’criminal
3 encore’ like toy soldiers’ass like that’encore’yellow brick road’mosh
4 slim shady lp. my fault’my name is’guilty conscience’role model

the albums great, i got the leak and im still going to buy it…

Have you heard “Stay Wide Awake”?….Jesus!!!…Eminem is truly a lyrical prophet of epic proportions… no comparison. Album is 4.9/5, easily one of his best, and a standout album in his catalog. Touches all of his phases of lyricism.

I give 4.5 out of 5. This album shows why people buy eminem albums, because he isn’t talkin about some fad dance, watches, chains, or his 5 million dollar custom, only 1 in america maybach shelby edition! if u dont like em, you wont like this album, i have been an em fan for a while now and he doesnt dissappoint, although i do prefer the eminem show to all others, i like his attitude and flow on that one best. but this album is almost flawless except for crack a bottle

Who said hiphop iz dead..i think i did sometime ago..i take it back…Eminem iz hiphop

This is one of Eminem’s top albums along with Slim shady Lp and the Eminem show. “Underground”,”bagpipes from baghdad”,”Medicine Ball”,”insane”,”Beautiful”,”de javu”,”same song and dance”,”Stay wide awake” are all strong songs in this album. One of the best album in the past 4 years and it definitly tops Carter 3 by a mile. 4.7/5

Great album is all i can say.5 out 0f 5.Brilliant.Hes back to his best.The best rapper ever.

How have you guys heard these songs already?

Hasn’t left my Cd Player since I put it in. A flash back to the very first time I ever heard “My name Is!”

I was surprised at how good the album is, the voice thing is no good to me. Sounds like hes trying to recapture slim shadys voice from 10years ago, his matured cant do it. So naturally it sounds like hes trying ot hard on some tracks. But lyrically and flow wise, Album is a 4.65/5. Take away songs like crack a bottle, and put a “One last time” type track in there, and it Woulda been a Flawless album.

4.9 but only because I ‘d feel like I was riding his nuts if I said 5….Beats are amazing, the flow is sick and really does change up alot. At first I had “Deja vu” pegged as the best song on the album, but now I realize it truly depends on my mood. “Hello” and “Medicine ball” are my 2 fav’s at the moment, especially “Hello.” It invokes some odd emotions, and imagery.
so go buy the fuckin album it’s the shit reminds me of Slim Shady L.P. but much much more dark and convincing……Bitch.

album is easily em’s best work since the MMLP in my opinion. the lyricism is really jarring. switching flows with ease all over the place, different voices, it’s hearing a master at work purely in the emcee aspect. and the beats are by dr.dre. must buy for the audio quality the doc stamps albums with.

He has a way with the english language that can not be duplicated in rap. If you want to get Krunk, by all means buy something else…but for people who actually love hip hop and enjoy the possibilities with word play, and creativity…Eminem is hands down the best. Either you get him or you don’t. Relapse 2 will be even better…you watch.

the last verse of underground is nutss

EMINEM IS BACK!!!!

THE ALBUM IS AMAZING!! If you dont buy it you are retarted!

I have been a fan of marshall Mathers since “Infinite” most of you don’t even know that he even had an album before “the slim shady EP”
I will say that “The Eminem Show” was the best album ever made! almost every song on that was a master piece I give “The Eminem Show” five stars all the way it so real, hard core and deep. and than “Encore” came out, it was more of a goofier side of eminem but none the less compared to most rappers out there it was hot! I give “Encore” a 4 out of 5. BUT THIS ALBUM….. Relapse!! IS SICK!!!! its almost as good as “The Eminem Show”!! you have to realize that he has to do bubble gum songs like “Crack a Bottle” and We made you to get peoples attention especially kids who mainly buy albums. and I think those songs are not bad either but Every other song IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! “Bag Pipes from BagDad!” weird Name but one of the hottest songs I ever heard!! The beat is INSANE!! and the Lyrics are Genious!! you will want to blast that one in your car flying down the high way! “Must be the Ganja is also amazing!” the beat is sick and the lyrics will make you rewinding it over and over again untill you get it!! and the hooks are all great! It seens like every one of his albums he has a song that makes your jaw drop cause you find out something about em that you never knew before… On this album its “Insane” he reveals something about his child hood that will shock you but you have to respect him for being real with his fans!

The lyrics in “Under Ground” show that his lyrical ryming skills have never been nor will ever be matched by anyone!!

I would give this album a 4.99!!!

oh and EMINEM IS THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE!!! anyone who tells you differently is eithor ignorant or not a true hip hop fan!!!

Peace Out!

-Mike Nyce-

EMINEM IS BACK!!!!

THE ALBUM IS AMAZING!! If you dont buy it you are retarted!

I have been a fan of marshall Mathers since “Infinite” most of you don’t even know that he even had an album before “the slim shady EP”
I will say that “The Eminem Show” was the best album ever made! almost every song on that was a master piece I give “The Eminem Show” five stars all the way it so real, hard core and deep. and than “Encore” came out, it was more of a goofier side of eminem but none the less compared to most rappers out there it was hot! I give “Encore” a 4 out of 5. BUT THIS ALBUM….. Relapse!! IS SICK!!!! its almost as good as “The Eminem Show”!! you have to realize that he has to do bubble gum songs like “Crack a Bottle” and We made you to get peoples attention especially kids who mainly buy albums. and I think those songs are not bad either but Every other song IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! “Bag Pipes from BagDad!” weird Name but one of the hottest songs I ever heard!! The beat is INSANE!! and the Lyrics are Genious!! you will want to blast that one in your car flying down the high way! “Must be the Ganja is also amazing!” the beat is sick and the lyrics will make you rewinding it over and over again untill you get it!! and the hooks are all great! It seens like every one of his albums he has a song that makes your jaw drop cause you find out something about em that you never knew before… On this album its “Insane” he reveals something about his child hood that will shock you but you have to respect him for being real with his fans!

The lyrics in “Under Ground” show that his lyrical ryming skills have never been nor will ever be matched by anyone!!

I would give this album a 4.99!!!

oh and EMINEM IS THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE!!! anyone who tells you differently is eithor ignorant or not a true hip hop fan!!!

Peace Out!

-Mike Nyce-

this man is the elvis, beatles, johnny cash, [insert legend's name here] of our time! he is the most unique, talented, gifted rapper of all time. he has like 1000 flows, 1000 personalities and takes us on the deepest, darkest journey hip hop has ever been on. as violent and disturbing some of the stuff he says is, you cant help but to keep listening. you cant help but to admire a man head and shoulders above his peers. greatest rapper dead or alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (beats are REDIC TOO) OMFG

Relapse is absolutely brilliant. On par with his best – it’s taken in slightly new, adapted directions, which is good cos em tries to develop, grow and mix up his style – but what’s great is it retains alot of the former styles and themes of his earlier stuff – with a twist. His former Marshal Mathers LP is an absolute classic arguably his best- but that’s a once in a life time event – it emerged out of a particular age and stage of Eminems life – it can’t really be replicated again – his life has moved on – he’s now 36 not 26 – and if it could be manufactured again – what for? What needs to be heard is a continuation of a theme – a developing narrative across time represented by the duality of his personas and which concerns a generation he has brought with him “I’m bringing the world with me, bitches too” (Kill You). This he does brilliantly. Nine years ago he gave us Drug Ballad – Now he gives its very personal sequel ‘Deja Vu’ which takes himself as the subject of the consequences of substance abuse. He voices himself always as one of us. We relate to him because he is one of us – the malady’s, frustrations, pains and despondencies of life he expresses by using his own life to communicate it through. He is never speaking in judgment over – but using his own failings and weaknesses as the material to communicate to his audience a very important message that the world needs to hear but does not want to hear. Who would want to hear their own shit shovelled right onto their doorstep – all the nakedness – the shame and the abuse – the personal evils and the duality of personality that lurks within our hearts – the evils inside us that we are frightened to admit is there but nevertheless stirs within us while we refuse to acknowledgehe it and try our best to subdue it with little success. It’s unfortunate that it has to be told – but it exists so it must be told – the world might cringe and squirm while a spokesperson tells it and the world might react in hostility and lash back at the one who is telling it but sometimes the times demand that the story get told and thus we are forced to hear something we dont want to hear from someone we dont want to hear it from. The times call for Slim Shady, we call for Slim shady – our society created slim shady – we conceived him in the form of all those little illegitimate Eric’s and Erica’s that we have given birth to only to violate their innocence and exploit their vulnerability for our pleasure. This is the age of corrupted innocence. Are we really going to get angry at a man who emerges as the face of our children staring back at us – questioning everything we do and subsequently heaping the full monty of America’s own shit on their own doorstep – “f#$k that – they can reapear in hell with a can of gas and a match” why? because “Slim gets blamed to fix these streets” and because “they attack Eminem cos I rap this way”. The way i see it is that em tries to get as broad an audience as possible. He puts out songs that reach such a diverse range of people – colaborates with Marylin Manson to get the goths attention – Dido to get some of the pop heads attention – Elton John to win over and draw back some from the gay community that he upset by the hard edge of rap style battling, aggresive attacks that emasculate – he does silly songs to draw in the silly – serious songs with serious issues to connect with the deep – sentimental songs like mockingbird to draw back some of those women he upset with the misogyny that originally resonated with many pissed of unwanted men. The guy without doubt is a genius. The whole world has to be listening cos he’s got some important stuff that he now has to step up and say. I’m sure we will hear what we need to be hearing on this Relapse album and the next- can’t wait for his next album – there is no one bigger – 2pac had heart and was a genius of the same order – but now em has taken over cos 2pacs role model and slim shady (Makaveli) doctrine has to be taken out of the black community and reach a global audience – the problem is pervasive – it goes beyond the black community the problem is now a global epidemic. What was that tattoo that 2pac had on his belly – “the hate u gave little infants f*#ks everybody” (acronym thuglife) which gives rise to Makaveli – 2pacs narcissistic alter -ego. What did eminem bring post 2pac- an extension of the same doctrine firstly- role model – the negative doctrine that what is modelled to a child will shape them and Slim Shady a prodigy of a society of abuse who then steps up to become todays role model to the kids- think cleaning out my closet, stan, white america videos. The child with no father, drug addicted families, abuse – a great recipe for damaged adolescents – a great recipe for Slim Shady. So here’s the problem – what’s the solution – what can heal this endemic disease – check out the em directed “Ghetto gospel” – look closely at what the guy see’s after the lyrics “I hope we see the light before its ruined”. I will put a final word from em in next post from his song “it’s ok”. It will appear above. I don’t think Eminem could ever over estimate his impact – its global – ive been listening to him since 99 – close to ten years. Now with songs like “Insane” on Relapse a new generation of abused 15 year old Eric’s and Erica’s will be listening. Shocking to say the least – but think what happens with the elapse of time when the abused and damaged child from say 15 years ago – victim of severe abuse maybe physical, maybe sexual – grows to be the parent. Perhaps what will incur is an exponential growth in the severity of abuse – the abused now becomes the abuser. Psychological research certainly shows the correlation between child sexual abuse and the later perpetration of sex related crimes – perhaps rape to give an example – and then do we really wonder why rape is a prominent theme and feature of Eminems album. This is the Slim Shady that we keep crying out for and asking Marshal Mathers to resurrect – it is the abused child full grown and transformed into a monster. And when Eminem does put Slim Shady to full use to such an extreme on this album -we object. Why should we be so surprised? – children untainted by abuse have a natural sensitivity about them – but if you take away their innocense before their time and do not nourish a healthy mental state within them by parental love, care and protection – irrevocable damage is done which will manifest itself in various ways to a greater or lesser degree – depending on the person and the severity of the abuse – how is this so difficult to get – it should be blatantly obvious – Take Heath Ledger as the joker – what did he claim his father did to him after beating and murdering his mother in front of him – he cut those scars into his face – and look how he turned out – a brilliant portrayal and depiction of a “real” Slim Shady character – Also what did the joker say later on about how he got those scars – he inflicted it on himself – interesting because that is what often happens – the abused then start abusing themselves, cutting themselves and inflicting harm on their own bodies and others – “sometimes I cut myself to see how much it bleeds” – from “Stan”. Notice how at the end of the video clip of Stan, Stan’s little brother has his hood pulled back to reveal to his grandomather’s great shock another little bleached head – it’s obviously symbolic – The trauma is being passed on to the next generation – a cycle of violence and abuse which is generational – how do you break this cycle? – who knows what this child (Stan’s brother), because of the role models teaching him and the environement he is placed in, will grow to do. The message that it is vital we all understand is that “there is a Slim Shady in all of us [so] f@#k it let’s all stand up” and acknowledge the truth that Eminem has been bringing to us for quite a while now and is back to continue telling after a long protracted break from the lime light spent dealing with his own inner demon. Hopefully he will come back and bring with him the solution to the problem. Slim Shady was to become, for Eminem, a platform to speak to a generation – Shady became a vehicle to communicate to a global audience – to a culture of people searching for someone that would speak to them and address their concerns and the reason why we found it in the social commentary that Eminem was destined to deliver was because of how it got to the heart of the problem – faulty role models and damaged children and the evil inside us or, as it could be construed – the Slim Shady fiend that hides in the shadows of our own hearts. We found the message that we were searching for here in Eminems conflicting portrayal of schizophrenic conflict within – between the duality and schism of conflictual desires and in the disparity between the manic unrestrained verses of an unhinged Slim Shady and its contrast with the personal inner confessions and revelations of Marshal Mathers. This duality of character was brilliantly employed and thus this manic schism resonated with our own contradictory lives and with how we perceived the crazy, destructive contradictions of our world. It did this as it spoke to our cultures unhealthy spiritual condition. Eminem has brilliantly addressed the problem at its core at various levels: from generational abuse, what happens to a child in the care of tragic role models – from broken family upbringings to the corollary ramification of the evil that is cultivated within a child. This also correlates with the deranged theme of the persona who comes of age to manifest, with full force, the seeds of evil that were sown. The time of childhood is just an incubation period the time of adulthood is the aftermath – Slim Shady is now conceived – there’s no going back to undo the damage that has been done. Interesting isnt it – that is – that Eminem was signed to Aftermath records – he’s telling us the aftermath – it seems an eerie coincidence. Yet now that Eminem has addressed the problem and Slim Shady has been the platform on which to do this, again I say hopefully he will eventually go further and provide the solution – he needs to go back to the solution found on his album pre-Slim Shady – He has too much to say and he has like he says – “come too far in this game to walk away and not say what i’ve got to say”. All this is a story worth telling and it will be a book I am soon going to write. Like I said check out the Ghetto gospel video put together by Em and the song which is produced by him also with the Elton John chorus he mixes with it. Notice after the first verse as it transitions into the chorus what the guy is facing as he stands across the road – what do the words read? – that’s where we have to be taken. look the video up on youtube because ‘there [certainly] is a Slim Shady in all of us’ but there is also someone who has dealt with this problem and offers to repair and restore us to himself by offering himself up for us, bringing forgiveness and restoration even for the embodiment of evil – Slim Shady. You feel yourself so bad and filthy that you would burn down a church if you walked through the doors – that’s okay – he urges you still to come boldly and trust in what he has done – but we must go to him it is the only way we can be sorted out and healed. Watch the clip if you are curious who I’m talking about. You likely know already but I will put Eminem’s lyrics up from his song “It’s OK” in above post to provide a big clue. Guess who. – If you have read to the end of this ridiculously long post you deserve a medal – but what this mysterious person has to offer has to be worth more than a medal – so in this case it was worth the pains and sacrifices of reading to the end. Let’s see what Eminem has to offer next.

I Agree!!! DEAD or ALIVE!!

Eminem is mean and nasty. And that’s why I like this album.

This is connected to the last stupidly long post. Words from Eminem from “It’s Ok”:

I’m going for broke, gambling and playing for keeps
Everyday in the streets, scrambling and paying for cheep
Praying for sleep
Dreaming with a watering mouth
Wishing for a better life for my daughter and spouse
In this slaughtering house, caught up in bouts
With the root of all evil
I’ve seen it turn beautiful people crude and deceitful
And make them do shit illegal
For these Grant’s and Jackson’s
These transactions explain a man’s actions
But in the mist of this insanity, I found my Christianity
Through God and there’s a wish he granted me
He showed me how to cope with the stress
And hope for the best, instead of mope and depressed
Always groping a mess, of flying over the nest
To selling dope with the rest
I quit smoking cess to open my chest
Life is stressful inside this cesspool
Trying to wrestle, I almost bust a blood vessel
My little brother’s trying to learn his mathematics
He’s asthmatic, running home from school away from crack addicts
Kids attract static, children with automatics
Taking target practice on teens for Starter Jackets
I’m using smarter tactics to overcome this slum
I won’t become as dumb as some and succumb to scum
It’s cumbersome, I’m trying to do well on this Earth
But it’s been Hell on this Earth since I fell on this Earth

IM FEELING IT SO FAR BUT FOR YOU TO COMPARE IT TO THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP IS CRAZY.. IM ON THE 4TH SONG RIGHT NOW NOOOOOOOOOO WAY IT COMPARES THE BEATS ARE FUCKING DOPE, SO FAR ARE THE BEST OF ANY ALBUM IN MY OPINION! TOP 7 DEAD OR ALIVE
IN ANY ORDER
BIG PUN,NAS,BIGGIE,JAYZ,2PAC,EM,JA DA

LIKE IT OR NOT

TOP 10 ADD ANDRE 3K, TRICK DADDY, SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP CAN YOU TELL WHAT ERA IM FROM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

NAS,BIGGIE,JAY Z,2PAC,EM

I’m wondering if I listened to a different album from everybody else. I understand Eminem has a built in fan base, but this album simply isn’t that good. There a 3 good songs: Deja Vu, Beautiful, and Underground.

The album is a re-hash of the same tired subjects: his addictions, berating pop stars, horror movie scenarios, etc. The accent is as annoying as all the rappers using the vocorder, and he’s simply using a formula to sell records. What’s amazing to me is that people either fail to see this or refuse to see this because they want his work to be good so bad. Dre’s beats resemble some of his work in that period right after Death Row when he was finding himself, which is nothing ground breaking (actually bad in many instances). This album simply isn’t that good,

If you’re going to get on other rappers for redundant subject matter, hold Eminem to the same standard.

he’s forcing it at this point, and rapping should come natural. If you don’t have that fire, I would rather not hear from you. Jay-Z and 50 Cent are in the same predicament, so it’s not unique to just Eminem.

Eminem is the king of rap..i think at this point i am ready to listen to some real hip hop and rap shit.. i can’t wait ..i want the album damm it people

RAP IS CRAP!

“There a 3 good songs: Deja Vu, Beautiful, and Underground.”

Go listen to any album by any artist ever, there are stand out songs and fillers… truth is em’s fillers are better than most, if you only like those 3 songs then don’t listen to the others.

eminem’s relapse is going to be a Hit.

people will always complain about his style but he always gives fans what they want.

hello : a great tune kind of got that beat & style from from his very first album.

Undergroung : is more 2wards the new eminem, it’s got the d12 style from there second album

Stay wide awake : excellent tune has hate has everythink

Old time sake : ft’s Dr Dre its a cool driving weed song

Medicine ball : has it all

the list goes on, the first time you hear the album theres a few tracks you hear it a 2nd and 3rd time and you come to relise eminem is back to his best and the album is one of his best after marshal mathers Lp
Medicine ball :

I’ve lietened this album for 4 days,incredible，but it’s a pity we can‘t buy one cd in China，but maybe I can buy one through the Internet

This is better than his last album for sure. Besides the tracks featuring his whiny voice, the rest are amazing. Eminem is king, there is a reason why so many people love him across the globe, and this album will solidify him as one of the greatest artist in our generation. The truth with most of Eminem’s albums, the more you listen to it the more it grows on you.

I remember his last 3 albums and how excited I got after hearing each new track. I did not get this feeling with Relapse. Maybe it is an acquired thing at this point but I don’t think that’s the case. It just seems like he’s not the same anymore. But it also reflects where he is currently in his life which maybe is a letdown but for some reason I kind of expected this and it is what it is, just doesn’t feel right. I’m not saying this album won’t be bumping in my car for the next month straight, but just that it is not the same as before. You can hear it in his voice. When he says he’s done with rapping in this album I kind of believe him this time. He put out some amazing stuff in his career but all good things come to an end— nothing lasts forever.

Good review of a great album. He can flow so many different ways. In my opinion, the first songs released were the weakest (More mainstream). The rest of the album is lyrically insane. I have to listen to each song multiple times to fully appreciate what he is doing. I do disagree with the assesment of “Stay Wide Awake”. The beat is great and he hits you with a barrage of lyrics that flow perfectly. After people have a little more time to listen I think they will really come to appreciate it. 4.5 outta 5.

My favorite song is Bagpipes From Baghdad.

My new album is also dropping on May 19th bitches! Just visit the trunk of my 1987 grey Buick LeSabre in the parking lot of Walgreen’s, 194 Route 27, Pasedena, CA. Keepin’ it real yo!

Aftering hearing the first 3 singles my expectations were lowered. With that being said it is a better album than I expected. All the beats are incredible and Lyrically its solid his word play is still incredible not on the same level as of his other albums but better than Encore

4/5

I’m just glad that he is back.I just hope he is here to stay and not leave.

Lets all remember Em won the best rapper alive award recently. Notice i said “alive”…. RELAPSE is sick, i’ve listened to it all numerous times. I’m a big underground and mixtape fan- the Sh*t thats released to the public is whack like “lollipop”…All i’m tryin to say is… anyone who is looking for the old Em, you got him. Very similiar to em’s earlier albums… drugs, sex, murder, rape, what else do you want? a more modern EMINEM?? that everyone would complain he’s not old school anymore. either way you look at it people will like and dislike RELAPSE…but yo it’s sick!! (i’m also a weezy fan, not too dis lollipop, but listen to waynes mixtapes and you’ll get a diff. vibe about him, trust me.)

….And yo, was that bubba sparxxx tryin to promote his own sh*t??? man you fell off, huh? prob dropped too much dough on those teeth, ha

This is probably one of the most amazing albums I’ve listened to the whole way through.. It’s on repeat, I just.. I’m so happy that he’s done it again. I’m so happy for you, Em. I truly hope he tours to promote Relapse but I’m not too sure about that…

On my phone but will post my review when I go on my computer and listen a little more.

Last album I bought in CD form was Encore. It says something when someone incites you to really buy their album, when its hard to access from where I am. I’m going to ship it in no doubt. Shady is the only artist I support, because he’s the only REAL emcee, ever!

I too was a bit sceptical of the album, especially after hearing the first few singles. i thought relapse was another Encore. but whoa, did this blow me away! THIS ALBUM IS SIMPLY INCREDIBLE. LYRICALLY, IT’S EASILY HIS BEST. it’s funny, dark, honest, and just great music. im buying the album as soon as it hits stores and best believe it will be in heavy rotation. the rapper Yasko (who some think is eminems little sister lol) will supposedly be on relapse 2. no doubt that cd will be fire as well!

word dis album is as good as it gits. better than anything else out now. @real slim lady, Yasko isnt ems sister..though lyrically she sounds like she could be.

newayz pick up relapse 19th!

aha

This album is fucking tight. The singles are the worst songs on the album.

This is the album I’ve been waiting for for since TMMLP. I swear to Science it’s like this album was custom-tailored to my exact specifications. It’s dark, twisted, scary and vulgar, just how I like it. There aren’t a bunch of cameos from rappers I don’t give a shit about, no bling, no catchy hooks, no ring-tone rap.

His flows are the best they’ve ever been. His rhyming ability is uncanny compared to the competition. There’s content to his rap though, there’s depth. No one in the music industry, regardless of genre, can tell a story or paint a picture with their words like he can.

I was a huge critic of the album with ‘Mocking Bird’ on it. I fucking hate that song, I hate that fucking album. I don’t even know the name of it. This is easily as good as The Marshall Mather LP in my opinion.

I give it 5/5 stars.

Major Eminem Fan

i would rate this album at 4.5, only because on Eminems high standards, every song is class, Still not as Good as “Slim Shady LP” or Marshal Mathers LP” BOTH 5/5

Regardless its way better than everything out there ATM

My only prob is he repeats himself in too many tracks,

To many uses of Jason/Lesbean/Rape in too many different songs. eg “here a line in one song” and then here a similar line in another, that was never the Eminem way.

I do agree with some of the post above that hes not got the Hunger he once had and i feel if your a true eminem fan and have listened to all his stuff from day1 you can notice

But who am i to pick faults in the Best Rapper of All Time Bar None

The Best there is,The Best there was, The Best there ever will be.

Keeno

I used to be a major Eminen fan when I was younger and thought he was the best but, when I experienced more NON mainstream rap I found that he was actually lame. People should check out real hip-hop like, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, JEDI MIND TRICKS, PHI-LIFE CYPHER, DEAD PREZ, ILL BILL & PARIS to name a few. Then you will be embarrassed for ever thinking Eminem was the best. I am white by the way so, I ain’t being a hater. Also ILL BILL & the lead rapper of JEDI MIND TRICKS are white so, definitely no hating but, bubblegum rap is shit

You’re all a bunch of cock suckers!
(to the ones that are talking shit about the album!)
Eminem is in his best form again,
the album is formidable!! o cant
even compare it with this crappy sounds
you have now on the radio like
Sean Kingston or even lil wayne! You all say bring back the old Em, but every music artist has to evolve or they stay static. If he sounded just like Marshall Mathers LP, Everyone would be saying,Oh no, he just sounds like before. Dre is the best producer EVER! How can you pricks question his production ability. The music has to evolve also and the reason a lot of you think the beats sound flat, is just because they are too advanced for most of you. Remember, now you realise how well crafted his music is because the beats on chronic 2001 still sound fresher than most current music and this was made 10 years ago. DRE is simply ahead of his time. IN 5 years you will appreciate this music. ITS just too advanced for you lot. Dr Dre is responsible for hip-hop period. Show your respect!

This is my response to a BS review by a Greg Kot who reviewed Eminem’s Relapse album on Chicagotribune.com and gave it a very negative 1 star. He thinks he’s qualified to flap his jaw and spread criticism acting as though Eminem is redundant – all this while he knows nothing about the developing themes of Eminem’s continuing compilation, does not know who Ken Kaniff is and that it was actually him that makes his return in a feature on the end of Eminem’s new album (not Eminem) and does not even know what everyone else obviously knows-even my Grandmother knows, hell even my ferret knows it-that Em is actually W-H-I-T-E. Without knowing all these obvious things he still attempts to write a review – he knows nothing about rap, hiphop culture or Eminem but nevertheless thinks he is an authority that should be turned to for an informed analysis. Here’s my ridiculously long response to someone who needs to go and hop back into his cupboard of ignorance where he came from. Firstly, Relapse is brilliant. Secondly this reviewer knows nothing about Eminem or hip-hop. What was that I hear – I’m a Stan now? To all those intellectually high-minded yuppies who think that they have such sophisticated things to say and such insight when their opinions are really empty rhetoric – devoid of meaning – you’d all be better off going home to your wives and girlfriends who might actually at least pretend that they respect what you have to say. Oh – I hear it coming again – what was that… Stan you say? If you’ve ever watched an episode of my girlfriends favourite show – Gilmore girls season 7 – you well enlightened aristocrats who walk around with an air of superiority about you might see what a pathetic mouthful of words you really are – a complete joke. You think that what you have to say is so informed and actually believe that you are giving a culturally penetrating analysis of the times – this is laughable – you are actually just full of your own self importance but are too blind to see it – you can’t even see that you are scum and completely ignorant and oblivious to this. What you truly are – just blind scum! You remind me of Logan on Gilmore Girls – always on top of everything – one of those few people who actually ‘know’ what’s going on in the world, always discerning where our culture is at – the ‘Mr. Culturally Enlightened’ – but actually completely missing the point. So – here’s a message to the self-styled ‘Mr Culturally Enlightened’ – you may believe that this is what you are but the converse is actually true – to miss the brilliance of the running narrative commentary that is Eminem is simply to expose how little you actually know and are able to perceive. What you really are is ‘Mr. High Minded’. If you think you got something to say – then reach an audience so global in a way that say someone like …um… EMINEM did! Don’t be so full of yourself – go play the song “Beautiful” again cos this is as close as you are going to get to trading shoes with a true social commentator who actually has a platform to speak – not someone who just imagines he’s got one. If you think I’m cyber bullying then jump out the window of your fifth floor office and become another cyber bullying statistic – no one would miss you – but Slim Shady – him we would miss. Wake up – the guy Eminem has delivered the ‘id’ to popular culture – how can this be missed – this album is a continuation of a long running theme – the child abused, like Eric and Erica or Stan on his previous albums – becomes the abuser. This is the structure of the drug induced Relapse album – abuse at the beginning on “My Mom” and “Insane” then the conception of Slim Shady who goes on to perpetrate sex related crimes in a manic drug fuelled state. Then finally near the end of the album are the personal confessions of Marshal Mathers about his struggles with his own inner demons like the brilliant sequel to his 2000 song “Drug Ballad”, – “Déjà vu”, which chronicles the consequences of drug use. The seeds of evil that are sown in a child will manifest themselves later on – that was what Tupac brought to us during his impassioned, though short, purpose driven life to deliver to us an urgent message and pave the way for Eminem to then take this message to a much broader – even global audience. The problem exists beyond the Black community – it is not confined here – it is pervasive – it is now a global epidemic. Which is why Eminem has to take the commentary beyond the confines of the Black community. What was that tattoo on Tupacs belly “Thuglife” which as Tupac disclosed was an acronym for “The hate you gave little infants f#$ks everyone”. Tupac’s Brenda’s who have babies (teen mothers) and Shorty’s who want to be thugs (teen gangsta’s) now have become, through Eminem, Eric and Erica – the children of America – (see Eminem’s White America video on youtube). What did Eminem bring post Tupac? An extension of the Role Model doctrine – what is modelled to a child will shape him/her and also an extension of Tupacs narcissistic alter ego ‘Makaveli’ – but in Em’s case ‘Slim Shady’ the evil that exists in all of us – “I guess there’s a Slim Shady in all of us – f#$k it let’s all stand up” (from “The Real Slim Shady”). Let us not be like this all-knowing – all-discerning reviewer who does not even know who Ken Kaniff is – what a great choice for a review of an EMINEM album – a reviewer whose never listened to – and by that I don’t mean skimmed through – a previous EMINEM album! Um…Mr. Reviewer… do you even know that Eminem is W-H-I-T-E – just checking! To the reviewer – here’s a description of good ol’ Kenny “It’s Ken Kaniff on the internet tryin’ to lure your kids with him into bed it’s a sick world we live in these days” (from Eminems “I’m Back”). To everyone else who actually understands Eminem and are his fans – let’s acknowledge that firstly we don’t know everything – not even the genius Eminem does – and second that there really is a Slim Shady in all of us so let’s all stand up and admit it because only then can we grasp and receive the solution to the problem – check out the Em produced video “Ghetto gospel” and see after the first verse what is facing the guy across the road as he stops and looks just before the chorus breaks in – what do the words read. Now listen to the Em mixed chorus of Elton John – there is someone we desperately have to follow and it is this someone that Eminem has to take us to next – Eminem has addressed the problem brilliantly – in fact he has shovelled it right up onto America’s – and for that matter – the world’s doorstep with many a protest while he was doing it – “let’s kill this motherf#$king kid that’s behind all this commotion telling us what we don’t want to hear and pointing out the truth, who’s holding up a mirror and showing how grossly we have failed our children and created a monster”. Slim Shady connected with us – he became for Eminem the platform for him to speak to a generation – to a global audience about an endemic problem. The solution cannot come before the problem is addressed and a spokesperson must connect on such a deep, personal level to many who can relate to what he is saying. Slim Shady is the inevitable first step if a solution is to be provided – the solution would be missed if the problem was not first brought so directly to our attention – don’t expect penguins or white collar wearing pulpit preachers to connect so globally and deeply with our children – Eminem on the other hand was destined to. Slim-Shady had to come to connect with a generation and get us on the same page by talking straight to us frankly and honestly even if it was unashamedly blunt and overt – did it offend and upset people – well it was necessary – untold damage has been done to a generation of violated youth who are growing up to reproduce this abuse on their children. Eminem should be applauded – “I came to save a generation of babies from parents who failed to raise them cos they’re lazy” (Eminem/ D12 “Fight Music”). But now, in the next chapter of his life, he has to take us to the solution which we glimpse briefly on his earlier album – this little known album that did not make him famous is called “Infinite” – this was an album before Slim Shady was created – Shady was soon going to be conceived in Eminem’s mind but this song, “It’s OK”, begins to reveal a train of thought in Eminem that shows the prelude to Slim Shady, it gives insight into what lead Eminem to create Slim Shady and shows some of the thoughts and feelings going through Marshals mind, at this time, that would, in retrospect, become the incipient stages of Shady’s conception – Marshal Mathers did not want to become Slim Shady so he instead would go on to create Slim Shady as a fictional character who does all the things that Marshal did not want to succumb to doing in real life. So Marshal instead creates Slim Shady (the evil side) and gets him to do all the evil he was not wanting to do but rather was trying to avoid (i.e. drug pushing and drug taking) on his later albums. Read the lyrics to “It’s Ok” – look them up on a-zlyrics and you will see what I’m talking about. But now it is time that Eminem steps up to do what he said he came to do – “save a generation of babies” – and for that matter their parents by pointing us in the right direction to somebody who actually can deliver us from the Slim Shady that is inside all of us. The guy undoubtedly is a genius – discerning things that most don’t and delivering to popular culture the ‘id’ – what does this mean? This is a term coined by the famous intellectual psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud whose theory about the “id, ego and alter ego” had great impact over Western intellectual thought and the Western philosophical tradition. His ideas were, over the ensuing decades, much talked about and they instigated great shifts in the Western perception of the human individual. Later theorists like Lacan and the recent French theorist Rene Girard expounded upon and took in new directions the intellectual discussion of the ‘id’ and the ‘ego’. The id essentially is the unrestrained desires and passions of the human psyche – it is the dark ‘Slim Shady’ lurking within us – the ego mediates between societal convention – which are the laws and constraints that prohibit us from always doing what we want to do – like making an unrealistic sexual fantasy a reality. To unleash the id for example would be to rape and murder. To restrain the id would be to comply with societal conventions and the rules that regulate our untapped passions – such as not performing sex acts in public – which comes up in Eminem’s satirical lyrics – like on “Ass like that” when he sends up PeeWee Herman for getting caught by police masturbating in a cinema. To allow the ego to moderate the id would be to respect convention – allow it to regulate our internal passions and co-operate with it by allowing it to shape and mould a ‘super-ego’ or ‘alter-ego’ within us – which is a creation or product of the ego as it mediates between the id – as in – it mediates between what we want to do – and what society will allow us to get away with – therefore the ego negotiates a compromise between our unrestrained passions (id) and what the society allows us to do and so therefore creates our ‘superego’ – the selves that we allow to be shaped by moral codes and conventions of acceptable behaviour. For example a compromise we might agree to accept, as we allow the ego to mediate between the id and the moral conventions of society, is to hold out on performing sex acts until we get home which means controlling ourselves in public. In this case Slim Shady is the ‘id’ the unrestrained evil passions lurking within that Eminem unleashes – at least in song – to go and do, without restraint or self-control, everything that enters his imagination. Genius – like I said Eminem delivered the id to popular culture and at the same time provided and still is providing a social commentary about it all through the dual personality of the man himself – Marshal Mathers. This Slim Shady, Marshal Mathers dualism is exactly what we need to be hearing. The evil inside us, the child abuse/role model doctrine that exacerbates it and the Slim Shady character it creates as it nurtures and cultivates this evil to full bloom when it becomes manifested in adult form. The stage of the child is just the incubation period – the age of adulthood is the aftermath – Slim Shady is created – there is now no going back to undo what has been done (think Eminem’s “Insane”). Now that Eminem has made all this blatantly apparent to all those who are truly listening with cool composure – not getting upset by his lyrics but who are reserving the finger of judgment until after they give him a chance to speak so that they can first hear him out – will realise that he has so eloquently described and elucidated the problem. Because of this they might now also be reaching out to him and crying for a solution. Hopefully as he reaches out to us he might now begin to step up and do what he said originally and point to someone who can save us from it all – someone who can save us from ourselves because Eminem has, as he said himself – “come way too far in this game to just turn and walk away and not say what I got to say” (“When the Music Stops” Eminem/D12). I hope he is listening to his calling. Again – watch the video to the Em produced “Ghetto Gospel” and look carefully at what the guy reads as he stands looking across the road just before the chorus comes on after the first verse – then listen to the chorus carefully – this is who we have to follow. Eminem now needs to not only give us a glimpses of this but a full blown developing commentary in whatever way he sees fit to do so – it is simply too important for him to ignore and walk away from – he has to start writing the second chapter because Slim Shady was a necessary chapter 1 concerning the Problem – the truth is none of us are good, we are all evil and we show this to varying degrees but it does not end here, there is a chapter 2 called “Solution” and Eminem has to introduce us to him. Slim Shady must now become the platform in which to do this and the man Marshal Mathers must therefore live up to his calling.

Eminem Relpase Is His Greatest Attempt After A 5 Year Hiatus To Give People What They Want And He Has Completely Blown Me Away!

With The Starting Of Dark Themse With Songs Such As “3AM” & The Violent “Insane” Gives You The Feeling That Eminem Is Back To His Old Slim-Shady Persona, In Other Words, A Elegant Sociopath With Rhymes To Die For, Literally.

Then He Gives Us The Fun-Loving “We Made You” Which Pokes Fun At Stars Such As Amy Winehouse & Jessica Simpson, It Is Eminem At His Old Fun Self Again.

Then The First Of Two Collab’s With Dre He Gives Us The ‘West Coast’ Type Bouncing Beat With “Old Time’s Sake” Where Eminem & Dre Make Sure That People Get The Point That They Are Really Big Entities In The Rap Game, Then To Smooth The Albums Motion Down He Gives Us The Chilled Out “Must Be The Ganja.”

With All The Dark & Evil Psychopathic Themse Of Deja Vu Eminem Takes Time With A Song, Without A Shadow Of A Doubt His Best Song Since “Lose Yourself”, He Gives Us The Emotional “Beautiful” Which Is Talking About How Don’t Ever Let People Say You Are Not Beautiful & Raps About How We Must Take A M ile In Each Other’s Shoes And Understand The Shit We All Go Through.

Then The Second Collaboration Em’ Has Features Dre & 50 Cent In His Number One Smash Hit (And His First Number One Since “Lose Yourself” In 2002) ” Crack A Bottle” Which With Dre’s Piano & 808’s Beats And Eminem Chaotic Verse & Dre’s Rememberance Verse, Ending With 50 Cent’s Chilled Out Smooth Verse Became One Of Eminem’s Great Collaborations.

But To Sum Relapse All Up It Is Eminem At His Best, With The Psychotic, Chaotic, Chilled Out, Maxed Out, Definetly A Variety Of Motions, Themse Of Eminems Album, This Album Is Sure To Be 2009’s Best Album & The Hip-Hop Album Of The Century.

While Eminem Maybe High In The Charts, His Touching Song “Beautiful” With All Emotions Let Out Could Become Eminem’s Magnum Opus & The Song Of The Year. With It’s Positive Messages & It Backdrop On Em’s Life, This Song Sums Up All Of Relapse & This Song Will Make You Want To Buy Relapse & Just To Listen To This Song.

A Rating For Eminem’s Relapse
5 Stars, The Hip-Hop Album We Have All Been Waiting For.

Eminem Relpase Is His Greatest Attempt, After A 5 Year Hiatus, To Give People What They Want And He Has Completely Blown Me Away!

With The Starting Of Dark Themes With Songs Such As “3AM” & The Violent “Insane” Gives You The Feeling That Eminem Is Back To His Old Slim-Shady Persona, In Other Words, A Elegant Sociopath With Rhymes To Die For, Literally.

Then He Gives Us The Fun-Loving “We Made You” Which Pokes Fun At Stars Such As Amy Winehouse & Jessica Simpson, It Is Eminem At His Old Fun Self Again.

Then The First Of Two Collab’s, With Dre He Gives Us The ‘West Coast’ Type Bouncing Beat With “Old Time’s Sake” Where Eminem & Dre Make Sure That People Get The Point That They Are Really Big Entities In The Rap Game, Then To Smooth The Albums Motion Down He Gives Us The Chilled Out “Must Be The Ganja.”

With All The Dark & Evil Psychopathic Themes Of “Deja Vu” Eminem Takes Time With A Song, Without A Shadow Of A Doubt His Best Song Since “Lose Yourself”, He Gives Us The Emotional “Beautiful” Which Is Talking About How Don’t Ever Let People Say You Are Not Beautiful & Raps About How We Must Take A Mile In Each Other’s Shoes And Understand The Shit We All Go Through.

Then The Second Collaboration Em’ Has, Features Dre & 50 Cent In His Number One Smash Hit (And His First Number One Since “Lose Yourself” In 2002) “Crack A Bottle” Which With Dre’s Piano & 808’s Beats And Eminem’s Chaotic Verse & Dre’s Rememberance Verse, Ending With 50 Cent’s Chilled Out Smooth Verse Became One Of Eminem’s Great Collaborations.

But To Sum Relapse All Up It Is Eminem At His Best, With The Psychotic, Chaotic, Chilled Out, Maxed Out, Definetly A Variety Of Motions, Themes Of Eminem’s Album, This Album Is Sure To Be 2009’s Best Album & The Hip-Hop Album Of The Century.

While Eminem Maybe High In The Charts, His Touching Song “Beautiful” With All Emotions Let Out Could Become Eminem’s “Magnum Opus” & The Song Of The Year. With It’s Positive Messages & It Backdrop On Em’s Life, This Song Sums Up All Of Relapse & This Song Will Make You Want To Buy Relapse, Just So You Could Listen To This Song.

A Rating For Eminem’s Relapse
5 Stars, The Hip-Hop Album We Have All Been Waiting For.

The album is insane. Em makes hip hop relevant again. Medicine Ball is the hottest track I’ve heard in years. Seriously the first album that I’ve listened to more than 5 times and am not already sick of. I was blessed with the leak but will be purchasing the cd on Tuesday. If you love gritty lyrical hip hop with ingenious wordplay over banging head nod beats, Relapse is a must own.

Bad review. Both “Stay Wide Awake” and “Same Song and Dance” are more creative than the ‘true anger and personal demons’ songs that eminem has been known for doing over and over and over again.

Not only are they ORIGINAL, the best examples of his rapping talent are on the non serious songs like those. By allowing himself to talk about anything he wants, he has more opportunity to show us what he can do with his rhymes and flow. And that is preciselly where the greatness of this cd shines. His rapping abilities are on another level, but everyone is so obsessed about his ‘content’ that they don’t see what he’s doing with his wordplay.

That guy who had the top ten rappers of all timel he had jada, trick daddy and some other nonsense. That’s funny! Guy obviously dosent know hip hop. Hey dude, you should try listening to living legends, gza, brother Ali. Substance is everything. Eminem is still filthy!!!

Yes. The man is a genius. He is nothing less than a modern-day Shakespeare. The beats make the lyrics even more forceful, so let’s not forget D. Dre. Two geniuses worked on this project and look what they came up with. Same Song and Dance is a complete masterpiece. No rapper has ever come forth with an album as complex as this. The guy took a black genre and redefined it. The greatest rapper of all time is WHITE. Hard to believe…impossible to ignore.

Role-Model you didn’t even review the album, rather you dived into telling off other critics and then decided to teach those who didn’t know about psychology 101.

Im a long time Em fan, bought everything he’s put out, downloaded all his unreleased stuff. Yo honestly,dude suprised the shit out of me. I feel kind of stupid saying this about Em, but dude came back in rare form. Jokes and celeb disses aside, his lyrical genious is still there and in my opinion his best ever. I havent even heard the whole album yet but after hearing that “old times sake”, i needed to check to make sure i wasnt the only one completely blown away. Big up Em! album should be called The Return of SLIM SHADY

Simple lyrics, self absorb, taking shots at celebs, another poor attempt by a once great artist. Still his fans will eat it up.

did he say simple lyrics? wow simple lyrics… have you heard anyone else rap ever brian mcgee, im just proud of you never thought someone so ignorant could use a computer.

regardless eminems lyrics are sick on this album, especially if yer one of his stupid fans like me who will eat it up( what a cop out line that was brian, you sad little man)

Em is sick and back! Fk yeah, his album will be sick and I’m so fricken pumped he’s back. Get ready world, Eminem is here!

Love the song “Hello” sick track!

the songs in the album were great (not all) but i feel this was not his best “beautiful” is the song which makes the album great i hope he gets success in every point of his life

Absolutley blew me away. He still has his sense of humor which is a plus. The album is an overall success. Great to hear this with all this garbage blastin our radios.

Just finished listening to his album yesterday and as a fan of music in itself, i must say that this new compilation is below par in comparison to his previous compilations. I’ve read most of the comments here that sounded relevant and yes, even the fanboys comments and I would like to refute that this album doesn’t beat his now legendary album “Marshall Matthers LP”.
Upon saying that, considering the young brood of rap these days on MTV, i would easily say that Eminem blows them away (see I can talk like you guys now) but listening to his songs, I would dare say that he seems to have run out of ideas for subject content after all how long can one bitch about his mom and drugs and expect everyone to listen but his rhymes are okay but fail big time in comparison to his “slim shady LP” days.
My friend asked me which song I like the most and I told him that’s a tough one, I can’t decide, I still have failed to like any of the songs yet.
In terms of fanbase, Eminem is doing pretty well and would have successful album sales revenue, judging from the majority of the reviewers above me, someone said Em was the best rapper there ever was. Have you actually listen to other rappers before? Its okay to listen to a non-white rapper you know…just in case. There is music beyond the shallow waters of MTV you know. There are a lot of good underground rappers that just don’t get the chance to showcase their abilities in rhyming, rappers like Brother Ali or Slug of Atmosphere or even Jedi Mind Tricks.
But this is beside the point, this album’s subject content is run-down, old and cliché but his rhyming schemes and story-telling abilities are still there but his new flow and voice is annoying. Ever since I’ve heard “ass like that” I was really hoping it would stop there or at least won’t be as reoccurring as it is in this album.
I’m pretty sure I’ve ruffled some feathers but I couldn’t give a rat’s ass. Just take a listen to this album and “Eminem show” and then compare it to “slim Shady LP” and “Marshall Matthers LP” and perhaps you would have reached the same conclusion as I have that this album is like listening to a new album by Michael Jackson and he goes on and on about how he isn’t the lover of Billie Jean.
I don’t blame the guy for having nothing to really talk about, he was like a slut licking an asshole; he just didn’t have shit to say. I somewhat suspected that he purposely went to rehab just to write something.
I’m joking you sensitive fan boy. I just think I rather listen to another rapper who can bring something better to the plate but since MTV destroyed any sense of hope for that I guess I’m going to listen to Marshall Matthers LP and pretend that this new album is just a nightmare and It won’t relapse again.

But I’ll be nice and give it a 2.8/5
Hope you all drop dead you sheeps.
Lovingly yours,
Stan I mean BOBisSLIGHTLYevil

Its not on the level of the Marshall Mathers LP or The Eminem Show. But I think its a very solid album by Ems standards which still puts him way higher then almost anyone to date. “he shits it better then 90% of the rappers out there” remember lol

The guy can’t sing. It was like listening to a dying cat when he’d try. Don’t praise him for that people!!

There are a few shitty songs like We Made you and even Crack a bottle gets annoying fast..overall tho his lyrics are on the same level if not better than when he went into retirement. The songs like stay wide awake, insane and underground are dark and fucked up to listen to but you cant ignore his genius for thinking of shit nobody else would. Anyway relapse II is supposedly coming out fairly soon which is supposed to be even better if u liked this album so eminem is back

The album is amazing, the song insane is just that, insane, great to see him and doc dre back with a bang, with a second albium and detox still to come its going to be a great year for hip hop.

First good album, second thing you need to understand where Em is from Detroit home of the wicked shit and that’s what this is, him going back to his roots kinda like the slim shady lp. Its raw and he don’t give a fuck no cryin and bitchin just straight wicked shit next your gunna see him with The Insane Clown Posse doin it the right way. Fuck everyone Thanks

i love bagpipes from baghdad
its probably the best song on the album, can’t wait to see the video

Ok, so after listening to this album I must say it is a decent album, his older shit was better. for the people that say he has run out of material and how long can one rap about drugs, his shitty mom, getting fucked by his dad and people still listen. does not everyone rap about money and girls. Em’s style is just that his style. would you rather him sound like everyone else.

i like it.. nice to hear slim shady, and it would be cool to hear marshal mathers on relapse 2

To mr. BOBisSLIGHTLYevil –
I don’t agree with you comparing Relapse to Michael Jacksons attempt to make Billy Jean 2.
LOLZ
I like this album very much, and it takes time to get used to it, but when U do u will be completely blown
I like Eminems old classics best (Infinite, Brain Damage, Rock Bottom, Still Don’t give a fuck, Kill you, Till I Collapse)

This is almost like that it is just another level. Higher level and wait for Relapse 2 to come out. When it comes out, until then it’s not possible to rate it.

The beats are amazin and lyrics are very honest, maybe not so funny, but very amusing, sometimes even shocking. At least Eminem speaks the truth and how many people feel like Em???..:How many people have this thoughts. And everyone is sick of the media promoting stupid stuff.

And it is about the pills. Prozac, painkillers, nervous brakedowns.For me, Relapse is a history of ages where people need pills to be able to love life.

Peace

EMINEM IS BACK
FROM HIS NEW ALBUM RELAPSE
THE BEST SONG FROM HIS ALBUM WE MADE YOU,CRACK A BOTTLE.UNDERGROUND WE HAPPY YOU BACK SLIM SHADY FROM YOUR FAN TONY

(EMINEM ALBUMS)
ENCORE(2004)
THE EMINEM SHOW(2002)
CURTAIN CALL(2005)
THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP(2000)
THE SLIM SHADY LP(1999)
EMINEM PRESENTS THE RE-UP(2006)
RELAPSE(2009)

I would like to say that “relapse” is a great album. The lyrics that Em came up with on dis album is dope. Tracks like insane, hello, stay wide awake are off the hook. I am sooo happy Em is back to his roots and this album is much better than Encore. This album is raw, honest and st8 hip hop. looking forward for relapse 2….

The album is good, no doubt about that. But from reading a few of the posts i think people have praised it for all the wrong reasons..
The best things about the album is eminems ..LYRICS, FLOW and ability to tell a story so graphically….
however, the content??? is that what you call real hip hop? rapping about NOTHING? and the for the most part the meaningful REAL topics were abusive, and filled with NEGATIVITY. Now if you like that sort of thing it’s good for you. But said plain and simple- thats not the essense of hip-hop thats why it cannot be called the BEST ALBUM or a GREAT ALBUM from a real hip hop standpoint. ALL the boxes have to be ticked to arrive at such a conclusion. Lyrically he’s one of the best both on an underground and commercial level…u cant really do better than he does ryhming like that, u can only par it..
The BEST SONGS on the album are: Hello, Stay wide awake, Medicine ball and My mom..te other songs are merely OKAY..So pls stop with that bullshit that its the best u’ve ever heard and that it proves he’s the greatest..JUST SAY he’s ur favourite rapper..as that wud be more accurate…

I dont agree with most of you.I am a huge fan of Eminem but i have to admit that he’s just not who he used to be.this album is not even close to any of his previous albums.The only hot songs in this album were beautiful and dejavu.

If anyone thinks this LP is anything but Em, your wrong. This is him, just more screwed up, so to say. He has changed his style some, but for any true Em fan, you have to know, this IS him. The album shows a whole different side of him. He is vulnerable and human and he shows it in this album. I think it is brilliant.

Look, what y’all need to understand is no one else makes songs that even sound like this album-good or bad. As for his voice, it’s representative, He’s using it as a metaphor for his life at the time, rap at the time, how he felt about his music and life at the time.

Also He disses himself for rapping about the same thing on one of the skits so for all those trying to bash him on topics he beat y’all to it.

Overall the beats are off the chain, lyrically he killed every one of them, I mean for skepticists: literally take the time to read through those and find where they go on the beat and the amount of breaths he takes. It’s incredible, he practically killed the album. If the beats were weak he’d be better off going accapella.

And that other Dude was right: he took a black genre/music/audience/influence and bent it to his experience, his life, and the sounds he heard and he was brave enough to get on the Mic and share it. yes other Mc’s and rappers out there do the same thing better or whatever but we’re not talking about them. And they’ll get their dues when the time comes. But honestly you can’t diss any of the beats, and you can’t dis his rhythms and tongue skillz. As for topics, hey it’s better then talking about RIMS,Hoes,Clubs and one month dances like the Ricky Bobby.

P.S. I agree, Till I collapse is off the chain, there’s some shit in that song that only Mc’s understand and it’s hillarious

1st I wanna say I’m a Eminem fan…and this ablum is great…he’s back to where he was before curtain call…the flow is all-time…the way he puts rhymes together is amazing…what he raps about has always been the same but so…I don’t get why he gets the criticism when every rapper raps about the same thing…no one really changes from ablum to album…Jay-z…Game…Lil Wayne rap hasn’t change they topcs too much…plus drug addiction is different then drug use…he is the only rapper who gives u a look inside his life and how he was raised…he puts his heart and soul on the mic and then he has goofy songs cus maybe he’s goofy…I hatee is topic choice but I respect his flow…I respect he doesn’t just do the chick song party song drug selling song I’m the shit somg and I get females song that almost everyone does…he’s a white boy from detroit who grew up poor and around drugs…what wld u rap about…bitches…get this album…the sickest part is he has a different flow on every song and stlye…some songs remind me of songs from all his diferent albums and that’s wassup

The best song on relpase is underground!!!

His album and website is AWESOME! I love what they did with it! Good to have him back!

I’m a die hard Eminem fan and have been listening to his music religiously since the release of Infinite in 1996. I’ve listened to Relapse numerous times since downloading the leak and I’ve gotta say that this latest effort from Em is surprisingly good. To be honest, I half expected Relapse to be as shitty as Encore was but I’m please to say that this is DEFINITELY not the case. Relapse is filled with a variety of kick-ass tracks, like Insane, My Mom, Medicine Ball, Bagpipes From Baghdad, Same Song & Dance, Stay Wide Awake, Dejavu and Underground (not necessarily in that order). Em has gone all out on this one, delivering unbelievably complex, inventive and hilariously funny rhymes consistently throughout the album. The beats, as would be expected with Dre producing most tracks, are masterfully well put together. Overall, I’d proably have to rate Relapse at a 4.5/5, due to the two let down tracks, Crack A Bottle and We Made You. Both of which seem to stick out like dogs balls on a canary compared to the rest of the tracks on this album. It certainly appears that Em is back and with that said, I can’t wait to see what he comes up with on Relapse 2!

dope. end of story.

Tell yourselves the truth. If you didn’t know who Eminem was, and this was his first CD, would you still be giving him such positive reviews? Relapse sounds more like and audiobook w/ a beat than good music. Sure it was interesting to listen to the first time. But no way are these songs that I would listen to again and again, and certainly not years down the line. Also, although his flow was pretty good on a few songs, i don’t understand why he uses that annoying accent, for entire songs even. Is he trying to be funny?

I am still unsure if this album is as good as his others and is everyone rearded the reup is from 06 its 09 thats three years not five still dont have a favorite song love em and always will but too much drug shit im recovering and if i talked about drugs as much as him i would have relapsed i guess there inlies the title

best ALBUM to date…still unsure? twist one up, pop a few xanies, read interviews of why he did what he did and listen to the album over again

“you either love it or hate it/ every cd critics gave a 3 than 3/ years later they go back a rerate it/ and call the Slim Shady LP the greatest/ the Marshal Mathers was a classic/ The Eminem Show was fantastic/ but Encore just didn’t have the calliber to match it/ i guess enough time just ain’t passed yet/ a couple more years that shit’ll be Ill-matic/ and 8 years later I’m still at it/ devorved, remarried, a felon, a father, a sleeping pill addict”

this cd is raw as fuck. Listen to the first verse of hello, all of My Mom, and any of Bagpipes from Baghdad. Even if he is talking about a sore issue to millions of people he is giving a realistic portrait of drug addiction, and is doing it creatively and entertainingly way. 5/5 by the way Insane is absolutly hilarious, also he tries to display his maniac side as a joke. Its real funny great album i cant stop listening

Relapse is good, but it’s really not as special as people think it is. DOOMs Born Like This is still the best rap album released 2009, thus far.

Eminem as the number one selling artist of this decade. HE IN NO WAY LOST ANYTHING!!! I can’t stop listening to it. As soon as I heard it I was hooked. I give it as many stars you can. Dr. Dre is Brilliant the two are great DUO to say the very least!!! This coming from a person that is in the downside hill of life.

this album reminds of “slim shady lp”. Awesome!!! And i’m listening to “My mom” right now. And “Underground”!!! Whaaat??? Sick Skills

Since when is rape an acceptable album topic? I don’t care how creative the lyrics were or how his flow was on the album. Something is wrong with you if like hearing skits of someone being raped, songs about gay molestors, or how many ways you can dismember somebody.

I personally don’t like the content of most rap out nowadays, but damnit this is way worse!
I would rather hear a song about selling drugs or getting money than hear one about raping an innocent person and chopping them up.

I think this album is down as fuck. Some of his more raw shit, I dont think this tops the Eminem show though (To me his best album). The only downfall to this albim is his voice; the high pitched middle east sounding accent on some tracks just takes away the hardness the track could be. Overall great album though.

Em is awesome and always gonna be awesome! I think relapse is GREAT every single song…and dont hate on him b.c. he is differant then most or um every rapper that iv ever heard..ur jealous

best album in 2009.eminem iz da best rapper in da universe.bagpipes frm baghdad iz awesome.eminem iz a really a lyrical genius.Godz gift 2 music.hope 2 c him rap in tamil 1 day.

I listen to alot of hip hop. And by alot i mean the good ass underground shit. Jedi, Immortal, Swollen, Legends, Hiero, Slug, Blackalicious. ATCQ MFDoom, Tech9, u name it i prolly know it. But Eminem has always been at the top with his lyrics. And I didnt expect much from this album, but damn i was blown away, im goin to have to listen to it a few more times, but Eminem is back, watch out Lil Wayne you were never the best rapper alive, Eminem was just plottin his next move.

Relapse is an amazing album; probably EM’s finest work by far

this album is not as good as all you dumbasses think it is i thought fack was the worst song this dude could make until i heard three am and what the fuck is up with his voice instead of listening to this go listen to the marshall mathers lp and see just how good eminem was.
the only bad song on that album was kim and even that is better than most of this album

i like the alter ego things eminem does and he’s a poet, a songwriter and a comedian. if you like it then slurp it up. if you don’t suck on something else. your choice but you gotta admit it’s entertaining shit

idc if marshall mathers lp was the best this was still a great comeback and relapse

Are you guys fucking high? I’m an Em fan but this album is weak. Stop tricking yourselves into believing you like these songs because you support him. The songs my mom insane and bagpipes are lyrics I could probably come up with in under a hour like in insane when he says then he played ping pong with his own ding dong that mutha fuckers got nuts like king kong. WTF. I guess he can get away with a few lines about rape but two fucking songs about it along with other stupid things is something no one wants to here. If I hear one more song about mariah Carey or him using that stupid new accent I will officialy give up on him

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This album came across pretty fuckin’ weak to me at the start. I mean, I didn’t think he’d make ‘Insane’ come from his P.O.V, but then again, if that’s the shit he wants to spill in our ears, more power to em’.

The only tracks I found to be rich are Underground / Beautiful. On Track 11, what Paul Rosenburg is recorded saying, I’m not sure if it’s his honest opinion, or just in there for effect. I agree with it. Insane was made to just fuck with people’s minds, and…it apparently did a good job.

I find it funny that people are saying his shit is ‘amazing’. He even mocked himself on the Steven Berman skit for being reptitive. I don’t mind the drug repetition in his raps, but the rape? That’s not a ‘part of his life’ or anything significant that he needed to bring up constantly in this album. His old shit was so much better. I almost lost respect for Eminem in this album. I don’t even mind his weird voices, he always makes up for it, but…seriously…this album is a half n’ half deal. You get half of his good new shit, and half of his fucked up reptitive rap.

Hopin’ Relapse 2 makes a strong comeback from child molestation and body-chopping. Actually…I didn’t really mind 3 A.M.

This album is coming from a diffrent side of eminem it can be compared to the slim shady lp but its its own album with the mindstate eminem has now. the lyrics are still sick but his little voice makes the songs harder to enjoy hopefully he drops that accent on the next album but its still good work by slim shady

This is a great album im 18 ive been listen to em since the marshall mathers lp and for his 4 year hibernation. to comeback using autotune and murder this album give respect where its due. Imagine if your nigga got killed listen to “be careful what you wish for” c’mon Em is human as alll of us so just cause he has a few albums and millions he knows whats its like to be 1 of us

Sure, there are a few weak points on this album (eg. We all heard “King Kong went to Hong Kong to play Ping Pong with his Ding Dong” in second grade), but come on, Eminem is better than most rappers on his worst day! Without a doubt, some of the subjects aren’t exactly appropriate for the Sunday choir(eg. rape and dismemberment), but the accents remind us not to take any of it too seriously… I’ve been listening to this album for a week straight since I bought it, and I give it an A.

Bottom line, this album is a must have. The shit he raps about, I don’t think many people have the nuts to touch. I was floored. Shit is deep, mad respect. To throw it out there for millions to here…dude is an open book. Truth.

Em fell off. I’m a huge fan of his early work, but this album is a joke. Literally. I think he’s punking us. If you’re looking for some dark, powerful rap like “the way I am,” or “toy soldiers,” you won’t find that here. There isn’t one track on this cd that doesn’t include Em using a fake Indian accent. Relapse is barely music, it’s more of a weak comedy album.

to the guy below me, you are a fucking retard. i know every one of eminems albums by heart and to say that this one is anything but amazing is insane. the stuff he comes up with and raps about are just crazy. this album is awesome get a life, im sure your not a rapper and you work a regular job (if one at all) like everyone else and have no room to critique someone of much higher superior then you. so go away.

Um, to the guy below me calling dude a retard.. This album is nothing close the the SS LP or the MM LP.. the Eminem Show was good and Encore was decent. His albums have been getting worse as the time goes on. I like a few tracks on Relapse, but for the most part the tracks aren’t very good. Most of the beats just arent that catchy and the accent em raps with is terrible.

what do you guys expect? yeah every album he has made has been amazing and he went a little back to his roots with this one but of fucking course is not gonna be identical to slim lp or marshal. you want him to jsut copy that? he raps what the fuck he wants weather its relevant or not you “us”

Garbage.
Anything after Eminem Show shows Marshall losing momentum. He needs to hit rock bottom and find himself sitting in a trailer somewhere pissing himself. Put the anger back in. Write something fucking meaningful.

I was practically bought up listening to Eminem, & yeah sometimes he’s not as good as others, but EVERYONE has there off-days don’t they?
If you like it, good
If you don’t, then DUDES! Stop commenting on things you don’t like! Ain’t you got anything better to do?

im just sayin that the encore album was where i thought he was losing momentum. i still bought though because it had amazing flow and songs like mockingbird and like toy soldiers stuck wit me. but relapse is an amazing album and prob as respectable as the eminem show. this stuff is real in a way and meaningful because it expresses wat drugs can do to you and wat they did to him. so i think this is a great comeback album and im expecting better in the future

great review. to all the people who say he needs to be like he use to be…i can think of maybe 5 musical artist(out of millions) who dont have ppl saying they were better in the beginning…green day???

AS SOMEONE ACCURATELY STATED ‘EMINEM FABRICATED LYRICS TO CREATE SHOCK RAP’. HIS VOICE IS INDED ANNOYING AND HIS MUSIC LACKS ORGANIC APPEAL IT’S LIKE A DOSE OF BATTERY ACID. EMINEM STILL HOWEVER HAS A GREAT FLOW AND RHYMING ABILITY.

THE WOMAN HATING THEMES ARE GETTING A BIT TEDIOUS TOO!!….EXTREMLEY HARSH LYRICS AGAINST WOMEN COMES ACCROSS AS ‘WHIMP LOSER ETC.’

Yeah i gotta agree with the review…for me,personally,Relapse is a classic…the best track on the album has to be Deja Vu!!!damn!!!talk about honesty & confessions!!!Word Out!!!