Eminem

Tell your friend that Shady is back with a surprise, which is his 11th album Music To Be Murdered By that was released on January 17th, 2020 under the labels Shady Records, Aftermath and Interscope Records. Eminem's last album, Kamikaze in 2018 was a bomb targeting mumble rappers, and lately, Eminem was again involved in his long-time feud with Nick Cannon which in my opinion was a ridiculous battle from both parties. As big as Eminem is, he did not need a single promotion buzz to announce his new album but the only thing we heard last year was that Dr. Dre and Em were secretly working on an album. Speaking of the good doctor, Dre was heavily active in the production of the album, alongside The Alchemist and other producers were added to the project such as Mr. Porter, Dawaun Parker, Dem Jointz, Royce da 5'9" and others. The featured guests are Ed Sheeran, Royce da 5'9", Young M.A., Skylar Grey, Q-Tip, Black Thought, Anderson .Paak, Slaughterhouse, and the late Juice Wrld.

I don’t judge people on what they say or their opinions. I judge people based on the effect they have on others. When Eminem says anything, the world stops. He grew a beard and it made actual news – A lot of people say Eminem is the best rapper of alive. I don’t agree with those people, but they have a legitimate argument. Saying Eminem is the best rapper alive is understandable, but lazy. Rappers are weird because they don’t age like Athletes as much as they age like wrestlers. As long as the charisma is still there their character can still be believable. So with that said Eminem is like the Stone Cold Steve Austin of Rap, he was amazing at his peak but to call him the best wrestler today wouldn’t be fair to AJ Styles or Seth Rollins. If that analogy is too nerdy, Eminem is like The Simpsons of Rap, great at their peak, but calling it the best show on TV in 2019 is insane. This is why it’s so frustrating to have real conversations about Eminem because his legacy outshines his current state. Plus, I’m almost 80 percent sure Eminem fans aren’t rap fans because the things they love about him today aren’t what make rap good. “Oh he rhymes words really fast” “ok but what was the song about” “DID YOU SEE HOW MANY WORDS HE RHYMED” “but I don’t know what he’s talking abo-“ “HE CAN RHYME ANYTHING, HE RHYMED THE WORD ORANGE, HE’S KEEPING HIPHOP AL-” you get the picture. It’s tiring. So with that said let’s get into the surprise album Kamikaze

It's simply so natural to ridicule the modern-day rappers. The face tattoos, the styrofoam glasses, the gibberish promotion bars, the fantasy mumbled streams—SNL sent up the look, Jay-Z blueprint the sound and now, Eminem commits quite a bit of his own unexpected rendition with the album Kamikaze to bringing down the way of life. Any semblance of Migos and Lil Pump are to this 45-year-old ‘reckless’ rapper, what kid groups and Britney Spears were to him very nearly two decades prior: focuses for his vile as well as multifaceted tirades, yet in addition implies through which Eminem can catch for eye and contention. In reality, however, the outrage he heaves against 2018's young stars is of an unexpected sort in comparison to it was in the TRL period. Eminem appears to be really distraught, undermined, and harmed, as opposed to just trolling. That is on account of Eminem's December 2017 collection Revival, regardless of appearing at No. 1 on the Hot 200, neglected to produce hits, discussion and enduring deals. While that record was foreboding and sprawling, Kamikaze is super strong and fast “pyumm” Eminem would personify it as. Also, as opposed to imagining not to be annoyed by Revival's gathering, he's made a collection length Downfall-style freak-out, venting about the specialists who've taken his spot, offending the pundits who don't give him his due, grieving his own particular sentiments of decay, and pre-empting feedback that the greater part of this is a beautiful masturbatory activity.

At eleven years old is about the time I dove heavy into Hip-Hop, well at least main stream Hip-Hop. I was just a kid, and when I begged my mom to spend $15 or so on a CD she would think I'm crazy but every now and then she would give in. In 1999, I had a few CD's from Tupac, Biggie, Puffy, Jay-Z, Ma$e, and often I would settle for singles that my mom would agree to buying for me, and even those I had to beg for. If my mom knew about the explicit content on these albums, I promise you there is no way in Hell she would have bought these for me – One day in 1999, I see this white boy on Mtv pop up on the tube and say “Hi Kids..” as if he was talking to me. I thought I knew what explicit content was until I discovered this cat. Any ways, I would of never imagined that dude and that album would have such an effect on my musical experience, as well as my music endeavors at a later age. Please keep in mind, this narrative is not so much about Eminem's Slim Shady LP as it is about one of the major contributors of that album, and a legendary Detroit MC, and my relationship with these two people and the Detroit Hip-Hop scene in general.