Some people would like to say I listen to “conscious rap” where the rappers write about and lyricize something that requires conscious thought.
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Much in the same way that Drake, Big Sean, or Nicki Minaj don’t deserve any praise from me either. I am perfectly competent in my judgment that Lil Wayne is not a rapper that puts out great or good music. I wonder why, I say sarcastically and rhetorically. For casual hip hop fans, Lil Wayne and Eminem is a dream collaboration, yet this track has never had a lasting effect on the hip hop community. And in this case Lighters was an all-time dud. Bad Meets Evil was overall a good album, there’s just that ONE song. They’re all pretty damn good artists that have made some fairly good music. There’s a hilarious irony that I find in Rihanna, Bruno Mars, and Royce Da 5'9 all being on this list. Lighters expounded upon that cliche and really made that message lose its veracity. I’m all for that lyricism and message, and while Not Afraid was okay, even then their was that hint of “this feels cliche”. Lighters took off where Not Afraid left off in Eminem’s positivity tour of songs that conveyed positive changes in his life. Lighters went a step further on a production level and changed acoustic guitar with echoed clap, and with a synth you’d find in a Chris Brown song with a harder clap possibly mixed with snare and bass drum. Lighters is definitely worse than Love the Way You Lie, this isn’t an either-or situation. Replace Rihanna with Bruno Mars and add in Royce Da 5'9 and you get this mess of yet another watered down radio smash. This song comes in close composition to Love the Way You Lie. But Love the Way You Lie took the storytelling and lyricism, the top tier production value, and flatlined it.ģ. Eminem’s storytelling lyricism is what makes us cling to songs like Stan, add an authentic production and you have a classic, see Legacy. It could be likely Interscope had Eminem boxed in with Rihanna to create a radio smash and this was the watered down result. Love the Way You Lie never felt like an Eminem song, and maybe there’s too much expectation.
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Love the Way You Lie was the second worst song on the Recovery album and if it never became a smash hit I would replace it’s #4 spot on the list with Untitled which was a bonus track and the worst track on the album. Since abusive relationships are a reality and Eminem so well depicts them in art form, Love the Way You Lie turns into a smash hit with its cheesy piano and acoustic guitar chords. Love the Way You Lie contained the elements of an abusive relationship, but told more of a reality than the fantasies fans were used to. Rihanna in the Love the Way You Lie videoįrom murder to abuse, some would say Slim Shady was going soft in the transition from Relapse to Recovery. Typical hip hop fans would point to Forever, which was weighted down by lackluster guest spots from Drake and Lil Wayne. Relapse was not a lost cause of an album, where songs like Beautiful, Drop the Bomb on Em, and 3 A.M. It’s as if Eminem got tired of murdering women in his music. Same Song and Dance had Eminem in his classic psychopathic murderer scenario but lacked any of his demonstrative emotion that Kim had on the original Marshall Mathers LP. Some may point to Insane, but since I liked the production value of Insane as compared to Same Song and Dance, the latter takes the #5 spot. There’s a few songs that you could argue could take its spot.
#EMINEM SLIM SHADY ALBUM SONGS PLUS#
The perfect conceptualization of Eminem’s vocal troubles plus messy content is found in Same Song and Dance. There was still the over the top maniacal fantasies delivered in tall order, but much of the material didn’t generate the same reaction or really resonate with fans. The other major critique is the content of the songs on Relapse. A lot of the negative response dealt with how Eminem was trying to alter his vocals that just didn’t work the same way it did when he put out the Slim Shady LP. Eminem has referenced how he didn’t feel so proud of this release either.
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Relapse is likely considered by most Eminem fans as his worst album.