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EMINEM - RELAPSE Appreciation and semi-analytical Thread
Why it is his most overlooked, and in my opinion, his magnum opus. RTs appreciated
Why it is his most overlooked, and in my opinion, his magnum opus. RTs appreciated
Relapse is Eminem's 6th studio album(May 15 2009), after a 4 year hiatus after his last album, Encore, owing to a series of health problems and drug addiction and his rehabilitation from it, the cover art redolent of the miasma of drug abuse with Marshall's portrait made of pills
The album is one of his weaker ones in terms of sales and public reception due to his left field, experimental approach in not only the production but the songwriting as well. It was crafted in the theme of horrorcore, psychedelic imagery, hallucination, mental and sexual abuse
It is Marshall's flagrant expression and very graphic storytelling from the horrific anecdotes of being abused and neglected as a child, is disturbing, sad and somehow marred with the strangest humor
Although it is Marshall's most thematically consistent project, with tracks like 3AM where he contrives of a series of drug-induced nightmares all the way assuming a psychopathic serial-killer vantage, it has some of his lyrical gimmicks as he creatively describes manslaughter
As Marshall once said in an interview, he cringes going back to this project, as he was in a weird phase vacillating between rehab and mental health issues and the various aftermaths of his erstwhile drug abuse, where he started using accents to make words that wouldnt rhyme,
rhyme normally, and used crazy unorthodox syllable schemes and very vivid description and grotesque imagery of a past that most people would not want to hear. The skits further bring out the state of mind he was in whilst making the album in a comedic way
with crazy wordplay and metaphors, the production trippy and often sample-heavy, the lyrics fit perfectly into the theme of the beat. Bagpipes from Baghdad feature one of the best beats he has rapped on and tracks like Deja Vu and Stay Wide awake boasting his lyrical prowess
Beautiful is a song about self-affirmation acceptance and recovery, which is a top 3 Eminem song imo. Crack a bottle features G-Unit era production and verses from Dre and 50 cent. Hello and must be the ganja are hilarious lyrical experiments
Exploring themes of criminal mindset and the toll of hallucinogens in a horrorcore setting, with multi-syllablic paranoia and top notch production, I think its fair to draw an inference that this is a masterful concoction brewed from darkness and hilarity.
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