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List Price: $13.98
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Manufacturer: Shady / Aftermath / Interscope
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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: Eminem
EAN: 0602527032160
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Shady / Aftermath / Interscope
Manufacturer: Shady / Aftermath / Interscope
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Shady / Aftermath / Interscope
Release Date: 2009-05-19
Studio: Shady / Aftermath / Interscope
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Editorial Reviews:
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Highly anticipated 2009 album from one of the most successful Rap artists in history. He's sold more albums than most Rock and Pop superstars. He's a Grammy winner. He's an Oscar winner. He's been on the cover of practically every music magazine since his debut album dropped in 1999. Now, 10 years after The Slim Shady LP, Eminem marks his 10th anniversary as a Hip Hop hurricane with Relapse, yet another skillful collaboration with Dr. Dre. Features the single 'Crack A Bottle' (which features Dre and 50 Cent).
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Get some talent!
Comment: Oh my God, this is a fun dance album and fun to listen to. But the talent is in the production. Eminem has never had a voice that deserves a second listen. His is background to his wonderful production excess, but just about anyone could substitute for his singing(?) ability. Eminem's limited singing talent can be effectively used for sampling, but there is nothing substantial here. He has hired the right people to keep his career alive, but really who cares? Just think...who does he sing better than? No one. He is a lucky man being able to turn his minor talent into a major career. Don't get me wrong, if you buy this CD, you will probably enjoy it; it is fun. But it is not Eminem that is the talent here. This is just a production album.
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Summary: Different style, but excellent
Comment: Em has definitely changed his rap style a bit. At first i didn't like it, but after listening to the album once or twice it began to grow on me. This is an amazing album that shows how much talent Eminem has.
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Summary: Great Buy!
Comment: No complaints here. The cd came very quickly and it was in excellent condition. I'm very happy with the purchase!
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Summary: Eminem Review
Comment: I am going to make this quick. I love the eminem relapse cd. It is one of his best. I am glad that I ordered it from amazon. I recieved my merchandise in a timely manner and will continue to but my music from amazon.
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Summary: 5th Album or 5th Step...5 Stars Either Way
Comment: Addiction, or so any self-respecting 12-stepper will tell you, is about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. And the biggest rap on Eminem--at least since The Marshall Mathers EP--is that he's just repeating himself, trying with ever-more-evident effort to shock an increasingly jaded public. Granted, he may be expecting the same results--earning the love (or at least the dollars) of millions of fans, gaining attention (positive or negative) from every media organ in the land, regaining his place atop one of the higher hills in the pop-culture landscape. But otherwise he acts like a rap addict, and--as has been pointed out by other reviewers--he plays it up with a title that's about both substance abuse and a reversion to his Slim Shady persona.
And he has his fun playing to the public perception on this awesome album: "I know you're probably tired about hearin' about my mom, whoa-hoa-oh-oh," he says on "My Mom," an infernally catchy earworm of a song about someone whose face seems perpetually taped to the family-members-only section of his lyrical dartboard. "Hello" sounds similar to any number of earlier anthems--"My Name Is...", "The Real Slim Shady," and so forth. And he drops a few more fantasy murder songs of the sort that would give most post-Columbine psychologists an aneurysm, even entitling one of them "Same Song and Dance."
But I don't buy it.
For all the similarities, the seeming sniping at slow-moving pop-culture targets (or immobile ones, like Christopher Reeves), the family feuds that make most others seem like tame game shows, the Paul Rosenberg and Steve Berman skits, the awesome beats from Dr. Dre, there's some subtle-but-important differences.
First and foremost is a notable absence--the only Kim he mentions here is named Kardashian. It may seem like a little difference, but it seems Eminem's now committed to settling some things behind closed doors, or at least outside the studio. In place of the finely-detailed and often Kim-directed violent fantasies on earlier discs, this album's violence is a lot more cartoonish and absurd, easier to laugh at than to get worked up over.
Elsewhere, though, he feels honest about things that he hasn't--ahem--touched on yet. Indeed, "Insane" feels like Eminem's Rosetta Stone, unlocking the meaning of all the perplexing homicidal homophobe persona with lyrics that somehow make scenes of childhood incest both hilarious and horribly believable. ("We're going out back to the shed," he says in his stepfather's voice, to which his young self replies, "Can't we just play with Teddy Ruxpin instead?") It's like his fifth album is his 5th Step and he's finally being honest about the nature of his wrongs; later on, he raps convincingly and, one presumes, honestly, about his experiences battling drug and alcohol addiction. (Granted, he's never been one to avoid drug-and-alcohol raps before, but there's a lack or romanticism and bravado here that's a far cry from songs like "Drug Ballad.") It's entertaining to hear the devilish voice of his own addiction added to the cachophony of characters in his raps, and even more so to hear him turn the lyrical artillery he'd used on others around and fires for effect on his own distorted thinking. And near the end, there's even some fairly positive and optimistic stuff, like "You're Beautiful." We've never heard much positive from Em; it seems like even when he's been profound and sensitive and moving (as on "Stan" or "Mockingbird," for instance) he's been negative and depressing, but this song seems almost lovey-dovey, and when one hears it, it almost seems like everything else, all those bitter pills on the album, were just medicine to make the sugar go down.
Granted, the ratio isn't dramatic. There is far more of that same old stuff we collectively OD'd on back in the day; it's still executed with sick flow and wicked beats, and it passes what, for me, is the only important test for music--when I listen to it, I find myself wanting to listen to it again. And the blending of old and new, of renewal and relapse, makes this perhaps his tightest album, conceptually--it's almost a shame no one's buying CDs any more, because unlike the scattershot "Encore," this is thematically solid down to the packaging, with a CD that looks like a pill-bottle top, and prescription-type labelling.
But of course, it's the contents of the bottle that we're after, and everything here is just what the doctor ordered--or rather, what we talked the doctor into giving us. And I am not complaining about that in any way. Although I've given up on some other addictions, listening to Eminem's one I hope to fall back into time and again for years to come.
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