Steve's best album, it got too mainstream an scared him away from releasing more music 😭
This album is massively outdated by today's standards and almost every song you are going to have this moment where you wince and think about all the progress that has been made in society since then, in saying that, it still pushes ideas and was massively influential to hip-hop and I would say society at large. If you listen to this album with the mindset of it being an early 2000s album, where society was at in the early 2000s and the context of who Eminem is as a person, this is a ... read more
Pretty much all of his albums have grown on me but I have still enjoyed the majority of the songs, this is not the case with this album, there is some songs that I have tolerated but they all blend together with that signature flow he has not stopped using since 2023, he is talking about the same topics, with the same flow over nonsensical beats.
It sounds like he is phoning it in and it's devoid of any passion, I'm sure I'll come to enjoy some of it but man this hits hard as a ... read more
Have barely listened to the Strokes outside this album and their hits from other albums but man this album is brilliant.
The Adults Are Talking, Selfless and Ode to the Mets could very easily fit in the top 100 songs of this decade so far without question.