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Eminem - Houdini
Eminem
Houdini
2024 • Single
20
Jun 2, 2024

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Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)
NR

It's worse than I could have imagined. The album cover is embarrassing. He samples at least 6 previous tracks that most people are too young to remember, and then re-raps words over them so embarrassing that I can't believe he released it.

Hopefully this is it. This has been one of the most painful demises of any artist I've ever seen. If you count all 25 years of his career, he spent the first 3 years making a legacy, and the next 22 were spent either reflecting on that short ... read more

Eminem - Tobey
NR

Generic, pointless, joyless, repetitive. It sounds like a Z-side.

He also continues to repeat the myth that he was a "pioneer" of hip-hop. The reality is that by the time Eminem dropped in 1999, Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Nelly were all over the charts. He didn't pioneer hip-hop. He came out just in time to benefit from all their hard work. Which makes it near sacrilege that he mentions Melle Mel (again).

It's this misunderstanding of his legacy that makes ... read more

Eminem - Houdini
20

I'm giving this a participation trophy (an extra half-star for effort). He actually sat there for 4 years, analyzed his career, and thought, "What people really want right now is a rehash of everything I've done for the last 25 years set to the beat of a 42 year-old Steve Miller Band song and a 22 year-old Me song."

This is the price an artist pays for living like a recluse, not social networking, not being open to the ever-evolving sound of modern music. What has become startlingly ... read more

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