Eminem - Kamikaze (August 31, 2018) Album • Page 21

Even if a lot of his recent stuff is forgettable for a lot of us around here, he has plenty of high charting singles post hiatus that can make up a greatest hits album. And I believe all of his albums, or close to all of them, have been #1 on the charts.

That being said, I don’t know why we are doing a greatest hits album in 2022. I thought those were outdated.

 

That announcement reminded me that Rap God exists

 

I would bet Killshot is on this

 

I really like most of MMLP2 and think Relapse is much better than it's typically regarded. Em uses the same flow on every track of Recovery and it's bland as hell.

 

He also uses the same accent on Relapse on every song, and it's much worse.

 

yeah relapse is mostly unlistenable for me because of the accent.

 

Perhaps he ran them accents into the ground.

 

Yeah he released the original Curtain Call with When I'm Gone after Encore and then took a break for a few years. Everything since minus Recovery and a few songs here and there have been borderline terrible.

Imagine if he just never released new music after When I'm Gone.

 

I thought Encore was pretty terrible too, though it had some highlights

 

If he doesn't include "Stepdad" or the Elvis song he's a coward

 

When I'm Gone is so good.

Encore was mostly bad. Probably five or six redeemable tracks. That's when he introduced the godly awful, extremely questionable accent.

 

elvis song is confirmed

 

My guess on the songs:
Relapse: 3 a.m., Beautiful, Crack A Bottle
Recovery: Not Afraid, Space Bound, Love The Way You Lie
MMLP2: Berzerk, Rap God, The Monster
Revival: Walk On Water, River, Arose
Kamikaze: Lucky You, Fall, Venom
MTBMB: Godzilla, Darkness, Gnat

Non-album singles: Guts Over Fear, Killshot

(Already Confirmed)The King and I, From The D To The LBC

Maybe we get “Lighters” from Bad Meets Evil or one or two of his hit features (Airplanes with B.o.B., I Need A Doctor with Dre)

 

I like Bad Meets Evil in its entirety, but that's mostly because I'm a HUGE Royce Da 5'9" fan.

 

Yeah that accent makes Relapse unlistenable.

Godzilla was a huge hit from MTBMB, so that'll definitely be on it. Everyone pretty much wrote him off at that point, but I thought that had some good songs on it - Yah Yah, Unaccommodating, Godzilla and Lock it Up are all great.
Side B was completely forgettable.

 

Newer Eminem gets a lot of hate but I quite enjoy Kamikaze and Music To Be Murdered By.

 

When is the last time you guys listened to Recovery? That album did NOT age well

 

On Fire sounds pretty good still

 

Venom

 

Is The Eminem Shows, although not nearly as good as the three albums before that, the culturally most significant Eminem album and the album that made him a phenomenon rather than just another rap superstar of a certain era? I feel like it might be

I've been thinking about Eminem lately, no idea why

 

I feel like MMLP is what made him the superstar and TES (and 8 Mile) is what really solidified it

 

Yeah but what I mean is that TES (and to an extent the 8 Mile OST) tapped into something that the others did not. The others were "just" popular rap albums, whereas TES was like this cultural milestone (for a lack of a better word, I don't think it's very good) for a certain demographic, like say South Park

 

Ah I see what you're saying. I don't think I can exactly weigh in very well then because I was 7 when TES came out lol, I just thought from stuff I've read that MMLP was really a pretty big cultural phenomenon. I know it got the Marilyn Manson treatment where people were protesting the tours and Fox News was fearmongering about it at least, which is usually a sign that something is making a big impact on the youth

But yeah I definitely think TES is where he went from cult hero to global superstar

 

Yeah you are right about that I guess, that did all happen. Maybe I am just making up things. But I feel like the way TES hit, for a lack of better word, the "white trash" demographic, went beyond that.

 

2002 was the perfect year for him. TES, 8 Mile, and probably most significant, Lose Yourself.