Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) ALBUM REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Listen: • Eminem - Houdini [Offi...
TDOSS has its share of highlights, but its narrative is sloppy and lacking in aha moments about the Slim Shady persona.
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FAV TRACKS: BRAND NEW DANCE, EVIL, ANTICHRIST, FUEL, GUILTY CONSCIENCE 2, TOBEY
LEAST FAV TRACK: HOUDINI
EMINEM - THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) / 2024 / SHADY / HARDCORE HIP HOP, CHARACTER STUDY
5/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
Tobey got bit by a spider but Tony got bit by a melon
These r bars 🗣
🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
@@AngelRivera-de1lq my favourite from the album is
"Smoke with me isn't smart so
You might as well go looking for smoke with Lamar bro"
(Marlboro/ smoke 🚬)
Lmao.
Anthony Fantano be like "Tobey Maguire got bit by a Spider. Me, it was a Melon."
@@BrandonAyongAnd it’s a triple entendre. Marlboro cigarette smoke. Lamar Odom, the NBA player who was married to Khloé Kardashian was a crack addict. And looking for smoke with Kendrick Lamar. 😮
if eminem was white you would’ve given this a 10
Wait, what? 😂
Not abt race 🤦♂️we all know he gave Eminem that score because she’s a woman
Fax🗿
“hE iS wHiTe” 👁️👄👁️
Actually if eminem was chinese he wouldve gotten a 7
If it was named “To Slim a Shady” he would’ve gave it a 10/10
who up slimming they shady
@@HMF_325me 😈
she slim my shady till i
@@tan1177 collapse
To spell out an M&M
If this was called "Good Slim, Mad Shady" you would have gave it a 10/10
Underrated comment 😂
9*
hahahahahahahhaha
I mean let's not act like Kendrick music ain't dope though I don't like how fantano talks about Eminem nether but we gotta admit his earlier music was better not that his new music sucks just hard to outdo some of his early ish
Fully expected him to give it a 3 or lower
Fuel, Guilty Conscience 2, Renaissance are bangers
@@HJohannesC_ but a 5? From just 3 songs? Out of like 16 without counting skits
@@jesusfranciscogonzalezgonz9619 only 2 skips on the album. Thought other songs were good
@@HJohannesC_ I guess I just gotta hugely disagree with that, even as an Emknem fan. But hey, if you enjoyed it, I'm glad 😊
Y'all missed half of the concept
listen to the album In reverse chronological order.
It's a entirely different concept
You only gave it a 5 because that’s your opinion on the album
…
fr
Is he an Em hater ? I've seen his few videos where he only criticises him no matter how good the track of album was ??
@@Nobody-xe7siNo
@@Nobody-xe7si thats his job lol
Cal is just Anthony's Slim Shady, how did it take me years to realize
Poutine Plonker
In a newton's 3rd law kind of situation
Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
"Here's a face diaper, buddy..."
"I tested positive, didn't I?"
"Holy shit, Wilde was telling the truth!"
music fans when alter ego:
I understand the confusion about whether Shady is dead or not, but I think people aren’t catching onto the fact that after Em shoots him, he wakes up & realizes that it was a dream. He calls Paul and trolls him by saying “I dreamed that the old me took over the new me, I was making fun of midgets, deaf people, cripples…and then I woke up and it was like I was still dreaming. Haha!”
Aside from him offhandedly telling us that him killing Slim was a dream, he pretty much lets us know in the Houdini video that Em & Shady have become a singular being. I thought it was obvious that it isn’t his actual death.
Damn your that gay?
@@umadxdlol6930Ass
i think he killed slim shady which was born bc of his own edgy, cocky side of him, which was developed later into a whole another alter ego. but he still has that cocky side of him in his personality that he can't get rid of, so he just embraces it.
True indeed. Props for catching it. 👏
Yeah I think he didn't notice that at 11:18 or so but whatever fantano still made a goated review
If this had a sexy redd feature it would have been a 10
Fax
Bro I can't believe they made a girl famous for saying "booty hole". Truly we live in a degenerate culture
I hate that i actually laughed at this lame joke
Or lil xan, a legend in the industry
Deserved
lowkey a shock to not see a red flannel on the thumbnail
He gave it a 5
gave it a 5
It’s not a terrible album it’s just corny
Crazy this is only a step below Big Fish Theory, which he gave a 6.
Corniness aside, the beats and ems flow are still decent, and the return of slim shady was an interesting concept
a 5/10 review from fantano is basically a 9/10 on the fanfano-eminem curve
True
Facts
That’s not it at all
There is just much better rap out there.
@@Tbrain-zq4ftlike who? Lil pump? Really, you're gonna recommend lil pump and tell us he's better than Eminem? C'mon pal, you can't possibly believe lil pump is goat level.
Are you gonna rank me yeah? Anthony Fantano me Bruh?
In your heads rent free
@@Marco-lr6ydjust cause it's catchy don't mean it's good
@Sebby-Webbu I never said it was catchy, I just laugh cause yall didn't even understand a 43 seconds track. Mental issues, it's all over the internet
@@Marco-lr6ydpeople love to act like Eminem is surface level and being corny, but then don’t grasp the deeper meaning/satire of him against his immature younger self. People really thought he said Gen Z me bruh unironically 😂
@@S0n0fab1eepb10pp they proved they didnt understand sh1t, clowns gotta be clowns
its so funny that eminem over the years with all the references eventually made everyone believe that christopher reeve had an S at the end of his name
WAHT THE FUCK HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS
IS THERE A DISCERNABLE REASON FOR THIS OR IS IT LITERALLY JUST EM SCHIZO POSTING
@@milamberytem schizo posting
wait theres no fucking way
@milamberyt maybe George Reeves also playing Superman?
if it was named "the death of a butterfly pimp" you would have given it 11/10
If this was a sexy red album he’d give it a 9
bruh even if he named it illmatic pimp tetsuo youth butterfly 36 chamber doubt aquemini ... I would still give him a 5. Take JID off and it's a 4
no he would have complained for 15 mins that the butterfly is not dead
shut up
Or if it was called the pimping of slim shady
The album cover in the background looks like eminem is shocked at Fantano the entire review
lmao yo chill
bros soul is trapped in the painting 💀💀
Awful album cover lmao
First i thought that was a trollface
Unless eminem made some esoteric, turn a mirror on the world type album over jazz beats. This was always gonna be the outcome of a coked out fantano review. He's too pretentious to accept anything else.
I loved the part when Anthony said he's not gonna quote any bars and then started quoting bars. It reminded me of when Kanye said he wasn't gonna say what kind of people the doctor was and then said it a second later
This dude a hater don't take him seriously he don't even know rap lmaoooo
This album definitely ass but this dude wafts farts to his face he thinks his sh.. don't stink
@@ApersonHumanbro he listen to rap more than everyone else
@@ninecity2455this comment is so wrong, it's embarrassing lmfao
He said he wasn't going to dissect ridiculous bars that are meant to provocate, not that he wouldn't be quoting any. There would be no point in just not quoting lyrics for the sake of it.
If this was Eminem, you would have given it a Decent 5
Yall mfs use the same washed jokes
@krispy4L this reply is a light 2, but if ur @ was @to_pimp_a_krispy_slim_shady I would have gave it a HARD 10
@@krispy4L Did it hurt you that much you needed to cry about it loool
He gave Vince on the Gogh a 10 on instagram?
@@ACESN1 yeah it did I had to start jorking it😓😓☝️
Fantano gave me a five (yeah)
Like his hairline (yeah)
Five lines (Fine lines)
Wind chimes (wind chimes)
(get it?)
@@bobcorn6502 (run that back)
i said (yeah)
bornana (what?)
bornana (get it?)
Y'all missed half of the concept
in reverse it would be......Guess who's back skit footsteps going into Toby . Guilty conscience 2 shady Laughing at the end meaning he isn't dead and it's not a dream
Houdini ends with car crashes
Then the titles make sense so after Houdini it's Road rage and then Fule
Then in Habits slim shady drugs Eminem. Then in Renaissance he fully turns into slim shady .
gen z will cancel you
@@tanjimahmed5694 gen z is tryinmg to cancel anthony fantano?
gen z me bruh????? (get it)
“I been frank (Ben Frank) with ya, hope ya see ya “lightning”, im “striking”
unfortunately, that’s bars
i thought this was an eminem bar
when was the last time melon hearted a comment
If you guys don't know, the OP who commented on this (Kirk Jr.) is literally one of the most technically impressive lyricists of all time and has worked with Eminem's camp. Dude has some INSANE wordplay. One of the few dudes who could potentially outrap Em and he's not even 25 yet.
The "fly a kite" into the Ben Franklin bar was crazy
I liked it too
You would give it a 9 if Gen Y wasn’t trying to cancel Christopher Reeves.
Bro go to therapy this album is so fucking bad😂😂😂😂😂😂
He raps like a middle schooler that just picked up smoking
Nobody is getting cancelled he's getting dragged for being the lamest rapper of all time
Anthony would give it a 10 if Gen Y killed Superman
Reeve*
@harrisonparker6229 then why's there an S on his chest?!
@@ICT_rapsI don’t know fxcking pronouns man.
Now you need to drop an album called “The Death of Cal Chuchesta” and Em can give it a 5 😂
I said the same thing lol
I've always said he took the cal concept from Em and won't admit it 😂
And we need that track Cal was cooking at the start of this review to be the lead single
@@BrandonAyongOther way around. Em stole the slim shady idea from Cal. Cal been rapping since the first single celled organism started using locomotion. 🔥
Painfully unfunny
If you factor in the -5 debuff Fantano puts on all Em projects, this is a 10/10 for him.
Facts
LOL true lets go
Lmfao fr 😂
A five? What did they do to him, got replaced with a clone😂
then MMLP2 is a classic to Fantano. He gave it a 7 i’m pretty sure
i can’t believe gen z is trying to cancel fantano 😢😢
gen Z(ombies)
they even tried to cancel my dentist appointment
@@Annoyingaldo2That evil fucking Gen Z machine 😡
Gen E
Gen Z is aging like milk
If this was called Kids see Slims
It would've been 100/10
Clearly it's a 1mil outta 10 to you even tho it's horrible😂
@horse7406 cry harder give us all your tears, keep on hating
underrated comment
Slims See Shady
@@MadMaximo slims see shades
millennials talking about "GenZ trying to cancel eminem" is the biggest mass schizoposting event of the year.
(Edit: I'm a millennial lol)
This sends me 💀
Zoomers weren't alive when nem was shoving nine inch nails into his eyelids
Yea true, im a gen z and i am a big fucking fan of eminem, not just him, but other rappers (oldschool or modern). Im offended that Slim thinks im offended
@@666slateran666 yes they were lol
It's a joke. Try not to hurt yourself.
Eminem every 20 seconds on the album: 14:25
That’s good
Thats so fucking stupid and I love it
Im dead ☠️
I kept tapping it just to hear Melon breathing
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that's fucking good
JID killed it. Man cannot miss recently.
even then Em had better verse.Insane
@@HJohannesC_Wrong
Let’s forget about that trippie red/mgk feature he had though
I cant really understand was jid was saying in his verse
@@HJohannesC_ JID had the best verse on the album
You keep criticizing music like some kind of music critic. Who do you think you are bub?
It's a channel about reviewing music bruh. What else is he gonna do? Play guitar hero?
@@borjab.that one went over you head huh😂 .
@@Dylan-pt6uz i don't know what that means 🥲
@@borjab. that its a joke💔
surprised you didn’t mention renaissance. i thought it was great as an intro track and was one of my favorite cuts.
same here!! loved the energetic flow across the whole thing
and the “you all would find something wrong with 36 chambers” solidifying that he was not dissing the people he mentioned in that part of the song
@Tedman31 It's because Renaissance is about him from 'the mind of a hater' line on.
@@user-um5ly7by8kI’m convinced “you nerdy fucks could find something wrong with 36 chambers” was a direct Fantano shot 😂
This dude would find something wrong with 36 Chambers
Are you tryna put this album on the level of 36 chambers 🤣
@@redevlmaoyou got there first bro thank you 😂😂
this is not 36 chambers 💀
@@redevlmao woosh
@@MrBaumGeo woosh
I can’t believe Fantano killed Eminem just for a review, smh
He so brutal
thank you kisuke, very cool.
@@Infisrael my pleasure
🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Eminem making Fantano like a song off Encore by releasing it two fucking decades after the album is going to be low-key my favorite milestone this year.
Ngl, I thought his shirt said ‘Nazis’ at first glance.
Holy shit i see it.
doesn't it?
@@williand8 its NAILS, hardest band ever
pretty sure everybody has mistaken their logo for “Nazi”
Fun fact it actually is
After watching the initial reaction I was fully expecting this to score way lower lol
He didn’t get the concept or listen to the full album initially
I'm so glad he gave it multiple listens because he didn't get it at all on his first go. He was taking every track literally and hating it.
YOOOOO SCARE CROW WHADAYA DOOOING HEEREE
Yeah the livestream VOD is really hard to listen to. I'm happy at the very least that he gave it more listens and understood more of what's going on here. It definitely wasn't as bad as he initially was reacting to it.
@@BassLiberators he did get it, i guess he just had to get used to the edgy lyrics before he could appreciate the musicality and rap ability
“What made Eminem dig from that point of his career”
Drugs, Anthony. Slim shady is meant to be Eminem’s “drug addict side” that’s why he is battling the “encore” version at times.
But at the times he is not battling he just refers himself as shady
@@elmosaynomorebecause shady was the real marshall for the many years he was addicted to drugs until he overdosed and almost died and turned his life around
@DaQuavious408 yeah dude everyone knows that. He said it in song like idk 10 times. Still one can't understand whether he loves being shady or despises it
@@elmosaynomore That's the whole idea and can be said for any drug addict with their drug of choice.
So why do this now if he's been clean that long?
Slim Shady? shit sounds like a fable to me, till he jumps out the fuckin toilet when you're takin a pee
Lol
Slim Shady? shit sounds like a fable to me, till he jumps out the fuckin toilet when you’re takin a pee
Lol I love Underground.
Here comes the rain...
0:00 Intro
0:27 Cal
1:49 Review
5:29 Brand New Dance
6:33 Background
7:46 Evil
8:07 Lucifer
8:54 Antichrist, Fuel
8:59 Road Rage, Houdini
9:23 Guilty Conscience 2
10:55 Thoughts on back end of album
11:23 Head Honcho
11:35 Tobey
12:06 Bad One
12:29 Temporary, Somebody Save Me
12:48 Conclusion
thanks, thanks n thanks
Delete this cringe shit, it’s a 14 min video
thanks, ur the goat
Bless u 💕💕💕🧚♂️🧚♂️🧚♂️
Thanks g
The Melly Mel thing is definitely a stretch with regards to straying from the concept. He didn't even diss him , all he said was "the man is a legend, bitch so am I". Considering how he usually responds to disses, that was extremely tame. Sounded more like Marshall than anything.
I think he had his feelings hurt more than anything. When the Game, Canibus, Ja Rule or MGK disses him, he can laugh it off or strike back harder, but Eminem grew up with people like Melle Mel as his heroes. Probably hurt him personally to be dissed by him.
He still hints that he would diss him. So it's still straying from the point
In isolation, I agree. With the last verse of Bad One and some of the bars in Head Honcho, it definitely makes me question what the listener is supposed to takeaway from GC2.
@@agapanthus2024 i dont think his feelings got hurt but he probably feels bad for melle mel because that dude has completely lost the plot and everybody agrees. the guy lives in his own bubble and deleted the track he put out because it was the worst rap of this millenium
@@ThePaull3d I mean that would hurt anyone who's a lover of hip hop and hip hop culture. I highly doubt Em wouldn't be hurt by that as well.
I dont think I've heard a review of this album that was able to understand the album so well and yet at the same time not understand the album whatsoever. Someone who was so unoffended yet clearly offended at the same time. Truly incredible review, 5/10 review for sure.
underrated comment
That's because (for some weird reason) Fantano is always trying (and failing) to label people and their body of work all the time. He is not as smart as he thinks he is. I would trade my job (electrical Engineer) for his job (being a nerdy pr!ck) in a second.
@@hussainalyami3988 Someone got cranky at someones opinions.
Em really put on some glasses and game his own album a five. Truly as humble as j Cole.
Me, an evil GenZ, on my way to the Eminem cancellation meeting. Get ‘em Fantano!
No but seriously though, I was born in 2002. I am literally the same age as The Eminem Show. Eminem has been doing his schtick not only my entire life, but also well before that. This idea that we all didn't grew up on his music because it was literally inescapable, and we don't know what he does is completely laughable. Bro wants to be cancelled the same way The Game wants a rap beef, and it's just not gonna happen because everyone knows that that's what he wants.
It's funny how the whole point of the album is him abandoning his Slim Shady persona and purposely saying lame edgy outdated things to show how behind the times Slim is as a character, but then you have a bunch of Stans saying "Slim is offending all the gen z kids!!! Triggered!!!!" When no one is angry at what he's saying. Seems like a large part of his fanbase doesn't understand the album lol
bro in antichrist he legit predicted everyone would say this lame ass comment over and over and how people should stop taking everything he says to literal your whole comment just proves the album
@@phillipbell4394 Wow would you believe it if that was the whole point of the album
@@user-ee1yt2sw7cjust because he predicted people saying his shit is ass doesn’t change anything at all dummy
A decent 5 is a positive review for eminem standards.
Why like Eminem when you have any rappers better than him. Also Eminem is the no 1 worst rapper of all time and all these Eminem stans are still listening to garbage like these and praising him like Kai Cenat if he was happy after Tyla accepted his date in an alternative universe. They also can’t criticism when someone talks trash about him. The thing is, Eminem can’t rap good, every single or album he’s dropped are trash and yet they still listen to this garbage everyday. Eminem needs to retire immediately because this guy keeps on dropping corny, unfunny, unhinged, and repetitive bars and he refuses to evolve in every album which makes him the #1 worst rapper of all time
@@TwoWordsBrrttSkrrtlook at this pathetic 🤡, dropping the same comment everywhere. Get a life boy!
@@TwoWordsBrrttSkrrtbro explained in kai cenat 💀💀💀💀
@TwoWordsBrrttSkrrt yeah worst rapper of all time, now let's listen to that tom Mcdonald he's a goat, better than kendrick
@@TwoWordsBrrttSkrrtit’s people like you that give MF DOOM a bad name.
Sexy redd above Eminem is wild 😭
valid lowkey eminem been terrible for like 15 years
@@kev1619sexy redd over eminem... Seriously
@@thikkh3ad345 yes. Bornana
I wanna say he’s judges them on different scales.
@@kev1619Actual smooth brain take.
Eminem isint gotta let you hit it Tony
Ken Kaniff might tho
@@joaquin5929Ken is definitely smashing 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂@@joaquin5929
Shady will tho
@@catmanboy0 shady will hit tony
Kinda weird how you said "Eminem, white power, forever" at the end, since that isn't the name of the album, but other than that good review
That was extremely weird lmao
@@MamaJoe-bl7vvit’s an old meme, you could even say it reflects Anthony’s criticism of this album if you squint.. slim shady was an old meme.. the fader hit piece and people coming up terrible things Anthony said is an old meme..
Lot of meta stuff here
@@inanefool8781man really made the review follow the album's concept. He is fighting his old self
These comments are not and never have been funny.
@@antiphon000 .....to you
idk I feel like starting a track with "FUCK BLIND PEOPLE" made it pretty clear that this version of Slim Shady is more of a caricaturized villain. Unless Marshall really does just hate blind people and needed that Oscar Wilde mask just one more time?
I feel like the better your sense of humour the more one can enjoy this album. I for one love this record , one of his best for sure.
Slim Shady was always a little dog barking. The whole idea of the persona from the start was shock ir horror rap alter ego.
And I think the temptation to joke about tragedy and make the easy jokes because others don't want to look bad lives in a lot of people. Especially people who have been hurt them.
@@chadsmo Lol I saw one blind person in the comments go "it's about damn time us blind folks got some representation". So yeah i don't think anyone is actually offended by the blatantly obviously satirical comments in the latest album.
One person even said "I'm a cripple and I hated being called one but I didn't find the way Shady said it offensive and even laughed at it. So I'm thankful to him that he made it possible to laugh at his disability and make it lighter " and I found that beautiful because I believe tragedies are supposed to be laughed at and trivialized to show that we can rise above and beyond any suffering life can put us through.
@@thirdangle8488 exactly. Well said.
@@chadsmosame here, i thought this album was hilarious!!
Every time this guy gives an album a bad review I know I'm in for a good album
This is a 5 though, it’s mid
So you like Nav?
Yeah... Fantano femcels and male s!mps will do anything to protect this guy
@@deecee1853why have they seen all of his videos?
Have fun listening to mgk
Nah this Fantano impersonator gotta be another guest, there’s no way the real Anthony would give Eminem anything higher than a 2
He's only given Eminem a 2 once, and that was 7 years ago. Why should you expect it when it's rare?
@@Dpate10 because this is Fantano.
@@Dpate10 r/whoosh
@@jonahhofmeyr8306happy ninth birthday!
@@jasperpaape3906 why would u say that?
Referring to him as “Marshall” is crazy lmao imagine nonchalantly referring to 50 cent as “Curtis”
He should refer to em as baby gronk
Being fair, the 3 versions of eminem is a pretty central theme of the album, Marshall representing him in his personal life. He might be using it just to differentiate between Marshall, Slim Shady, and Eminem.
or snoop as "calvin" and travis as "jacques"
I mean but there are not some Curtis EPs out there isn't it?
How often is 50 Cent mentioning his name on things like Eminem plasters his name everywhere? How many albums does 50 Cent have that feature his real name?? Has he introduced his government name as a household name to remember or did you do some digging around to out out about his government? Are you sure it’s really the same??
It’s literally not the same, you’re dumb.
JID on fuel was crazy good
Em was even better on that track
@@TheEnderPearl it's a collaborative effort, both verses were good. You don't need to insult one or the other
JID had the best verse on the whole album @@TheEnderPearl
no lie its kinda gassed imo he did good but not like ppl making it tbh..
@@thedivinemessenger JID is extremely hot right now and people are loving everything he puts out, I think that's just par for the course when you reach that kind of popularity. But the verse is genuinely amazing
Eminem killing Slim is straight out of Jungian psych, killing your shadow. When you kill your shadow, you're supposed to absorb the aspects of your shadow that arent completely useless, which might be what is going on in Em's head on Bad One
Though 'kill' might not be a great word because you don't kill your shadow, you accept or integrate it. And you dont pick and choose what you think is useless otherwise you're repressing the rest and that's not good. You accept everything, thornes and all.
I'm reading a book on it so I thought I'd exercise what I've learnt here lollll.
the album is just ass man
@@notorioushacker221and I guess that make you the toilet then
@@notorioushacker221Fr I can’t believe these people haven’t grown out of their Eminem kid phase. I was the biggest fan ever in Elementary school and these people talk like I did then lol
Nothing in Jung’s works says anything about “killing” to the concept of the Shadow and I guarantee Em never had any deep read on Jungian psychology to write it as a theme. Classic Stans and their reaching to a non-answer by Em, or was it Slim?
after seeing his live reaction i thought he was gonna give this a strong 2/10
Yeah he took every song literally on the first listen and didn't get the concept until the very end.
@@BassLiberators the concept gets really clear when u get to guilty conscience 2. The concept is executed sub par imo but still a decent album.
Why like Eminem when you have any rappers better than him. Also Eminem is the no 1 worst rapper of all time and all these Eminem stans are still listening to garbage like these and praising him like Kai Cenat if he was happy after Tyla accepted his date in an alternative universe. They also can’t criticism when someone talks trash about him. The thing is, Eminem can’t rap good, every single or album he’s dropped are trash and yet they still listen to this garbage everyday. Eminem needs to retire immediately because this guy keeps on dropping corny, unfunny, unhinged, and repetitive bars and he refuses to evolve in every album which makes him the #1 worst rapper of all time
@@TwoWordsBrrttSkrrtyou look emotional mate
@@BassLiberators don't act like it takes a genius to understand that he's saying literally the same shit he did his entire discography
Don’t care what anyone says, I enjoyed the album and that’s all that matters to me
It's all that Mathers to me
yo, i'm glad for ya.
Feel like most Eminem fans did and that’s what’s most important. In the modern era of rap where most fans listen to people like Carti, Future, Yeat, Travis etc. - Eminem’s style of rap just won’t appeal to them so they instantly call it bad when it really isn’t.
nice
Fantano ripped this album apart. Of course it’s just his opinion, but it seems harsh. I really enjoyed the album and he didn’t point out how most of the beats/production were fire (well to me anyway) which can be subjective but I thought this album was pretty damn dope.
If it was 'The Death of Butterfly' you would've gave it a 10
Never heard that one before.
Fax
if it was “To Pimp A Shady” he would’ve given it w 24 😢
@@user-jb3nf1mx2k Real😭😭
Daring today, aren’t we.
If Kendrick released this album he would have given it 9/10
No because Kendrick wouldn't make something this mid
@@Python-xs2iv have you even listened to Mr Morale? If it took 5 years for any other artist to release mediocre album like Mr Morale people would have said he fell off. The only reason why they don't it's cause Kendrick released it. The double standards are insane in the rap community.
@@donev_ Mr Morale was an actual masterpiece. You're delusional af for saying that, although you're an Eminem fan so that's to be expected. Even your idol Eminem said Kendrick's album was good.
@@Python-xs2iv if he don't have a white boy to make fun of he is off the map LOL
Cal dropping the hardest bars of the year.
Still waiting for the next album, Cal.
Whats that? Cal Chuchesta? Trying to cancel Eminem? Okay buddy settle down. Turn the beat up. Aye, aye, aye. GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG. EM SPENDS RACKS ON A NEW CHAIN. CAL LOVES SNORTIN COCAINE. EM FUH HIS BIH AND FORGOT HER NAME. EM CANT BUY NO BIH A WEDDING RING, HE RATHER GO AND BUY BALMAINS, GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG
What’s that? Cal Chuchesta? Trying to cancel Eminem? Ok buddy settle down. Aye. Turn the beat up. Aye aye aye. GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG
I feel like him and Playboi should feature back to back on the next Taylor Swift release... a cover of My Way.
A True wordsmith!
call this album me because it came out recently and was met with criticism
Oh dang that took a second to register 😭
Hope you’re doing good
Ha gay
lol, much love dude. If that’s true, know your worth is not defined by who you like and anyone who thinks so is a dumbass. I wish you the best.
Straightest Fantano viewer:
This is the highest review I've seen this album get outside of stans
The fact it got the same score as Yeezus makes me lose faith in humanity
@@jesusfranciscogonzalezgonz9619 that was more than a decade ago, let it go man
@NamelessInternaut ik 😂
@@jesusfranciscogonzalezgonz9619 his reviews don’t really work to compare between artists
@@totallynotmikey5234 I've seen a handful of casual fans giving this a 6-7/10
What tf are his priorities? Sexy Redd gets an 8 and Eminem a 5....
The man is cursed - an incredible rapper with nothing to say.
100%
Bro what. How does that work in today's world?
He needs to get into more beef and more social media in order for him to have something to say but marshal is mature and the only reason why he raps the way he does is for the fans.
@@mistersunshine1330 idk about Eminen has managed it. Just out of touch
He actually has a ton, the problem is that he’s already said it all and made a movie about it lol
Anybody else got "Why Hip-Hop Doesn't Respect Anthony Fantano" video in their recommended on the side?
Yuuup
That content creator sucks. I'm no Fantano d-rider, but that dude is reaching and attempting to be convincing under the school of cancel-culture.
Yeah,, its that dipshit's format aswell, just "Why X doesn't respect Y"
@@MajigitajogIs it Louasita we're talking about?if it is I disagree, he didn't say anything bad about Fantano and really just informed us about his altercations with other rappers like Joey Badass etc
@@MajigitajogHe’s right tho. Hip hop doesn’t respect him
It’s hilarious that you liked Brand New Dance ngl
It’s a bop
"I'd scream too if I woke up from the nightmare of making an awful song" is what he said on his live stream about it🙄🙄
@@mori4785clearly he’s warmed up to it
@@mori4785he was blinded by hate and his twitch chat 😂
I like the song. But I don’t think fantano did. He appreciated the skill on display during the song but didn’t say he liked the song itself.
Fantano gave Sexxy Red 8/10. From that point on everything he says in worthless.
Lol
Sure buddy
5/10 actually ain't that bad, I'll take it
deserved higher
bro saying "I'll take it" like it's he's em 💀💀💀
@@neon1869 you gon gen-z me bruh?
Definitely deserved a 7 but yeah, a 5 is fine.
@@neon1869are you trying to say it’s not a bad album because Eminem made it? Because I can’t tell with that spelling
I was listening to this last night and literally thought, "this is so good there's no way Fantano likes it"
Exactly
Exactly what I thought the first night it came out as Habits played lol
tbh i thought this was a 5-6 too. it has good songs but there were only like 3 good features and he mentioned transphobic, bigoted and racist things so many times that it didnt even feel like he was running out of ideas so he js put the bigoted shit in there to fill up the song
It's 🗑️ bro
@@henryflores3602 You’re a woke liberal. This isn’t for your kind bro.
I like that you didn't get bogged down dissecting lyrics. There's no need.
To you asking why he would revisit the provocative instead of relatable, broke Slim Shady, there is commentary in the album on the commercial success that the character brought. That's one reason he revisits this. Even if Encore was his worst album at the time (I strongly agree) it still made him even more famous. So he's conflicted. Can/should he drop the Slim Shady persona, or does he owe it some credit?
Ngl, I was expecting Fantano to mindlessly hate on Eminem, but he raises a lot of good points. The narrative is messy as hell. I wonder if a concept album was too ambitious for Eminem? As you said, once he shoots Slim Shady, where do we go from there? I feel like the remaining tracks should have documented the result, such a track about his freedom without Slim, or even being lost, or a suggestion of where he goes next. I do think he still wanted to tick some boxes on this album, ie. get in his features, his sedimental songs, certain beats, certain puns, certain verses, jabs all at the expense of the concept. If he had gone all in on telling a story, it would have worked better. And he could have too, because he's so big it would have been a commercial success no matter what.
Honestly, a 5 from Fantano for a modern Eminem album is fair lol
For me, it's a strong 7, it's his best album since TMMLP2 and arguably one of his better albums overall even if it's not a very high bar unfortunately,
I agree, for sure my favorite album of his since TMMLP2! It only took a decade haha
my exact rating
Yeah I’d give it a strong 6 to a light 7 putting my positive bias for Eminem aside. The most cohesive project he’s put out in recent years
man you are high if you think this is better than MTBMB or Kamikaze lmao
Agreed.
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I really liked this album, I feel like since kamikaze every album has gotten better
Definitely
I agree, I think this is his best since MMLP2
GET BETTER MUSIC TASTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MTBMB, when including both "sides", has one full album worth of very strong tracks that could easily be an 8/10.
@@bcyrxohnononono
Tbh when it's about rap, hip hop I only listen to the good ones, Eminem, MGK, Lil Xan, Jack Harlow, The Kid Laroi... sometimes I even listen to Drake or Doja Cat you know...
Macklemore and Mac Miller?
half of logic is valid too
don't forget about Tom MacDonald and Hopsin, these are the best lyrical spiritual rappers oat
The good ones you really just said lil xan 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@ihonestlydontevenknow4359 That's crazy
A decent 5 from Fantano for an Eminem album means it's a high 9 on a usual Fantano rating
I am positively shocked that out of all songs he picked Houdini as the worst. I think that has the best hook on the album
One of the only good ones imo. But it's fantano, he's a massive pretentious hipster. Can't like the popular at any cost.
Best hook, lol all the hooks must be trash then
"I'm bout to reach in my bag bruh" ☝️🤓
lol fuck no. Fuel, Antichrist, Lucifer, Somebody Save Me all had better hooks
Saw a stripper dance to that song - Mario
I'm sad Fantano's intro isn't getting more love. It included a whole ass rap + interesting skit combo. Hope that felt refreshing to make-would love to see more of it.
Long time needle droppers just like, awesome Cal's on his game
He’s been making skits like that for the longest. You have to find them lol
Love Cal ❤
10:20 he says in the song 'Trouble' that the slim shady character gave him a career/fame, and that as a result, "we fucking need each other." It's unpleasant for his current self, because in guilty conscience 2 he opens by saying - "why does it always feel like I'm being tortured." He calls slim shady "immature, mentally 13 years old, " etc. The persona is not at all an excuse for him to say bad words or whatever.
I think you're misinterpreting the slim-shady line of this track "you used me as an excuse to be evil", in that, in his early career, he used the character as a means to say whatever he liked, and hid behind it - it is not the motive behind this album, or the thesis. However, his own disdain and embarrassment of this thing proves that he is long past it. To me, this is a side of him that has been reduced to a cartoon devil on his shoulder, which is why he has only occasionally leaned into it (if at all, often in name only) since those first few albums. He's even embarrassed and annoyed , and says as much.
11:34 for 'head honcho,' this is completely off-base. He says this line after stating he said "one bad thing," then says "guess there's no civilizing a savage" - this is completely tongue in cheek, snd is merely commenting how reactive pop culture has become to small slights or a single bad word, even for someone like Em, who has had a miserable upbringing,(Which he outlines right before this line) Nothing at all to do with reneging on killing off Shady.
11:49 also not quite right. In 'Guilty Conscience 2,' he is in a diss battle with himself, and admits to using this terrible side of himself to sell albums and entertain his lowest instincts. Here, he is left with some regrets about the insensitive things he has said, and the people he dissed. He is not saying that he will never diss anybody again. To this point of the record, Em has said he feels reliant on Shady to sell albums and win battles -- which brings me to Tobey.
In Tobey, he says "shady gone, but maybe I'm the GOAT." Here, he has gained full confidence in himself to win battles/beef and sell albums, without the help of of his persona. He is following the theme of the song, which is determination / fighting spirit / hero etc.
In 'Bad One', all he is doing is referencing songs before this one, and acknowledging that he has a temper / nasty side, and loves to indulge it. He has accepted this fully about himself. However, to this point in the album, he has stated repeatedly he does not like this side of himself, and works against it. It's no different than anyone else who says crazy things when they're mad or upset . People can't work on fixing an existential issue until they accept that an issue exists inside them. With 'Tobey' and 'Bad One,' he is integrating his shadow imo. Instead of the nasty side coming out sporadically and purely distilled, he has killed it, and integrated it - and when he is pushed by money or conflict, he is his own man, and using that side of himself only how he likes.
Overall, Em is accepting this part of himself, but not lying to himself either. The runaway persona itself is dead, but that piece of him isn't.
13:59 I think he's busy breaking the cycle of generational trauma that most couldn't fathom by raising / providing for successful, well-adjusted children as a loving father. To say he is a bully, or perpetuating a cycle of abuse is wild my guy. Missing the forest for the trees, and a good album too.
Finally someone who actually understands the album, jfc
I aint reading all that but i agree withu melon definitely missed the point of the album
I love a person who listens and understands an album and doesn’t just review. Says Kanye produced a number one album but was too afraid to listen or understand it.
I salute your work yo.
@@unkonshustudio He listened to it and understood it. He just didn't want to platform white supremacists and antisemitic viewpoints. There's a certain point where art no longer can be separated from the artist, especially when the artist is literally and intentionally putting that in it.
@@myjciskate4 a white supremacist who promotes black culture, loves black folks and is also black. You clutch at the most benign understanding of words and phrases.
As Ye said once… it just must be so easy to distort common reality to fulfil your own perspective.
It’s like pouring milk on cereal for you to call a black man a white supremacy advocate.
Considering most of the Jews he went after were white… but that supremacy doesn’t count.
So which whites… other than his wife? And the mother of his kids has he said they are supreme over anyone else?
Oh.. he spoke to an orange man to try and free or pardon a black man?
How do you navigate this world?
Where everything is a no go zone?
Especially when on simple paper? It doesn’t exist.
On stream, you say that Brand New Dance is the worst song you could come up with in a dream, and that it's horrible... and here you say you like it?
Fantano doesn't try when reviewing Eminem. He just makes sure to take a dump on him. The details don't matter.
He probably listened to it several times and probably gave it a better and fairer chance. I didn’t like brand new dance at first but now i like it after listening again, you know?
You can change your opinions...like that's a very normal thing to do.
look who’s talkin dawg, like brian from family guy
New Eminem is ass
@@Smamsmamamamart pfp fits
gen z me bruh
@@SmamsmamamamartLook who's talking dog, like Brian from Family Guy™
@@luckygallagladi bro what does this mean
Oh so when Eminem drops an album you give him a 5, but when Eminem drops you give him a 5?? Unacceptable Anthony
ikr
if the album was named tpass to pimp a slim shady he'd rate it 10
Call it Slim Pickings apparently
Let's not forget he gave sexy redd's album an 8/10
That’s cool I guess
Damn
Whhhaaaattt???
Let's not forget it's his opinion not yours. I don't care for either of Eminem or sexy redd but if Anthony likes her music more.. good for him
@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 well unfortunately his opinion is wrong lol
Why is scru face Jean the only reactor I've seen actually get the point of the album
Yup
Eminem’s ballsack is lodged in his mouth as well that’s why
I can't believe you called Eminem the N word...
the whole quote is wilding.
"Dave Chappelle was right, I don't care what y'all say. Fuck Drake, fuck Kendrick, Eminem really is the n-word of the year"
These comments are not and never have been funny.
@@antiphon000it’s Stan behavior. Nothing surprising.
My N'Wah dagoth ur
@@Yo-Ah-Kim stan behavior? niggas comment this shi on every fantano video and majority of eminem stans don't even watch fantano. yall be sayin anything 🤣
My takeaway from the album is that Slim is a part of him that he can’t kill or fully get rid of. He was only able to kill him in a dream, then he woke up and the edginess was toned down a bit but still there
As you said, this makes the whole concept a bit of a non-story
@@MaudeSchoI would agree but I heard a theory that the album is supposed to be listened to in reverse, and it changed my whole opinion on the album for the better. Hence “his last trick”
@@cozierferret7274that’s a cool theory and while neat what would be the purpose of that? I feel like it just leads to more confusion doesn’t it?
@@thecluckster3908 ya i will agree that the execution of the concept either way is kinda sloppy but it makes sense because he’s basically saying that even though slim shady is portrayed as like this whole other personality, black and white, good cop/bad cop, it’s still a part of who he is and always has been. Cuz if u listen in reverse, it insinuates that it’s shady that instead kills Eminem. Again it’s not obvious to see that cuz Eminem isn’t great at making concept albums but that’s what I took away.
my problem is that this storyline is much better in MMLP2 (record which I immensly dislike)
Bad Guy is his magnum opus, he starts taking responsibility for his actions in such a profound way, and Evil Twin finishes the album with his realization that taking responsibility and "killing" Slim is only half a story - since everything he is is as much Slim as is Marshall.
Em has even convinced Anthony to say Reeves instead of Reeve😂
i actually learned he's actually Christopher Reeve not Reeves after somebody else pointed it out after TDOSS dropped😭😭
I give it like an 8 out of 10. I dont know if I'm reading too much into it, but the album feels like an apology to his friends and his children. It feels like he is using slim shady as a metaphor for his years that he spent addicted to pills. Basically, he would say things and do things that he regretted later and when he eventually got clean and turned his life around he still remembers everything he did and has spent years and years telling himself "that wasn't me, it was the drugs" and this album is about facing the fact that it was him, everything he did or didnt do came from him. That's why he kills slim shady a little over half way through and then has a bunch of songs about coming to terms with the fact that those behaviors are still in him, slim (the drugs) was just him without inhibitions. The actions are things he has to address and own up to. I think this album isn't really for us as much as it is an apology and a tha k you to everyone in his life that he hurt and stood by him anyway. I actually like it, but it is something you have to listen the whole way through, and it kinda feels at times like something that I shouldn't have been a part of. I guess, if you're an artist you can't just apologize and have a normal and heartfelt conversation with your loved ones, you instead have to make a massive rap opera with allegorical characters to say "sorry". \_(°-°)_/
I was actually suprised with how good the album is, but yeah guilty conscience 2 not being the finale or 2nd last long is crazy
Yeah I agree with you. I have not liked an Eminem album since Kamikaze & MMLP 2. TDOSS is a really good album.
My problem too was the placement of the tracks. Houdini should have been the 2nd track. Since we know the context behind the song is Slim Shady being brought back to life in the modern era. Its should have been the very first track to start things off.
Guilty Conscious should be before Temporary since it's a song were Eminem says goodbye on behalf of Slim Shady and Eminem shot Slim Shady in Guilty Conscious 2
I think that would've further murked up the slim shady/eminem line that some people seemed to struggle with on this one. I think having that definitive line where slim is done was meant to help give the concept a timeline
@@phistoltv5196 Listen to the album in reverse. Start with the last song and work up towards Track 1. It’s not Em offing Slim. It’s Slim offing Em hence why the tracks like Houdini and guilty conscience 2 are placed where they are. In GC2, Em wakes up and it’s revealed that it was all a dream so slim is still alive and eventually takes over Eminem. Listen to the album in reverse and it’ll make better sense.
The whole point is that you've been hearing Em and Shady rapping together in every song and then after Guilty Conscience 2 you don't hear Shady anymore
@@49ersFan415 i will give it a try, I have hear of this "backward" theory.
The dude was a literally druggie who almost killed himself and ruined half of his lifetime, this album is literally he battling himself and trying to kill his edgy offensive druggie self, I honestly think this album only has like 2 or 3 skips snd was well put together but ig I'm just coping
I agree on the album quality, honestly. but he's done this multiple times in the past and better so I can't give it points for the concept tbh
You’re not coping, that album was incredible.
@@gibletgibby1567I kinda agree with you on the first part. He is self aware that he has done this before, there is a a part in one of his songs were he Slim Shady says Eminem tried to kill him multiple times but failed to do so.
If he really kills off Slim Shady and never does this concept again, then TDOSS will look more like a masterpiece.
This album is an album that will get more applauds and age better depending on how Eminem moves.
Personally I hope he retires and this be his last project. It's a great way to sign off his career as Slim Shady was a big part of his success. Something that he also acknowledges
Ain't the same shit he's been saying for a while now on a new beat? It's the same shit as always, that piece of lore doesn't change it's mid.
It's another bad album from Eminem. He's been a bad rapper for 2 decades.
.... bro said it's a concept album then missed the concept wtf did i just watch give me my time back.
I have no idea why anyone even watches this nerd
he understood the concept tho
He didn’t miss the concept, it’s just a concept doesn’t make an album good you actually have to make good, non-annoying music alongside it lol.
He was being really generous with that 5.. that shit was ass😂💀
compared to his other albums its def his worst in my opinion. but my goodness were there some good tracks, JID went hard on Fuel
@@crem444Revival tho 😂
@@UnderCurrents15 ☠☠
at this point you are not a critic but a hater
A 5/10 is a decent album in his eyes, he uses the entire 1 - 10 scale when most people just use 5 - 10.
@@xMoldyMacaroni except he didn't understand the concept like... at all.
Goddamn bub you gotta be soft if you think THIS is hating. Lol
That’s a fair rating. Houdini in least favorite tracks is a bit wild, though.
I think this album is significantly more interesting than his last few albums, and I think it delivered on expectations by being okay rather than boring.
As a zoomer who leans pretty far left, I guess I just don’t care enough about his attempts at offending me here? I expect it at this point after so many albums. But musically? I am pretty pleased.
Houdini is easily the worst though. Just sonically it’s rlly annoying. The chorus really seals the deal. Even without it, em just does so much better on every other track
It’s more annoying than offensive.
He isn't trying to offend you. The entire concept of the album is that he's killing that part of him that offends people just to sell music because it doesn't work anymore. The world has moved beyond Slim Shady, so Eminem spends this entire album removing him, while explaining how he used the character to say whatever he wanted without consequences as well as to continue using drugs because he couldn't be Slim Shady without them.
Yeah still better than MTBMB
it is catchy but annoying and lazy. The chorus is just bad bad... Abra Cadabra, im gonna reach in my bag BRUH. just like that and Im back BRUH - this is not Em's level even for stans.
ngl I wouldn't be able to enjoy listening to music anymore if i'd review everything like this
Cap, he literally gave tpab 10. To him that album is perfect
@@nknewknowledge2678 but thats just a given (besides J. Cole)
The Em haters are on fire since the album came out yet neutral fans and Em fans actually like this album. And i love how Ems haters always speek from a point as if they like him. Saying something like "Eminem is a great rapper with nothing to say" is an example. They pretend to like him in one part of a sentence then the hate comes out in the second part of the sentence. Hate will always show up no matter whar you're saying.
That's exactly what Fantano does . He acts like he is being neutral but he can't fool anyone no more. He hates Eminem and I would even say this man has been running agenda against em for past 10 years. If kendrick was rapping the same way he would put his meat in his mouth
It's a pre-requisite for Em haters to be "former fans" or "respecting of his technical ability" but hateful towards everything else lmao. That's why you always get the "He's got nothing to say!" Or "It's so corny, he's just saying words!" Criticisms lmao. Yet for some reason they hate Recovery which was full of introspective self reflection and self growth for Eminem as an artist, they hate Relapse which was a horrorcore concept album that dove into the mind of a drugged up serial killer, hated Kamikaze where Eminem took out his anger and addressed everything that people disliked about him, hated MTBMB which had Eminem put out takes on gun control, politics, and the current state of the world. Yet he has nothing to say? I don't understand I guess I'm just too much of a Stan because I actually listened to the music with open ears before going into it lol.
@@rif5556 I wouldn't say i'm a Eminem stan, but I am a big fan of him and his music. I am honest, so when he drops a bad song I'll say it's bad, but most of the songs he drops are anctually good. Like I said in my initial comment, Eminem haters will always find a way to belittle him. But you know what? that's the price you pay when you are as elite as Eminem is. Idk if you watch soccer but both Messi and Ronaldo are HATED by each other's fanbase yet they are both great players. It's just that it's annoying when haters try to come access as Eminem fans to make their comment sound more genuine but deep inside we all know they hate Eminem.
@@Tareq.Y What did you think about the album
@@STARK0181 Not bad, it's not his best work, it might be his most artistic album given the concept and what not but there are only a few skippable tracks the rest are fire. What about you?
MMLP2: 7/10
Revival: 2/10
Kamikaze: 4/10
MTBMB: 5/10
MTBMB Side B: 3/10
TDOSS: 5/10
Baby steps, you guys. We'll get that Eminem 8 someday!
I’m curious what he gave the OG Marshall Mathers LP cause for me that album is all killer
Sexy redd album: 8/10
Lil pump mixtape: 7/10
He put it in the S tier on a discography ranking video. Basically, he considers it a 10. @@tylerjames805
Yeah I think it’s important to note that Fantano’s rating holds absolutely no weight, hence why all the top liked comments are jokes.
Fantano is mainly a comedy channel, not an actual critic.
I think 50% of TDOSS was a banger and 50% was alright, 6/10.
But taking fantanos rating into account is silly, he rates the biggest piles of dog shit 8/10 at times.
Pretty sure he would rate one of, if not all of his first 3 albums an 8 or higher
Not a bad review, but I'm honestly surprised you didn't catch more of the commentary about drug abuse on the album. Slim Shady has always been heavily influenced by drugs. To the point where he stepped away from music because it was killing him. For a long time now it's been die hard Eminem fans asking for him to bring the old Em back. These same people that ignore Encore, the album where Eminem was at his lowest point, and it's reflected in the music. Everyone wants the old Slim Shady back without caring about how toxic he became by the end of his early run. It's honestly fucked up because it gives the impression that these "fans" don't really care about Marshall as a person or any of the fucked up shit he said. They selfishly only care about the music. So he makes an album that brings back Slim with all the good and bad things that come with him. Starts out normal with Renaissance, but then by Habits he's giving Marshall pills again. Feeding into the song's theme of old habits dying hard, drug addiction. Whether it be Slim Shady or the things that empowered him. Then in Trouble it escalates and Slim makes Marshall drink again. Giving us the really Encore fucked up era Em on Brand New Dance. Which by the end fully awakens Slim and makes him mad as he remembers why Brand New Dance never got released. Then in the next few songs we see Slim progressively get more toxic. Sort of like how he progressively got more toxic from album to album. Culminating in Road Rage, which to me really feels like this album's version of Rain Man. A song from Encore that was literally Eminem at his lowest just shitting on gay people. He finally kills Slim Shady on Guilty Conscious 2 and wakes up. Everything that happened before was a nightmare. But in reality, Slim Shady and all the bad feelings attached to him is a nightmare that Marshall Mathers will never be able to escape from. So he has this monster and all these terrible thoughts and feelings living inside him and he's accepted that they will always be a part of him and he'll never be able to truly escape it. Even being in a much better place in life and making what he feels like is his best music yet, he still has people giving his new music mixed reception and having people tell him to go back to the old him. The him he's been trying to escape for decades now because of everything negative attached to it, from the bad bars to the negative mental affects on Marshall. Temporary to me is important because I believe it comes from a Marshall that was in a fucked up place. It feels like an older song where he had these thoughts and feelings he wanted to express to Hailey before he died, probably due to the drugs. And because of the same drugs he didn't know how to properly express those things to her. Head Honcho, Tobey and Bad One strike me as Em exhibiting what it's like where he's at now. He still has these monsters living inside of him, Slim Shady and drug addiction, that he'll never escape but manages to try and balance with him in his new style and music. Then we get Somebody Save Me which is a perfect closer as it talks about what would have happened to Marshall if he would have continued down the Slim Shady path, he would have died. He would have never gotten to see or experience any of the great moments he had with his family in his life. All of this really goes to show the overall effect that drugs can have on a person's life, and how the negative side effects can follow you forever.
I'm sorry man but no one is reading all that
@@crazierbird8031 Whatever you gotta tell yourself. I posted something similar on r/hiphopheads and got almost 500 likes on the post
Not a bad perspective, I think that angle is really strong specifically in explaining the back half of the album
I agree. Well said 🙌🏻
Sounds good 🍻
If the theory is true, playing the album backwards makes the concept make better sense.
Maybe it would get a 7 then
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I've been following Eminem's releases closely since Revival (of course I listened to his stuff before but I mean in real time & listening to them as full projects), and it's so interesting to me to hear him swing between wanting to talk about things but then feeling like he has to walk it back or try to explain himself. I actually really like him though, and it's been fun to watch his albums get more and more conceptual and theatrical. I think he's at the point in his career -- and he's said this many times before -- where he can't go any higher, so I like to see him doing the crazy stuff
The conceptual theme of the album addresses the very dichotomy you just described
"Why are we all lining up to hear the tale of a guy who doesn't change at all?" Clearly melon's never heard of Rent-a-Girlfriend
That made 0 sense to me. His latest albums clearly sound nothing like his first 2 LP’s in terms of dark humor
holy shit, actual banger comment, I CAN'T 😂😂😂😂
Of course he hasn't, he's a sane person.
God could you imagine? He might become insane
@@johns.5298 "in terms of dark humor" That is humor for you.
Now what about in terms of everything else?
The reason why he kills shady so quickly and seems to not change at all is because he is trying to show how it is impossible to get rid of your dark side even if you supposedly killed it off, and it’s shown how Eminem has tried to kill Slim Shady in the past but he always comes back
Exactly he's done it in the past, so why should hearing about it again be at all interesting
@@elijahgrossman8223Because the big ol Em is irrelevant again
I feel like we're reliving the encore days, but not as awful somehow
@@sh1niiiirrelevant but breaking records everytime he drops a record? Only one who ended Taylor Swift’s dominant streak, and brought JID from 400th in the world on Spotify to 200 something with just one song. Never understood the “irrelevant” argument lol
@@agapanthus2024lol he hasn’t ended Taylor swift’s dominant street where did you get that from
If this was named: To pimp Slim Shady or The Death of a butterfly, Anthony wouldve given it a 12/10
Whether you like this album or not is all subjective. But I think most can agree, this is Em’s least unlistenable full length project in some time. Like you can actually play the tape all the way through, with each song leaving you at least SOMETHING to take from it. Which i feel like I haven’t been able to say about an Eminem record in a long time.
It definitely feels like the production value and execution are better/more polished than previous projects.
Literally his last album was heat
What about the song that literally just makes fun of obese people the whole time
@@lilzzorgan I took it more as an anti-censorship sort of song. But it’s em we’re talking about here. He can usually get away with that kinda shit.
@@lilzzorgan I mean thats not what the song does. It actually has a real good message if you get over the lizzo bar
Cal really should consider therapy though
Insert unfunny joke about to pimp a butterfly here
Even this joke is getting overused now
@@justinqueso9644facts
if it was called to pimp a slim…
SHADY.
good slim, m.A.A.d shady
Mr Marshall and The Big Mathers
To Pimp a Shady
@@callahanlolx not good slim, s.h.A.D.y city smdh