Neither is “Marsh,” an autotune-tinged crooner ballad which should have been performed by 2 Chainz or Future, but absolutely never Eminem. The anger on the track and accompanying interlude is palpable, but the track just isn’t good. Mathers also turns his rage onto his stepdad, with whom he had a strenuous, violent and abusive relationship. Is a gritty, energetic track featuring classic Eminem collaborators Royce daĥ’9″ and Black Thought, but its location in the track list, nestledīetween the darkest, most emotional depths of the record, is nonsensical andĬompletely derails the mood set by its predecessors. The track fades out through a cacophony of dozens of news reports about mass shootings interlaced with a rendition of Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence.” The track is difficult to listen to, and is one of the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking songs Eminem has ever written. The track doesn’t glorify mass shootings rather, it attempts to break into the impossibly dark place in which those people operate. Mathers seems to tap into deep insecurities, fears, and anger that has dominated his life in the limelight. The record sees its high, and perhaps its low, on “Darkness.” On the track, Mathers seems to compare and contrast his own experience with fame with that of the man who killed 58 and wounded 413 in Las Vegas in Oct 2017. Juice WRLD’s chorus is serviceable, but the true draw of the track is Eminem’s blisteringly fast, wildly entertaining fast rap- the track’s final verse is one of the fastest verses ever put to record, at an unimaginable 224 words in 30 seconds. “Godzilla” hosts the first postmortem feature of late rapper Juice WRLD, who passed away in December 2019. The track’s more somber follow up “In Too Deep” treads over the same territory with little more success. He also offers a few bars of terrible Ohio-themed puns (“Holy Toledo, it’s Miss Ohio/we should be datin’ (Dayton), she’s from Cleveland”) and one of the worst bars I have ever heard in a song (“getting head in the bucket, Marshmello”) The verses are childish, ridiculous and genuinely annoying, and the chorus work from Ed Sheeran is beyond unlistenable. Mathers reflects on the improprieties of his younger years, bragging about sexually harassing waitresses, harassing bisexual women, and going back to his exes. “Those Kinda Nights” is perhaps the worst songs Eminem has ever made. It is genuinely difficult not to skip this track every time it plays on the record. Eminem manages both to rap quickly and say absolutely nothing. The record’s long string of forgettable beats and features begins with “Unaccommodating,” featuring Young M.A., whose usually-excellent wordplay and flow is wasted on one of the worst tracks on the record. That has pervaded and been derided in those projects.
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The reception of his previous records via the same choppy, cut-up vocal style Eminem spends the rap portion of the track complaining about With “Premonition (Intro),” the first of several dramatic, violent,Īnd often cringe-worthy interludes molded by and interspersed with light vocalsĪnd instrumentals. While the record is somewhat of a return to form for Eminem and certainly a departure from the unbearably poor practices explored on “Revival” and “Kamikaze,” it is still a flawed piece of music and a disappointing Eminem record. Last week, Mathers dropped his 11 LP and second consecutive surprise project, “Music to be Murdered By,” an album at least partially inspired by the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock compilation record of the same name. His 2017 record “Revival” was so poorly-received that his surprise 2018 project “Kamikaze” seemed to be fueled entirely by the anger and ego damage that Mathers sustained following the former project’s release it was not received much more highly than the previous album. Rapper Marshall Mathers, known by his stage name Eminem and his alter ego Slim Shady, has had a rough couple of years.