Relapse is out!!

Well...It's been out for weeks

Critics often like different sides of Slim Shady, though he tries to balance them both. If someone first heard these really moving, emotional eminem songs, they'd naturally want Em to keep making songs like those. Or if someone grew up on The Slim Shady LP, which is all about violence and drugs, they'd enjoy the satire and gory details and would demand more passion and anger.

On Relapse, it looks mostly like person no. 2 in my example got their wish. In the song 3:AM, Eminem violently kills people in a drug induced trance, quoting lines from Silence Of The Lambs and describing the blood around him upon waking up.The song is really clever and thrilling when you get past the violence, and pretty creepy as well, and it's also one of the drug-violence songs on the album that turned out great. Another great song with the same maniacal style is Insane, which shows the talent that shady showed everyone in 1997 when he first became successful. The lyrics are playful, yet violent, and though a bit over the top and gross,show he still has the talent and controversial word-play that got him here. Old Time's Sake, an Em/Dre Collaboration about getting high, was a disappointment though. The beat was catchy, but the lyrics were weak and had been used repeatedly before.

Critics can argue there's too much killing and insane, shocking fantasies depicted in the raps instead of emotional, deep songs, but for those critics, there's the song Beautiful, which is about being yourself, and not letting anyone else's words and perspective on you get to you "Don't let them say you ain't beautiful/ They can all get fucked just stay true" the lyrics aren't too sappy either, and though the sing-song chorus can get a bit annoying, the message and beat are amazing, and is one of the best songs on the album by far.

Overall, even though people's ideas of how Eminem's tracks should have been like or sounded are split, Relapse is a great album over all, and I recommend it to anyone who loves rap or Eminem.