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Firstly, Eminem really didn’t need to make MTBMB this voluminous, Kamikaze had 13 tracks and not only did it deliver hit bangers that showed the rapper still possessed his prolific rapping style, but also passed the message it intended on passing loud and clear. This album comes with a few lows though, that’s why it’s not at a 10/10 rating.
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These guys kept the cultural relevance of the album on a high and it’s just sheer brilliance on Eminem’s side in his attempt to enable versatility and try to embrace the new demands of the Rap Genre. Paak and the late emo-rap beast Juice Wrld. From Royce da 5’9″( who I feel is terribly underrated) to Young M.A, Ed Sheeran, Skylar Grey, Q-Tip, Anderson. This is the Eminem album with the highest feature numbers and trust me when I say every single person featured went really hard and came through for the legendary rapper. All these while staying culturally relevant.Ī factor that grew the cultural relevance of MTBMB is the features list. Em takes his listeners on a tour of sensitive real matters, ranging from the struggle of legendary rappers still in the game but struggling to get accepted to Good old father abuse to drugs use to addressing rap feuds to euthanized childhood pets and a lot about Mass shootings/Gun culture. It’s Hitchcock-referencing title “ Music To Be Murdered By” is an apt description. The rap god’s 11th studio album have turned the world upside down ( world = social media). One thing is sure, Eminem hadn’t given a F*ck in the past, didn’t give a F*ck on Kamikaze, he continues his amazing run by not giving a F*ck on MTBMB and he makes that fact open and for all to see, this is probably why the media hasn’t been off this album since it dropped. Listening to a man in his late 40s’ who has been in the Rap game for decades complaining about the rap of youngsters like a grumpy old dad shouldn’t be something as edifying as it turned out to be?. Mumble Rap(Trap), Tattoo-faced rappers, basically new rappers were all targeted in Kamikaze. A reminder of what rap should be like is what Eminem delivered on Kamikaze, he reinvented himself as a legend in the game who was terribly unhappy and horrified at what the genre had become. While Revival sounded a mild-sorta Eminem, Kamikaze was the good old blazing, no-care-in-the-world Slim Shady we all love. How did Eminem react to this? 8 months ago later, Kamikaze was dropped, just like it’s successor, without warning. Of course, it’s no longer news that it flopped and was critically mauled, even Eminem knows this seeing as he’s mentioned it multiple times. Eminem though did what Eminem does by dropping a voluminous album in 2017, ‘ Revival‘. We all thought we’d seen the end of Slim Shady and were more than ready to brand him a Legend when no project had been released since The Marshall Mathers LP2 in 2013. This is not a drill, A MASSIVE 20 TRACKS, just like that! Who else other than the rap god himself? On the 17th of January, 2020, while men slept, Eminem dropped a 20-track album on us out of nowhere, without warning.