What would an Eminem album be without a jab at the deceased, Christopher Reeves which is only one of the staggering amount of times he crosses a decency line.
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The next few tracks (‘Medicine Ball’ and ‘Stay Wide Awake’) again find Eminem exploring his new found interest in murder and serial killers. Sonically, it is easy to see the song making its way to the radio and MTV which is hilarious considering the lingering violent lyrics that I’m assuming the general public ate up because “the beat is catchy”.
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By track nine, ‘We Made You’, Em is in full-comedic mode, essentially blindly throwing darts at a board full of pop-culture icons, deciding who to pick on. With a catchy, rhythmic chorus and an eclectic beat and rhyme-scheme, the song manages to keep the, “drugs made me this way”, material to stay relevant and interesting. It is at this point that Em decides to reintroduce himself as Slim Shady to the world. In the end, it doesn’t amount to more than self-parody or pity even, as the subject matter switches in the third verse to depraved and detached sexual fantasies that you can’t help but to gawk at. ‘Bagpipes from Baghdad’ makes the then-couple of Carey and Nick Cannon a target. There are missteps on the album, one of which comes in the form of a lust-filled confessional aimed at Mariah Carey. This style affords Em to convey to listeners just how much he still battles with his upbringing to this day, almost remorsefully at how he let it affect him.
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On previous albums, with songs like, ‘Cleanin’ out my Closet’, he has brought up his relationship with his mother and the lack of family stability due to drugs, just not quite as directly. The batch of songs following ‘3 A.M.’ include, ‘My Mom’ and the aforementioned ‘Insane’ both of which deal with Eminem’s troubled childhood and his false, yet metaphorical allusions to child molestation. This self-targeting songwriting and vocalization allows him to discuss extremely personal and deep thoughts that make the album all the more intriguing to decipher. Often times his voice is reminiscent of a schoolboy mocking a teacher that truly ends up sounding like Em mocking himself which is truly what is often happening. The voices seem to add an element of comedy to the otherwise depressing concoction that is Relapse. Many thought the accents were carried on to a point of derailment and others argued the opposite, you could say that they gave the album character. This aspect was another major point of discussion among music fans and critics alike.
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We are also introduced to the accents and awkwardly pitched voice that he will heavily use for much of the album. The reality is that Em is simply getting his newly acquired sobering interests (serial killers, murder, the struggles of drug addiction) out of his head and into the world. The character is played so well by Marshal Mathers, that the way he lays his hand in front of you to join him on this journey is made all the more disturbing. The first cut, ‘3 A.M.’, is quite literally a night in the life of a serial-killer. From here, the album starts its steep descent into artful depravity. The project opens with a skit in which Eminem is talking to a fictional drug-addiction counselor who has no faith in the main character’s ability to stay sober, which is met in-kind with his fictional relapse into addiction and ultimately his Slim Shady persona. This is the kind of stuff that makes you feel like you need to shower after indulging in. The key to hearing this albums’ beauty lies within Eminem’s lyrical finesse and wordplay disguised as sick twisted serial killer fantasies and drug induced antics. Fittingly enough, the album contains a track titled, ‘Insane’, and to this day, it is the most disgustingly entertaining song I have ever heard. Em sought to tackle so many personal issues in such a blatantly offensive way, that upon first listen of even the first four or fewer tracks, many listeners were so disgusted and soured by the visuals he was painting that the rest of the project was chalked-up as insanity. When the album, Relapse, dropped, so did everyone’s jaw. Conversation started to give people a sense of what to expect – and to call the content of the album dark, would not even begin to do it justice.
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People ate up any and all new developments, whether fact or fiction. When talk started to surface about more new material than was capable of fitting on one album, the internet went into riot mode. Most people who cared enough to know, knew that he had been battling a harsh drug addiction the past few years and all anyone could do was wait. By 2009, Eminem had all but faded from hip-hop conversation, purely in the sense of new material. On Thursdays we review albums that are considered “classic” and today we review Eminem’s most disturbing and divisive project, Relapse.