Welcome To:OUR HOUSE....Where Did They Go Wrong?

[ImANoob]

agreed with basically everything you said. especially royce. i considered him the 'veteran' of the group and he was the laziest, weakest and corniest out of any of them. he mentioned on twitter that he usually spits his verse first because he finished writing first and it shows. it's almost like he didnt care about the album at all.
as for production, i think even with the 'softer' beats they still couldve went off. i really enjoyed 'throw it away's beat and if they took swizz beats off and didnt try to make if for strip clubs then they couldve done a lot with it. the only song i had a huge problem with production-wise was 'walk of shame'. it gives me a headache.
the way that they executed releasing singles was one of the worst i've seen. they delayed singles and when they eventually did come out they sucked a massive dick. slaughterhouse should just go back to their ways of the first album and get better production.

[classthe_king]

Sorry, I've been mixing a track and right now I'm about to go out to lunch but I'll give my feed when I get home. Also, interestingly enough my brother has been playing this album loudly for the past hour or so. Wonder what that says about his music taste

[Innovation]

I think as individual songs, you got some great songs that you can listen to frequently.

Very true.

I think it's a decent album, but it wasn't as good as I was expecting. I was hoping for it to be better than their first, and I don't think it was.

Some of the stand-out songs are fantastic though.

[TRShitty]

I agree, except I don't think any of those "great" songs are great. They're just pretty good.

The production was very uninspiring. No other rappers were jumping on Slaughterhouse instrumentals to freestyle. For a reason.

The singles aside from Hammer Dance were just embarrassing. I can't play "My Life" or "Throw It Away" in public...in any setting. Car. Party. Computer. You name it. (I will never forget the one time I heard "My Life play at a bar, and they switched it to a new song within 30 seconds, lol.)

Royce was not at his best on the album, but Joell Ortiz was by far the worst. In almost every song he hit a new low.

A huge problem with the album is it is way too D12y. SH should be better than that.

[EminemBase]

There's some okay songs on there, most aren't 'bad', it's just nothing is very striking, original, refreshing or exciting. I find all the concepts and all the songs range from boring to generic, to good. Aside from that, the production is really sprawling, over-done and messy, like Recovery.

And like many modern rap albums now.

They should all stop with this pop mentality of trying to make 'something for everyone' or appeal to faceless demographics with tricks and compromises, it's fucking up rap.

[ray k-47]

The singles aside from Hammer Dance were just embarrassing. I can't play "My Life" or "Throw It Away" in public...

Honestly, that's such a shitty fuckin' vomit inducing reason. There is tons of music that is complete TRASH that is on rotation all over the radio, I doubt any Slaughterhouse is any worse...except maybe "Park It Sideways", ugh.

I agree i thought My Life would do great on the radio i was wrong. I still think its good tho.

[N.W.A.]

Not terrible but a let down for sure. The production was a downer. Even though it was very successfull I hated the production on Recovery, but since it was so big it seems like that's what Shady has gone with on everybody else's albums, SH and Yela. I think Em would do good and follow what Dre did with Kendrick, he let him do his own thing and didn't force too much production on him, and GKMC sounds great for that. Em should take that approach with both SH and Yela's next albums. Just let them do their thing.

[Amaranthine]

Not terrible but a let down for sure. The production was a downer. Even though it was very successfull I hated the production on Recovery, but since it was so big it seems like that's what Shady has gone with on everybody else's albums, SH and Yela. I think Em would do good and follow what Dre did with Kendrick, he let him do his own thing and didn't force too much production on him, and GKMC sounds great for that. Em should take that approach with both SH and Yela's next albums. Just let them do their thing.

He did. Yela has said repeatedly that he made Radioactive radio-friendly because he wanted to do so (hence the name of the album), and SH and Em have both also said repeatedly that Em told them to do exactly what they did on the first album, and didn't step on them creatively. They chose how they wanted to make their albums.

[N.W.A.]

Nothing against you, but I'm not sure I'm buying what they are selling. After listening to Recovery then Radioactive and Our House it's just a little hard for me to beleive all of that.

[Amaranthine]

You don't think it's possible that they could have wanted to take a leaf out of Recovery's mega-successful book out of their own initiative?

[N.W.A.]

I didn't mean to sound like... Em sat everybody down and hand picked their beats and told them what to do. I was talking more about the overall sound from Shady right now. When I first heard Radioactive I thought about the direction of Recovery. Same with Our House. It's the whole sound in general. I believe you guys saying this is the sound Yela and SH wanted, but I think Em wanted it too. I promise you Em's not signing anybody without discussing their album and direction.

[Amaranthine]

I didn't mean to sound like... Em sat everybody down and hand picked their beats and told them what to do. I was talking more about the overall sound from Shady right now. When I first heard Radioactive I thought about the direction of Recovery. Same with Our House. It's the whole sound in general. I believe you guys saying this is the sound Yela and SH wanted, but I think Em wanted it too. I promise you Em's not signing anybody without discussing their album and direction.

Gotcha.

[SliK]

SH shouldn't even be trying to get radio play. They just aren't that group. The type of music they make best and their fanbase enjoys the most aren't radio songs.

I didn't enjoy WT:OH much at all.

[TRShitty]

What do people like about Slaughterhouse?

They rap their asses off. They attack beats with ferocity, bucking traditional song structure, with a compelling joy of rhyming.

What did they do on the album?

Try to make "life music." Typical songs, about typical things, with typical structure.

In short, they lost what people liked about them. They approached the album with an axe to grind, trying to prove they weren't "rappety-rap." Well...guess what, guys...you are. And there's nothing wrong with that.

The "On The House" mixtape is so much better, b/c it actually has SH spazzing out. It's much more enjoyable to listen to.

[PAINKILLƎR]

"well maybe we just didnt sell out ENOUGH"

I fucking hope that isn't their mindset.