Hip Hop Albums Where It's The Artist's Darkest Hour

[Fa-Q]

I'm starting to really love albums like that, which is terrible for me to do. I love Royce's Death Is Certain when he was struggling with alcoholism. I REALLY enjoy 808's where Kanye had just lost his mother and I believe had just lose Amber? But I guess that's why I really want to hear King Mathers because it is EMinem's darkest hour. Does anybody have any other examples of this or do they feel the same way?

[Almostlity]

Amber was still around when he was making MBDTF.

[Trimss]

^ Not really though. These songs could've been left overs from the King Mathers sessions, and be really different. Like you could find some Relapse leftovers that are totally different from the accent/serial killer thing. But I get what you mean.

CWYWF is the best song, then Beautiful, then The Apple, then Goat imo.

[BigBoss]

Dude I'd say SSLP might be Em's darkest place. He was willingly gonna do suicide, I know he almost died in 2006 from overdose but he couldn't control that, he controlled his almost-suicide during SSLP

[Fleka]

Kanye is gay, so the Amber thing really meant nothing.

[Sam.]

Relapse, because it does have shades of his dark times in bit and pieces. It's debatable.

[Ethos]

Tech N9ne - K.O.D

This is my favorite album by him. The darkness he felt really helped him bring forth his feelings. I know it's wrong to praise an album that nearly destroyed him to make, but this pain was so real.

[Fa-Q]

Why was he in so much pain during K.O.D? * apologies for the maybe obvious answer

[BigBoss]

Why was he in so much pain during K.O.D? * apologies for the maybe obvious answer

I think his mom was dying, people he knew were dying (if you listened to The Martini) but I'm not exactly sure. That's what I think it is

[Ethos]

Why was he in so much pain during K.O.D? * apologies for the maybe obvious answer

I think his mom was dying, people he knew were dying (if you listened to The Martini) but I'm not exactly sure. That's what I think it is

I know his mother's sickness (I know he's breaking down ) was a big part of it for sure. He mentioned it in a song with Bizarre as well titled "Believer"

Yeah it was definitely the mom thing that sparked it all. His mom was dying from Pancreatitis. That along with a lot of the people who were dying around him even though they were friends of Krizz and others most likely made him think of death. If I can find the interview he did with hiphopdx I'll post it. He explains a lot about the album, like how some chick really wanted him to choke her while having sex.

[SliK]

Rock Bottom

[SliK]

Ok then.

Eminem's "darkest hour" might not necessarily be the '06ish era. It is his most well known due to it occurring at the height of his fame. He has had many low points in his life. He wrote a song called Rock Bottom and overdosed or something back in '97. He just didn't have access to a recording studio because he was so poor. I bet there would be a lot of depressing songs from that era if he had the opportunity to record them.

Also, I'm surprised nobody mentioned Difficult when talking about songs made in his zombie days.