Was Recovery really that bad?

[Sam.]

I don't even know half of the motherfuckers from that list.

[Trimss]

Really guys? You have Earl on the list and you complain about Raw? Lol

But earl has personality

Yeah no. That's exactly what he's lacking. No charisma or mic presence, multies over multies, he's your typical netcee.

[SoggyOnionRings]

It annoys me how loads of people kinda just jumped on the bandwagon of disliking it. I really liked it... but I thought that the production really let it down. Songs like WBD and Almost Famous were just way too crashy and blary... production by Dre would have been way better! And yeah, some of the punchlines were corny, but there was also some awesome ones. I think a lot of the wordplay just goes over a lot of people's heads. Oh yeah, it also annoys me when people say Em went soft by doing love songs songs like LTWYL or Space Bound... talking about domestic abuse, murdering your girlfriend then killing yourself is hardly soft....

[Just Silver]

I guess its just more appealing to me than hopsin
hopsin is the type i listen and sometimes get embarrassed like yela or lil Wayne

[Trimss]

Hopsin has flashes of brilliance, but his delivery just seems forced and corny to me at times.

Why would you consider Earl is better than hop?

[PAINKILLƎR]

Hopsin's delivery is what saves his poorly written songs at times tbh. Haven't heard much of Earls' music so I can't make an opinion on who's better.

[Trimss]

Hopsin's delivery is what saves his poorly written songs at times tbh. Haven't heard much of Earls' music so I can't make an opinion on who's better.

I don't even think there's a poorly written song on RAW. I agree about some features/freestyles though.

[PAINKILLƎR]

Hopsin's delivery is what saves his poorly written songs at times tbh. Haven't heard much of Earls' music so I can't make an opinion on who's better.

I don't even think there's a poorly written song on RAW. I agree about some features/freestyles though.

Oh yeah I wasn't talking about Raw, I meant just in general.

[Francesco]

It's pretty good actually... the thing is they wanted such album & it was needy too. Most of it it served its purpose in great manner & put Eminem on top of the world again. Not necessarily my type of an album or my fave album but definitely a good album indeed.

[Man In The Mirror]

I don't even know half of the motherfuckers from that list.

Look 'em up!

Hopsin come on i understand this is a forum but he'd never be able to make something like Recovery

I think you are a little singleminded along with the rest that likes Recovery over for example Raw.

Don't get me wrong, I love Eminem and even have "Shady" tatted on my wrist, but Recovery was shit. It was nothing like Eminems previous work (dark, super-technical, creative, original, evil). Take Relapse insted. That albums is waaaaaaaaaay better than every album on my list, but Recovery is weak, foreced and full of sellout peoples that has no talent at all. And notice I havn't even started on the beats yet.
Let's face it. Recovery was Em's weakest album in almost every aspect (it a little bit more techniqual than Infinite and Encore, but not as creative and original).

[Man In The Mirror]

Pink talented? HOW IS SHE TALENTED? She doesn't produce or write her on music at all!
The same goes for Rihanna, plus how does it make sense when a hardcore rappers says "I pee on Rihanna, man I do what I wanna" then does a love song with her.
And Lil Wayne is shit...

[dark111]

Recovery sounds like a mixtape to me

[EminemBase]

Recovery sounds like a mixtape to me

True that... is a good way to describe it...

It's a collection of really good tracks and overall a body of hits and misses musically and lyrically.

Almost all the songs are 'hits' (as in, they're great-classic) to me, but... there's elements of every song that don't work or which are just plain bad.

But I'm still glad he made it, I think it was necessary to grow; well, we'll see about that with his next album but, I definitely am glad he drastically changed his music / for better or worse, I think he will always end up in a more interesting places if he does that. As it challenges him.

[Rafael]

Relapse is overrated imo.

[SajN]

Relapse is overrated imo.

Nobody except Eminem fans like Relapse. Even the fanbase is really split.

How is it overrated?