Relapse Elimination Game - Deja Vu - WINNER

[SliK]

I think the reason Relapse copped so much hate initially was because Eminem had been out of the spotlight for so long and his devoted fans were starved on material and news for so long... We expected his next album to be like TES where we had all these insights into his life and mind. We wanted information about his hiatus, about his life, his relationships... And except for Deja Vu we didn't get a single clue about where the hell he'd been (other than the fact that we knew he was addicted to pills). After getting all that in Recovery, I think Relapse has grown on people because they are able to appreciate it for what it is.

[CrashBand]

My salsa makes all the pretty girls want to dance and take off their underpants
















My salsa

[Shade135]

Medicine Ball

[EminemBase]

Most people I've seen don't rate Relapse badly because of the content. Some people think rhyming for the sake of rhyming isn't necessarily brilliant, especially if it's devoid any other redeeming qualities (bar a few tracks).

But he doesn't rhyme for the sake of rhyming... In fact, there's more narratives and situations on Relapse than there are Recovery. There's more rhyming for the sake of rhyming or one-liners on Recovery tbh... "Cold Wind Blows", "On Fire", "Won't Back Down"...

There's a lot of that on Relapse too but when you think of like... "My Mom", "Hello"... those tracks are not 'rhyming for the sake of rhyming' - he's taking the situations of his life and exaggerating them and creating comical narratives out of them, just like on SSLP ("Brain Damage", "My Fault"), which is why Relapse is in-fact a cousin album to SSLP and shares similar traits.

He's not 'rhyming for the sake of rhyming' on... "Stay Wide Awake" either; or "Same Song and Dance", he's telling stories and describing things, and mindsets, and creating little situations and little dramas and scenes... regardless of how aimless, pointless, stupid, empty or whatever else you may consider the subject-matter... that AIN'T rhyming for the sake of it.

Just because he rhymes a fuck-load as well, that's just good rap.

There's much more of a consistent focus on themes and tone on Relapse than there is Recovery... on Recovery... one minute he's unapologetic and psychotic, the next minute he's very down-to-earth and repenting for past material, then slap-happy and confident... then one minute he's writing quite poignant and poetic lines, the next... totally cringing, childish puns...

Where as on Relapse, there is a consistent style in writing, mindset and 'world' throughout; everything is exaggerated, cartoonish, he's psychotic and provocative; he's 'relapsing' through a murderous, pill-popping, adventurous psychopathy. And that remains consistent... throughout. Right up until he overdoses, and then recounts, soberly ("Deja Vu")... totally consistent and for a reason... there was a total focus of the album's content, regardless of how random it seems on the surface.

[Notalius]

medicine ball

[Notalius]

My vote: my mom

[Raul]

Hello.

[SliK]

Hmm My Mom or Underground..........

Underground because of the fucking stupid skit attached to the end of it.

[Eedee]

Hello

[Kill You]

Ugh, Hello for like the 5th goddamn time. Boring as fuck track.

If Must Be The Ganja gets out before Hello I fucking quit this game. MBTG is fucking awesome, assholes.

[LK5]

Must Be The Ganja

[Chicharito]

Holy fucking shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Every fuckin' song left is pure orgasm. Hello is fucking dope yoooo!


I'll go with Underground though.

[Mathers]

Hello

[LMShady]

Must Be The Ganja

[superman11]

Hello