"Somewhere some kid is bumping this and lipsyncing in the mirror" is probably my favourite line, because I, like millions of others, was that kid lipsyncing in the mirror. Truly and inspiration
Eminem - Going Through Changes. It's a slow story telling song from Recovery about how close he was to death and completely changing his life in 2010. It's fantastic
This song is on Kamikaze. Kamikaze was his response to the hatred that came after the release of Revival. Revival is actually a very underrated album, but so many just missed the mark when assessing it. From 1999 till about 2004, there was no bigger artist. Encore was released in 2004, and wasn’t as popular because honestly he was in deep drug use and you can hear it throughout. Still some gems on that album, but some fans sort of gave up on him then. It took 5 years and almost dying to release Relapse and Recovery followed in 2010. To me Recovery is sort of the beginning of the newer sounding Eminem. He admits on that album that during “Encore” he was on drugs, during “Relapse” he was flushing them out, and “Recovery” he was finally clean. In between Recovery and Revival he released Marshall Mathers LP2, which harkened back to a bit of his older sound. Possibly, that’s why Revival was not received as well, but he was maturing and his music was showing that. Within months of Revival being released and being ripped apart he put together Kamikaze. It’s angry Em, coming after everyone. He was fed up and it motivated him in crazy ways. He has since released Music To Be Murdered By in 2020, and has a new album due out anytime now.
Revival is cheeks, probably his only blunder throughout his whole career. Wasn’t impressed with relapse, but many still love it. The rest of his albums 10/10
After his recovery, Slim Shady took a back seat and people were pissed about that. This song is basically saying "Don't poke the bear. Shady's still here and will f***k your sh*t up."
The Shadow at the end is just showing that Eminem his bad side (Slim Shady) is back after Revival being totally different which is why this album was filled with dissing other people.
This is from kamikaze the next album is music to be murdered by side A and B. The black shadow is slim shady coming back and becoming part of him again. This video also is a 2 part part video with Venom!
A lot came after this. The whole song is about all the people who trashed him about kamikaze. Yes ive been an em fan since I was 10 and im 30 now. I know all the beefs and history lol
This is one of his hardest(good) songs my opinion..this one takes a dive into HIM as an artist. You might need to look up some of the names he was "name dropping”
He tried to get a bit over Slim Shady when he got sober, I think because remaining sober it's not easy thinking the same shit in the way you did the whole time you were addicted... Revival was the the album that was shitted on by haters to the point where he snapped back with this album called Kamikaze (I think with the intent to show how Slim can always get back into him at all times and fu.k up the whole industry) ... After that he putted out "Music to be murdered by(Mtbmb)" and "Mtbmb side B" where he is rapping with such a mind-blowing complexity and a kind of hilarious swag that he now has achieved, so that YES, you can kinda say that he's now something else... (an alien 👽 may be?) All I know is that "everytime I think he hit his ceiling, he goes higher than he's ever fucking been" And yes you're right, you have to do his whole discography in chronological order and also research what else was currently going on in his career, life and the whole world at each point in time to have some chances to catch every reference in his music...
Just found this reaction, I love that you don't put in a lot of lyrical reaction while listening to the song for the first time, it's really respectful that you try to get in more perspective and describe yourself as new to the genre.
With how impressed you've been with Eminem it would be REALLY interesting to see you react to "Control" by Tonedeff. I'd say he's the hidden gem of hip-hop. Eminem was the favorite rapper of all my friends until they heard Tonedeff and they were like "wtf how is it possible I've never even heard of this dude before?!" Unfortunately he works a regular full-time job as well so his output can't possibly be as high as a dedicated rapper, but to me that makes what he does all the more impressive.
Also agree with other comments hou need to go on an eminem journey to understand the songs eminem is one of those artists you need to know the story and where he was at at that point to fully understand his lyrics maybe watch a few interviews too ect
The critics and RU-vid reactions basically slated revival album saying it was trash that’s why in his verse he said you wanted shady you got him,why poke the bear he’s not to be messed with
Yeah this was full of hip hop culture stuff that's been going on around the time this was made. Most people wouldn't really understand if they weren't really immersed in the culture or keeping up with radio shows/podcasts. Really good song though, regardless. It only gets better once you learn what he was talking about.
Basically what happened was he released "Revival" (the album Walk on Water was on) and it flopped. It was very heavily criticized for being musically distasteful and nothing new or original. It's arguably the worst received album of his entire career. I think that even diehard Eminem fans can agree that it was not his best work. He came with a response for all the flak he caught about it with an entire album called "Kamikaze", which is what this song is off of. This album was a surprise release with no promo, and for the entire album he is essentially "giving it back" to the critics and people who trashed him. Very similar to what he did at the beginning of his career. So Kamikaze as an album is supposed to be the "return of Slim Shady" or "angry Eminem", which is what I think this song and music video are attempting to encapsulate. He is responding to the bad press he got for his last album. Kamikaze was received much better than Revival was, but a lot of critics and fans didn't like how bitter he seemed and sort of compared this project to a "lyrical temper tantrum". Rather than taking the feedback about how or why his last album flopped, he responded angrily. People still had a sour taste in their mouth from the last album and Eminem is generally sort of disliked nowadays anyway, so that compiled with it too. However, he seemed to have listened to the feedback a bit after this album and released "Music To Be Murdered By", a project where the general vibe is just rapping good but on modern beats. He did have a couple of more serious songs like Darkness where he covers mass shootings in the US. It was generally a better received project than Revival or Kamikaze. After this he dropped "Music To Be Murdered By Side B", which is of the same tone but more songs and has a bit more of a mellow vibe to it. Sort of like a mixtape. Again, better received. And that's all we've heard from Eminem since. There's more than likely another album around the corner, as his name has been popping up all over the place and there have been some rumors. If you want to get more insight into this album, I'd advise listening to The Ringer (from Kamikaze, this album). If you're curious on his thoughts after that, you could listen to Premonition (from Music to Be Murdered By). It's kind of confusing if you weren't there for what was going on, lol.
slim shady lp > marshall mathers lp > the eminem show > encore > relapse > recovery > marshall mathers lp 2 > revival > kamikaze > music to be murdered by
I feel like you should start from the very beginning from his first track and to his last to get a better understanding of who he is and what he's put out since the very beginning.
I think this type off Eminem is not for you. You need to know about hip hop and everything going on in it uno? You missed almost every bar but that’s to be expected.
now that you are doing Eminem reactions...you need to go on the NF journey. he uses ZERO profanity and every song has a message...but you have to do the journey in order!
