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A lot of this is more truth than most people realize. A 33rd degree marshal is. He speaks a lot of truth in this and the recovery album. And to think that the ones above forced him to give relapse bad publicity through his own words are not coincidence. This whole album is his personal story from childhood through the industry and the dark sides of Masonic belief. From start to finish this album is truth. 3 am is the monarch program spoken. That's 💯. All the way to my darling and the light of the "truth" in his life and his complete journey between. When he speaks on the ones that threaten him so much in recovery... It's because of his graphic tellings on relapse. Truth.
@teflontom88 nah I'm not talking anything bad about you just tryin to share some shit that is crazy as it sounds. Do you know what gematria is? The language of numbers... Eminem has a crazy deep relationship with gematria I know how crazy all that sounds but if you look and cross reference with his lyrics ad themes it all comes together flawlessly and designed no coincidence. I do agree that the 2 songs were label induced and from the content you can tell they were.
@teflontom88 not hatin on ya and you're right the truth has been there from te beginning. Relapse ad recovery are special to the industry truth however
@teflontom88 which I'm a fan of. Kamikaze and music to be murdered by are still daily listens for me... Doesn't mean that hes not involved in some serious shit o make his fame.
It's funny how "Music to be murdered by" has almost the exact same theme/concept/content, just minus the accents. and everybody loved it off the top haha. I guess it was just the accents people didn't like.
@@yoshi0k262 I know. I wasn't trying to compare them quality wise. Just the style of each album, and production etc. is pretty similar to one another. Relapse is definitely not an album I listen to regularly anymore, but at the time it definitely grew on me. Plus just the sheer amount of rhyming on that album?, and production? I will always appreciate even if I don't listen to it anymore.
Maybe we need to order the merch and request it as it seems merch equals request as evil twin, wicked ways has been requested the F up along with survival and many others.
Syllable count wise, these verses are some of his most impressive. In that second verse he's rhyming every first middle and last word on EVERY bar. AND he's telling a psychotic story doing it.
The 2nd verse on this song is one of the best in hip hop in terms of rhyming. He keeps the same 14-15 syllable rhyme scheme throughout the verse, its beyond impressive
@@OriginalBabyBoi then check out Rhyme Asylum - Poison Penmanship, in fact, if you like that they've released 2 albums of pure fire (State of lunacy and solitary confinement), best punchlines of all time, better than Big L if you ask me lol Enjoy bro
Relapse has and will ways be my favourite album. It's lyrically Insane throughout coupled with some most sinister beats. It's a pure showcase of his ability. he came back after 4 years, No drugs, no drink.. sober.. All of Eminems previous songs were written while he was either drunk or high.. He would pop an E before concerts and says himself he can't remember most he so high... this was a Completely different Eminem and he needed a comeback album that would put him firmly back at the top of a rap game that he hasn't been involved in for 4 yours.. . whoever was at the top of the game in 2009 lyrically or even commercially must of heard this album and been just in absolute shell shock because he was in his absolute prime before he nearly died in his bathroom... Took 4 years out got sober and comes back 10x better than he was in his prime.. he just keeps getting better and better as the years and albums roll by.. He's the Bruce Lee of Rap. Still to this day The best to ever do it.. Nobody has surpassed him still to this day. Eminem is the best to ever do it.. The only one who surpasses him is himself, Consistently.. In my eyes there will never be another like him (lyrically) 20 30 40 years from now.
@@ezgezg8618 👏👏👏👏.. Still My favourite Album of All Time.. Still Listen to it to This Day Quite Regularly! 👆 Relapse. MTBMB. Kamikaze. Are the 3 albums that showcase his pure, Raw, lyrical ability for me.
Here from the future...he did it again music to be murdered by...both sides..straight fire. Ems like a fuckin unicorn man and not because of all the sharp shit comin out his head haha
@@corman2332 so it's an opinion thing, cause every song on that eminem show album was popular, that was like the peak of his career, and 1 of his best albums
It’s not his most accessible album from a mainstream perspective but I believe it’s his most skillful and technical in regards to his delivery, flow, rhymes, and patterns. This is the album where he truly separated himself from the rest of the pack and became the best there ever was.
I’ve never seen anyone else appreciate that flow and rhyme scheme as much as I do. Dude damn near rhymes every syllable in the entire line for a whole verse
Font want to break the illusion but that he can rap the hook completly when he listen the second time to it is not realistic but anyways entertaining reaction
@@kilikikiliki4900 okay so I just watched it again, he stops it every bar on the hook the first time so yeah it's easy to remember if you pay attention
This is even more genius, so just like Edgar Allan Poe used to use different meters to make his readers feel uncomfortable just from reading it (not our typical meter iambic pentameter), is the same way Eminem's meter already makes us feel uncomfortable. Relapse is one of my favorite albums. There are so many aspects of art/writing in these songs. Edgar Allan Poe would be so proud. Horror fiction at its finest.
...right there’s the coroner, waiting for you to turn the corner so he can corner ya, you’re a gonna he’s onto ya, out the corner of his cornea his just saw ya run...
Two songs: Phenomenal and Kings Never Die ( back to back ) official lyric video version. They both got bars, flow, wordplay, cadence, motivation, inspiring! FIIIRE bro fiiire
This song was Em’s intro into horror-core. He wrote this when he was in rehab and while he was there, he would spend his time watching a lot of murder documentaries and they inspired him to write this. It’s honestly one of his most bar heavy and lyrically heavy songs 🤙🏼
@@omarbk25 thats what makes it good to me. pretty sure some rappers soon or later gonna do the same shit Em did and people gonna think thats the best shit ever lol.. plus em said certain words rhymed better with using a certain accent
"Believe" from the revival album... you'll love this one straight inspiration when it comes to what he's saying but also top tier flow. That is VINTAGE Eminem WAT UP WAT UP WAT UP COMMENT SQUADDD LOOK AT THE COMMENTS ON THIS BOSS MAN LETS GET THIS THING GOING
However if he does do believe he has to start with the last line from "walk on water" it flows right into "believe" makes you understand the full meaning of "walk.. " maybe that's just me but...
It's definitely how he says it. His cadence, his Flo Change up, his bending words to make them rhyme. The way he uses accents to make words rhyme. But he's got barz for DayZ as well. That's why he's the 🐐.
11:00 “ ... or Satan, gee what a sight to see I’m dancing in my red panties” he’s basically saying “Satin (velvet) G like a red G string thong. Then what a sight to see is of him dancing in his red panties. EM is a genius
The entirety of Relapse deserves a listen. That whole album was ahead of its time and people shit on the accents Em used before paying attention to the rhyme schemes and wordplay. Relapse is in his top 3 after hiatus, and I'll die on that soap box.
PatsFan89 i saw he said that but i thought he was referring to the weird accent. His wordplay and storytelling is better than anything he’s dropped afterwords, plus beautiful and careful what you wish for have some encore standout vibes which i enjoy
He never said it wasn't good. He said he overdid it with the accents. Personally, I don't mind them at all. I just listened to the entire album including the skits. People don't even realize the whole album is a time capsule of his years out of the spotlight.
this is off the relapse album as people said, that was his first album when he came back sober after a few years of being silent. (2009) I read a bunch of interviews when it came out and a lot of songs on the album was inspired by serial killers, because he had spent a lot of time watching documentaries about it, and he almost created verbal horror movies like this one. This song is actually NOT his own thoughts, but him, trying to channel the thoughts of people like this. on a side note, when he became sober he had to "find himself" again and began to use this accent which a lot of people hated on at the time, but it was just him being unsure of himself and almost created a new persona to rap as, instead of himself. he talks alot about this on later songs on recovery. I actually started listening to this album a few days ago again, and the shit is really fucking underrated, a lot of crazy songs on it. BUT you have to look at songs like these almost like you look at an author, we don't connect an author to his ideas he writes about in a book or a movie as HIM. it's difficult to really explain what I mean but hopefully you get it.
This was honestly such a dope breakdown of that time in his life. But only someone who really pays attention to Em and has been a fan throughout his entire career would be able to interpret this the way you did. Big ups.
I think the "red panties" line is a shout out to Silence of the Lambs/ Hannibal Lecture( played by Sir Anthony Hopkins). ?? That's the scene that came to mind on the particular part for me 😊😊 Always enjoy your reactions/ brake downs. Looking forward to more ❤💛💚
This is one of the most impressive albums any rap artist has ever made from a skill standpoint. To come up with this concept and execute it to the point that it’s still great to listen to 11 years later is insane.
actually the accents are to separate two characters in his album, (slim shady the serial killer, and ken kanif the copycat serial killer who tries to take his place when slim goes missing) which is a concept album and has a story from beginning to end starting with him as a kid in my mom and insane, and shows him growing up to hate women so he becomes a serial killer who targets women, in underground he doesnt have an accent anymore because its not slim anymore its ken kanif, a copy cat serial killer and he doesnt kill women he kills gays.
This album, Relapse, came out in 2008. In 2006 Eminem was feeling a lot of pressure from the media and to top it off his best friend Proof got shot and killed sending Eminem spiraling downhill. In 2007 he OD on drugs and almost died (he makes a song about in his album Revival called Arose), after finishing his 12 steps recovery program he came out with this album (Relapse). The album shows the dark place he was in at the time but directly after this album he came out with Recovery in 2010 where he apologized to his fans and turned his life around. You should listen to more songs off Recovery and Revival as he goes over a lot of this, but hey it makes for one crazy ride for us Stans! Edit: guys like this post so that he sees this info!
U don't ever "finish " the 12 steps its an everyday all day forever life im sure u ment nothing by that just wanted 2 clear that because its literally a forever life change for those of us in recovery 💖
Relapse is one of the greatest albums of all time! So far ahead of its time when it came out. Every song is a classic. Music box, buffalo bill, underground and this song are stand outs but all the rest are unreal. Eminem is too good for anyone to compete in my opinion.
wasn't he still on downers here? pretty sure he said his self when he was on downers he was stretching words and making accents for stuff to rhyme and he regretted it? I could be wrong no hate just wondering :)
If u ever been in the hole of addiction u will know the mind wanders a little evil sometimes cuz u think there's no way out of where ur stuck... Like the line by Tech 9 "if he wanna kill himself, wtf you think he wanna do to you"?... Doesn't every1 get these thoughts every now and then?
@@jordangrieve5142 we good now mang after several years 💯... I was just saying I think that's why Eminem was rapping like this in the entire album cuz he was just sobering up and losing proof, he was def in a dark spot.. Stay up g 💯
LETS GET THIS STRAIGHT!! WE LIKE THE LONG VIDEOS. The real STANS, and your true FANS love the longer more in-depth breakdowns. That is why we’re here!! To learn and admire Eminem’s GREATNESS. Keep doing you bro, I’ll be getting a wat up shirt soon.
Eminem - goes hard, drops bars and punch lines (Till I Collapse) Slim Shady - crazy shit, shock value, etc (Just Lose it) Marshall - woke, political, deep, insightful, tells his life stories (Sing For The Moment) In all his songs he has one of those 3 "personalities" when he writes it
This song is just drenched with genius. The word play, the rhyme scheme, the rhymes, the flow, the literal word play with wild and mild, the beat with the heartbeat, and to top it off the story with the perspective of a killer. As a criminologist understanding the psyche of some of the people he mentioned in the song is what I do. Not only does he have the graphic ways people get murdered but he does an excellent job at playing the part. How he struggles with himself to not kill but can't help himself is exactly what happens to a lot of the notorious serial killers. It's a secret they can't tell anybody because they enjoy doing evil things. Eminem further exposes his genius by his understanding of human psychology blended into his art. He's obviously a fan of learning about serial killers and how and why they do the things they do. This is why I'm astonished when anyone says he peeked at Marshall Mathers LP or that he's not even in the top 10 of best rappers of all time. This song alone with the amount of skill and creativity trounces 90% of rapper resumes imo and this isn't even his in his top 5 ever made. Rap God title is deserved because he earned it with his hard work and sacrifice. But I guess I'm a STAN for saying this and not because I appreciate genius when I see it, so just disregard everything I said.
Well said, he uses a unique understanding and perspective using his insane word play and skills to create a story of a killer. It’s interesting too as Eminem had a troubled childhood and said a few times in his music that if he never had rap and people around him like D12 and his daughters he could’ve been another serial killer so they along with his skill for rap saved him from that life and could also be putting his dark thoughts whilst on drugs in to music form to keep his potentially dark ways at bay???🤷🏻♂️
@@C.Curtis99 you're not wrong he could have turned out to have been the most prolific serial killer rather than rapper LOL he would have made the zodiac killer look like your typical bandit who gets caught robbing a convenience store. The serial killer equivalent of Eminem's rap skills I don't even want to know what that is lol
3 AM is his greatest rhyming work in my eyes. He bends words like this but the flow and cadence is just insane on top of that. I know he has more meaningful and more lyrical songs but this is peak performance Shady for me, everything thought he was wack for the accents originally but now look. He's rapped forward, backward, fast, slow, angry, sad, happy, high, sober, in pig latin, in other accents & so much more. That's crazy.
I think the one thing people don’t realize about Relapse is that it’s a testimony to his story telling skills. The whole project has this atmosphere about it. To me it’s a horror movie, you should listen to Demon Inside by Em
It was actually about him also trying to rhyme words as creatively as he could. Hence why he went overboard with all the accents. He said the only way certain words could rhyme was by the accents next thing he knew he went overboard with them It would of been a better album had he not tried the accents . Just shows again how much better he gets with age
Relapse is my favourite Em album because of the horror core theme and imagery. The storytelling was impeccable in that album, and I loved the accents and shit. Gorgeous album. 50 once said that Relapse 2 was even better than the first one, but scrapped the whole thing after the reception the first one got.
@@PKDionysus yes sir I dunno if you ever heard the leaked tracks think there was like 6. That were gonna be on relapse 2 before he switched and made recovery. They were mental. And the best part about them was after listening to relapse and then them into recovery you hear his mind change in his flow etc and can hear him actually recovering. IMO was the right thing to do scrapping for recovery.
“Scent of a placenta, Brenda in Central Park” Em still payin homage + that track by Tupac hit me so hard when I first heard it…I cried thinkin how difficult/unfair Individual circumstances are…ability to articulate emotion has to b 1 of the most difficult things to do 4 artists! Stevie u killed it {pun intended} Relapse tends to be overlooked or underrated, many don’t really get how difficult it is to do wat Em was doin cadence, flow, story telling, & barring!!
He was definitely "coming" out of those dark times. And you're right, that whole album plays like a horror movie as a concept album I guess. Here's what I think the song is about: The "story", his imagery of this monster or beast in a horror flick is a metaphor for how much of a "beast" he is at this game. As a rapper, he's a different type of monster. He's an animal. His preys or "rappers" need to Stay Wide Awake with him around or perhaps "that is the type of animal he is" the type that Stays Wide Awake...and this song IS a display how much a beast he is by flowing the way he's capable of. For other great displays of flow and storytelling on that album check out My Darling (a lot of metaphorical callbacks to his journey through the hip hop game), Careful What you Wish For, and "Music Box" on Relapse: Refill.
I love the way you split Em songs categories. Sometimes he kill you with bars, sometime he kill you with cadence. But even when its not bars, his flows are so TECHNICALLY SOUND! He's not just rhyming words, hes rhyming individual syllables.
Stevie the channel is the best hands down my guy. The reactions and the breakdowns are second to none. Its apprieciated. Respect, health and wealth. Eminem ft Buckshot - Dont Front Eminem - Detroit vs everybody Eminem - AnyMan
Majority of the Relapse album was like this, Em was on another level with his flow by adding the accent, it made his rhymes wild. 3AM is another one like this, visual horror movie. Must Be The Ganja, Same Song And Dance, Bagpipes From Baghdad, that album was BEAST
Stevie Knight. Every album. Eminem is just the greatest. I know you don't feel that way but even if you don't feel some of his songs you listen to it on another day in another mood you get something different. EVERYTIME. It's insane. Please try some revival songs they've got bars like crazy. Offended, believe, arose, castle, tragic endings. They're all great. Especially when you see they all stem from either an era of him or rap. I love your reactions and it's so awesome to see you explore relapse. Great album. First one I ever got.
"Young girl by the name of Brenda and I pretend to befriend her". Real ones know the genius of this line and how it changes the whole message of the song.
During his recovery, Eminem was obsessed with watching and reading about a LOT of serial killers. So he made Relapse a concept album that comes from a perspective of a Serial Killer. Still the last best Eminem album to come out, fire beats and the flow on the album is UNREAL. Listen to DEJA VU.
To set context Stevie...The beat is fire coz it's Dre, this is off of Relapse which is a horrorcore album hence the subject matter Em raps about... You should also react to 3am
You should see the color rhyme scheme video for this song. Damn near every syllable rhymes. Especially in the second verse. He goes like a whole verse rhyming every syllable.
Relapse is slept on because the lyrics aren’t for everyone. I personally don’t love the serial killer character but Jesus Christ the technical skill and artistry in the tracks on that album are arguably his best work. As a rap fan it’s pure gold honestly and this track is one of the best examples.
EM’s Hooks and choruses are so underrated I heard tht when he was young and getting his own cds pressed he couldn’t afford to pay anyone to do his hooks so he did it himself
One of the great things about Em is is story telling. It’s what makes him great. Another of couple of songs like this one are 3am and My Darling. And yeah these were written during his relapse.
He takes the cake. Nobody can rap about what he does and still hold respect..... His flow is untouchable and all the real lyricist will vouch. All the rappers that don't realize that need to sit back and take notes