The twisted love song “Space Bound” actually managed to create some good old Eminem controversy, due to its music video climaxing with a graphically portrayed suicide. “Cold Winds Blows” is the only appearance of his Slim Shady alter-ego on the album, and while it is quite sober and serious compared to previous Slim Shady songs, it still captures a flash of the character’s twisted humor. There are a few things on this album that manage to capture a bit of the trademark Eminem spirit.
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What made Eminem a legend is his talent, far more than his gruesome subject matter, and that talent is in as full display on this album as anything in his discography. The difference is that Eminem, at least apart from the Encore album, has the skill to back his theatrics up because ICP are morons who write ridiculously stupid lyrics, their over-the-top personas just make them look like buffoons.
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Their persona is, if you think about it, almost indistinguishable from Eminem’s…the darkly comic shock-rappers who pretend to be serial killers.
For proof of this, look at one of the most excoriated Rap acts of all time, Insane Clown Posse. There’s even one song, “Seduction”, that follows the I-Can-Steal-Your-Girlfriend formula that was so much of a cliche in Rap at the time.īut keep in mind that all of the elements of Eminem’s distinctive persona would never have mattered if he hadn’t been the greatest lyricist in all of Rap. What the album admittedly lacks is the distinctive Eminem flavor…the lyrics don’t lack for shock value most of the time, but the colorful and gruesome sense of humor that has become Eminem’s calling card is replaced by an earnest seriousness on most of these songs. The song templates here are tried-and-true Rap staples…the phoenix-rises-from-the-ashes anthem of triumph, the loving tribute to a fallen friend, the honest confrontation of the artist’s own psychological issues. This album has every bit of the lyrical quality that makes Eminem the greatest rapper in the history of the genre…in fact, these might be the most complex, rapid-fire lyrics to be found on any Eminem album, and the wordplay, in its own blunt-spoken way, is as witty as a Cole Porter song. Not any old run-of-the-mill rapper…the quality of the lyricism is far too high for that…but still, you can easily imagine Nas or peak-period Jay-Z coming out with an album like this, while Eminem’s most acclaimed albums, like his three early-career masterpieces or 2013’s The Marshall Mathers LP2, could never have been produced by anyone except Eminem himself. This decline can probably be chalked up to the fact that this is an album you can imagine any truly great rapper making. Eminem’s Recovery album was acclaimed as a triumphant comeback and one of the best albums of the year when it was released in 2010, but lately it has settled into a reputation as a disappointment.
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