True hip hop fans who appreciate raw lyricism need to check it out.
This is upsetting to me because from a lyrical standpoint, I truly believe that Infinite is just as good if not better than any of his commercial work. While today the few people who have listened to it give it more respect than it initially received, Em’s debut is hardly ever held in the same esteem as his first two commercial albums. Em’s career blew up and Infinite was long forgotten.
Em used this image to shock and entertain and the rest of course is history. It also was the foundation of the anger, bitterness, and rage that led to the creation of the Slim Shady persona. The failure of the album had a significant impact on both Em’s career and his personal life as he contemplated suicide because of it. The album was a flop, barely selling anything and generating accusations that Em was biting off of Nas and AZ. With little money and promotion Em released the album out of the trunk of his car back in 96. Yet they might have a different opinion after listening to Infinite. According to these people, Eminem's true self is the crazed and psychotic "Slim Shady" that dominated both the Slim Shady and The Marshall Mathers LP. Aside from his decrease in lyrical skill and creativity, the chief complaint always seems to be that he's "not being true to himself" because of his dramatically toned down content. It’s always interesting to hear people complain about how badly Eminem has fallen off. It’s only January of 2020, but this album is already a strong contender for one of the worst of the decade.Review Summary: An excellent and criminally underrated debut that gives the listener a different perspective on Marshall Mathers. But with the state of Music To Be Murdered By, and the possibility of many more similar records in the future, I can only pray that Eminem will still be able to end his career as an artist to be respected, instead of the has-been that most will now see him as. If he had retired after Kamikaze, he could have gone out on a relative high with his legacy somewhat intact. He’s proven everything that he has to prove highest-selling artist of the 2000s, best-selling and most decorated rapper of all time, a certified legend in the game. It’s the equivalent of listening to a wood chipper that placed in the middle of an empty rap club that’s struggling for youth relevance.Įminem is a 47 year old man. Sure he can rap fast, as he adamantly shows on numerous tracks on here, but his emphasis on pure skill leaves every other musical element of his songs in the dust. As his performances across the record also leaves a lot to be desired. He’s not funny anymore and his overflowing amount of skill isn’t enough to make up for his shortcomings either. Em’s current state is like a bitter old man that’s trying to relive his glory days by retreading the same few jokes all the time. His early work featured fluently delivered sarcasm that straddled the line between humour and offensiveness. However, the main difference between then and now is Em’s charisma. To play devil’s advocate, Eminem is still the same provocative rapper that he was 20 years ago. Like I’m outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting Eminem, “Unaccommodating” It’s absolutely absurd.īut I’m contemplating yelling “Bombs away” on the game
He literally made a whole song on the Las Vegas concert shooting on “Darkness”, then immediately does a 180 to include a line that belittles a similar tragedy. There are disses about Machine Gun Kelly that will age like cheese that’s left out in the Australian summer and lines that turn the tragedy of the Manchester Ariana Grande concert bombing into a tasteless punchline. Dre production and witty bars, they’re replaced by shoddy attempts at mainstream adaptation and petty stabs at provocation. Yet these tracks are only good in comparison to the rest of the album, most of which is a shoddy and inferior retreading of 2009’s Relapse.Īs clearly evidenced by the title, MTBMB is another Slim Shady attempt at horror-core but instead of underrated Dr.