back in the day.” The 2.5-star review of LL Cool J’s 1987 albumThe Rolling Stone Album Guide
, which isn’t online. But when it comes to airing out his grudges, no amount of having to drive around Michigan looking for a Barnes & Noble will hold Eminem back. It’s the kind of monkish attention to detail that bespeaks a true craftsman. Musically, he gestures towards the current hip-hop world a little more intentionally than his hermetic-sounding albums have tended to in the recent past. The buoyant “Godzilla” features leftover verses from the recently departed emo rap icon Juice WRLD, serviceably sutured into Eminem rhyme clusters delivered in a rapid-fire blur that’s almost microtonal. Anderson .Paak lends his light Cali-soul growl over Dr.
In a new lyrical wrinkle, Em steps into the role of political commentator and protest voice, with mixed results. On the grueling, six-minute “Darkness,” the album’s most ambitious performance, he attempts to inhabit the mind of the gunman responsible for the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival that took 58 lives. His impulses are in the right place .
Such a moment of moral urgency, however muddled, also has the knock-on effect of rendering other bits of expected shock-rap offensiveness more glaringly uncomfortable. In the requisite evil ex screed “Farewell,” he plays loftily with the love-as-murder theme, comparing toxic romance to being “tethered together like felons,” but makes sure not to leave out the stomach-churning venom, calling his errant paramour a “little cunt.
I take professional writers seriously, as Nobel Prize winners
.rollinstone
We are lucky that those Low standards of were not at the time of Nirvana/Pink Floyd/GNR - Sure you would have thrashed- as it's difficult you to read and understand Lyrics/metaphors/double meaning/Flows
It's pity how have dropped. Now all you do is Celebrating Porn people turned celebrities and gives 4-5 stars to Shallow albums made about money/Sex/flashy cars/ made by naked people. Woww David Frick?
The hell with reviews,I listened to that album it’s fire.. haters gonna hate...
I give 2 and a half to this review
No Dislike button so I guess the lack of likes and retweets does the story telling. L
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he is the real deal ✊
He’s great. End of story.
Rolling Stone just go away already
y'all are still hurt 😭
I still love him. Detroit
Fuck rap
Why can’t Dre produce the whole album ? He hasn’t since his earlier records. The album is meh ...
What are you talking about, he killed it 98% of people like it on streaming services, you writers are shite!
What a biased and trashy review! 😂🤣😂 What happen to you RS?!!
CLOWN 🤡
He's trying to be edgy while towing SJW talking points at the same time...good luck on that Em...It's going to backfire unfortunately
This guy has always sucked. Yeah, this guy.
So not as good as this classic? :
when I need smooth uplifting life songs I go straight for.Eminem! omg EnoughIsEnough with the Negativity already! maybe that's all he knows or is clueless how to expand as an artist/musician after all this time. my2cents.
First two albums were okay. Everything past that sucked.
He sucks.....