Post by shadeonback on Jan 5, 2010 22:29:39 GMT 5.5
Marshall Mathers returned to the rap game clean and sober but his mind was still on drugs. Relapse is chock full of references to seemingly every prescription your grandma ever thought of havin’ in her cabinet. Unlike any other MC on your iPod, Eminem is truly in his own dark and demented world. He’s poppin’ valium like ma dukes on “My Mom”, disintergrating babies on “Stay Wide Awake”, and chokin’ Lindsay Lohan with a sixty-six inch extension cord (“Same Song and Dance”). But my fondness for Slim Shady still lies more with tracks that fully display the wizardry wordplay of “Hello”, the booming “Medicine Ball” and the joyously jarring “Underground”, where like his later guest spots proved unequivocally, Em can still rhyme circles around your favorite artist. Deceptively effortless.