Yeah I love this song! Have you seen the video? It's great, really simple but with a powerful ending. It's doing really well at the moment in the UK. I can't wait for Recovery, I think it'll put Em back on top, reminiscent of the Marshall Mathers LP/Eminem Show days. And with Pink and Rihanna collabs, this should be one of the albums of the year.

Laura

Well...Em's album leaked.

Recovery sounds promising so far though, way better than Relapse is for sure

So tempted to download it...I have already preodered the CD but I don't think I can wait that long.

I've heard songs off the new one and I'm gonna be honest, its not that good. Its another Shady record if you're into all his other new[er] albums you will probably like it, but I personally don't understand the hype.

It's good stuff man

I like Eminem, but I've never actually bought a whole album - which would you recommend? Although I will probably end up buying all of them...

I suggest starting at the beginning of his discography and work your way up to the new stuff, if you insist on owning all of it. Its entirely up to you if you buy them all, I personally don't have any desire to own a lot of his stuff, but if you want it all go ahead and start with the first album and work to the newest.

It really depends on what you're after from him. His early stuff contained a lot of shock lyrics that jumped between offensive and hilarious. His 2000 release The Marshall Mathers LP was a good album for balancing out his more serious stuff with the funny stuff. I honestly hold his 2002 follow up The Eminem Show as his finest piece of work, both from a production and content viewpoint. I found that his most heartfelt lyrics were present on that album and it was his most "mature". Most people will disagree with me, but I think The Eminem Show is the best place to start for beginners, especially if they're not really into the shock value present on his earlier (and unfortunately) later albums.

Ok, thanks a lot :)

Marshall Mathers LP is epic. Best he's ever done.

Yeah I should have been a little more descriptive with my post. I agree with LoathsomePete on some things. I will be honest with you, Eminem's lyrics are 'immature' and can become annoying and at times really aren't funny anymore. I enjoy the first two SS and MM LP's the most out of his word, Eminem Show is a good release also. Other than those two albums he is really hit or miss in my opinion and sadly..a lot more miss than hit. He has songs strung out amounts his entire career that are good songs, but albums wise he is a really inconsistent artist.

Lemme clear this up because it isn't very clear. His first two are immature, as Pete said, then towards the middle of his career some of his lyrics took a more mature route. I do remember a few songs on Encore being kinda immature, 'A** Like That' is the one that stands out the most, but for the most part his lyrics were much better on The Eminem Show and Encore both.

Either way, I feel like The first four are all albums you should listen to. Really all just depends on what you're looking for.

I actually enjoy his new song. Not afraid and Hate the way you lie ft. Rihanna.

His new album is pretty good, in my honest opinion.
I like it better than Relapse, and I was a pretty big fan of that album, as well.

He's headlining at T in the Park this weekend. Sadness. I really wanted to see him as I grew up on eminem albums :(

Not many agree with me, and that's OK, but Eminem was and is the best the genre has ever seen.

Rap was a music form built on rage;originally, it was blacks raging against police brutality and racism and poverty--Eminem's anger was unmatched in its fury and its forcefulness. We were all FORCED to acknowlege him because of how frightening and dangerous he seemed to everybody. Not many have been able to pull that off, either before or since. I remember my grandma hiding "the Marshall Mathers L.P." from me when I was 10 years old because she was afraid that I'd turn into a nihilistic *******. She was right, but I remember the general sense of fear he instilled in parents around the country.

Eminem to me, is a fairly good rap artist. There are artists that I much prefer but as far as rappers in the mainstream go, he is one of the best. If not the best.

Well i finally got Relapse, and cant help but feeling a little disappointed. He seems to have lost the ability to right the funny/violent lyrics as well as he did on the his first few albums.
Not Afraid, Going through Changes and Love the Way you lie are the only tracks that have any replay value for me of the album.

I think Eminem hits curtain emotions with a lot of people regardless of what album

That's retarded. On Fire, Almost Famous, WTP, 25 To Life, and So Bad are all dope as **** yo.

I disagree. The earliest rap was more party music than anything else, basically the opposite of rage.

^ truth.
I don't believe Rapper's Delight was very angry.

Your right, I'm too mentally slow to understand how good them songs are. Thank God you came along and showed me with your superior intelligence.

Almost Famous has no replay value for you? Then crash_override is of a superior intelligence.

Everyone seems to like this song but I just don't get whats so good about it. Maybe its a grower...

As soon as I heard

"I stuck my **** up in this game like a rapist,
They me Slim Roethlisberger."

I loved it.

You might want to check your grammar before you start acting like a condescending prick.

lol

I think Relapse was a stupid album, although Recovery is proving to be something epic or a little more than mediocre to most people

Recovery is one of the few rap albums I've picked up lately that I can listen to from start to finish. That being said, the chorus in "You're Never Over" comes damn close to ruining the great verses he turned in and the sentimental value the song holds as his tribute to Proof. Personally, I think TI's tribute to Philant, "Dead and Gone," was a better overall song, albeit completely overplayed.

'You're Never Over' makes William Hung look like Frank Sinatra.

Marketing has nothing to do with rap skill.

Soulja Boy sells more than Canibus that has something to do with it right?

Well, Canibus is pretty terrible.

+1

He chokes on those multi-syllabic words like he does dicks

I must agree with both of the fellows above me.

lol just because Canibus isn't mainstream doesn't mean you get to say he's terrible

It's not because he's not mainstream.
It's because he's terrible.
His voice, and his monotone delivery, are two of the most irritating things that I've ever heard in Hip-Hop.

It's got a sick beat, and em kills every verse. One of the best songs, along with Cinderella Man, 25 to life and Seduction.

What are you, retarded?

Canibus has better rhymes than Eminem
sorry to say