18 July 2024

Non-stop machine-gun wordsmith Marshall Bruce Mathers aka EMINEM
has his 10th LP, called THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (Coup De Grâce) out.

Pitchfork says: Mostly, The Death of Slim Shady just feels sad. No matter how self-aware he is about becoming the old white guy scared of a changing culture, Eminem can’t seem to get in front of that fact. He was so provocative on his first few albums not because of his lyrics—plenty of horrorcore and gangster rap records were just as gnarly—but because he anticipated the criticism his lyrics would inspire. He set up the hall of mirrors and led you right into it… But now he’s stuck between contradictions; he claims to be above Slim Shady’s acidity but included that song anyway. If Slim Shady’s a mirror, as he asserts in “Guilty Conscience 2,” Marshall Mathers still can’t smash it. All the shards show the same reflection.” Score: 4.8/10.

TUTV: First things first. I’m not a hip-hop-rap fanatic, but one of the genre’s artists I really got/get thrilled by is EMINƎM. His 2002 album The Eminem Show was and still is a stroke of genius in my book. The way he embedded his manic rap rants into sickly sticky melodies was/is genial, but the new album is a stinker.

I feel sorry and happy for Slim Shady aka Eminem aka Marshall Bruce Mathers III. The guy had to endure a lot since he showed up for the first time in 1999 on his 2nd LP. And now, good for him, he gets the coup de grâce. Over and out (although you never know with E). He deserved a more fitting funeral than one with a farewell speech of 64 mediocre minutes, unworthy of the Detroit giant.

Slim here, Slim there, Slim everywhere, shoot Slim, hit Slim, tons of macho Slim rhymes etc. Musically we get only a handful of tunes that make me turn up the volume (tongue-in-cheek single Houdini, Habits, Brand New Dance, Evil, Antichrist, Guilty Conscience 2). Spread over those 64 minutes you need to skip over and over again, yet the master himself says you have to listen from start to finish to get the full story. Full story? Slim is dead, and that’s it. End of story.

The best lines are the first ones of Houdini. LOL!

“Hey, Em, it’s Paul (Paul Rosenberg = E’s associate)
Uh, I was listening to the album
Good fucking luck, you’re on your own”

SINGLE

ALBUM

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