Kamikaze eminem album5/5/2023 The criticisms of it clearly stung: “ They been pannin’ my album to death/So I been givin’ the media fingers,” he spits on opener ‘The Ringer’, a track which delivers, in jaw-dropping, super-quick flow, more honesty and ire than we’ve seen from Eminem in years, calling out journalists, fellow rappers and fans who’ve turned their back on him. ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t a total stinker, but it was just another ‘meh’ release from a once iconoclastic artist who’d slipped into middle age as a Slim Shadow of his former self. ‘Revival’ featured a grab bag of gimme-a-hit-please guests: Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and the ubiquitous Ed Sheeran, who co-wrote the sappy ‘River’. Latter-day Eminem was earnest, goddy, flawed, lacking confidence even, and on ‘Revival’, pointedly political too. That LP continued down a course he’d been set on since 2010’s ‘Recovery’, an Eminem that had lost sight of the cartoon devil fans first fell for in the late ’90s. He’s upset, mostly, about the fact that people didn’t like his last album, the not-particularly-great ‘ Revival’, released on December 15, 2017. We know because he tells us, in the opening seconds of ‘Kamikaze’, like he’s psyching himself up: “ I feel like I want to punch the world in the fucking face right now“.
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