Rap’s had more than its fair share of artists who found success and then fell off after failing to recapture the musical magic. Remember how great Big Daddy Kane’s career was before and after Prince Of Darkness? Thought so. For every few that have taken a tumble from the mountaintop, there are others who were able to find their ways back to peak performances. Here are 20 albums which mark the return to form for a few of rap’s best talents. Read the rest of this entry »

Adele’s 21 has officially become the second album to sell a million digital downloads in the U.S. and ousts Eminem’s Recovery as the highest digital seller of all time only one week after he originally set the mark. Read the rest of this entry »

Recovery may or may not have been Eminem’s best work in recent years. But the album is one that will put him into the history books Read the rest of this entry »

Marshall was on site when Sasha Grey put the voodoo on Vincent Chase, but he figured he could fare much better with seductive temptress of rebellious pop culture. Not exactly the smart choice. Or was it? There’s a proverbial fork in the road when dealing with relationship crisis and lucklily for Eminem, director Joseph Khan’s magic allows for both possibilities to be played out accordingly. Read the rest of this entry »

Whenever anything Em drops, the reiteration by the media is so thick, I just assume you’ve already seen Slim’s commercial for The 53rd Grammys. If you haven’t, I’ll save you the trouble. For thirty brow-lowering seconds, viewers are driven through a beta version of Marshall Mathers’ virtual reality existence, which is reminiscent of a phased out clunker from Universal Studios. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s common knowledge that years of relentless performing led Eminem to his multiple drug dependencies and four year hiatus from Hip-Hop, and since then he’s been notoriously known to very, very rarely grace the live stage. So naturally when Marshall and Hov linked up for the Home And Home tour in Detroit and New York, Hip-Hop went completely bananas. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes the dream of making it is more fun than it is to actually make it…

If there is one thing about Eminem that has remained consistent over the years, it is the fact that he hates the idea of being “famous.” He opened up about it on 2002′s “Say Goodbye Hollywood” and the ill effects of his international star power have repeatedly shown themselves since. Read the rest of this entry »

The question was raised in a recent discussion if a Grammy still mattered. Now granted, the fast-paced Internet has tossed a lot of hoopla and huff in our peripheral scope. So much to the point where every award and accolade begin to get clumped together into one big lump of routine kiss-ass. But don’t think for a second there’s not an artist living who doesn’t want to be recognized on music’s biggest stage for doing exactly they’ve been doing. Read the rest of this entry »

A fellow employee’s cell phone during the middle of a meeting at work. Being sung obnoxiously by grown men in an ATL-area mall. A million entranced fans at the concert of the decade. Over the past month, those have been just a few of the places I’ve unwillingly heard Marshall and Ri-Ri’s anthem of neglect, “Love The Way You Lie,” leading me to the assumption that my personal playing of the song is no longer necessary. Read the rest of this entry »

Although the voting public is split over Em’s Recovery, there’s still a handful of poignant tracks that manage to grab the ear. Featuring Weezy, “No Love” happens to be one of those tracks as it traces both artists rise against the odds and the fight against growing pains. Read the rest of this entry »

For all the talk about Em’s redemption from drugs and what not, that never really mattered to me. Relationships are what have really fueled his career. Whether the subject was Debbie, Kim, Hailey Jade, his friends or some fictional situation, navigating his dysfunctions gave much needed balance to all the off the wall sh#t he spewed elsewhere on his discs. Read the rest of this entry »

Considering the amount of clout Doc Dre and Eminem possess, I could’ve easily come up with a catchy tag line to try and trick you into checking out this post. But, instead of saying “Eminem Worries About His Own Death,” “Dr. Dre Drops Exclusive Information About Detox,” or even “Aftermath’s Leading Artists Share Needles For Vibe’s Juice Issue,” I instead opted to let this rare combo cover (and interview sample) speak for itself. Read the rest of this entry »

The biggest rapper on the planet just gave you a few reasons to go out and grab Spin Magazine next month. Scowling for their cameras for a macabre photoshoot in the desolate whereabouts of his childhood home in East Detroit, Eminem gives a full interview but his facial expressions tell other another story all together. Read the rest of this entry »

– In a week of free agent signings, Miami was the big winner & Dan Gilbert just lost it. Read the rest of this entry »

Eminem made his initial mark in the music world by brandishing his scars from hitting rock bottom, but the innards of fame were what ultimately brought the Detroit-bred MC to the lowest of lows. Nearly meeting his demise at the hands of a lethal drug addiction, Em climbed back in the Hip-Hop ring to spew out Relapse, a wacked-out skills exhibition set that masked his eternal pain through the guise of the Slim Shady lampoon. Done flirting with the make believe, Eminem faces the music with Recovery, an album which realistically marks the first Marshall Mathers LP heard in some time. Read the rest of this entry »