Marshall Mathers, better known by his stage name Eminem/Slim Shady was born 17th October 1972 in Detroit Michigan. He first gained notoriety in the early 90's when he began performing in rap battles around Detroit. His first album, entitled The Slim Shady EP was released in late 1997, the album didn't do very well in the mainstream, however it gained him notice by Dr Dre who was and still is a major influence in the world of hip hop. Eminem was signed to Dr Dre's record label Aftermath in 1998. Since 1999 with the release of his first mainstream album The Slim Shady LP, the album spawned the debut single My Name Is, the song went straight to ...  Read the complete review

After five years of solo absence from the genre, Eminem was contemplating how to come back, how to reinvent himself and how to come out with a new style and sound. Despite Em himself saying he'd 'gone back' to his old ways, hence one meaning of the title (relapsing to what he used to be), 'Relapse' sounds completely different from anything else in his catalogue. And I LOVE it. He may very well of tried to emulate shocking people in a major way again but how he went about it with his writing and rapping here was entirely new. As always, the album opens with a bang and my my, what a bang it opens with. You spin this CD and after the conceptual skit to ...  Read the complete review

Eminem returns finally, after the extremely disappointing, sometimes bordering on dire, Encore. This is his fifth studio album and after the debacle of the previous one, my hopes were high that this was simply a blip in his catalogue. Of course no Eminem album would be complete without the more pop oriented, tongue in cheek single which he always comes out with, thankfully while this spawned, We Made You it is something you can listen to with a bouncy beat and a very pleasing flow. The lyrics aren't designed to amaze, just make you chuckle and they succeed. The accent though is something I am unaccustomed to though and takes a little getting used ...  Read the complete review

Despite his own admission that people have been wondering 'where the f**k' he's been the last four years, it is hard to believe that it's been a full ten years since Eminem first graced us with the drug-fuelled, profanity-laden Slim Shady LP. Now though, four years after his last record, 2005's Encore, he's back with Relapse, a record that carries a huge weight of expectation. In the last four years, Marshall Mathers has endured drug addiction, rehab, more drug addiction and more rehab, on top of losing his best friend DeShaun 'Proof' Holton to a nightclub gun fight. Slim Shady has a whole world full of new issues, and he's going to share every last dark part ...  Read the complete review

So, Em's finally back after 5 years of anonymity, and i've got to say, I, along with many others, have missed him. Although Encore was definately not the best album of the year, after he released that many people wrote him off, saying he'd lost it. He proves here that definately isn't true. Whilst this is definately no Marshall Mathers LP or Slim Shady LP it is certainly a very good album that is well constructed and has some classic Eminem songs on. The first real song on the album comes in the form of 3am. A brutal song detailing mass murder. The first verse in this song is one of the best on the album: "You're walking down a horror corridor, it's ...  Read the complete review