Playground insults aside, Em lays out his complaints about the way his last album was received more specifically, saying that critics and fans either didn’t spend enough time with the work to let it digest (“Skim through the music to give shit reviews / To get clicks, but bitch, you just lit the fuse”), its lyricism was just too complex for simpler minds to grasp (But sayin’ I no longer got it ’cause you missed the line and never caught it / ’Cause it went over your head, because you’re too stupid to get it / ’Cause you’re mentally retarded but pretend to be the smartest”), or the album’s production was just too old-fashioned for millennial ears (“Maybe the vocals should have been Auto-Tuned and you would have bought it”).īut Em is self-aware enough to realize that making an album just to complain about his last will only prove critics’ original point about what’s become of him: “Now when it doesn’t matter what caliber I spit at / I’ll bet a hundred thousand bucks / You’ll just turn around and just be like, ‘Man, how the fuck Sourpuss gonna get mad just ’cause his album sucks / And now he wants to take it out on us?’” He also includes a voice-mail from his manager, Paul Rosenberg, on the skit “Paul,” telling Em it’s not advisable to let critics know that they successfully got under his skin. So I ain’t ironin’ shit out with the pressīut I just took this beat to the cleaners” ’Cause they been pannin’ my album to deathĭon’t wanna turn this to a counselling seshīut they been puttin’ me through the ringer I said my beef is more meaty, a journalist On Kamikaze opener “The Ringer,” he speaks at length about feeling put through one by the media, telling us in no uncertain terms that we can, ahem, eat a dick: He responds to criticisms of his last album.Įminem’s last album, Revival, dropped a mere eight months ago, which isn’t enough time for Em to recover from all the negative press that surrounded it. Photo: Def Jam/Columbia and Aftermath/Interscope/Shady The Beastie Boys’ Boeing 727 had “Eat Me” written backwards on it, Em’s has “Suck It,” “FU 2,” and “Copycat.”
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The album artwork is a full re-creation of the Beastie Boys’ 1986 Licensed to Ill cover, even down to the petty hidden messages. Its cover is an homage to the Beastie Boys. You’ll notice Kendrick Lamar has a writing credit on “Greatest,” not because he contributed any new lyrics, but because Eminem interpolates “HUMBLE.” Playboi Carti and Lil Uzi Vert are also credited songwriters because its hook interpolates ““wokeuplikethis*.” Dre and features Jessie Reyez, Royce Da 5’9”, Joyner Lucas, Little Dragon and … Bon Iver … and Kendrick Lamar? Or does it? Let’s dive into everything you need to know to get you through Eminem’s latest, including how it pays homage to the Beastie Boys, attacks his critics, and deals with Trump. On Thursday night, with no warning, he released his tenth album, Kamikaze, mere months after his last album, Revival (remember that?), seemingly as a corrective to all its predecessor’s flaws. Just when you thought the summer of surprise albums had run its course, in swoops Eminem at the eleventh hour for one (hopefully) last shock to the system.
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