Meet the New Eminem – Recovery (Album Review)

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He’s back! Meet the new Em.  I guess after all the pills he finally cleaned out his system and is back on track.

From listening to his last two albums you can tell Em is clean this time.Recovery has more focus and direction. Its a very mature album from Em’s standards.

One noticeable thing about this album is the new mixture of producers. Of course you have the legendary Dr. Dre as Executive producer , but you have new producers working with Em. In the past its been Em and Dre producing a large amount of the album, but now its producers like Just Blaze, DJ Khalil, Boi-1da, Denaun Porter, Emile, Havoc,Jim Jonsin,  and Alex da Kid.

Near the beginning of the album it starts off with a track called Talkin’ 2 Myself featuring Kobe. Em apologizes to his fans for the last two albums and I quote “them last two albums didn’t count Encore I was on drugs, Relapse I was flushing em out”  He also talks about almost going at Weezy, and Kanye.

“Hatred was flowing through my veins
On the verge of going insane
I almost made a song dissin Lil Wayne
It’s like I was jealous of him cause the attention he was gettin’
I felt horrible about myself
He was spittin and I wasn’t
Anyone who was buzzin back then coulda got it
Almost went at Kanye too
God it feels like I’m goin’ psychotic
Thank god that I didn’t do it
I would of had my ass handed to me”

Em getting his ass handed to him… Seems a little unthinkable. Moving forward you have a track called On Fire. On this song he gives his critics a Milk-bone . He openly admits to wasting punch lines and tops it off with a quote on quote “Bullsh*t Hook”. Its Classic Em.

Another classic style Em is a track called W.T.P (White Trash Party) Ha! Enough said on that one.  Then you move forward with the single “Not Afraid” which goes with the whole “Recovery” theme.

Lil Wayne and Em team up  for one of the sickest tracks on the album. The track has a nasty sample by Haddaway’s What is Love. Unlike Renegadeswhere Em clearly out shined Jay-z, this one is a little different where I think Weezy may have had the better verse.

Cinderella Man produced by Just Blaze is a up lifting song. I’m unsure who is singing the hook, although it sounds like Nate Dogg, but to my understanding Nate Dogg’s health isn’t up to par, so don’t quote me on that.

My personal favorite is 25 to Life where Em uses the song as a metaphor.  He uses his music and hip hop as his girlfriend as if they we’re in a relationship. Its a very profound track. He talks about the struggles of the fame, and the lifestyle. He goes into depth on how he’s given his life to his “woman”, but can’t take no more.

If your going out to buy Recovery [Explicit]expect not to hear Shady. Expect to hear a more in control Em, not so much crazy Em. No cutting up my mom and throwing her into the ocean stuff on this project. There’s no Hailie songs. Its more of normal songs, (Ha) if you can use Eminem and normal in the same sentence.  When referring to Em in the last ten years, I remember having hip hop discussions about dude.  One of the things a lot of people  would say is they wish Em would just rap and leave the crazy Slim Shady voices and antics along and just rap. For the most part I think he finally did that on this album, although I think there’s an even better Eminem album to come. Keep it here daily on Skewln.com

Rating: (9.0/10)