“The deeper I got into my addiction, the tighter the lid got on my creativity,” he said.
They have culled them to two Eminem plans to release “Relapse 2” before the end of this year. Dre recorded hundreds of tracks and finished enough new songs for three albums. When he was sober, he said, “the wheels started turning again.” Working in Orlando and then in Detroit, Eminem and Dr. “For three or four years I couldn’t do it any more.” “I’d stack a bunch of words and just go down the line and try to fill in the blanks and make sense out of them,” he said. Eminem had been doing what he called “mind exercises” to get himself writing. Dre met in Orlando, Fla., to try recording. In the five years between his own albums, he worked as a producer, making beats for other rappers, and occasionally showed up as a guest rapper he now calls his verse on “Touch Down,” with the Atlanta rapper T.I., “horrible.”īut last year, just two months out of rehab, Eminem met Dr. “I want to see what I looked like when I was on drugs, so I never go back to it,” he said. He has been watching videos of himself onstage and in interviews from his drug days, including one from Black Entertainment Television that he said he has no memory of doing, when Ambien made him so befuddled he couldn’t even respond to simple questions. “Relapse” clings to the formula of its predecessors: it’s partly truth and partly fiction, with personal revelations and sociopathic farce side by side.
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Elsewhere on the album Eminem resumes or relapses into his main alter ego, Slim Shady: the sneering, clownish, paranoid, homophobic, celebrity-stalking compulsive rapist and serial killer who plays his exploits for queasy laughs and mass popularity.Įminem’s four previous major-label albums of new material “The Slim Shady LP” in 1999, “The Marshall Mathers LP” in 2000, “The Eminem Show” in 2002 and “Encore” in 2004 have sold about 30 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The cover of “Relapse” (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope), the first new Eminem album since 2004, builds his face out of pills, and in some songs he raps, as directly as a rhymer can, about how drugs nearly destroyed him. Mathers, 36, says he has stayed sober since April 20, 2008.įar from concealing his addiction battle, he’s making it the center of his comeback.
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Early last year he hospitalized himself, went through rehab and started the full 12-step program of a recovering addict, complete with meetings, a sponsor and a therapist. Mathers had ramped up his habit again.īut the overdose scared him. Public statements covered up the reason for his emergency hospitalization and detox, claiming the problem was pneumonia. But the healing process works both ways: Artist and fans are now a little bit closer to resolution.IN late December 2007 a depressed, writer’s-blocked, pill-popping, opiate-addicted Marshall Mathers, better known as the multimilllion-selling rapper Eminem, overdosed on some new blue pills someone gave him they were methadone and collapsed on his bathroom floor. And all the coming clean gets a bit exhausting. At 76 minutes, Recovery is at least 20 minutes too long. The best cuts (“Talkin’ 2 Myself,” “Won’t Back Down,” “Love the Way You Lie”) are tough, twisty, and self-interested. But the Eminem of Recovery mostly gets back to basics. He still holds a grudge against his ex-wife, and he still tears through celebrities who piss him off for the tiniest reason. It’s like one of his steps toward actual recovery is to own up to his mistakes. But his gripes this time are aimed as much inward as outward. He’s still the most uptight rapper on the planet, exposing his neuroses and grievances throughout. On Recovery, Eminem returns to his fighting stance, spitting in the barking cadences that made him a star a decade ago. “Let’s be honest, that last Relapse CD was ehhh,” he raps in the single “Not Afraid.” “Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground.” No kidding.
Eminem’s seventh record is his relatively speedy reaction to last year’s Relapse, an album even Em wasn’t too pleased with. But you have to dig through the bloat to get to it. Somewhere inside Recovery is a pretty good album.
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