From:http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/05/11/eminems-relapse-read-the-rolling-stone-review/
First Eminem released “Crack a Bottle,” then videos for the jokey “We Made You” and deadly serious “3 A.M.” This past weekend, some fans may have found a way to hear a few more cuts from Relapse, Slim Shady’s first album in nearly five years. But Rolling Stone has listened to the entire album the way it was meant to be heard — and our official review of Eminem’s Relapse is right here.
In his four-star review, Rob Sheffield explores the true target of Relapse’s barbs: Eminem. After falling into a prescription-pill addiction that took him out the rap game and threatened to turn him into biggest adversary (his mom), Em is back, rhyming about Lunesta, Ambien and Vicodin with the brutal honesty of Richard Pryor’s 1982 Live on the Sunset Strip. The Dr. Dre beats are spare, the guest spots minimal — just brief cameos by 50 Cent and Dre.
But what Relapse has is hate and honesty. Eminem reveals that hospital trip for pneumonia in December 2007 was anything but (”That whole pneumonia thing/That was baloney/Was it the methadone, ya think?”), that his daughter Hailie found out passed out in his car with a bag of Three Musketeers bars, that he isn’t afraid to touch on a subject as volatile as childhood molestation: “Insane” begins, “I was born with a dick in my brain/Fucked in the head.”
Eminem is at his most brilliant when he’s addressing true anger and his personal demons. Tracks like “Stay Wide Awake” and “Same Song and Dance,” where he skewers pop cultural figures like Britney, Lindsay and Amy sound forced and played-out, Sheffield writes. But fortunately, Relapse shows the promise of The Slim Shady LP — and Em’s latest is a more painful, honest and vital record than anyone could have expected at this point in the MC’s career.
3A.M.
Track listing
1. "Dr. West" (skit)
2. "3am" Dr. Dre
3. "My Mom"
4. "Insane"
5. "Bagpipes from Baghdad"
6. "Hello"
7. "Tonya" (skit)
8. "Same Song & Dance"
9. "We Made You" Dr. Dre, Eminem
10. "Medicine Ball"
11. "Paul" (skit)
12. "Stay Wide Awake"
13. "Old Time’s Sake" (feat. Dr. Dre)
14. "Must Be the Ganja"
15. "Mr. Mathers"
16. "Deja Vu"
17. "Beautiful"
18. "Crack a Bottle" (feat. Dr. Dre and 50 Cent)
19. "Steve Berman" (skit)
20. "Underground/Ken Kaniff"
Also available (which i will scrap money up to buy, only 8.99 at target!)
P.S. OMMMMGGGGG, THIS DUDE MADE KANYE'S SONG TWENTY TIMES BETTER BUT IT TELLS YOU HOW ILL OF A LYRISCT HE IS AND THAT EVEN THOUGH KANYE CAN'T SING, HE'S THE MAN. (THIS GUY FROM AMERICAN IDOL SHOULD RECORD HIS VERSION THOUGH)
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