Eminem has never really shied away from saying awful stuff in his songs, either as an edgy gag or because he’s just really pissed about his mom or whatever, but he admits that he actually went too far on his new song “Fall.” Speaking with Sway about his new album Kamikaze (via Vulture), Eminem acknowledged that he…
2018 is proving to be a profitable year for the diss track. Pusha T’s “The Story Of Adidon” set the high bar, obviously, but there’s been a lot of them, a surprising number somehow related to aging Venom rapper Eminem. Earlier this month, the Detroit rapper kicked a hornet’s nest of vaguely apathetic hornets with his…
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Eminem’s new album, the surprise release Kamikaze, is bad. This has been the case for every album he’s released for around 15 years, depending on how generous you want to be to 2002's The Eminem Show, a long artistic stagnancy that Eminem seems keenly aware of. Kamikaze, like so many other Eminem albums, functions as…
Eminem surprised music fans last night with the surprise release of Kamikaze, a new album whose title refers to someone about to kill themselves by dive-bombing into an enemy. Fitting, then, that album guest Bon Iver has decided to dive-bomb the track he appears on, blowing it up into a very public disavowal.
Less than a year after the release of his critically underwhelming 2017 effort Revival, Eminem mildly shocked the musical world by dropping an unexpected album, Kamikaze, on the internet tonight. The album—available to stream right now on Spotify—is 13 tracks of Marshall Mather’s typical bluster, culminating in an ode…
In 1995, on Rosecrans Avenue in Compton, California, Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur filmed the original music video for their song “California Love,” which featured the two West Coast rap icons rolling up to the swap meet in shiny new Bentleys. Unbeknownst to anyone, there was an 8-year-old watching from the sidelines that…
Not all Jeopardy! failures are equal. While some are negligible—one’s use of “gangster” instead of “gangsta,” for example—others are positively Turd Fergusonian. Take, for example, sweet, sweet Julie’s blunder in the above clip, which finds her confusing rapper Eminem with rocker Jack White. Had the question—Which…
Once more into the Port-A-Potty-stocked breach, dear friends. For the 17th time in as many years, hordes of self-absorbed narcissists will descend upon Manchester, Tennessee, for a four-day weekend of music and debauchery—and the rest of us will pay good money to watch them perform.
Eminem’s excruciating new album Revival has earned the worst reviews of his career, which is saying something about an artist whose 2009 album Relapse was so bad he apologized it for the next year with a whole new album. Our own review damningly said that the new record “isn’t even interesting enough to warrant all of…
Right now, if you live in North America, you’re probably thinking warm thoughts in a desperate effort to ward off the cold. Music festivals, for example, usually take place in favorable (read: warm) conditions, so we might as well look ahead to the 2018 Governors Ball, the lineup for which has just been announced.
We’ve known for a while now that Beyoncé would be headlining this year’s Coachella, making up for having to ditch the massively popular musical festival last year in favor of, you know, giving birth. Now, it’s been revealed that two of Queen Bey’s recent collaborators, The Weeknd—who appeared on her 2016 magnum opus, …
Eminem is not very good at his job anymore, and he’s spent an inordinate amount of time in the last decade trying to convince himself and everybody else that he’s actually better than ever. It’s a big part of his narrative nowadays, and it gets boring fast: The haters are always hating him, and the criticism really…
“That’s what’s up.”
It requires some serious suspension of disbelief to buy that Eminem is an underdog at this point, considering that his last album is both quadruple platinum and the winner of the Best Rap Album Grammy. But saying, “Everybody hates me” and, more specifically, “Guess who’s back?” has served his career well so far, and…
Tiffany Haddish’s breakout year continues, with Saturday Night Live taking to Twitter to share the Girls Trip star and Carmichael Show alum’s upcoming hosting gig. Haddish will follow Larry David, whose hosting return was announced earlier this year, and hold things down on November 11. Taylor Swift presumably made it…
Last week, New Zealand awarded Eminem about $415,000 as part of his lawsuit against the country’s conservative National political party, which had used a suspiciously Eminem-esque song titled “Eminem-esque” in a campaign ad. Now, according to Page Six, a representative for Eminem has explained that he didn’t actually…
It’s been four years since Eminem released his last album, 2013's The Marshall Mathers LP 2. But the Detroit-based rapper has been making some noise lately, releasing an eye-and-ear-catching Trump-bashing cipher at the BET Hip-Hop Awards earlier this month, and even getting tangentially involved in the world of New…
Back in May, Eminem went to court with New Zealand’s conservative National political party over a campaign ad’s use of a suspiciously Eminem-esque song that was literally titled “Eminem-esque.” John Oliver talked about the case on his HBO show, highlighting how silly things got in court, but the fun had to end…
2004 may as well be ancient history. In that bygone era, Justin Timberlake blew our precious, old-fashioned minds by showing us a split second of Famous Nipple, Green Day had once again awoken from its ritual 10-year slumber, Facebook was a website you were actually excited to use, and Donald Trump, as an old Eminem…
