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[Maf]

The more I listen to this Eminem album the more I feel like he doesn’t get it. Guilty Conscience 2 is a perfect example of that. It’s painfully cringe to where I didn’t even get to the end. Like, Slim Shady was a joke. Guilty Conscience- the original - was a joke. I really don’t feel the old material was made purposefully to tackle hot topic issues and Eminem’s alter ego’s views on them. It was a more casual, more genuine “I’m just saying this because I know you hate it lol”. This is why it was such a hit with teenagers and the Southpark generation 

 

 

I feel like the unspoken thing about Eminem was it was never serious and just a release to say bad shit and laugh. Listening to a 50+ year old man pretend to talk to he’s alter ego seriously is like he mistakes he’s own punchlines for serious commentary. Then tries to analyse it.
 

I was excited about the new album because even though Houdini was kind of weak I thought we were going back to a more fun Eminem. But instead he spends the whole time talking about trans people, getting cancelled and weirdly midgets. Eminem had beef with dwarfism? It’s hard to take any of it as seriously as Eminem seems too and the fun in this album is almost non-existent. 
 

I thought Eminem was back but he might be more done than ever. Go back to rapping about not being top 5 and drug addiction because he can’t do the Slim Shady shtick anymore. 

 

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If I ever gave a fuck, I'd shave my nuts
Tuck my dick in between my legs and cluck
You motherfuckin' chickens ain't brave enough
To say the stuff I say, so just tape it shut
Shit, half the shit I say, I just make it up
To make you mad, so kiss my white naked ass

 
He is clucking on the new album

[mfnick]

Shame you’re not a fan Maf. I’m loving it more and more as I listen. 
 

I think you’re letting memories cloud your judgement of the old albums too. He definitely still spoke all that shit in a serious tone while still being a joke. Which I think he does brilliantly in this. Still laugh at some of the stuff everytime. There’s no way you can take picking up “a midget by his legs, drop it and kick it” seriously. He even says in GC2 hes joking around. I just think maybe because you’re older you’re looking at it differently. Luckily I’m mentally 13 still so it works for me. 
 

GC2 is genuinely brilliant. He covers people taking his words too literally in a couple of tracks too.
Only one I’m not keen on is Road Rage as in that one he does seem far too serious and preachy. Spends far too long on 1 subject matter in that too. 
 

Still, gutted you didn’t like it but I’m glad he’s still going. Infinitely better than all that mumbly, same flow, tuned robotic voiced shit out there.

 

[Craymen Edge]

 

Current earworm. I caught myself quietly singing "I'm a big man" to myself while browsing in the supermarket yesterday.

 

[Nag]

Replacing Chester Bennington was pretty much an impossible task but I've gotta give Linkin Park props for this...

 

 

Need to hear more but she's definitely got a voice on her...

[Craymen Edge]

Hanumankind is an Indian rapper (who spent some time growing up in the US, hence the accent). 

 

 

[Craymen Edge]

I really liked the last Amyl and The Sniffers album, they've got some new music out for the first time in a while.

 

 

 

 

[DANGERMAN]

I think I've heard them mentioned elsewhere, I'll give them a listen 

 

Chat Pile have a new album out. It's ridiculously heavy, I love it 

 

[Maf]

 

[Maf]

The thing that separates Kendrick is he isn’t just god tier rapper trying to do the hardest verse, he’s truly musical on top of that.

[Maf]

I’ve been on a Kendrick trip all week. I forgot about this 

 

 

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I understand I ain't perfect, I probably won't come around
This time, I might put you down
Last time, I ain't give a f-, I still feel the same now

Whoaaa what a teeth grindingly satisfying sound this song has 

[Maf]

Last Kendrick post of the week. But I’ve listened to this about 20 times today. I absolutely love this. Kendrick is straight genius and this song is so heavy and full of love at the same time. The more I listen to it the more it makes me well up

 

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Desensitized, I vandalized pain
Covered up and camouflaged
Get used to hearin' arsenal rain
Analyze, risk your life, take the charge
Homies done fucked your baby mama once you hit the yard, that's culture
Twenty-three hour lockdown, then somebody called
Said your lil' nephew was shot down, the culture's involved
I done seen niggas do seventeen, hit the halfway house
Get out and get his brains blown out, lookin' to buy some weed
Car wash is played out, new GoFundMe accounts'll proceed
A brand-new victim'll shatter those dreams, the culture
 

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Dehumanized, insensitive
Scrutinize the way we live for you and I
Enemies shook my hand, I can promise I'll meet you
In the land where no equal is your equal
Never say I ain't told ya, nah
In the land where hurt people hurt more people
Fuck callin' it culture

 

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Should I feel resentful I didn't see my full potential?
Should I feel regret about the good that I was into?
Everything is everything, this ain't coincidental
I woke up that mornin' with more heart to give you

I haven’t followed rap really for a long time but I’ve never heard anyone rap the way Kendrick does. Common kind of did but he couldn’t rap to this level and he never hit like Kendrick 

[DANGERMAN]

I've been listening to a lot of The Cure's new album. It's great, sad but great

 

I've been listening to a lot of Chat Pile's new album. It's great, horrible but great

 

I've also got Thank's new album, which is even more of an acquired taste than Chat Pile, but they're a great band if you like a bit of anarco punk

 

 

 

and the number goes up and the number goes up and the number goes up

[DisturbedSwan]

 

[mfnick]

Today was a good day.

[Maf]

18 hours ago, mfnick said:

 

 

 

Ho-ho-ho

 

The god-king of rap 

[mfnick]

What a fucking awesome track! 

[Maf]

I always try to qualify what I say by being honest I haven't paid attention to rap for a long time so there could be something I've missed buhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh he's so fucking good. He is once in a life time rapper 

 

(Some of those lyrics are wrong btw, but it's the only dirty version I could find)

 

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"I drew the line and decimals" I am wriggling in my chair the fucking meaning and delivery on that 

[Maf]

Listened to all of GNX and I like half of it. The back half I didn’t think was very good. And overall the album swings quite hard from club rap to pop songs and neither are what I really like about Kendrick. 
 

Seen people saying they think this is actually a mixtape and the “real” album is coming soon. But I think these people might be in denial that GNX is only decent and they’re trying to cope. 

[mfnick]

Surely it’s too early to tell? I don’t understand how people can say if an album is good or bad within a couple of days. I never fully like an album during the first few listens. It takes me a good few weeks of on & off listening to decide. Some of my favourite albums of all time I wasn’t keen on initially. Its usually the ones that grow on me I end up loving more than the ones I like a lot to start with.

 

Old man opinion but I don’t think people give albums the time they need to be appreciated anymore. Having access to so much has fucked our brains up. 

[shinymcshine]

18 minutes ago, mfnick said:

Old man opinion but I don’t think people give albums the time they need to be appreciated anymore. Having access to so much has fucked our brains up. 

 

Also, people seem more swayed as to whether the opinions of other like things (reviewers, influencers etc), rather than making their own judgement. 

 

It's like when you hear of some gamers not playing anything that scores less than 80% on Metacritic.