He took off, what like--5 years since his last album? A WHOLE SHIT load of things happened in his life during that time, he had some time to recover from Proofs death, he had some time off from the lime-light world and he had a lot of time to himself. I'm pretty sure he didn't decide to jump in the studio 3 days before each of the songs leaked and record them. He even called up Hot97 in NY a while before any of this and said that he was working on his album that it's gonna be ready to drop sometime in the future----future being less than a month from today.
So with all this time to come up with concepts for songs, not to mention with heavy weights working with him, this is the utter complete bullshit he puts out?
And we weren't supposed to expect dope songs from him cuz he had like half a decade to put out something good? GTFO here.
Exactly. He took five years off, five years. Everyone is expecting him to come back with that gritty grimey hardcore shit he was making back in SSLP and MMLP days and for people to expect that is total bullshit imo. The dude has been living the lifestyle of a multi-millionaire for probably close to ten years now. There's no way, i repeat, no way he's going to come back on the same shit he was onto during his early career. Don't think so? Look at yourself, how different are you from ten years ago? Someone asking you to go back to the you, you were ten years ago is just.. stupid.
You bring up a good point about Proof, but Proof died 2 or 3 years ago? Now i'm just talking outta my ass here, but I'm assuming Em dealt with that some other way than through his music otherwise we'd be listening to a song on the same caliber as Letter to Pun.
Now again I'm talking outta my ass here.. but I think Em is probably still pretty lost musically. Rap is all about coming up and the ghetto. You take someone out of that environment for long enough and they're going to lose the ability to make that kinda music. Its why people like Nas, Jay-z, 50, etc. all fall off eventually. See rap isn't like rock where you can diversify into all other kinds of insturments and music making. The majority of rap fans like a specific formula (if you can call it that) for a rap song and anything that differs from that formula is usually deemed "wack"
Now that being said, We Made you, do I like it? No, I can't stand it. But its typical Eminem. Then again I never liked The Real Slim Shady or My Name Is either. That doesn't make it bad either. You gotta remember, most of us were probably between the ages of 9-16 when Em was first blowing up which is probably why those songs appealed to us at the time. Now that were all grown up those songs sound stupid to us.