Along with savaging a bunch of people (“Lil Pump, Lil Xan, imitate Lil Wayne,”) he devotes a whole verse to professing himself mystified by recent rap trends, à la “Gucci Gang,” with their “subpar bars” and “choppy flow.”Įm makes the point again and again that he’ll never stint us of a good rhyme or a well-crafted run-on lyric. Throughout Kamikaze, Eminem takes aim at the stagnant feel of recent rap and its purveyors.įrom the very first track, “ The Ringer” - which opens with a brutal litany of rap disses before seamlessly shifting to the rapper’s well-established anti-Trump rage - we get Eminem at his self-aggrandizing, self-deprecating, dizzyingly self-assured best. Kamikaze takes aim at the unoriginality of recent rap - and it has plenty to say But on Kamikaze, Eminem is clearly back on his bullshit, and so much better for it. This might sound surprising after the negative reception to Revival, which drew the worst critical response of Eminem’s career despite sporting flashy collabs with the likes of Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran.
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