Review: EMINEM - “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)”

The intro would be enough for Eminen Renaissance to bring the entire rap and hip hop world into line.

Kendrick's album was good, but it didn't have any strong tracks
Wayne's album or Ye's album, I couldn't tell you which was more boring.
Joyner's album was banal, Shady's new shit is much worse
Everything is too bland or there is too much anger

Eminem, Slim Shady or Marshall Bruce Mathers, one and triune, has returned to dominate and does so in his unmistakable way.

First of all he gave simple instructions for listening to the album. In a post published yesterday he wrote:

“The Death of Slim Shady is a concept album, so if you listen to the tracks out of order, you might not understand the whole thing.”

And the album is really meant to be browsed through, almost like a book or better yet listened to like an audiobook or a TV series.
Will Em kill Slim for good?

There is everything and everyone on the side. Everyone involved in this story, all of rap culture, its characters, its world made of dissing on social media, feuds, envy, desire for revenge and ferocity.

Eminem tells all this and tells it with his sharp and ironic metaphors and with his dynamite bars made of a rap that is intact, tight, pure and titanic.

Even musically Eminem ranges and brings order to the scene. In the album there is old style, there is modernity, there is soul, there is pop, but above all there is a lot of rap!

Finally, many guests, not sensational names but many talents yet to be discovered: White Gold, Sly Pyper, JID, Dem Jointz & Sly Pyper, Ez Mil, Big Sean, Babytron and one woman Skylar Grey.

The album closes with the eloquent: Somebody Save Me

I had a second chance, I blew it
It's like I'm stuck in an alternate reality, but I know (what?) that
I'll turn it over and I'll be able to
accompany her and Lainie one day
at the altar, as proud as possible.
Right now, I'm just weak
As I fall deeper and deeper into this deep hole
And ever lower into the ground
As they lower me into my coffin, I feel the tears falling all over my cheek.

In the end I don't want to spoil how it ends, but once again the bar is raised! Who will skip? Eminem? Slim? Marshall?

MUST LISTEN NOW

Lucifer – Temporary – Tobey

MUST SKIPP NOW

Absolutely nothing is skipped!

SCORE : Vote 8.00

Renaissance – Score 8.00
Habits (feat. White Gold) – Rating 7.50
Trouble
Brand New Dance – Score 7.00
Evil – Score 7.50
All You Got (skit)
Lucifer (feat. Sly Pyper) Rating 8.00
Antichrist – Rating 7.50
Fuel (feat. JID) – Rating 7.50
Road Range (feat. Dem Jointz & Sly Pyper) – Rating 7.50
Houdini – Vote 8.00
Breaking News (skit)
Guilty Conscience 2 – Rating 8.00
Head Honcho (feat. Ez Mil) – Rating 7.50
Temporary (feat. Skylar Grey) – Rating 8.00
Bad One (feat. White Gold) – Rating 8.00
Tobey (feat. Big Sean and Babytron) – Rating 8.00
Guess Who's Back (skit)
Somebody Save Me (feat. Jelly Roll) – Rating 8.00

THE VOTES OF OTHERS

The Telegraph – Score 8.00
The Guardian – Score 6.00
Pitchfork – Score 4.80
Rolling Stone (USA) – Score 4.00

TRACKLIST

DISCOGRAPHY

1996 – Infinite
1999 – The Slim Shady LP
2000 – The Marshall Mathers LP
2002 – The Eminem Show
2004 – Encore
2009 – Relapse
2010 – Recovery
2013 – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
2017 – Revival
2018 – Kamikaze
2020 – Music to Be Murdered By
2024 – The Death of Slim Shady (Coupe de Grace)