As a person who despises Eminem's recent work, I'd found this album interesting. TDOSS critiqued the idea of "bringing back the old slim". You first see slim rap one-dimensionally about shallow topics like trans people and Gen Z to highlight the absurdity. At Guilty Conscience 2, the tone shifts where Eminem becomes more open about his regrets with Slim Shady. He shows audio clips of his supposed "prime" where he's drugged out of his mind and Hailie's begging him to wake up. Then calls out his own hypocrisy bullying random people and rapping about drugs despite being 16 years sober. I'm curious how Fantano will react to the rest of the album, it's NOT just about trying to get cancelled by Gen Z for saying transphobic and midget bars, it's about putting an END to that. Still a 7/10 lmao
exactly bro. I don't really like em's recent works too but this album is far from bad. The album as a whole is actually pretty creative but I guess when people who don't like him is just gonna not like him lol.
@@aleppo5398 Yeah, my main gripe with the album is how easy it is to take EVERYTHING out of context. Makes it really hard to appreciate it for most people
@@opera_him it's the way he went about it that's more nuanced. people think he was trying to cancel himself unironically but really he was portraying how 1-dimensional slim shady was, which is a pretty cool concept. the execution is still a 7/10 jid carried
What is the whole point of the album? Same bars he’s been giving for 12 years, same flows, same beats. Except now instead of the “you’ll never make it” allegations he’s trying to beat the “you’re corny” allegations
@@minecraft9037 From my interpretation this whole album was him acknowledging that the Shady character doesn't work today, and is pretty corny. Granted, he should have made that message a tad more obvious during the first half of the album, but it was pretty clear during Guilty Conscience 2.
@@Bakabakaonichan it does still work today the problem is that it attracts the type of audience he's against 😂 just look at tom macdonald. This album wasn't that deep or great lol but it's not terrible either
@@BakabakaonichanBut guilty conscious 2 was inside the dream as well so Shady isn't actually dead. And the second half of the album was corny too. We already have joints like Castle. We don't need the 500th song about family and his past drug abuse
@@Bakabakaonichan the concept is that shit is corny and wouldnt work today, FOR HALF OF THE FUCKING ALBUM LFMAODNJFAPÇIHDGPAHWEFOU ITS 10 fucking songs of garbage to prove a point, holy fuck. how can you not understand that this amazing concept hurts his album?
I agree with the satire not working if it’s attracting a certain crowd, but then again it did take 4 seasons for that same crowd to realise The Boys was mocking them
@@megamilkxl3414 I think a lot of people really don't listen to lyrics properly unfortunately, they take everything at face value which isn't entirely em's fault
It’s crazy how all the stuff Fantano is criticizing eminem for on this is quite literally what em says about “Slim shady” as a character too on Guilty Conscience 2. Fantano literally has the same view as eminem but he thinks em isn’t self-aware 💀
To be fair it does take him a while to reveal the whole satire bit and the fact that he’s actually trying to point out that slim shady wouldn’t work today.
I think the issue is if Eminem is self aware about the flaws of that personna, maybe don't dedicate an entire first half of an album to it? I've been a fan of Eminem for a long, long time. But this stuff is overrated, tired and juvenile. If he's trying to make a point that's fine. It's valid. Point recieved. But the art suffers because of it. In my opinion.
@@yazr1712 Idk i feel like he is satirizing it through over exaggeration to show that 1. It’s funny cuz it’s stupid and 2. He is making fun of how those people believe by pretending to still be slim shady. You know like the way The Boys portrays bigoted characters. Instead of sayin it’s bad, they just pretend to be those characters to make fun of people like that and also since it’s funny cuz it’s stupid. If you’ve noticed, all that Gen z, trans, cancelled, etc stuff COMPLETELY stops after Guily Conscience 2. It is definitely self aware. I think he put that 20yr old krisofer reeves song to show that it’s stupid that he actually made a song like that and to just laugh at it cuz of how dumb it is. I thinks it’s a very self aware album😭
@@yazr1712 its literally always the same exact thing with you guys when he is himself and just spitting bars hes washed and should revert to his older self and when he becomes his older self its corny and hes too old to be actin like this he just cant win
Which shows how much of a hater he truly is and is just looking for a reason. It's obvious to this point. Now Revival, I will never defend. Outside of a few standout tracks that album is terrible. Kamikaze I feel Fantano got triggered since that album was aimed at people like him. MTBMB he gave it a 6 I believe and this new album is better than MTBMB so if he gives it a worse rating, he's not being g honest and just showing he wants to hate Eminem. But his fan base in the chat is even worse. Fantano talks about how corny Eminem is but if Fantano actually thinks he's cool and edgy by hating on every artist, that's widely famous that he can and I can name a lot, he's the corniest and lamest mf on the internet and the most biased. It's not even a debate anymore. For the sports fans, he's the Colin Cowherd of critiquing music. Let's just put it that way.
But if Kendrick had said it, y’all woulda thought it was a quadruple entendre. Crazy how when em raps y’all wait for the one line you don’t like 😂 but if it’s your favorite rapper y’all let mad shit slide. Kendrick wrote a whole verse about a daughter that doesn’t exist and y’all acted like it was the best diss y’all ever heard 🤡
I groaned, I giggled, I golf-clapped. If nothing else this is worth a listen for the narrative/mystery experience of trying to figure out if Em has seriously not matured at all, self-aware, self-aware-but-still-cringe, so-meta-cringe-aware-its-actually-brilliant, or an even deeper reversal. As someone who's favorite album of all time is MMTBS it's also amazing to see another "demythologizing and deconstructing oneself" album taken in a COMPLETELY different direction.
SSLP, MMLP, The Eminem Show, Relapse, Recovery, MMLP2, Kamikaze, and MTBMB are all better than this album. It still has a lot of highs and his abilities are fully there, but some of the content is just so repetitive. He does very similar jokes about the same topics on and on. Which can be funny but it’s like I don’t feel any need to listen to certain songs again. Fuel, Temporary, and the Outro are very strong songs though.
@jobeiden4630 3 widely recognized masterpieces and the rest is all very divisive. Hardcore fans really love Relapse. More commercial/pop fans really love Recovery. Anything after is either bad or not really for everybody. Fantano seemed to like MMLP2 but it's kinda trash. So, yeah, kinda, but this was a huge improvement
@@bushisback112 it is quite literally just eminem being eminem. there's nothing different about it. you got the drug problem songs, the songs for his children, the features that outrap him, even some (a lot) of the shock humor of the past. it's literally nothing new
Fantano 2018: That’s what I’ve been asking, where is the old em, do you have his email or phone number? Fantano 2021: Discombobulated sounds great, why can’t he make more songs that sound like his older music Fantano 2024: Houdini is bad he’s trying to hard to be his older self and sound like his older music and it’s embarrassing Okay? What do you want exactly? (retirement is not relevant)
So did most people. Fantano already dislikes Eminem a lot, he made up his mind before listening. And his fans are just trying to appeal to him and are teenagers so they'll say whatever they think he wants to hear.
@@Jamb13 He will. This was just his first opinions of it live. I'm sure he'll listen to it a few more times and drop a real review in a week or so. Doesn't seem like he's gonna change his mind though, considering how he pretty much wanted to hate it before it started.
@@Jamb13it makes fun of his people the gays and trans liberals so obviously he’s going to ignore the flows and everything music related and focus on that because that how he is. He judges albums based on his political views.
It is interesting hearing Fantano talk about how he knows that “Em means it deep down” before getting to the latter parts of the album where that is really thrown into question. There’s a reason Em encouraged people to listen to the album in its entirety, there’s a narrative. Man I was so surprised when people started voicing discontent with Fantano a few years back. He was my favorite music reviewer. But as I’ve seen more of his live streams and less of his edited TH-cam content the criticism starts to make sense. The smugness is tough to stomach. He doesn’t just criticize, he mocks. And when it’s music you low key like it really does leave a bad taste. Sort of makes you feel stupid for liking it. Just really not what I’m looking for out of a music reviewer.
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe Bro what 😆, the storytelling was great and the concepts were great. If you go into the album looking for issues, then just don't listen to it at that point instead of trying to be a contrarian 🤣
Preach. Same as you, I got into him some years ago, but I don't like Fantano anymore. He really let success get to his head. Every month he gets more smug, more insufferable. It really takes the joy out of music and ultimately what music is for.
Why like Eminem when you have any rappers better than him. Also Eminem is the no 1 worst rapper of all time and all these Eminem stans are still listening to garbage like these and praising him like Kai Cenat when he was happy after when Tyla accepted his date in an alternative universe. They also can’t criticism when someone talks trash about him. The thing is, Eminem can’t rap good, every single or album he’s dropped are trash and yet they still listen to this garbage everyday. Eminem needs to retire immediately because this guy keeps on dropping corny, unfunny, unhinged, and repetitive bars and he refuses to evolve in every album which makes him the #1 worst rapper of all time
@@TwoWordsBrrttSkrrt yeah, sure, that’s why majority of mainstream rappers according to say he is a huge influence for them and one of the best, but u, the very well known two words brrtt skrrtt, u must have a better opinion that Kendrick Lamar, Juice Wrld, 50 cent, Lil Wayne, Drake, Jay Z, NF and all the others. But beside those ones, yeah ur right, this man’s music is surely garbage, fuck Kendrick, fuck 50, fuck Wayne, fuck JayZ, … ur right, after all, u r two words brrtt skrrtt, so ur opinion is so objectively the best
Em feels like gen z is canceling or dissing him but tbh it’s kinda cringe hearing compared to candace because that’s not true lol gen z just ignoring him and hip hop fans are divided where you have die hard fans and critics. And yeah em been dropping horrible albums, this one wasn’t that bad production, videos, and bringing slim characters is dope. 6/10
Was waiting to see if someone noticed that. Fantano is not reviewing music here, he is reviewing if the content aligns with his own political views, and if it does, he likes it, if it doesnt, he thinks its lame
That makes me think that he really didn’t work on this album for very long or maybe swapped out a lot of songs. That whole Eminem being cancelled by Gen Z thing happened fairly recently online, and he references several other things that happened very recently (like the Diddy and Cassie situation).
@@_.-_Crimpy-_..-. the gen z cancelling has been going on for a while, at least a full year at this point, and id assume most major rappers knew about diddy, but also eminem just never liked diddy
The music is just bad he’s justified, some of this album is really good. But for the most part it’s “gen z rage bait” and cringe. It would be better if he presented concepts in a smarter way, but it’s just bluntly cringe at a lot of parts. I did like the ending portion of the album tho it was good.
Guilty Conscience 2 does in 6 minutes what it took Fantano this whole video to do. It's like watching someone play Spec Ops: The Line and pausing the game every few minutes to be like "That was a bad thing the game made me do. I can't believe they made me do that."
I almost feel like stopping the reaction before that specific song is him trolling. Granted, he called the theme of that song around the middle of the video, so I don’t think that changes much
I get where Em was trying to go with it, but it could have been executed better. Most of the tracks being just slim going off, and then 1 song thats like “that’s not really me tho” isn’t the formula he was thinking it was
who cares this guys taste in good hip hop music just isnt there lol ppl need to stop checking for this bozos opinion let his reviews die already sheesh
i love how you make a sarcastic face anytime em starts going double-time with the syllables. It's a poetic microcosm of your overall character. You have no talent, other than gathering an audience of fellow talentless, vapid, empty geeks to hate on someone making art because of your preconceptions. Your default mode is to tear down. How predictable also that as soon as he mentions something bad about Candace Owens - you're suddenly searching for ways to subtly glaze him. Absolute NPC.
@@xavierkellam3514 Beats: nearly the entire album (one of the best being lucifer) rhymes/bars: the line mentioning diddy, candace o diss, the amber heard line, the flow near the end of habits, the entire em verse on fuel There's more but maybe you could actually listen to the album with your ears before asking for the stuff YOU missed. It's not my fault you have bad media literacy.
@@C0astinG4mer the best song on there is renaissance and for the most part it goes down hill from there. The whole album is “look how edgy I used to be wasn’t it cringe”. And it doesn’t hit because half his fan base thinks that’s good. The satire is done poorly. He’s so out of touch that he can’t do homophobia, transphobia, or fatphobia anymore I’ve never been a fan of Eminem’s hooks I don’t think that’s ever been his strong suit. Eminem used to right songs about killing his wife and having his daughter as an accomplice. Idk why he thought people would be mad at lame transphobic bars. It’s honestly just a lazy album. The idea of the album isn’t great but only some of the songs are hit like renaissance, fuel, brand new dance, Tobey(mostly cuz big Sean and babytron carry the song) . I’d probably give it a 4/10
@@xavierkellam3514 Do his "fans" not realize that slim shady is the character he's killing with this album. Anyways, what a fanbase likes shouldn't be a deciding factor on whether an album is good or not. Every opinion on this album is going to be highly opinionated. So, in my opinion, I enjoy the way incorporates both slim and eminem relatively smoothly. Looking at each song at face value, good rhymes, and the jokes are ok but it's literally impossible for him to joke like he did 20+ years ago so I'd give that a pass. The only thing I had an issue with was slim constantly bringing up Caitlyn Jenner. I feel like there were a lot of clever bars that just get glossed over because "the annoying character that dies in this album is being portrayed as an annoying prick." Who would've thought. Personally, I'd rate this album an 8-9. You all like to praise JID on fuel and babytron/ big sean on tobey and then completely ignore eminems verses. It feels like lots of people had their mind made up on this album before even listening to it. Just my opinion, music is subjective as hell.
I’m gonna save you guys 17 minutes and 56 seconds. Fantano and his chat essentially love when Eminem attacks people they don’t like, but complain and say it’s trash when he goes after people they like or goes against their political views. Same old stuff, different video. Worth a skip.
Gonna save you guys some brain cells too. They didn't like the same lazy corny joke 600 times but laughed at new material about relevant people to today like Candace Owens. Maybe one day Caitlyn Jenner jokes will come back in fashion. It's been like 10+ years since she mattered at all but surely, ONE DAY it'll be funny again.
I want you to change, but don't change.I want you to grow up, but don't age .I want the rage, but don't get too angry.I want the new, but old Shady😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Yo-Ah-Kim nah it wouldn’t. I’m going off of all the other times not just this time. The chat is unbearable. I don’t really care what you think about Stans tbh cos I’m not one, just a normal fan.
I’d give this album a strong 5 - light 6. Better than his past three albums, but it at many times sounds like a 50 year old coming to terms with how to stay relevant while saying edgy things. Literally feels like a “mid-life crisis” album. Also sounds like an old man complaining about gen z and cancelation so much, yet I don’t know of any trying to cancel him. Maybe I’m wrong, idk. The hits off this album are bangers, tho.
Felt he came in to the album thinking he knew what it was about and couldn’t understand what it really was about… the stream was just basically “two homosexual virgins incorrectly criticize a man they are jealous of”
@Clashedroyaled yea like, for a critic, he certainly went into the album wanting to hate it and as a result... he hates it... shocking, right? It's fine though, those who listened to the album through and paid attention love the album, myself included. It's up there as one of my favourite Em albums, and I think that's an opinion a whole lot of people share.
This album is satire, but not towards the new generations; rather, it is directed at his most die-hard fans who constantly ask for the return of Slim. You want Slim? This is the crap there is. (This is how I imagine Eminem in his studio.) Epic moment, when Eminem acknowledges that he doesn't know to what extent Slim was a character or an excuse.
The problem is fans and unfortunately Eminem have reduced slim to just being this offensive guy... When that's not necessarily the case. Slim was raw and said out of pocket creative lyrics that were witty and sometimes offensive he didn't just spew offensive things just for the sake of being offensive... What we really missed about slim shady was the lyricism saying things like "I'll snatch you out your mother's frame I'll take it further than that at lover's Lane and cock block your father's game" "wearing disguises sunglasses and visors because my split personality is having an identity crisis" "whose arm is this I must have cut it off of the pharmacist who refused to renew my 7th prescription of darvocets, I'm the old man who lives upstairs and starves his pets and never leaves his house cuz he thinks his car is possessed"
no. You all are latching on to a nostalgic fantasy. SLIM shady is a pathetic A-Hole He represents everything Em hates about himself the most. That's what Em is trying to get across. This album shows you Slim shady for Eminems/ Marshall Mathers ' perspective.
@@Xvgg-g2y exactly I can play a drinking game to how many times he rhymed with scissors on this album, mentioned Bruce Jenner, said the r word, Christopher Reeves, and midgets... And I would be hammered by the third song... It's not that I have a problem with him mentioning those things, in and of itself, it's just how many times are you going to say it, before you start to feel like it gets a little old yourself? I wanted the slim that said "never ran with a clique I'm a posse, Kamikaze, strapping a motherf***ing bomb across me, from the second I was born my mama lost me, I'm a cross between Manson, Esham, and Ozzy, I don't know why the f**k I'm here in the first place, the worst day on this Earth was my first birthday, (r word), what did that nurse say?, brain damage?, f**k I was born during an earthquake" "How you gonna scare somebody with a gun threat, when they're high off of drugs they haven't even done yet?"
Fantanos reaction to Eminem is almost as played out as the slim shady persona. Unprofessional really. Would rather an actual review than you just trolling for the sake of it. This album has lowlights and highlights and is one of his better efforts and honestly, fantano is stuck in an Eminem echo chamber
Fantano really should take a break from twitter for a while I feel like certain fanbases really get to him like Eminem’s, Kanye’s, etc and it effects his mindset towards an album.
He doesn't give a damn about any fan base, he's as objective as he ever was, it just can never appear that way to glazers who would rather he praise everything their favorite artist does.
@@jovanreid6782 dude he could give it a not good for all I care lol I’m just saying once he starts bringing in a certain artists fan base into his album reaction you already know it’s probably not gonna be a truly impartial review
Fantano really is mad triggered, and he puts it on full display. Em: Disses LGBTQ Fantano: It’s the worst album ever dumb dumb concept Em: Disses Candace Owens Fantano: oh, this concept is actually fire Em: Continues to diss LGBTQ Fantano: 😭 Em: drops the hardest bar accusing Diddy of taking out Big and PAC Fantano: Complete Silence
Like what you like, that’s fine. I just don’t like the hipster vibe he gives when he finds reasons to criticize Eminem. He could be criticizing a popular beer or a mainstream band, it’s all the same pretentious vibe.
Might be the worst critique I've ever seen in my life. Bro didn't even bother thinking about the songs/albums at all, he went into it wanting to despise every song on the album
Fontana is a hater. That’s why I don’t watch his videos anymore because he always talks shit and it’s not just about Eminem it’s a lot of artists all the time
Your critique is absolutely meaningless when it is very clear you made up your mind before listening to anything. We get it, you don’t like Eminem. Don’t patronize us by pretending you are going to give a genuine, unbiased review to anything he puts out.
I can finally see why Vince Staples doesn't like Fantano and what he has to bring to the culture and reviewing rap albums... rage quitting like that is crazy work
The fuck are you talking about rage quitting? Lol Vince rage quit something? Because I didn't see any rage quitting in this clip. I did see bemused dismissal at the end but it's a stream so like...duh entertainment.
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe"100+ comments on this channel" Please, I'm begging you, get a job. Stop bouncing and doing tricks on it for a bald middle aged man
he stopped listening at houdini because guilty conscience 2 is legitimately good. so are temporary and somebody save me and he didn't want to film his reaction to the objectively good songs. fantano is a clown
@@lateksipumppu Sure. • "I'm mildly familiar with Picasso's work... like... his clay and uhhhhHHH" but completely missed the "blue in the face" bar being a reference to Picasso's Blue Period. • He didn't understand the point of Habits at all, the entire chorus is tying the persona into being a product of his past addictions because it comes up later in the album and is relevant to the broader concept, and ties heavily into the climax (Guilty Conscience 2) and the ending track (Somebody Save Me), which he never got to. There's also the very dumb conversation about how "South Park understands it's satire but does Eminem understand when he's doing satire" not even that long after crying about how he knows it's "exaggerated" as "like, satire." • He also misses that the point isn't that Marshall feels like he was being "stopped from saying what he wants to say," the broader concept of the album isn't "Shady edgy haha sure wish I could do that again," it's that so many fans clamor for "the old Eminem" without realizing it would've led to his literal death because that entire persona was a product of his addictions, which he is both self-aware of and admits using as a mask for his own insecurities (again, as shown in later tracks and the final track on the album that needledick couldn't be bothered to get to). • He misses the entire reveal about "Brand New Dance" that comes later, in GC2. • He keeps asking "how is anyone missing the concept of the album" as he's continually missing the concept of the album. The concept isn't "haha, I can be naughty again, my album concept is to like, be bad" like he keeps saying it is -- if he'd actually made it through the narrative portions of it, he'd understand it's a meta-commentary on why that DOESN'T work anymore and how/why he's grown out of it, tied into an allegory for his past drug use. • "As we go deeper into the album I think he's finding more balance between, I'm the edgelord character, and I'm making some salient points" -- he doesn't even pick up on the "balance" coming from the things "Slim" is doing to "Marshall" through each track and the skits, giving him drugs, making him drink, etc., or the clear audio differences between which "character" is which during which tracks and verses, despite the intentionally obvious audio processing on the "Slim" parts. • "Here's the concept of this album okay: 8th grade sleepover, parents are asleep, we can say all the bad words now" -- this is such a moronic understanding of what the album is intended to be that the fact he still thinks this 7 tracks in shows he's blatantly just not paying attention at all because he came into it with this preconception and never moved past it. • "I'm just gonna talk about the one trans person in existence" -- he's now 8 tracks in and doesn't get that the constant Caitlin Jenner references are because "Slim" literally only knows that one reference related to trans issues because of "his time," whereas Marshall literally has an adopted non-binary child. Go watch VibeVilla or Jon Denton or someone else if you need to experience it as "reaction content," they actually understand both the background and the references enough to understand the concept.
Not even a fan of the album or an Eminem stan myself, this guy clearly gets off just laughing at Eminem at this point, how he accuses Eminem and his stans ever of being insufferable or un-self aware while he derides artists as someone who does nothing but hack reviews of pop albums on youtube with his own cult of stans is crazy. Literally makes up his mind not halfway through the thing doesn’t even bother to hear the song meant to deal with his “criticisms.” Some “critic.”
@@relahtnelnarF No it would have given him the perspective he needed before saying something like its “like scrolling through right wing twitter.” He clearly is not interested in that though, he likes what he thinks I’m talking about him smugly mocking every other bar and pretty much Eminem’s entire existence like he’s sombody, I’m glad he liked two songs though
@@villain7140 what perspective would it have given? They are mostly cringe bars, what is he supposed to do? He is listening to bad music, at least he tries to have some fun
@@relahtnelnarF I explained what perspective If mocking the person who made the bad music with a smug face is your idea of fun that’s the problem I’m talking about. “The song is such a nightmare” “this bar is so cringe” Just say you don’t like it and move on
@@villain7140 no you didn't. You said he would have given him the perspective he needed before saying that, but I still don't understand what more did he need
After listening from start to finish it's clear to me that Eminem is doing something very specific here. The first major point is he is bringing back Slim Shady in a way a lot of his loudest fans are always saying they want but it's clear exactly why Slim doesn't work anymore as he's making some of the craziest songs he has in years (Brand New Dance for example where Slim makes a "club song" about a dance mocking paraplegics, and then again later after Slim forces them to dye their hair for Houdini) Marshal repeatedly calls him juvenile and that he can't say that shit anymore etc. The second major point being that Marshall is trying to plead with him throughout the album to stop, to let him go, until the crescendo in Guilty Conscience 2, Slim is making points that Marshall used him to be something he couldn't be himself and that his success is due to Slim, Marshall concedes that he absolutely did those things and Slim is right that he used him but also points out how hypocritical Slim is because he bullies people in music but hated when he was bullied as a kid, this all comes to head when Marshall finally challenges Slim and kills him himself to the pleading sounds of Slim promising to change. In Bad One after he killed Slim he's literally telling us that everyone says "bring back Slim" until they get him, then they complain. A third bonus point and overarching theme from start to finish is that Slim Shady came from a dark place of heavy drug abuse (throughout the album Slim is constantly trying to force Marshall to take drugs and drink), the final song (not the bonus tracks) make it 100% clear that drugs fucked up a lot of his life that he regrets. That last song "Somebody Save Me" with Jelly Roll is heartbreaking. It's like he is fully closing the chapter on Slim and shows why he had to do it. Including clips from recordings of his own real life self being too high/hung over to have a meal with his daughter? His daughter begging him to get up and come eat with them as he lays there mumbling his words promising to come out while also asking her to shut the door. Holy shit, that's a very intimate and dark moment that he didn't have to show us. He didn't owe anyone that but it's a very clear remark on the state of himself during his "Shady" years. Imo it's like he's putting it right in our face like, "see mother fuckers, this is who I was then and I hate it." Then he makes us sit there and listen to him beg forgiveness to all of the people in his family he hurt because of drugs. He clearly is coming to terms, beyond just how juvenile it all was as shady, he can't be that person because of how it ruined his relationships, how it impacted his kids. This album works from start to finish as a whole piece. I actually love this as an arc, a full story. To me it actually feels like the death of Slim Shady. Unfortunately though I think the short attention spans of most now they won't sit through it that way and will take bits out of context and complain about it. I already see that in comment sections. Hell I saw a few tweets about his line about Kendrick's album that was meant as a criticism of critics and not actually Kendrick
@JustFollowingOrders12 You choose the comment that goes through a lot of the damn meaning of the album and say yeah but he should have killed slim off sooner......🤦🏼♀️
I think your almost right but I would like to offer that Slim didn't originally come from Marshall being a drug addict. Marshall needed Slim to protect him from his mother, neighborhood, performing fears, his poverty stricken life, and choose the most outrageous bombastic over exaggerated character he could come up with. That way no one would hunt around trying to find Marshall they would either be too busy hating Slim or loving him. Besides Em has been very open about his drug use and the real problems started after the fame and Slim came before. I immediately connected with Slim/Em/Marshall since that long ago day when I got home from school and a new video on TRL changed/saved my life. I also think another allegory that could be drawn is Em showing his fans the old Slim they have been asking for just so they can hopefully realize.....Oh, wanting that was nostalgia I've grown up and the old stuff is great if you have the context of the WHEN. without that context I would HATE anyone and anything that sounded like most of what SSLP, MMLP, TES, Encore sound like. It drives me insane all these idiots who still try the narrative that Em is a giant homophobic prick.....like dumb asses Elton John has been his really good friend for DECADES and the man's 3rd child is NON BINARY BISEXUAL who uses ALL THE PRONOUNS NAMED STEVIE.....
@@JustFollowingOrders12 not really. The op has a lot of it right except Slim shady wasn't invented while strung out on drugs. Em came up with him as a way to not only gain the confidence he needed to perform and be outrageous he uses slim to protect Marshall. Marshall is strong enough, has grown enough, has HEALED enough that he no longer needs to b protected by someone so extreme and over the top. The drugs were most likely genetics cuz that's how addiction usually works and past trauma. I think Slim kept pushing the drugs because he knew Marshall didn't need him and was scared turning Slim into scared person !Marshall used to be. Slim didn't want to not be needed anymore because to Slim if he wasn't needed then all those fuckers who bullied him, at school, or his mom would b proven right. It's a fuckimg cyclical cycle of a circle and that's why the album can be played 1st to last or last to 1st to tell the story both way.
Highly disagree with Fantano's take on Eminem being an old man wanting to say bad words just to be cool. That's the whole point. He doesn't have to. He never did. He's highly aware of that. That's why the whole album in my opinion is about how alter egos are stupid and not being afraid to be more honest with yourself instead of catering to others all the time. You might not have that problem but when it comes to our generation we sadly do. Always worrying about not being condemned when trying to please others. To be more accepted and understood. Finding many ways for self-expression without it being offending to everyone else all the time. By the end, Eminem accepts his true self without the Slim Shady persona anymore to finally move on as his normal self and peacefully live his life without anyone's permission. Slim Shady was a test for everyone to see if his harsh words could get to anyone. But the point is, it shouldn't. Only you can make those words to have that much power over you. That's my interpretation anyway. Also, corny? You should really listen back to all the rhyme schemes and technical structures of his songs again. A lot of hidden meanings are easy to miss. Overall, a great nostalgic and most mature work he's done by far in my opinion. A great swan song to a long-respected career. I truly loved it. Thanks! 😊
I get it but still think there's no reason for there to be so many slim songs before GC2. So drawn out and the lyrics are so bad, I get he's intentionally being vulger, why would I listen to any of the first half again?
@@LordPerrin Thats the concept i guess? You rarely find long albums where all songs are top, take any Kendrick album, half songs there clearly didnt make success as the other half, but they dont have to. These songs are there to glue the album as a whole experience
@@LordPerrinif this is the send off to the Slim Shady character then there definitely should have been a couple Slim Shady songs. If you dint like the first half that’s perfectly fine but I enjoyed it, i see reasons to go back and listen it again.
Kendrick could literally just fart into the mic, and Fantano would tell us that we don't understand the meaning of the fart. I feel like Melon is just too biased, too be a critic
melonman criticizes an old man for cursing and acting edgy all while laughing and saying "he's so lame, look at him!" at every song like a movie cheerleader squad bully. True renaissance
@PokeIsland LOL and Eminem was as offensive as he was in the mmlp. But Anthony hated. Notice how he only gave Eminem props for dissing Candace Owen 😂 suddenly he liked it because it was something he wasn't offended by
wow, this is sad. I normally only watch your normal reviews. You seem to be somewhat in your right mind there. Now I came across this by chance, but that's quite a letdown. A grown man wearing sunglasses indoors and laughing manically at his own bad jokes in front of a group of mega-sad people in the chat. I wish I hadn't clicked this.
"Wap wap wap wap, I'mma fuc him up Wap wap wap wap, I'mma do my stuff." - Kendrick I don't love the album but literally no lyric on it is as completely basic as the one listed above. It's honestly like a line I could have come up with in a freestyle back when I was 7. And yet, Fantano loved that line.
it's hilarious that fantano will unironically say he likes songs more because Eminem says political points he agrees with. This isn't music review, it's political signalling
I think Em spends far too much time on the first half of the album vilifying the Slim Shady persona. I really don’t see any of these songs sliding into a playlist, maybe one of the last 3, the songs where he talks to his daughters always hit on a deep emotional level. But if you make a song intentionally corny it’s gonna be corny. I get the message but sonically and really functionally it just spends too much time in a place where I don’t enjoy what Eminem has to offer.
Im an em fan and in contrast to Fantano I really liked Kamikaze and MTBMB but this album is really not good. The concept is poorly executed, the same gen z and cancel bars over and over again with no creativity. The beats arent bad but nothing outstanding or great besides maybe Fuel. Temporary is a cringe Skylar Grey song feat. Eminem. Somebody Save me is sonicaly und lyricaly poor in comparision to something like Castle and Arose. Stop d riding, this album is objectively NOT GOOD. The only solid songs are the intro and Fuel. The rest is either boring or just very cringe and uninspiring
@@marvinschannel5391 I respect your opinion I had really high expectations of it and listened multiple times but it just dont hit for me. Kamikaze was way better imo and the slim shady rage more authentic
@@FingiFing melon criticise kamikaze for being too angry and bitter (which I disagree on anyway) I love both albums for different reasons but if you don’t enjoy it as much that’s fine but I’m gonna carry on loving it!😁 maybe the new Eminem album will grow a new as time goes on you never know?
Funny how long you went off about the concept but CLEARLY didn’t actually grasp it. It’s cringy asf watching you laugh so hard so confidently, but still not understanding it 😂😂
Nah the bias stuff has to stop. Understand the concept and listen. Dam you know a million people want to hear your opinion so you owe it to them to do some sort of homework instead of just acting like you're just hearing dump juice 😂
@@kena6812 and you deleted your comment so i dont get your point, but continue to bring up race in a negative manner like you did last time, because it totally makes sense, grw up
Eminem first half of the album was 2015 Ben Shapiro but midly creative... 2nd half was still better. I mean it's not shock rap it's boring... Slim Shady was a beast in 2000s "Bitch I ain't gon shoot you, Imma take this bullet and put it through you" That guy I'm terrified of. This 2024 slim shady, shocking? Barely it's at best him seeing it on twitter... I've disagreed with you on quite a few Eminem takes fantano but yea this one you're absolutely right.
Old story and old flow or not, this album SOUNDS ass. Every beat being minecraft note blocks or Luigi’s mansion n shit. Not a single skip across the first three records after infinite and EP. And Eminem show a lil less here, but those are some story telling ass concept ass albums like the new one. But every song SOUNDS fucking awesome. Great instrumentals, great cadence and flow, And that mf is actually passionate and has substance in what he’s saying. Not much discredit on that last part there, because I’d imagine he doesn’t have much to talk about anymore. But like cmon, here’s we’re talking about rn. Ion think there’s one song in the first half that doesn’t mention Christopher fucking Reeves 20 years after his death, or Caitlynn Jenner. And then HE makes it out to be annoying and calls himself on guilty conscience 2. Like he’s being annoying on purpose to show people that they should stop asking for the old him or something?? (Btw the fact that there’s a guilty conscience 2 at all tells me he’s reaching for the fuckin stars for some sort of good rap rep this year). And bro really went with the narrative that gen z tryna cancel him?? Sit your old ass down, we would LOVE you if you still went hard, you know that. And we all know you’re just stirring the right wing crowd.( I’m Republican, friendly fire) The phrase “they’re tryna cancel Eminem” is actually so crazy. We don’t wanna cancel you, we wanna throw tomatoes at your fuckin pedestal because you’re lame now. And then his flow, his fucking flow. The fact that he brings back the shady and b rabbit flows for slims parts only, but keeps his chicken head rhythmless flow for himself? Like wtf, would the old flow sound bad with his current voice or something?? Or does he just like falling in and out of cadence cuz putting words together is a fun little game to him now. (Why are we even bringing shady back from the dead with AI in the first place)?? Like fuck, idek man. Love letter to the fans or not, this was a lazily executed shit show. Only two good tracks on here are Lucifer, and fuel. And I get sad listening to fuel because JID destroys him with flow and cadence. JID didn’t even have to say anything clever or memorable like in Ems verse. Cuz in Ems verse, he was falling in and out of rhythm with the chicken head flow. Just puts the nail in the coffin that em either just isn’t trying like I think. Or worse, he’s lost his feel for music completely. Edit: I didn’t like the beginning of this stream either, y’all. Like bro did not go into this with an open mind. Yeah I just shit on the album entirely, but I really gave it a fucking chance🥺 lol. But rly I haven’t seen Anthony happy in general in years
When you take it seriously, they're stupid manchild opinions. Then you realize it's tongue in cheek, so they're just lame unfunny jokes. But if you're not fluent in english you can enjoy the fact that for the first time in like 15 years he's doing a whole album with a non-annoying flow, accent or overdubs. Also, the beats are boom-bappy and if not very distinctive at least they're not cacophonic. So, from a *musical* standpoint it's interesting.
Agreed the album is terrible. The arteries line hit me as so fucking corny when I heard it, glad I'm not the only one. This album just really cements how irrelevant Em is in the current music scene. That's not really a bad thing, he had his time and has made staple music. This ain't it though. I hope to forget about this album entirely except for maybe Fuel. Brother really thinks he's going to get cancelled by Gen Z for hate-rapping about fat people. Lol. Okay buddy pal, nobody cares.
You know TH-cam is an interesting platform when words like "death" are censored
yep took me another HOUR to reupload this vid cause that word kept getting it demonetized looool
- editor
@@fantanostreams*There's always the court route , cos the shi_ that YT recently pulls off is unlawful*
@@fantanostreams thank you for rating ian a low ratining
@@fantanostreamsstruggles
@@domasavpedzivinshit
I know he’s gonna hate it before I listen
@hwan88 so true. At this point, it's like, why even bother listening to his music now? Guess he gotta get those eminem clicks.
@@thejtrax You know he liked Tobey right. Idk why em fans wanna pretend fantano never has anything positive to say about him
@@JioSleepYT gotta get those eminem clicks
@@thejtraxso if he likes it it’s fake, but if he hates it, it’s also a fake take? You literally can’t imagine someone else having a different opinion
eminem fans being triggered by a review is hilariously ironic
If this album was called "To Pimp The Death Of Slim Shady" you would've gave it a 10
To pimp a dead shady
If you had jokes that were actually original you wouldn’t need to seek digital hugs in a TH-cam comment section
@@thadon9130bruh 💀
No maybe it be better if it was Meet The Marshalls
hilarious and original
As a person who despises Eminem's recent work, I'd found this album interesting. TDOSS critiqued the idea of "bringing back the old slim". You first see slim rap one-dimensionally about shallow topics like trans people and Gen Z to highlight the absurdity. At Guilty Conscience 2, the tone shifts where Eminem becomes more open about his regrets with Slim Shady. He shows audio clips of his supposed "prime" where he's drugged out of his mind and Hailie's begging him to wake up. Then calls out his own hypocrisy bullying random people and rapping about drugs despite being 16 years sober. I'm curious how Fantano will react to the rest of the album, it's NOT just about trying to get cancelled by Gen Z for saying transphobic and midget bars, it's about putting an END to that. Still a 7/10 lmao
exactly bro. I don't really like em's recent works too but this album is far from bad. The album as a whole is actually pretty creative but I guess when people who don't like him is just gonna not like him lol.
@@aleppo5398 Yeah, my main gripe with the album is how easy it is to take EVERYTHING out of context. Makes it really hard to appreciate it for most people
holy shit an actual good take
The Death of Slim Shady is about The Death of Slim Shady??
@@opera_him it's the way he went about it that's more nuanced. people think he was trying to cancel himself unironically but really he was portraying how 1-dimensional slim shady was, which is a pretty cool concept. the execution is still a 7/10 jid carried
Fantano missing the whole point of the album and clearly going in with a negative mindset is as surprising as the sun coming up this morning.
What is the whole point of the album? Same bars he’s been giving for 12 years, same flows, same beats. Except now instead of the “you’ll never make it” allegations he’s trying to beat the “you’re corny” allegations
@@minecraft9037 From my interpretation this whole album was him acknowledging that the Shady character doesn't work today, and is pretty corny. Granted, he should have made that message a tad more obvious during the first half of the album, but it was pretty clear during Guilty Conscience 2.
@@Bakabakaonichan it does still work today the problem is that it attracts the type of audience he's against 😂 just look at tom macdonald. This album wasn't that deep or great lol but it's not terrible either
@@BakabakaonichanBut guilty conscious 2 was inside the dream as well so Shady isn't actually dead. And the second half of the album was corny too. We already have joints like Castle. We don't need the 500th song about family and his past drug abuse
@@Bakabakaonichan the concept is that shit is corny and wouldnt work today, FOR HALF OF THE FUCKING ALBUM LFMAODNJFAPÇIHDGPAHWEFOU ITS 10 fucking songs of garbage to prove a point, holy fuck. how can you not understand that this amazing concept hurts his album?
I agree with the satire not working if it’s attracting a certain crowd, but then again it did take 4 seasons for that same crowd to realise The Boys was mocking them
The point of the satire is most people can enjoy it
I mean Eminem also shit on MAGA and Candace Owens. It's well known he doesn't like conservatives
@@epenieslmao nah the right wingers in this country are way too sensitive and radicalized to take a joke aimed at them lol
@@epeniesno, the point of the satire is to make fun of people. Which em fails at
@@megamilkxl3414 I think a lot of people really don't listen to lyrics properly unfortunately, they take everything at face value which isn't entirely em's fault
It’s crazy how all the stuff Fantano is criticizing eminem for on this is quite literally what em says about “Slim shady” as a character too on Guilty Conscience 2. Fantano literally has the same view as eminem but he thinks em isn’t self-aware 💀
To be fair it does take him a while to reveal the whole satire bit and the fact that he’s actually trying to point out that slim shady wouldn’t work today.
I think the issue is if Eminem is self aware about the flaws of that personna, maybe don't dedicate an entire first half of an album to it?
I've been a fan of Eminem for a long, long time. But this stuff is overrated, tired and juvenile. If he's trying to make a point that's fine. It's valid. Point recieved. But the art suffers because of it. In my opinion.
@@yazr1712 Idk i feel like he is satirizing it through over exaggeration to show that 1. It’s funny cuz it’s stupid and 2. He is making fun of how those people believe by pretending to still be slim shady. You know like the way The Boys portrays bigoted characters. Instead of sayin it’s bad, they just pretend to be those characters to make fun of people like that and also since it’s funny cuz it’s stupid. If you’ve noticed, all that Gen z, trans, cancelled, etc stuff COMPLETELY stops after Guily Conscience 2. It is definitely self aware. I think he put that 20yr old krisofer reeves song to show that it’s stupid that he actually made a song like that and to just laugh at it cuz of how dumb it is. I thinks it’s a very self aware album😭
i think you mis understood this whole reaction video bro. its conceptual too
@@yazr1712 its literally always the same exact thing with you guys when he is himself and just spitting bars hes washed and should revert to his older self and when he becomes his older self its corny and hes too old to be actin like this he just cant win
WE MIGHT GETTING A NOT GOOD WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️❗❗❗💥💥💥
I really hope he gives it a 0, it would make for a very entertaining video
Which shows how much of a hater he truly is and is just looking for a reason. It's obvious to this point. Now Revival, I will never defend. Outside of a few standout tracks that album is terrible. Kamikaze I feel Fantano got triggered since that album was aimed at people like him. MTBMB he gave it a 6 I believe and this new album is better than MTBMB so if he gives it a worse rating, he's not being g honest and just showing he wants to hate Eminem. But his fan base in the chat is even worse. Fantano talks about how corny Eminem is but if Fantano actually thinks he's cool and edgy by hating on every artist, that's widely famous that he can and I can name a lot, he's the corniest and lamest mf on the internet and the most biased. It's not even a debate anymore. For the sports fans, he's the Colin Cowherd of critiquing music. Let's just put it that way.
Imagine if he pisses off the Ye fans, Cole fans, BBL Drizzy, and Eminem fans all in 2024.
@@benjaminmartinez1638shut up with the word hater seriously you're annoying
@benjaminmartinez1638 please go outside and touch some grass.
If this album was by Sexy Redd he’d give it an 8.
He’s not hip hop. Pretty obvious he got paid for that review
Universal be giving them checks out
Yeah because then it would be actually good
@@17hathawayn My guy, is it THAT unbelievable that maybe, just maybe... Fantano just liked the Sexyy Redd album.
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe yeah because she'd be doing much worse
How can fantano want old em and not like brand new dance like?
He is a walking, talking hypocrite thats why
the chorus sucks imo
brand new dance was left off encore, thats why he doesn't like it. It sounds like an encore track which wasn't a good album
He’s a cornball that’s why
it was Encore era (the drugged out wacky part of Encore specifically)
8:34
*"Luigi's Mansion ass type beat"*
im dead
That song was like something that was dropped from Encore.
Em needs some better beats. That's the PERFECT comparison of the types of beats he uses
Isn't this basically Oil Ocean Zone from Sonic 2?
Turns out it actually was recorded in 2004?!
Brand new dance is 🔥 this man made a whole dance song dedicated to Christopher reeves being paralyzed 🤣 🤣 🤣 ♿️ ♿️ ♿️
“Look Who’s Talking dog, Like Brian from Family Guy” Eminem 2024
But if Kendrick had said it, y’all woulda thought it was a quadruple entendre. Crazy how when em raps y’all wait for the one line you don’t like 😂 but if it’s your favorite rapper y’all let mad shit slide. Kendrick wrote a whole verse about a daughter that doesn’t exist and y’all acted like it was the best diss y’all ever heard 🤡
@@Oddplanet99zip it up when you’re done bro
@@Oddplanet99 Kendrick would never say this bar bro he’s not smart enough to think of it.
@@Oddplanet99actually true tho
@@rogerr472 Really?lool
As someone who disliked ems last three albums, this one was genuinely good. Its not top 3 but i reckon its easily his 4th best album.
eminem has a very trash discography if this is his 4th best
@@jobeiden4630 yes.
I groaned, I giggled, I golf-clapped. If nothing else this is worth a listen for the narrative/mystery experience of trying to figure out if Em has seriously not matured at all, self-aware, self-aware-but-still-cringe, so-meta-cringe-aware-its-actually-brilliant, or an even deeper reversal.
As someone who's favorite album of all time is MMTBS it's also amazing to see another "demythologizing and deconstructing oneself" album taken in a COMPLETELY different direction.
SSLP, MMLP, The Eminem Show, Relapse, Recovery, MMLP2, Kamikaze, and MTBMB are all better than this album. It still has a lot of highs and his abilities are fully there, but some of the content is just so repetitive. He does very similar jokes about the same topics on and on. Which can be funny but it’s like I don’t feel any need to listen to certain songs again. Fuel, Temporary, and the Outro are very strong songs though.
@jobeiden4630 3 widely recognized masterpieces and the rest is all very divisive. Hardcore fans really love Relapse. More commercial/pop fans really love Recovery. Anything after is either bad or not really for everybody. Fantano seemed to like MMLP2 but it's kinda trash.
So, yeah, kinda, but this was a huge improvement
Bro Anthony and his chat absolutely DESPISES Eminem...like wtf? They be judging the song 10 seconds in 😭
shi kinda corny but old heads love ts lol
@WhyDidTheyChooseMethis isnt anything like his last few albums
@@emotionaloreo8165fantano and his community are certificated haters you guys are the best at it
@@bushisback112 it is quite literally just eminem being eminem. there's nothing different about it. you got the drug problem songs, the songs for his children, the features that outrap him, even some (a lot) of the shock humor of the past. it's literally nothing new
@@Indieivy2112features that outrap him?
what features? JID? how he outrapped without saying anything
to be fair, maybe a lot of the chat has never watched or heard a good satire album
Maybe chat hasn’t heard a good satire album. If they did, they ended the stream not having heard a good one either.
@@Marc-ny6mgthis album is great, not as a satire album.
This album fails at satire. It succeeds at entertaining, IMO, but it totally fails at any cogent satire.
@@NateAnderson69 Eminem is the biggest artist
in your mommy and granny
no cap
@@kushagrachauhan8070 lmao what are you even saying, dog
Fantano 2018: That’s what I’ve been asking, where is the old em, do you have his email or phone number?
Fantano 2021: Discombobulated sounds great, why can’t he make more songs that sound like his older music
Fantano 2024: Houdini is bad he’s trying to hard to be his older self and sound like his older music and it’s embarrassing
Okay? What do you want exactly?
(retirement is not relevant)
??? There is difference between trying to be at the level you were before and make a cheap version of an old hit you had in the past.
@@marvinschannel5391 good music?
Retirement
Fantano is delusional 😂
@@iamian6c744 that’s not relevant
I loved this album lol
So did most people. Fantano already dislikes Eminem a lot, he made up his mind before listening. And his fans are just trying to appeal to him and are teenagers so they'll say whatever they think he wants to hear.
Yeah this album is great, kinda wish fantano would have reviewed it more authentically
@@Jamb13 He will. This was just his first opinions of it live. I'm sure he'll listen to it a few more times and drop a real review in a week or so. Doesn't seem like he's gonna change his mind though, considering how he pretty much wanted to hate it before it started.
@@Noooiiiissseeefantano is one of the wokiest youtubers out there. His reviews are based on his political views
@@Jamb13it makes fun of his people the gays and trans liberals so obviously he’s going to ignore the flows and everything music related and focus on that because that how he is. He judges albums based on his political views.
It is interesting hearing Fantano talk about how he knows that “Em means it deep down” before getting to the latter parts of the album where that is really thrown into question. There’s a reason Em encouraged people to listen to the album in its entirety, there’s a narrative.
Man I was so surprised when people started voicing discontent with Fantano a few years back. He was my favorite music reviewer. But as I’ve seen more of his live streams and less of his edited TH-cam content the criticism starts to make sense. The smugness is tough to stomach. He doesn’t just criticize, he mocks. And when it’s music you low key like it really does leave a bad taste. Sort of makes you feel stupid for liking it. Just really not what I’m looking for out of a music reviewer.
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe you sound like Fantano bro 😂 just so unpleasant
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe Bro what 😆, the storytelling was great and the concepts were great. If you go into the album looking for issues, then just don't listen to it at that point instead of trying to be a contrarian 🤣
Preach. Same as you, I got into him some years ago, but I don't like Fantano anymore. He really let success get to his head. Every month he gets more smug, more insufferable. It really takes the joy out of music and ultimately what music is for.
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe his lyrics are mind blowing. And above your head by the sounds of it.
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe whatever your favorite album of this year is, i can guarantee this is better so you have no argument
This dude thinks sexy red and ksi make good music why do ppl care what he thinks so much lol
Womp womp
Womp womp
How does giving KSI a 4 and 5 out of 10 mean he makes good music?
@@m-ox2txbecause he also gave this album a 5 didn’t he? Thats literally unhinged. KSI aint that bad But theres levels to art.
@@-_pi_- I think giving this album a 5 is generous personally.
You made your mind up before even listening👍
Obvious political bias, look at the editor
@@TheFolkLoreLifeit’s an obvious political bias from these 2 nerd ass mfs lmao
@TheFolkLoreLife what do you mean?
cant wait for the new "unedible" review
Why like Eminem when you have any rappers better than him. Also Eminem is the no 1 worst rapper of all time and all these Eminem stans are still listening to garbage like these and praising him like Kai Cenat when he was happy after when Tyla accepted his date in an alternative universe. They also can’t criticism when someone talks trash about him. The thing is, Eminem can’t rap good, every single or album he’s dropped are trash and yet they still listen to this garbage everyday. Eminem needs to retire immediately because this guy keeps on dropping corny, unfunny, unhinged, and repetitive bars and he refuses to evolve in every album which makes him the #1 worst rapper of all time
@@TwoWordsBrrttSkrrt there are plenty of rappers that are infinitely worse than eminem
@@TwoWordsBrrttSkrrtnumber 1 worst rapper is crazy ngl
@@TwoWordsBrrttSkrrt2/10 bait
@@TwoWordsBrrttSkrrt yeah, sure, that’s why majority of mainstream rappers according to say he is a huge influence for them and one of the best, but u, the very well known two words brrtt skrrtt, u must have a better opinion that Kendrick Lamar, Juice Wrld, 50 cent, Lil Wayne, Drake, Jay Z, NF and all the others. But beside those ones, yeah ur right, this man’s music is surely garbage, fuck Kendrick, fuck 50, fuck Wayne, fuck JayZ, … ur right, after all, u r two words brrtt skrrtt, so ur opinion is so objectively the best
i understand not liking the album but at least give valid criticism and listen to it fully
It's a first reaction, he'll come out with a review video where he explains it
brother… do you hear the bars he’s spitting?
@@freddyc15_yea they kinda tuff ngl
@@freddyc15_ I could name 20 bars from Em that are fr fr genuinely better than 99 percent of emcees.. but go off queen
He...will? Thats what the review is gonna be?
I thought Fantano was just an Em hater until this video,
I no longer think that way, I KNOW it...
It's funny how all the immature jokes were a problem until he started dissing Candace Owens lol
Not finding something funny isnt the same as having a problem with it.
because that part is true and based
genuinely though that joke sucked too
Em feels like gen z is canceling or dissing him but tbh it’s kinda cringe hearing compared to candace because that’s not true lol gen z just ignoring him and hip hop fans are divided where you have die hard fans and critics. And yeah em been dropping horrible albums, this one wasn’t that bad production, videos, and bringing slim characters is dope. 6/10
Was waiting to see if someone noticed that. Fantano is not reviewing music here, he is reviewing if the content aligns with his own political views, and if it does, he likes it, if it doesnt, he thinks its lame
Fantano tryna hate so bad it's crazy.
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe watch that, son
‘wants slim shady back
:gets slim shady back
:now all of a sudden eminem is focusing to much on his past self
Okay🙄
noo we dont want slim shady back we just want eminem to make good music again cuz its been like a fucking decade
@@fkz0303 I think the majority of people likes it fortunately :)
@@fkz0303 he is making good music you just don’t even give it a chance and listen you just hate before listening to it..
@@marvinschannel5391I listened to it, didn’t like it
@@fkz0303good is subjective. But I kinda get what you're saying. I think old shady was a bit smarter than this.
Can't believe he leaned into the "gen z is trying to cancel eminem" meme so hard
oh, he has been since Tone Deaf
@@internetcutie orrrrnana
That makes me think that he really didn’t work on this album for very long or maybe swapped out a lot of songs. That whole Eminem being cancelled by Gen Z thing happened fairly recently online, and he references several other things that happened very recently (like the Diddy and Cassie situation).
@@_.-_Crimpy-_..-. the gen z cancelling has been going on for a while, at least a full year at this point, and id assume most major rappers knew about diddy, but also eminem just never liked diddy
@@internetcutiecope
Omg I'm so triggered
You definitely are bud 😂
@@nateooo101 LMFAO
OH ARE YOU TRIGGERED?! YOU TRIGGERED BY THE LYRICS?!
Why are you so defensive about this album@@nateooo101
Hehe I bet you are a beta gen z triggered by us real tough bad boys 🙂↔️
Begging rappers to stop using trans people in their self reflection albums
Kendrick made it work with that one song on Mr Morale imo but yeah fair
Fantano went in ready to hate it. It is what it is
He's done that for every eminem song as of the past 10 years. He truly doesn't know how to be unbias
The music is just bad he’s justified, some of this album is really good. But for the most part it’s “gen z rage bait” and cringe. It would be better if he presented concepts in a smarter way, but it’s just bluntly cringe at a lot of parts. I did like the ending portion of the album tho it was good.
@@NoChillAustin And why does he have to be unbiased exactly? It's his opinion about the album, he's not the God of music himself?
@@jedodellcringe?? 😂 What exactly please tell me
Well i mean it was pretty fucking bad
So sad we not getting pass the Guilty Consience 2 reaction
Guilty Conscience 2 does in 6 minutes what it took Fantano this whole video to do. It's like watching someone play Spec Ops: The Line and pausing the game every few minutes to be like "That was a bad thing the game made me do. I can't believe they made me do that."
I almost feel like stopping the reaction before that specific song is him trolling. Granted, he called the theme of that song around the middle of the video, so I don’t think that changes much
I get where Em was trying to go with it, but it could have been executed better. Most of the tracks being just slim going off, and then 1 song thats like “that’s not really me tho” isn’t the formula he was thinking it was
who cares this guys taste in good hip hop music just isnt there lol ppl need to stop checking for this bozos opinion let his reviews die already sheesh
@@The_Weasel_ damn, the only person that knows Spec Ops: The Line beside me lmao
who is the 2nd guy? he literally says nothing worthwhile
Who cares, nobody of importance
i love how you make a sarcastic face anytime em starts going double-time with the syllables. It's a poetic microcosm of your overall character. You have no talent, other than gathering an audience of fellow talentless, vapid, empty geeks to hate on someone making art because of your preconceptions. Your default mode is to tear down. How predictable also that as soon as he mentions something bad about Candace Owens - you're suddenly searching for ways to subtly glaze him. Absolute NPC.
Facts!
Em obviously isn’t as good as he used to be, but Fantano seems almost reluctant to give him credit for beats/bars/rhymes that are funny or good.
That's because he's desperate for black people to like him
Name the good bars/rhymes/beats
@@xavierkellam3514 Beats: nearly the entire album (one of the best being lucifer)
rhymes/bars: the line mentioning diddy, candace o diss, the amber heard line, the flow near the end of habits, the entire em verse on fuel
There's more but maybe you could actually listen to the album with your ears before asking for the stuff YOU missed. It's not my fault you have bad media literacy.
@@C0astinG4mer the best song on there is renaissance and for the most part it goes down hill from there. The whole album is “look how edgy I used to be wasn’t it cringe”. And it doesn’t hit because half his fan base thinks that’s good. The satire is done poorly. He’s so out of touch that he can’t do homophobia, transphobia, or fatphobia anymore
I’ve never been a fan of Eminem’s hooks I don’t think that’s ever been his strong suit.
Eminem used to right songs about killing his wife and having his daughter as an accomplice. Idk why he thought people would be mad at lame transphobic bars. It’s honestly just a lazy album.
The idea of the album isn’t great but only some of the songs are hit like renaissance, fuel, brand new dance, Tobey(mostly cuz big Sean and babytron carry the song) . I’d probably give it a 4/10
@@xavierkellam3514 Do his "fans" not realize that slim shady is the character he's killing with this album. Anyways, what a fanbase likes shouldn't be a deciding factor on whether an album is good or not. Every opinion on this album is going to be highly opinionated. So, in my opinion, I enjoy the way incorporates both slim and eminem relatively smoothly. Looking at each song at face value, good rhymes, and the jokes are ok but it's literally impossible for him to joke like he did 20+ years ago so I'd give that a pass. The only thing I had an issue with was slim constantly bringing up Caitlyn Jenner. I feel like there were a lot of clever bars that just get glossed over because "the annoying character that dies in this album is being portrayed as an annoying prick." Who would've thought. Personally, I'd rate this album an 8-9. You all like to praise JID on fuel and babytron/ big sean on tobey and then completely ignore eminems verses. It feels like lots of people had their mind made up on this album before even listening to it. Just my opinion, music is subjective as hell.
I’m gonna save you guys 17 minutes and 56 seconds. Fantano and his chat essentially love when Eminem attacks people they don’t like, but complain and say it’s trash when he goes after people they like or goes against their political views. Same old stuff, different video. Worth a skip.
THANK YOU! 🙏
EXACTLY
Ong
Gonna save you guys some brain cells too. They didn't like the same lazy corny joke 600 times but laughed at new material about relevant people to today like Candace Owens.
Maybe one day Caitlyn Jenner jokes will come back in fashion. It's been like 10+ years since she mattered at all but surely, ONE DAY it'll be funny again.
I want you to change, but don't change.I want you to grow up, but don't age .I want the rage, but don't get too angry.I want the new, but old Shady😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If it was the death of Mr. Morale he would've given a 10!
His chat is probably one of the worst existences in the galaxy 😂😂😂
After the Stan’s. Nothing worse than a Stan.
@@Yo-Ah-Kim I’m a big Em fan but I’ll admit, I read some of the “Stans” comments sometimes and cringe.
@@itsaboutthattime4425 then it would be fair not to critique Fantanos chat. That’s what Stan’s are times 100. Unbearable.
@@Yo-Ah-Kim nah it wouldn’t. I’m going off of all the other times not just this time. The chat is unbearable. I don’t really care what you think about Stans tbh cos I’m not one, just a normal fan.
@@itsaboutthattime4425 bet
It’s like a 5.5/ 10 for me. Very low replay value.
I’d give this album a strong 5 - light 6. Better than his past three albums, but it at many times sounds like a 50 year old coming to terms with how to stay relevant while saying edgy things. Literally feels like a “mid-life crisis” album. Also sounds like an old man complaining about gen z and cancelation so much, yet I don’t know of any trying to cancel him. Maybe I’m wrong, idk. The hits off this album are bangers, tho.
""I understand the point of the album" *gives incorrect recap*
Felt he came in to the album thinking he knew what it was about and couldn’t understand what it really was about… the stream was just basically “two homosexual virgins incorrectly criticize a man they are jealous of”
@Clashedroyaled yea like, for a critic, he certainly went into the album wanting to hate it and as a result... he hates it... shocking, right?
It's fine though, those who listened to the album through and paid attention love the album, myself included. It's up there as one of my favourite Em albums, and I think that's an opinion a whole lot of people share.
*proceeds to not listen to the whole album*
@@bassdude114 *Turns it off right before the albums story comes together*
@@marshmallow6842 exactly
This is the guy that gave sexy red a 6/10 lol.
Fantano has become the biggest meme of the review community lmao
he gave another sexxy red album an 8
Sexy Redd is trash.
Didn’t he give that yeat guy an 8 or something
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe and eminem doesnt rap about his bootyhole being brown
@WhyDidTheyChooseMeyeah, she'd just rap about her pussy and ass for the entire album
This album is satire, but not towards the new generations; rather, it is directed at his most die-hard fans who constantly ask for the return of Slim. You want Slim? This is the crap there is. (This is how I imagine Eminem in his studio.)
Epic moment, when Eminem acknowledges that he doesn't know to what extent Slim was a character or an excuse.
The problem is fans and unfortunately Eminem have reduced slim to just being this offensive guy... When that's not necessarily the case.
Slim was raw and said out of pocket creative lyrics that were witty and sometimes offensive he didn't just spew offensive things just for the sake of being offensive...
What we really missed about slim shady was the lyricism saying things like "I'll snatch you out your mother's frame I'll take it further than that at lover's Lane and cock block your father's game" "wearing disguises sunglasses and visors because my split personality is having an identity crisis" "whose arm is this I must have cut it off of the pharmacist who refused to renew my 7th prescription of darvocets, I'm the old man who lives upstairs and starves his pets and never leaves his house cuz he thinks his car is possessed"
@@jackkawf4449 This is true, and we could see it a Little bit in the P. Did it bars.
@@jackkawf4449 Truee he was much more creative with it and didn't mention the same thing 25 time's
no.
You all are latching on to a nostalgic fantasy. SLIM shady is a pathetic A-Hole He represents everything Em hates about himself the most. That's what Em is trying to get across. This album shows you Slim shady for Eminems/ Marshall Mathers ' perspective.
@@Xvgg-g2y exactly I can play a drinking game to how many times he rhymed with scissors on this album, mentioned Bruce Jenner, said the r word, Christopher Reeves, and midgets... And I would be hammered by the third song...
It's not that I have a problem with him mentioning those things, in and of itself, it's just how many times are you going to say it, before you start to feel like it gets a little old yourself?
I wanted the slim that said "never ran with a clique I'm a posse, Kamikaze, strapping a motherf***ing bomb across me, from the second I was born my mama lost me, I'm a cross between Manson, Esham, and Ozzy, I don't know why the f**k I'm here in the first place, the worst day on this Earth was my first birthday, (r word), what did that nurse say?, brain damage?, f**k I was born during an earthquake"
"How you gonna scare somebody with a gun threat, when they're high off of drugs they haven't even done yet?"
After all the transphobic bars, the review bout to open up like: “this album is unreviewable trash and here’s why”.
Fantanos reaction to Eminem is almost as played out as the slim shady persona.
Unprofessional really. Would rather an actual review than you just trolling for the sake of it.
This album has lowlights and highlights and is one of his better efforts and honestly, fantano is stuck in an Eminem echo chamber
absolute facts
This is the stream cuts channel. It's a gut reaction. The review comes later on in the main channel.
Right on my man. Feels good to see an actual objective and smart comment.
@@AGrepSTN2M thanks brother
Fantano really should take a break from twitter for a while I feel like certain fanbases really get to him like Eminem’s, Kanye’s, etc and it effects his mindset towards an album.
Everyone should get off twitter tbh. Deleting my account was the best decision I made in years.
He doesn't give a damn about any fan base, he's as objective as he ever was, it just can never appear that way to glazers who would rather he praise everything their favorite artist does.
@@jovanreid6782utterly untrue
what😭now he doesn’t like it because he’s on twitter? lmao
@@jovanreid6782 dude he could give it a not good for all I care lol I’m just saying once he starts bringing in a certain artists fan base into his album reaction you already know it’s probably not gonna be a truly impartial review
That's an awfully hot coffee pot
🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Fantano really is mad triggered, and he puts it on full display.
Em: Disses LGBTQ
Fantano: It’s the worst album ever dumb dumb concept
Em: Disses Candace Owens
Fantano: oh, this concept is actually fire
Em: Continues to diss LGBTQ
Fantano: 😭
Em: drops the hardest bar accusing Diddy of taking out Big and PAC
Fantano: Complete Silence
Like what you like, that’s fine. I just don’t like the hipster vibe he gives when he finds reasons to criticize Eminem. He could be criticizing a popular beer or a mainstream band, it’s all the same pretentious vibe.
You're acting like he's never liked popular music lol
Might be the worst critique I've ever seen in my life. Bro didn't even bother thinking about the songs/albums at all, he went into it wanting to despise every song on the album
because they're bad
Fontana is a hater. That’s why I don’t watch his videos anymore because he always talks shit and it’s not just about Eminem it’s a lot of artists all the time
@@MadailinBurnhope🤡🤡🤡
Your critique is absolutely meaningless when it is very clear you made up your mind before listening to anything. We get it, you don’t like Eminem. Don’t patronize us by pretending you are going to give a genuine, unbiased review to anything he puts out.
I can finally see why Vince Staples doesn't like Fantano and what he has to bring to the culture and reviewing rap albums... rage quitting like that is crazy work
Can you give me a link of Vince talking about fantano
this album is ass cheeks my boy
The fuck are you talking about rage quitting? Lol Vince rage quit something? Because I didn't see any rage quitting in this clip. I did see bemused dismissal at the end but it's a stream so like...duh entertainment.
@@kylegonewild How many tracks are on the album? How many did Fantano listen to?
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe"100+ comments on this channel" Please, I'm begging you, get a job. Stop bouncing and doing tricks on it for a bald middle aged man
Anthony has his mind made up about what his opinion of the album was before he began listening.
These 2 goof balls calling Eminem corny. The audacity 😂
He is corny. You are probably a lot more corny than Lil Dicky and G Eazy 😂
he stopped listening at houdini because guilty conscience 2 is legitimately good. so are temporary and somebody save me and he didn't want to film his reaction to the objectively good songs. fantano is a clown
Wow, all the bars and meaning goes way above his head, he doesn't get it at all and seems like a pathetic review
@@lateksipumppu Sure.
• "I'm mildly familiar with Picasso's work... like... his clay and uhhhhHHH" but completely missed the "blue in the face" bar being a reference to Picasso's Blue Period.
• He didn't understand the point of Habits at all, the entire chorus is tying the persona into being a product of his past addictions because it comes up later in the album and is relevant to the broader concept, and ties heavily into the climax (Guilty Conscience 2) and the ending track (Somebody Save Me), which he never got to. There's also the very dumb conversation about how "South Park understands it's satire but does Eminem understand when he's doing satire" not even that long after crying about how he knows it's "exaggerated" as "like, satire."
• He also misses that the point isn't that Marshall feels like he was being "stopped from saying what he wants to say," the broader concept of the album isn't "Shady edgy haha sure wish I could do that again," it's that so many fans clamor for "the old Eminem" without realizing it would've led to his literal death because that entire persona was a product of his addictions, which he is both self-aware of and admits using as a mask for his own insecurities (again, as shown in later tracks and the final track on the album that needledick couldn't be bothered to get to).
• He misses the entire reveal about "Brand New Dance" that comes later, in GC2.
• He keeps asking "how is anyone missing the concept of the album" as he's continually missing the concept of the album. The concept isn't "haha, I can be naughty again, my album concept is to like, be bad" like he keeps saying it is -- if he'd actually made it through the narrative portions of it, he'd understand it's a meta-commentary on why that DOESN'T work anymore and how/why he's grown out of it, tied into an allegory for his past drug use.
• "As we go deeper into the album I think he's finding more balance between, I'm the edgelord character, and I'm making some salient points" -- he doesn't even pick up on the "balance" coming from the things "Slim" is doing to "Marshall" through each track and the skits, giving him drugs, making him drink, etc., or the clear audio differences between which "character" is which during which tracks and verses, despite the intentionally obvious audio processing on the "Slim" parts.
• "Here's the concept of this album okay: 8th grade sleepover, parents are asleep, we can say all the bad words now" -- this is such a moronic understanding of what the album is intended to be that the fact he still thinks this 7 tracks in shows he's blatantly just not paying attention at all because he came into it with this preconception and never moved past it.
• "I'm just gonna talk about the one trans person in existence" -- he's now 8 tracks in and doesn't get that the constant Caitlin Jenner references are because "Slim" literally only knows that one reference related to trans issues because of "his time," whereas Marshall literally has an adopted non-binary child.
Go watch VibeVilla or Jon Denton or someone else if you need to experience it as "reaction content," they actually understand both the background and the references enough to understand the concept.
Not even a fan of the album or an Eminem stan myself, this guy clearly gets off just laughing at Eminem at this point, how he accuses Eminem and his stans ever of being insufferable or un-self aware while he derides artists as someone who does nothing but hack reviews of pop albums on youtube with his own cult of stans is crazy. Literally makes up his mind not halfway through the thing doesn’t even bother to hear the song meant to deal with his “criticisms.” Some “critic.”
You're acting like Eminem made some great points on that song hahahha. Also, he said two songs weren't bad
@@relahtnelnarF No it would have given him the perspective he needed before saying something like its “like scrolling through right wing twitter.” He clearly is not interested in that though, he likes what he thinks
I’m talking about him smugly mocking every other bar and pretty much Eminem’s entire existence like he’s sombody, I’m glad he liked two songs though
@@villain7140 what perspective would it have given?
They are mostly cringe bars, what is he supposed to do? He is listening to bad music, at least he tries to have some fun
@@relahtnelnarF I explained what perspective
If mocking the person who made the bad music with a smug face is your idea of fun that’s the problem I’m talking about. “The song is such a nightmare” “this bar is so cringe” Just say you don’t like it and move on
@@villain7140 no you didn't. You said he would have given him the perspective he needed before saying that, but I still don't understand what more did he need
That other guy is giving punchable aura
The album is ok-ish, I didn’t hate it, but I can’t say that I’ll listen to it again tho, not a whole lot of replay value tbh
After listening from start to finish it's clear to me that Eminem is doing something very specific here.
The first major point is he is bringing back Slim Shady in a way a lot of his loudest fans are always saying they want but it's clear exactly why Slim doesn't work anymore as he's making some of the craziest songs he has in years (Brand New Dance for example where Slim makes a "club song" about a dance mocking paraplegics, and then again later after Slim forces them to dye their hair for Houdini) Marshal repeatedly calls him juvenile and that he can't say that shit anymore etc.
The second major point being that Marshall is trying to plead with him throughout the album to stop, to let him go, until the crescendo in Guilty Conscience 2, Slim is making points that Marshall used him to be something he couldn't be himself and that his success is due to Slim, Marshall concedes that he absolutely did those things and Slim is right that he used him but also points out how hypocritical Slim is because he bullies people in music but hated when he was bullied as a kid, this all comes to head when Marshall finally challenges Slim and kills him himself to the pleading sounds of Slim promising to change.
In Bad One after he killed Slim he's literally telling us that everyone says "bring back Slim" until they get him, then they complain.
A third bonus point and overarching theme from start to finish is that Slim Shady came from a dark place of heavy drug abuse (throughout the album Slim is constantly trying to force Marshall to take drugs and drink), the final song (not the bonus tracks) make it 100% clear that drugs fucked up a lot of his life that he regrets.
That last song "Somebody Save Me" with Jelly Roll is heartbreaking. It's like he is fully closing the chapter on Slim and shows why he had to do it. Including clips from recordings of his own real life self being too high/hung over to have a meal with his daughter? His daughter begging him to get up and come eat with them as he lays there mumbling his words promising to come out while also asking her to shut the door. Holy shit, that's a very intimate and dark moment that he didn't have to show us. He didn't owe anyone that but it's a very clear remark on the state of himself during his "Shady" years. Imo it's like he's putting it right in our face like, "see mother fuckers, this is who I was then and I hate it." Then he makes us sit there and listen to him beg forgiveness to all of the people in his family he hurt because of drugs. He clearly is coming to terms, beyond just how juvenile it all was as shady, he can't be that person because of how it ruined his relationships, how it impacted his kids.
This album works from start to finish as a whole piece. I actually love this as an arc, a full story. To me it actually feels like the death of Slim Shady.
Unfortunately though I think the short attention spans of most now they won't sit through it that way and will take bits out of context and complain about it. I already see that in comment sections.
Hell I saw a few tweets about his line about Kendrick's album that was meant as a criticism of critics and not actually Kendrick
I would've rather Slim be killed off early. Then do something with meaning for the rest of the album
@JustFollowingOrders12 You choose the comment that goes through a lot of the damn meaning of the album and say yeah but he should have killed slim off sooner......🤦🏼♀️
I think your almost right but I would like to offer that Slim didn't originally come from Marshall being a drug addict. Marshall needed Slim to protect him from his mother, neighborhood, performing fears, his poverty stricken life, and choose the most outrageous bombastic over exaggerated character he could come up with. That way no one would hunt around trying to find Marshall they would either be too busy hating Slim or loving him. Besides Em has been very open about his drug use and the real problems started after the fame and Slim came before. I immediately connected with Slim/Em/Marshall since that long ago day when I got home from school and a new video on TRL changed/saved my life. I also think another allegory that could be drawn is Em showing his fans the old Slim they have been asking for just so they can hopefully realize.....Oh, wanting that was nostalgia I've grown up and the old stuff is great if you have the context of the WHEN. without that context I would HATE anyone and anything that sounded like most of what SSLP, MMLP, TES, Encore sound like. It drives me insane all these idiots who still try the narrative that Em is a giant homophobic prick.....like dumb asses Elton John has been his really good friend for DECADES and the man's 3rd child is NON BINARY BISEXUAL who uses ALL THE PRONOUNS NAMED STEVIE.....
@@cindygr8ce i think we have two different ideas of meaningul
@@JustFollowingOrders12 not really. The op has a lot of it right except Slim shady wasn't invented while strung out on drugs. Em came up with him as a way to not only gain the confidence he needed to perform and be outrageous he uses slim to protect Marshall. Marshall is strong enough, has grown enough, has HEALED enough that he no longer needs to b protected by someone so extreme and over the top. The drugs were most likely genetics cuz that's how addiction usually works and past trauma. I think Slim kept pushing the drugs because he knew Marshall didn't need him and was scared turning Slim into scared person !Marshall used to be. Slim didn't want to not be needed anymore because to Slim if he wasn't needed then all those fuckers who bullied him, at school, or his mom would b proven right. It's a fuckimg cyclical cycle of a circle and that's why the album can be played 1st to last or last to 1st to tell the story both way.
This is absolutely getting a NOT GOOD
Highly disagree with Fantano's take on Eminem being an old man wanting to say bad words just to be cool. That's the whole point. He doesn't have to. He never did. He's highly aware of that. That's why the whole album in my opinion is about how alter egos are stupid and not being afraid to be more honest with yourself instead of catering to others all the time. You might not have that problem but when it comes to our generation we sadly do. Always worrying about not being condemned when trying to please others. To be more accepted and understood. Finding many ways for self-expression without it being offending to everyone else all the time. By the end, Eminem accepts his true self without the Slim Shady persona anymore to finally move on as his normal self and peacefully live his life without anyone's permission. Slim Shady was a test for everyone to see if his harsh words could get to anyone. But the point is, it shouldn't. Only you can make those words to have that much power over you. That's my interpretation anyway. Also, corny? You should really listen back to all the rhyme schemes and technical structures of his songs again. A lot of hidden meanings are easy to miss. Overall, a great nostalgic and most mature work he's done by far in my opinion. A great swan song to a long-respected career. I truly loved it. Thanks! 😊
I get it but still think there's no reason for there to be so many slim songs before GC2. So drawn out and the lyrics are so bad, I get he's intentionally being vulger, why would I listen to any of the first half again?
@@LordPerrin Thats the concept i guess? You rarely find long albums where all songs are top, take any Kendrick album, half songs there clearly didnt make success as the other half, but they dont have to. These songs are there to glue the album as a whole experience
@@LordPerrinif this is the send off to the Slim Shady character then there definitely should have been a couple Slim Shady songs. If you dint like the first half that’s perfectly fine but I enjoyed it, i see reasons to go back and listen it again.
I guess if you're not a fan it's not easy to appreciate the thought and work that went into making this album.
He is literally telling a story.
He clearly understands the concept and explains why he thinks it's lame in the video multiple times 😂 coping
anyone else hate this man's face as much as he hates on Eminem songs?
This reviewer is so cringey himself... it's like, bro, are you self aware?
This guy doesn't know music
It’s disappointing that Fantano let’s his ideology cloud his judgement on just about everything now, not just this album. Zero credibility.
Pfffffftttttt I echooochbered
Kendrick could literally just fart into the mic, and Fantano would tell us that we don't understand the meaning of the fart. I feel like Melon is just too biased, too be a critic
Are we seriously censoring the word "Death", now?
Why does he have some random guy on his streams? Dude is annoying
fantano is probably one of the worst, most arrogant and self entitled youtuber on this platform
melonman criticizes an old man for cursing and acting edgy all while laughing and saying "he's so lame, look at him!" at every song like a movie cheerleader squad bully.
True renaissance
Fantano is an overweight, bald, middle aged man that is insanely sensitive. He's the definition of throwing stones while living in a glass house.
Anthony is the type of dude to get offended by the Marshall Mathers LP.
makes no sense
I’m pretty sure he’s given that album like an 8 or a 9 lol
How? He said so many times that Eminem’s prime was in that era tf are you on about
@PokeIsland LOL and Eminem was as offensive as he was in the mmlp. But Anthony hated. Notice how he only gave Eminem props for dissing Candace Owen 😂 suddenly he liked it because it was something he wasn't offended by
wow, this is sad. I normally only watch your normal reviews. You seem to be somewhat in your right mind there. Now I came across this by chance, but that's quite a letdown. A grown man wearing sunglasses indoors and laughing manically at his own bad jokes in front of a group of mega-sad people in the chat. I wish I hadn't clicked this.
It’s the worst album I’ve heard this year and yeah I’ve heard the new Imagine Dragons
Doesn’t Em have a trans child?
Kendrick could have released the same album with same bars and flows and fantano would have been on his balls
"Wap wap wap wap, I'mma fuc him up
Wap wap wap wap, I'mma do my stuff." - Kendrick
I don't love the album but literally no lyric on it is as completely basic as the one listed above. It's honestly like a line I could have come up with in a freestyle back when I was 7. And yet, Fantano loved that line.
bro's literally the guy the album disses and this guy laughing is laughing like he cracked some cobra file code
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe if you need it explained you are the subhuman iq this album is directed towards
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe "let's step inside the mind of a hater....." the whole is directed at Anthony
It's funny seeing he sayin that he gets the concept and actually totally misses the whole ass album point.
Bro shit all over Brand New Dance and then talked about it as a highlight in the review lol
Changed his mind lol
He's truly an npc
it's hilarious that fantano will unironically say he likes songs more because Eminem says political points he agrees with.
This isn't music review, it's political signalling
honestly, I'm not an Em fan, but I liked the album and I've listened to it a few times
at least listen to songs before calling them trash
Anthony calling Eminem an edgelord is killing me bc I really liked the album but he’s def not lying 🥲😂
If it was called “Kids See Bornana” you would have given it 11
I think Em spends far too much time on the first half of the album vilifying the Slim Shady persona. I really don’t see any of these songs sliding into a playlist, maybe one of the last 3, the songs where he talks to his daughters always hit on a deep emotional level. But if you make a song intentionally corny it’s gonna be corny. I get the message but sonically and really functionally it just spends too much time in a place where I don’t enjoy what Eminem has to offer.
Im an em fan and in contrast to Fantano I really liked Kamikaze and MTBMB but this album is really not good. The concept is poorly executed, the same gen z and cancel bars over and over again with no creativity. The beats arent bad but nothing outstanding or great besides maybe Fuel. Temporary is a cringe Skylar Grey song feat. Eminem. Somebody Save me is sonicaly und lyricaly poor in comparision to something like Castle and Arose. Stop d riding, this album is objectively NOT GOOD. The only solid songs are the intro and Fuel. The rest is either boring or just very cringe and uninspiring
I’m loving it..🤷🏿♂️💿🔥 it’s a fire record everyone is just going in hating it before even listening to it so..
@@marvinschannel5391 I respect your opinion I had really high expectations of it and listened multiple times but it just dont hit for me. Kamikaze was way better imo and the slim shady rage more authentic
@@FingiFing melon criticise kamikaze for being too angry and bitter (which I disagree on anyway) I love both albums for different reasons but if you don’t enjoy it as much that’s fine but I’m gonna carry on loving it!😁 maybe the new Eminem album will grow a new as time goes on you never know?
Funny how long you went off about the concept but CLEARLY didn’t actually grasp it. It’s cringy asf watching you laugh so hard so confidently, but still not understanding it 😂😂
if it was sexy redd singing about queefing he would've given it a 10
Nah the bias stuff has to stop. Understand the concept and listen. Dam you know a million people want to hear your opinion so you owe it to them to do some sort of homework instead of just acting like you're just hearing dump juice 😂
I think you should tell us what you expect from Eminem to change at this point and we will rate it. Because this just sound bitter a bit
Stop reviewing hiphop please, stick with more melodic stuff with less lyrics, it's more in your alley bruh
Seriously
you're white
@@kena6812what does being white have to do with anything, why do you feel the need to bring up race
@@PokeIsland Why does being called white make you respond in this way? I just mentioned a fact, but you seem rather upset by that.
@@kena6812 and you deleted your comment so i dont get your point, but continue to bring up race in a negative manner like you did last time, because it totally makes sense, grw up
bro rage quit the stream lol
@WhyDidTheyChooseMe not every song is great but it's overall a good album. Dude is sensitive
@WhyDidTheyChooseMebro gave sexy redd a 6/10 this bald guy doesn’t even review Eminem he simply just doesn’t like him
You haven't reacted to NOT LIKE US music video.
Eminem first half of the album was 2015 Ben Shapiro but midly creative... 2nd half was still better.
I mean it's not shock rap it's boring... Slim Shady was a beast in 2000s
"Bitch I ain't gon shoot you, Imma take this bullet and put it through you" That guy I'm terrified of.
This 2024 slim shady, shocking? Barely it's at best him seeing it on twitter...
I've disagreed with you on quite a few Eminem takes fantano but yea this one you're absolutely right.
Old story and old flow or not, this album SOUNDS ass. Every beat being minecraft note blocks or Luigi’s mansion n shit. Not a single skip across the first three records after infinite and EP. And Eminem show a lil less here, but those are some story telling ass concept ass albums like the new one. But every song SOUNDS fucking awesome. Great instrumentals, great cadence and flow, And that mf is actually passionate and has substance in what he’s saying. Not much discredit on that last part there, because I’d imagine he doesn’t have much to talk about anymore. But like cmon, here’s we’re talking about rn. Ion think there’s one song in the first half that doesn’t mention Christopher fucking Reeves 20 years after his death, or Caitlynn Jenner. And then HE makes it out to be annoying and calls himself on guilty conscience 2. Like he’s being annoying on purpose to show people that they should stop asking for the old him or something?? (Btw the fact that there’s a guilty conscience 2 at all tells me he’s reaching for the fuckin stars for some sort of good rap rep this year). And bro really went with the narrative that gen z tryna cancel him?? Sit your old ass down, we would LOVE you if you still went hard, you know that. And we all know you’re just stirring the right wing crowd.( I’m Republican, friendly fire) The phrase “they’re tryna cancel Eminem” is actually so crazy. We don’t wanna cancel you, we wanna throw tomatoes at your fuckin pedestal because you’re lame now. And then his flow, his fucking flow. The fact that he brings back the shady and b rabbit flows for slims parts only, but keeps his chicken head rhythmless flow for himself? Like wtf, would the old flow sound bad with his current voice or something?? Or does he just like falling in and out of cadence cuz putting words together is a fun little game to him now. (Why are we even bringing shady back from the dead with AI in the first place)?? Like fuck, idek man. Love letter to the fans or not, this was a lazily executed shit show. Only two good tracks on here are Lucifer, and fuel. And I get sad listening to fuel because JID destroys him with flow and cadence. JID didn’t even have to say anything clever or memorable like in Ems verse. Cuz in Ems verse, he was falling in and out of rhythm with the chicken head flow. Just puts the nail in the coffin that em either just isn’t trying like I think. Or worse, he’s lost his feel for music completely.
Edit: I didn’t like the beginning of this stream either, y’all. Like bro did not go into this with an open mind. Yeah I just shit on the album entirely, but I really gave it a fucking chance🥺 lol. But rly I haven’t seen Anthony happy in general in years
EMINEM HAS THE SAME POLITICAL VIEWS AS YOU MELON, THAT'S WHY IT'S SATIRE.
Eminem has the most sensitive fanbase in all of rap
By far
and more sensitive haters
You mean rap fans in general. Kendrick fans lose their mind if you critique him
Fantano getting corny at this point
When you take it seriously, they're stupid manchild opinions. Then you realize it's tongue in cheek, so they're just lame unfunny jokes.
But if you're not fluent in english you can enjoy the fact that for the first time in like 15 years he's doing a whole album with a non-annoying flow, accent or overdubs.
Also, the beats are boom-bappy and if not very distinctive at least they're not cacophonic.
So, from a *musical* standpoint it's interesting.
Agreed the album is terrible. The arteries line hit me as so fucking corny when I heard it, glad I'm not the only one. This album just really cements how irrelevant Em is in the current music scene. That's not really a bad thing, he had his time and has made staple music. This ain't it though. I hope to forget about this album entirely except for maybe Fuel.
Brother really thinks he's going to get cancelled by Gen Z for hate-rapping about fat people. Lol. Okay buddy pal, nobody cares.