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Universal acclaim- based on 1078 Ratings
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Mar 21, 20159/10 .................................................................................................................................................
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Apr 23, 2015After the long 5 years wait, surprisingly, it is not Eminem who returns but Slim Shady and his dark themed, violent and sometimes humoristic verses we all originally fell in love with. Also having extremely explosive and bangin beats from our beloved Dre, Relapse is another must have from Eminem.
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Nov 1, 2018The accents work well and the songs are great. Pretty good comeback record.
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Jan 22, 2020This Album is criminally underrated the only song I can see people hating is we made you and even I hate it but the rest range from great to amazing
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Jan 20, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2020It does have its flaws, but overall, I find it a great experience. The production by Dr. Dre is amazing, definitely has some of my favorite beats ever.
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Aug 2, 2021Relapse is catchy. Don't know what y'all on about in all honesty, accents are a little much but theres alot of character on what he was trying to do. Production is flawless for the most part.
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Dec 6, 2021Ótimas músicas e consistência, muito bem apresentado o assuntos que envolveram ele nos anos em que ele ficou em clinica de reabilitação, a lÃrica feroz do Eminem presente em todo o álbum, e tem ótimos instrumentais.
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Jan 11, 2022man this one of my favourite em's album because of the pen used in this one was so high that if eminem wrote a diss whit this style it will destroy that person instantly but also it talks about the dark side of fame and drugs
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bjcMay 20, 2009Although its the same old recycled eminem we know and love we have no choice but to continue loving him. There are enough songs on here to like and some even to love, overall its a solid album this late in his career.
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JacobDMay 30, 2009
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JoeC.Jan 1, 2010Eminem has been my favorite rapper sice i heard the slim shady lp and this album reminds me exactly of this, yes he may only talk about murdering people and doing drugs, but he does with such lyricism and flow, do NOT underestimate this album trust me.
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BlazeMMay 19, 2009
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WillOMay 19, 2009
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RobMMay 19, 2009
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VGMay 20, 2009
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JosephAJun 5, 2009
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JimboJMay 19, 2009
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JayO.May 21, 2009
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Feb 10, 2011Recovery Eminemâ
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May 26, 2011Despite what most people and critics think, the album is very good in my opinion. "Beautiful" is one of the best songs he has ever released. Many other tracks are great as well.
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Sep 5, 2011
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Apr 11, 2012Artistically produced with Eminem's lyrical content in mind, Dr Dre teases listeners with his fidelic beats and goes into the darkness with Mathers to bring some his most disturbing realities and fantasies to life.
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Jul 28, 2021This was Eminem's comeback album. Creatively, it's much more impressive than Recovery, with songs like Medicine Ball, Hello, Elevator, Stay Wide Awake that are horrorcore or shocking. It's a disturbed album, but there are some radio-friendly tracks like Crack a Bottle and Beautiful. This was an album I listened to all the time in high school.
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Jul 14, 2019I used to hate this album...Now I love it. The accents no longer bother me and the 29 tracks fly by when ever I take a listen. There are of course a couple of tracks that could definitely be removed especially....'We Made You' but, tracks like 'Same Song and Dance' more than make up for any mediocre moments with its beautifully crafted beat and haunting chorus.
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Feb 19, 2015Critics were mad at him, resulting in a 59 rating. It's one of my least favorite albums by him, but most of it is pretty good. There are a few hits on here really worth checking out.
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Feb 12, 2017Production on this album is amazing,same goes for Em's rhyme schemes,but i am not a big fan of Em's voice on this album. My favorite songs on this album: 3 a.m, Insane, Stay Wide Awake, Beautiful and Crack a Bottle
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Dec 26, 2017
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Nov 20, 2018I just love the serial killer vibe, and the accent is just hilarious.
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Nov 3, 2021The man was literally so bored with the English language he wanted to rap with accents to play on words and make them rhyme differently...
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Aug 7, 2021It is a great album. Best Eminem beats and hooks are on this one.
Best songs: Beautiful, Deja Vu
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Jan 24, 2021
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Jul 7, 2022
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Jan 4, 2023Good album , the production is **** crazyyy thanks dre , i cant wait for relapse 2.
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jamesbMay 23, 2009If you like Eminem, you'll like Relapse. It's maybe not his best work - much of the middle of the album is amongst his weakest to date - but there's certainly enough to please his loyal followers.
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JamesVAug 30, 2009
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ChrisBMay 19, 2009Better than Encore, not as good as his first 3 albums. Old Time's Sake, Underground, Beautiful, and Same Song rate up there with his best. All three of his current singles are horrible though.
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SuleimanM.Jun 26, 2009Relapse isn't the come back we were all hoping for, but it does more than enough to satisfy our Slim Shady needs. Excluding a few shallow tracks, Relapse is on the right track for what we hope will be an exceptional double album.
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Mar 2, 2011"And eight years later, I'm still at it/Divorced, re-married, a felon, a father, sleeping pill addict" If you skip the first, say, nine tracks, it's actually quite listenable, which is remarkable when you consider the aforementioned quote.
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Oct 5, 2011
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Nov 16, 2012
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May 27, 2013This album is no where near Marshalls as the accents can be annoying to some but I thought the lyricism that encore lacked was made up for in this album. This album deals with sensitive themes so do not listen to it if you are easily offended.
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Feb 26, 2015I think that this album, 'Relapse' is far better than 'Recovery', 'Marshall Mathers LP 2' and 'SHADY XV'
Eminem is becoming worse.
Although it isn't a masterpiece and Eminem himself disliked this album, this was quite good. -
Mar 19, 2015
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Jul 18, 2017good album.....................................................................................................................................................................
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Mar 4, 2018It's not his best project, but it's not his worst project. I didn't like the rape jokes.
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Aug 14, 2020beats are fire flows too but accents shoud go away i like the cover/theme some songs are annoying
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BenPJul 13, 2009
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KeithMay 21, 2009In midst of this 20 track dirt pile is their a few keepers and only one true track that is reminiscent of the mastermind that is Eminem. Beautiful is the fast-to-come-by climax of the cd with the rest of it becoming all too in the background. While this track and admittedly a few others, provide some insight into Em's situation, the album as a whole is sub-par to what his true potential is.
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JimmyBJul 31, 2009
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Nov 16, 2010Slim Shady is dead. Relapse is Eminems try to bring back slim shady, unfortanetley, Dr.Dre wasnt able to bring him back to life. Fortunatley, Eminems still alive. Relapse wasnt as good as it could have been.
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Jun 23, 2011I don't know why this has a lower metascore than "Encore." It's a crying shame because it's easily 10 times better than that pile of **** This is undoubtably Eminem's return to form. Old Time's Sake, Same Song & Dance and Deja Vu are my favorite songs.
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Jan 21, 2016as a fan of him and his past work. there's only few songs on this album that are catchy while others fall short. while Eminem shows he still has the ability to deliver incredible rhyme schemes and vivid storytelling the album doesn't quite add up to what brought him to stardom. nevertheless it shows that he attempted a comeback after a long period of time of being absent.
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Jan 20, 2020Probably my least favourite Em album. Even at his worst this beats other rappers. Fave tracks ; Stay Wide Awake, Deja Vu, Beautiful
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Mar 25, 2020The first half of the album feels kind of filler. there are only 1 or 2 tracks in the the first half that aren't average. But then there is the second half. where there are multiple good songs. My Favourite songs on the album would be Same Song & Dance, Stay Wide Awake, and Beautiful. This Album had great potential, it just didn't work out in the first half
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Jul 25, 2023Relapse is an overall mixed bag, but it does have it's moments and i respect Eminem for going a slightly different route.
Best track: Beautiful
Worst track: Hello
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Oct 13, 2010
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Feb 12, 2013A disappointment, this album like Encore is mediocre. Some tracks are enjoyable with great chorus's, but his rapping style is kind of obnoxious. It seems like every other track was about him being a serial killer. It's a poor album with some great chorus's.
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Nov 9, 2012Excluding the song "Beautiful," and maybe a few others, Eminem is just fooling around on this album. He's better than this, and I know he knows it.
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Apr 14, 2013Pretty bad album! Most of Eminem's fans from 99-03 know that he can do a lot better than this.
Not much to say about this album.... it felt like a joke! It felt like he was purposely sucking because he knew people would still buy it, sort of like what Odd Future can do at times. A legend like Eminem should never be compared to a new and coming group. -
Oct 2, 2022ust to really love this album but growing up a bit more I realize its a messy piss poor attempt at rebranding slim shady and just shows his poor way on rebranding himself after an almost 5 year retirement
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Jul 19, 2023Review só pra lembrar a nota que eu dei pro album:
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KateF.May 22, 2009Pretty weak release from Eminem. First four songs are great and then you'll realize that you've wasted your money.
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TDMay 29, 2009Yeh got it today and I thought it was pretty shit. A lot of the songs aren't catchy like his first songs. He's trying to return to his less serious side like when he started up and it just comes across as forced. Lacks creativity overall. Honestly it sounds like he spent 2 days in the studio and wrote the songs in one sitting.
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Schmidty15May 19, 2009Same ol' shock-value raps from a 37 year-old. Couple of great songs on this album, but mostly filler. Definitely thought Em was gonna step his game up after Weezy, T.I. and Luda all put out quality albums within the past year. And Dre...what up with the beats???
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AjayDMay 26, 2009As a Em Fan, I cannot pretend, I am very disappointed with this album, this is not the return I was hoping for! He tries nothing new for his subject matter, It also Lacks the dark/mature tone of his earlier albums and many of his songs are sick fantasied revolving around hurting/killing women. I think he needs to move into other subjects and ditch the damn lame accent please!
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Jan 11, 2011Now I know that Em isn't perfect (every one of his albums had at least one song I didn't like), but that doesn't excuse this album. It consists of one great track ("Beautiful"), one OK track ("Deja Vu") and everything else horrible.
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Aug 1, 2013What happened here? This has nothing to do with the previous albums! The beat and the lyrics on songs like 3 a.m are an insult to the Slim Shady ego, Old Time's Sake, We Made You and Beautiful are the only good songs from this album. Only three songs, the rest of the songs were terrible. As an Eminem fan, I have to say that this is awful...
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JustinFJun 14, 2009Once a pop culture phenomenon exuberantly spilling his emotion regarding his troubled life, is now lacking substance and meaning. Relapse was worth a listen, only to realize I had to turn it off because the novelty that was Eminem has worn off.
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kpatMay 20, 2009Eminem's new album is a as crusty as his last. He has an incredible talent to spit good lyrical content, but fails to do so again. The reason this album fails is because he reverts back to nagging about his oh-so-sad life coupled with less than enjoyable clown tracks. He should retire again, and stick to producing beats.
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RyanAJun 1, 2009Passionless album. Eminem lacks more and more authenticity with each forthcoming album, and only makes up for it with low brow shock value comments. I would download it to try it and then delete it from my ipod.
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TheeStrangerNov 5, 2009
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ChrisSJul 15, 2009Once great, now just puts out crap like this. Avoid.
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JonW.Jul 17, 2009
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RizeE1May 19, 2009bullshit rhymes about jerking off, raping people, pissing on them, dirnking their bathwater, dumb accents, and vicodin and xanax. good flows, good beats... thats the most you'll get out of this. someone with eminems talent should be able to do better, dont let him get away with this ****.
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RobertS.May 28, 2009
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Aug 21, 2010
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Jan 13, 2012Both lyrically and vocally, This is Eminem at his worst. IMO its easily his worst album. The only good song on the album was Underground (it was only good because it was Eminem in his old style). Truely one trashy album.
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SeanMMay 19, 2009This is a terrible album. Don't buy it unless you want more of the same. Sellout manifesto.
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martinKMay 27, 2009
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ZacariasYJul 1, 2009The worst album of the year and one of the worst rap albums of the decade.
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JasonD.Dec 16, 2009
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BillWMay 19, 2009This is nothing compared to the MM LP. What happened?
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Awards & Rankings
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Thankfully, producer Dr. Dre is there to temper the lyrical bloodletting, laying heavyweight hooks over even the most scabrous tales of family disturbia, and setting 'Bagpipes From Baghdad,' Em's inspired riff on rumored ex Mariah Carey, to snake-charming woodwind squiggles.
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It's an impressively focused and clever work. But this music is not transcendent. It's still stuck in Marshall Mathers' muck, his fundamental mistrust of pleasure and love.
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By letting Dr. Dre take over the low-end-funk production, and rhyming about things he actually cares about, he comes up with a more painful, honest and vital record than anyone could have expected at this late date, up there with "The Eminem Show" or maybe even better.