The most telling part of Kamikaze is how Eminem deals with potential criticism from his peers like Tyler, the Creator and Joe Budden. Devoting an entire skit to one criticism from one review seems like a weird way for one of the best lyricists of his generation to spend his time.Įminem's 'Kamikaze' On the Brink of Chart History in U.K. Seventeen years ago, during his scene-stealing turn on JAY-Z’s “Renegade,” lyrics like “we as a people decide if Shady’s as bad as they say he is/ Or is he the latter, a gateway to escape?/ Media scapegoat who they can be mad at today” showed a level of self-awareness that he’s lost in 2018. What makes Eminem’s takedown of the press in 2018 so much worse is that he’s done it with far more nuance in the past. On album opener, “The Ringer,” Mathers spends the bulk of his time complaining about how “a journalist/ can get a mouthful of flesh/ and yes, I mean eating a penis/ ‘Cause they been pannin’ my album to death.” In short, Eminem yells “fake news” for almost six-minutes at anyone who dares to critique him, almost like the President he’s aptly named “Agent Orange.” The argument could be made that if Em’s last project received favorable reviews, there would be no need for Kamikaze’s reactive existence. The narrative of Eminem’s tenth studio album is an antagonistic rebuke of the media and their response to Revival.
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