

A lot had changed in that time, both in my life and in his, so maybe I just wasn’t connected in the same way – but, to be honest, I couldn’t help but feel that Re lapse just wasn’t good.Īnd I never quite got back into the groove with Slim. Encore was patchy as hell compared to the run of The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP, and The Eminem Show but when he came back in 2009 with Relapse I think I only listened to it once. And then, in reality, Eminem went kind of shit. I saw him live multiple times, bought the t-shirts and the posters, knew every word to every song, watched 8 Mile until I could recite the whole script, and even considered bleaching my barnet until I was warned that my black hair would probably turn orange instead of blonde. From the release of ‘My Name Is’ in 1999 until around the time when I first listened to Encore all the way through in 2004, there wasn’t another artist on the planet who came close to him for me. There are maybe only two or three artists in the history of music that have played as important a role in my life as Eminem.
