MUSIC ALBUM REVIEW - RECOVERY by EMINEM

EMINEM'S RECOVERY

It's not easy being yourself. Not when you're not yourself anymore.
Eminem has been startlingly honest since he returned from a three-year hiatus in 2009. By turns remorseful and recalcitrant since admitting a descent into depression, drug abuse and creeping irrelevance, he was frank with the media in the run-up to his comeback, "Relapse." But that album was a willfully goofy and ghoulish attempt to recapture the eloquent horror of his first two major-label albums, 1999's "The Slim Shady LP" and 2000's "The Marshall Mathers LP." He rapped in a pan-Arabian accent, throwing potshots at fading cultural figures (hello, Jessica Simpson!) and working hard to resemble the unhinged trailer-trash bon vivant of a decade ago.
He failed.

Release Date: June 21st, 2010

The much-anticipated new album - EMINEM RECOVERY
On Recovery, his seventh major label studio album, EMINEM has reached out to an exciting list of first-time collaborators, including DJ Khalil, Just Blaze, Jim Jonsin and Boi-1da, among others.
EMINEM releases Recovery just over a year after his last album, 2009's Relapse. Relapse put the cap on an impressive ten years of recorded output, and contributed to EMINEM being the biggest selling artist of 2000-2009. In recognition of this, Neilsen SoundScan named him their Artist of the Decade. Relapse entered the charts at #1 and, at nearly double platinum, was the best selling rap album of last year. It also earned EMINEM his 11th Grammy award, winning in the Best Rap Album category. Relapse's first single, "Crack A Bottle" from EMINEM, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, soared to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Eminem's second #1 after 2002's "Lose Yourself") and set a SoundScan record at the time of its release for opening week download sales (418,000). The album also spun off two other hits; the Top 10 "We Made You" and Top 20 "Beautiful."
"I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year," remarked EMINEM. "But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title."
EMINEM has sold more than 78,000,000 albums worldwide.
For years Eminem has only had his pain and anger from the problems with his mother and ex wife to rap about. Now that he has went through the hardships of life and gotten all of that out of the way he's rapping about real things. I have been a lifetime fan of Marshal, I have never fully hated any of his albums yet at the same time I felt he was just dragging on his effort. I do not buy many cds anymore but after hearing a few of the songs on this album I rushed out and bought it. Eminem in my humble opinion is now better than he ever has been and it shows in the production and effort he put into this album.