It’s here that Em hits out at the mainstream rap scene and over-saturation of the genre. The proceeding song, Greatest, is arguably one of the best on the album and maintains the exhausting tempo and rapid-fire lyrics with a song chock full of emotion. The album begins with The Ringer, a song that sets the tone of the album with fast-paced lyrics, hitting out at the mumble rap scene including Lil Xan and Lil Pump. Hitting out at mainstream rappers, the hip hop scene and anyone who Eminem attributes his recent decline of fame to (except himself of course), Kamikaze feels like a contrived effort to maintain credibility and status in an ever evolving music scene. Skip forward to 2018 after a series of underwhelming albums, Eminem attempts to rekindle his early blaze of rap glory with his latest effort Kamikaze. His early albums fused a mix of venomous hatred, clever wit and sporadic chaos that oozed a charismatic confidence through every song. There’s no denying that Eminem was one of the most influential hip hop artists to grace the rap scene in the late 90s/early 2000s.
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