The things I learned from him is part of the reason I retired early because if you’re at the top of Rap, I don’t want that…Em’ is surrounded by too many musical geniuses to put this quality of music out.” “, you will not use the plight of Black people to sell a f*cking record and widen your profit margin. This is the first time in my life that I feel like the ball is being dropped on Eminem.” Joe was equally blistering in his critique of “Untouchable,” Em’s second single from the album. Joe said of Em’s “Walk On Water,” featuring Beyoncé, “Throw it in rice…This is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard.

When Eminem released music from Revival, Budden did not sugarcoat his thoughts regarding his label head’s songs. Over the last few years, Budden has become a popular podcaster and on-air host who has developed a reputation for not mincing words about his opinions. Em and Budden have a long history, as Eminem signed Budden to his Shady Records as part of the group Slaughterhouse, in the early 2010s. The lines that have drawn the most attention over the last few days, however, are reserved for Joe Budden. During the song, Em specifically addresses on-air personality Charlamagne Tha God, Earl Sweatshirt, Lord Jamar and Everyday Struggle host, DJ Akademiks. “Fall” opens with Eminem saying “Everybody’s been tellin’ me what they think about me for the last few months…Maybe it’s time I tell ’em what I think about them. MGK Is The First To Fire Back At Eminem & He Gets Personal (Video) The latter responded in kind, dropping a bold response in the form of “Rap Devil.” Just a day later, Eminem has released the music video for the Kamikaze cut “Fall.” Though unrelated to the specifics of MGK’s diss, the narrative-driven video for the song still touches on the criticisms Em has been subjected to in recent months. On the album, which features Royce 5’9, Joyner Lucas and others, Em calls out critics of his work, ranging from the no name social-media hater to fellow rappers like Tyler, The Creator and Machine Gun Kelly. There’s little room for conjecture about that, considering the forthright nature of lyrics on Kamikaze. In its wake, it seems Marshall Mathers became acutely aware of the criticisms lobbed against him: that he’d fallen off or lost his touch. His December 2017 album, Revival, did not perform as well as previous efforts (though it still went platinum, no small feat for a rapper with a discography stretching back 20 years) and received less-than-stellar critical reviews.

Kamikaze arrived on August 31 with no roll-out but its reception has been deafening, largely thanks to the Detroit MC’s decision to use it as a means of addressing his critics. Eminem’s decision to release a surprise album has placed him on Hip-Hop’s center stage in ways fit for a Rap God.

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