Thematically, and certainly in terms of its overall quality, the album fits somewhere between Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers, but Em's refusal to mature as both a person and performer, as well as his insistence upon maintaining the same old posture, ultimately handicap the album from being what it quite possibly could have been – Eminem's greatest record yet. In fact, there are at least a half-dozen references throughout Relapse in which the album acknowledges its own frustrating tendency to retread familiar ground – from a handful of Christopher Reeve references ("Medicine Ball"), to songs about Em's mother ("My Mom"), to tracks about murder and mayhem ("Same Song and Dance"). " After four years away from the industry – four years of incredible social change and personal upheaval – hip-hop icon Eminem returns with Relapse, an exceptionally well-produced, well-performed album that feels almost ridiculously stuck in the past. You know the guy's dead, right? And then the whole gay stepfather / incest / rape thing? I don't have your back on this with. I mean, with this Christopher Reeve s***. I just listened to the entire album, and you've gotta be f****** kidding me.
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