“Eight months after the release of Revival, and without any clever billboards or marketing ploys, Eminem released Kamikaze — a conflicted piece of high-quality hip-hop. At its best, it's a return to the Slim Shady fans were expecting on his last album. At its worst, it's punctuated by cringe-inducing lapses of unnecessary shock value. It's unfair to label this an angry album wholesale. Em clearly”
“Eminem is not happy. We know because he tells us, in the opening seconds of ‘Kamikaze’, like he’s psyching himself up: “I feel like I want to punch the world in the fucking face right now“. He’s upset, mostly, about the fact that people didn’t like his last album, the not-particularly-great ‘Revival’, released on December 15, 2017. That LP continued down a course he’d been set on since 2010’s ‘Re”
“All across his 10th album, the more things change, the more Eminem stays the same.”
“His second album in less than a year is a grandstanding outing that doesn't live up to his standard”
“Eminem falls just short of ending his career on his latest album, Kamikaze.”
