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With the anticipation of Eminem's upcoming "Relapse" release, many are questioning the rapper's buzz on his return to Hip-Hop...

Whoever his audience might be, Eminem will have to come up with more interesting material to command their attention. While the recent songs might tell us the kind of TV he's been watching, none gives a glimpse into what he's actually been feeling during this recording hiatus. And he's had no shortage of emotional triggers: dealing with addiction, the seemingly final dissolution of his marriage to the infamous Kim, and the death of his close friend Proof. He's clearly done a lot of living and learning, yet that isn't apparent in the rhymes we've heard to date. The cringe-worthy Eminem has resurfaced, but not the clever wordsmith willing to display vulnerability and dig for emotion. Only the album cover, an image of the rapper made out of a mosaic of pills, hints at the demons he has previously illuminated.
Source: Boston Globe

Eminem's success in music should be no surprise to any real Hip Hop fan. The man outsold any other rapper in history, took lyricism to another planet and introduced a new form of Hip Hop to parts of the World some of us can't even pronounce. He takes a few years off and not too many people are buzzing about his return. How sad has Hip Hop become?

Eminem is back with a vengeance as he poses for the new XXL Magazine and expresses his opinions on the state of Hip Hop while he was on hiatus.

"I stayed up on the music, and obviously I watch TV and saw what was going on. And without naming any names, it just felt like hip-hop was going downhill. And it seemed like kinda fast. You know, in them three years, it was like everybody just cares about the hook and the beat; nobody really cares about substance. But with this new T.I. album, with this new Lil Wayne album of recent, it seems like things are looking a lot better now. You can appreciate Lil Wayne using different words to rhyme and actually rhyming words that you know. Or T.I., where you hear shit and you're like Whoa, ah, I wish I would have thought of that! You know what I mean? Or you hear all the compound-syllable rhyming and all that. It just seems like now the craft is getting cared about more."

This week's video is:

Eminem - Sing for the Moment