Eminem just pulled one over on his fans on Thursday night (August 30) when he released Kamikaze with absolutely no warning whatsoever.
The 13-track album features Joyner Lucas and Royce Da 5’9 and addresses topics such as the negative reactions to his last album Revival, the dissolution of D12 and his opinions on mumble rap.
The cover art itself pays homage to Beastie Boys’ seminal rap album, 1986’s License To Ill.
Of course, Twitter exploded with a range of emotions — from excitement and disbelief to confusion and shock. But, evidently Shady is back.
Check out some of the best reactions below.
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Okay, okay then. *slow clapping noise
Im Curiousssssss (ol skool classic)
You ever played a video game and beat it and unlocked everything, squashed everybody u played against? Eminem rapping now is equivalent to u you deciding to play that game again..
This!! Lmao
FIRE!!! Best Rap Album period!!!
Been dissapointed at every eminem album since relapse, but man im feeling this! And NO POP FEATURES
Damage Control. He almost killed his career with Revival. Wont acknowledge that as an honest attempt to do the right he had to do it to save his ass. Hip Hop gave up on him
Did u listen to Kamikaze before commenting? He states many times that revival was trash and he will take the L.
He doesn’t listen, just skim through the music. Trap rap and mumble shit has effected the mind of listening to good artists.
He didnt realize it before dropping it though. He thought the album was dope before the first reactions came out otherwise he wouldnt released it.
Mind Blown with 50 grenades. Em comes out of 3 albums of horseshit and drops an absolute beast of an album. This shit just made me love rap again.
Shit is gonna be wack as hell, like everything he’s put out for the last 15 years.
Wrong – charlie murphy
Completely wrong. Go die
You have no idea how wrong you are.
This shit is hilarious…dude got all butthurt people checked him for that trash album and now he pretty much acknowledges it…After a quick listen it shits on Revival, but give it time to marinate cuz the bar was very low. He should’ve kept his mouth shut and took the criticism then dropped this…instead he got all in his feelings cuz he thought people were hating cuz of the Trump shit, when it was just the fact that he dropped a shit bomb of wack music. He obviously realizes this now…his temper tantrum rivals what whinebag Nikki Minaj is doing right now.
Y’all want to see people fail soo bad. It’s not even that serious. Nikki had a full on meltdown over her shit. It seems like Em knew he put out a bad album so he made a better one. That’s it.
Just from a strategic standpoint: Joe needs to call Parks and drop a response, only for the sake of his podcast and media presence. He would skyrocket immediately!!
Brilliant. #goat
Joe Budden would body bag Em, that shit was lyrically weak as fuck. Dissing him on his birthday too, pathetic as fuck. Your times done Em, last album flopped so now it’s back to dissing everybody to get some attention fuck outta here.
Oh no. Not on his birthday. How dare he? FOH
Man you’re either not a true hip hop fan or got a major problem! If this shit is wack then what’s fire?! I think the one that needs to get the F outta here!
Yo, you remember Joe Budden did nothing till Em blessed the guy right? Granted, Slaughterhouse was a mess, and Ems last album is trash, but HipHop has been going down hill lately, he’s right, it’s going through this wak Hair Metal phase like rock did in the late 80’s.
Go back to worshipping Kanye on Twitter while he destroys our culture broski.
Cool, I haven’t heard the album yet but I heard he’s spitting. Just delete the Revival album and pretend it never happened because that sh!t was trash.
Eminem’s “Kamikaze” Surprise Turns Twitter Into A Madhouse no the title should be SLIM SHADY’S “Kamikaze” Surprise Turns Twitter Into A Madhouse
– corny black guy impersonator
– Guest in the house of hiphop
Man this comment is for real hip hop fans and not for the wannabes… if you say Revival was dope then you got a problem… and if you say Kamikaze ain’t the album of the year then you got a bigger problem…. daaaaamn hip hop fans really need this! All hip hop albums that’s been coming out and surprisingly selling are straight up garbage! Thanks Em that was a fat ass meal of straight up fire lyrics and beats which is what real hip hop is all about.
Eminem stole Twista’s album name. Twista is underrated and would rap circles around Eminem.
Twistas Kamikaze is a classic. However, he stole that name from Japan. And Japan is underrated and would rap circles around Twista.
Being able to chop doesn’t mean your great. Twista don’t want none of that, and niether does anyone else.
fake ass comments pretending this shit is good, is as boring as always
This is what happenned. Revival was Eminem making the mistake of embracing the establishment of music…he lost his way, nothing new, it’s happenned to lots of artist all throughout history. Folks that came from nothing become entitled, and lose the flame. Especially Em cause his whole thing was having a struggle, & the anger.
Having a flop album working with the establishment is the best thing that ever happened to Em since he got signed because it gifted him with renewed inspirarion as an artist. There’s nothing like losing your throne to remind you what it means to you, & he was also reminded that the music industry is full of shit, fake artist, & bad advice. Even Hot97 says artist plays on the net are inflated. So wtf is anything in the HipHop game anymore? Just bullshit, he’s right. #Flame
That the album is titled Kamikaze is actually perfect. Because he dropped it out of nowhere with the goal of doing as much damage as possible to everybody he’s hating on, including himself. Fucking dope. He just don’t give a fuck, again. And he got the sickest bars, non radio beats and the project is not too long.
For all you who say kamikaze is trash keep in mind this album went #1 in 70 effing countrys