Fans are listening to Eminem’s album before its actual release, probably to the chagrin of Interscope and Shady Records. Slim Shady’s highly anticipated Revival LP leaked two days early, though links are getting taken down at a rapid pace.
Due to the rise of streaming, the album leak has become less common than it was just a few years ago. While projects regularly surfaced days or weeks before the release date in the past, it’s now become less of a headache for artists and labels. But if an artist was going to buck that trend, it’s hardly shocking it would be Eminem.
Revival officially drops on Friday (December 15). Eminem’s new album features guest appearances by Beyoncé, PHresher, Kehlani, Skylar Grey, Ed Sheeran, Alicia Keys, P!nk and X Ambassadors.
Check out some first reactions from fans, or some other exclusive Em content from DX:
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Most overrated rapper ever*rap pop artist at it’s finest*Royce always hugging his nuts and when was the last Time his buddy featured him*1st album if memory serves*lmao*enjoy the album stans*rappity rap ass ain’t in the top 20 much less top 5*
Where the link???
Wow, I know it’s a little early to judge, but the first impression I get from this album is really bad.
people are just in a mob mentality about hating on em now . this album is pretty great . dont like it , cool . But this is good music regardless.
As someone who grew up idolizing Eminem back in the 8 Mile days, I can assure you that it is not a mob mentality, the music is genuinely far less impressive than the music he was doing between his underground Bad Meets Evil/Outsidaz days and the Re-Up compilation. If you were a fan as far back as me, you were there when he came back from his drug hiatus, only to be monumentally disappointed by Relapse, which made the expectations for Recovery so low that we took it for what it was despite the pop features by Rihanna and Pink, and were just happy that he ditched the accents, even though it was apparent that the edge was gone. We celebrated the return to “real hip hop” a year later when he did the Bad Meets Evil thing, then 2 years later he promised a sequel to his greatest album MMLP. What he delivered was more of what he did with Recovery, dope lyricism but the edge from his early work was still noticeably absent, and there were even more songs with girls singing the hooks. So far I have only heard 2 songs from the album, but after seeing the tracklist with all the non-hip hop features AGAIN, I think its a very justified combined expression that we are fed up with wanting some shit to work out to and get us pumped like the Eminem Show did, instead of this shit for millenial emo girls to make them imagine themselves finally standing up to their bullies. Maybe there ARE some good songs in it, there’s always one or two (Rap God was the one last go around), but I promise you this is not some case of the blind leading the blind.
Put the keyboard down and listen to it 5 more times before you write anything else. If you idolize him don’t you owe him that at least. Who are you to think you can get an artists work after one quick spin.
I realized to pimp a butterfly was a masterpiece upon first listen*a trained musical ear can judge pretty well after one spin*is it conclusive No*but most times than not my ear is on point*sorry u don’t have tht ability*
K, well of course it’s no TPAB, but frankly that’s not an album I can bump in my truck in the way home from work. That’s nothing you’d ever expect from camp Shady. Revival is a late career rap record from a man with nothing to prove. 2010s Em is about one thing: bars. Let them ferment.
“That’s nothing you’d ever expect from camp shady”.
… but an Eminem album featuring all pop stars is what you’d expect lmao.
TPAB is k.dot bests work from top to bottom it means so much to rap period.
Damage Control. They know the Album wont sell well now they can use this as an excuse why
Oh yea they leaked the album2 days before as damage control… most albums leak way before that smart guy
most albums?? What are you smoking??
Eminem was arguably one of the best to bless the mic but honestly he just needs to retire he has talent but seems to not know how to use he has great MCs on his Label to make one of the best Hip Hop albums but he needs to understand his run is over
Not Good. Sounds like he is repeating the same old Songs with the same recipe but in Bad.
Specially the Rock Song Cover Versions he is doing are horrible. Then the Pop Singer Hooks Song like “Tragic Endings” Thats clearly Love the way you lie part 7. Yikes the Album is no Good. No wonder there are no Videos yet. There are no Singles on it
How many classic rap albums have there been from rappers in their 40s? Get over it people!
Jay z, a tribe called quest, Tech N9ne, cool g rap
THis motherfucker spelled Kool G Rap with a C. Trying to school someone…
How many rappers not hip hop artists make classic records ever? ZERO! I hear dope records from hip hop artists all the time. Rappers have no talent. Being so called hot by the corporation standards, does not mean you have talent. Hip hop artists have skills with or without the radio. When the radio stops playing wack ass rappers, they will die because they were never good. The corporations can only make rappers so called hot but not good. LONG LIVE HIP HOP MUSIC AND DEATH TO THE RAP YEARS 2000-2018!
Patiently waiting on C5!
AROSE is….amazing.
I like a lot of the records on this album. Only a couple weak tracks. But it gets stale half way through. Almost the same subject matter on every track. Album shoulda been titled bitches, women and hoes as that’s what the majority of the records revolve around.
Song with Alicia keys is good, where do u listen to the rest?
This album is terrible. Someone please leak Relapse 2 instead please. Thanks
Not sure what y’all are listening to but this is some good $#it right here. Little bit more mature content but dudes almost 50… wtf do you expect? Ecstasy tabs and corpse ****ing would just sound foolish from a 50 year old.
Look, is it his best? No. Do I like it. Yes. Bad Husband is a new mockingbird dedicated to his undeniable love towards Kim. The Alicia Keys song is a disappointment.. Heat I feel like will be cool on the treadmill.. little bit of White Trash Party meets Shake That meets Superman meets that one song from MMLP2… I just don’t feel Rubin and Eminem together.. this album has a hypnotized feel like “Same song & dance” or “Space Bound” first listen thru I give it a 7/10. It’s just a new element to his story. People don’t want murdering crazy mid 20s Eminem, so he does it, and people are now complaining. I am satisfied. Favs in order
MMLP
Eminem show
SSLP
Recovery
Revival
Encore
MMLP2
Relapse
Infinite
It’s hard album to sit through as a whole, some songs out shine others just cause of wordplay. Not a solid project, no real concept and no real replay value. Sorry look back at past albums this year and this is what he gives us ?
Castle and Arose is classic Eminem that feels like it would have fit well on “Curtain Call”, Framed is a good Slim Shady record but not his best. The rest of the album feels disjointed, not really sure what he wanted to achieve with this release, it sounds like he was inspired by Macklemore with all the pop hooks.
I count 5 songs that I could go back and listen to and 5/19 is terrible for an Eminem album.
Castle and Arose are corny af. Dude actually says he won’t be making it home for Xmas lmfao. Whole thing is garbage start to finish.
I’m sorry but if you think those songs are trash then I fear for the future of hip hop. When telling great stories is bad everything has gone to hell. He was obviously referencing back in the day. I think your taste is garbage because this album is definitely better than his past 3 albums easily.
If “Classic Eminem” is another term for a Song that he already done a dozen times, then I agree. Castle is a mockingbird type of Song and Arose is a “difficult” Copy he even uses the same Voice/Flow on this one, “Tragig Endings” is a Love the way you Lie Song etc. Em said it himself on Guts over fear “How many times can I say the same thing Different ways that rhyme?” He has nothing to say anymore and just makes the same Songs with different Words.
Wow. It’s awful. No real surprise there. Oh well.
“You pop $hit, apologies, just ask KISS”
It’s terrible even by his standards. Retire, Em!
Tragic endings is fire, the album is decent, it’s not trash. Some good tracks on there
I find it insane that every song Em drops, every album, people are hating on it immediately. The single that dropped at midnight, people waited and gave their opinion at 12.01. Have you all not got better things to do? It’s like they can’t wait to hate. This album hasn’t even been released and people saying it’s trash. It’s been leaked about 12 hours! Can you not reserve judgement until then? The lack of constructive criticism is destroying music, because people hate regardless. Are there too little rap features? Yes! Are they too many pop features? Yes! That’s my opinion. It’s not a bad album, especially compared to all the trash trap out now, all sounding identical. But I’ll wait to give it a rating, seeing as I’ve only heard it a couple of times.
Hey mr trap music is trash, Do you realize this album has like 4 trap beats on it with shitty trap flows?!? Your giving people crap for hating on it, but your blindly supporting it while contradicting yourself and setting your standard for Eminem very low because its eminem
“Have you not got betterthingsto do?”… meanwhile your here feeling to need to define eminems crappy album because other people disliking offends you lol. Dude, the album sucks. Eminem will always have his spot in hiphop history, but I wish he’d retire man. Best to ever do it, is say. But terrible now in comparison,
After first listen I’d say for me there are only 2 songs worth replaying “Believe” and “Arose”…maybe “Bad Husband”. I couldn’t make it through some and forgot about the rest immediately after they ended. I wonder if Em has any truly honest people around him. Everyone he has seem to be constantly telling him he’s great. I don’t know who produced what but I can tell a few are Rick Rubin creations and he needs to GO! Too bad he can’t work with the Bass Brothers anymore. They clearly did more than they get credit for. And PLEASE for the love of God stop working with Skylar Gray and her teen angst writing skills.
Of all Eminems past style shifts and evolutions, “Cuckinem” has to be the worst of the bunch. Hearing some idiot who failed the 9th grade 3 times preach about politics and come off sounding like the complete moron that he is was not how i wanted to start my morning. Leave this kind of thing to folks like Chuck D or Zack De La Rocha….. You know, guys who actually understand what they are talking about
You can understand politics quite well without having a formal education. I agree, leave it to guys like Chuck D or Zack De La Rocha (or Killer Mike or countless others), but your reasoning seems off. My grandfather had to drop out of 6th grade to help support his family… and he understands politics better than most people since he’s been paying attention for 50+ years.
There is a big difference between having to drop out to feed your family, and being so stupid you repeat the 9th grade 3 times…. Either way, all this dudes social commentary as of late is just him parroting what he saw on the news. Somebody should sit this dude down and force him to have an in depth political conversation. It would be hilarious and cringe-worthy all at once.
if you honestly find this album appealing, ur a true “stan” and will literally stand by any hot garbage this dude puts out. Don’t get me wrong, i’m a huge eminem fan, will prlly even buy tickets when he tours for nostalgia value n cuz its prlly his last tour. But truly, it’s time to put the mic down, outside a cpl songs, this album is unlistenable, mostly conceptless tracks, and makes my eardrums bleed…this album’s like a 1.5/5
I believe this album represents Eminem perfectly at this point in his career, his audience is not black or white, he sells millions of records worldwide and the music in this album has different vibes to it, Hip Hop, Trap, Rock , Pop, storytelling, Political views, heartfelt songs, funny punchlines and he definitely delivers with this project, i believe this album is 8/10, i understand people wouldn’t like certain type of songs but definitely would like a couple of songs from the album depending on what country you from, this album is great.
And it’s a dumpster fire! It’s a wrap for this guy. Get this Kid Rock 2.0 the f*ck out of here! Can’t believe how terrible this album is?! No longer makes Hip Hop albums. Corny a** Rock/Pop trash!
this album is pretty dope… In Your Head got me singing the hook all day…
Funny how everyone keeps talking bout singing to the hooks..lol what bout the verses
I really liked that track. I’m usually not a fan of overly sampled songs, I’d much prefer an original beat. But he seems to often thrive on them compared to the more pop oriented original beats on the last few albums. It seems as though they produce a beat to go over an already rapped verse and ends up feeling disjointed. Whereas an existing rhythm forces him to stay on beat a bit more.
I havent listened to album yet but i’m a big Em fan. his music has became to be ehh with hit or miss verses what happened to “when i’m gone” em or even “the re-up” “fubba u cubba cubba ” feel like he’s not inspired anymore and his voice cadences kill me sometimes
and i bet its HOT garbage but fans will eat it up and call it the greatest.
Have you been reading the comments? Plus people have been auto showing hate to eminem for the last few years
Trash
On the plus side of things there are some good tracks on here, but this is not a good album most of the songs aren’t very good at all. Alot of this album sounds like its was made for the radio and his newer white Eminem fan base not for people who been listening since the Slim shady LP
Co-Sign. I was secretly hoping while hating that the bonus “hip hop” disc rumor was true. Guess I’ll keep bumpin this Conway More Steroids shit till something better comes along
WOrd fam
Agreed, I dislike about 60% of the album and either like or love the rest. It’s at least enough to not make me give up hope of another good or great album.
This is the most accurate comment here. There are good songs, but few and far between. Another comment is right the Ed Sherren song is dope!! As I listened to it my thought was what do I want to hear again and I only came up with 4.. Been an Em fan since the beginning but with other artist killing it right now (Kendrick, NF, Joyner, J Cole and a few others) I expected it to be on their level and it’s just not. It’s sounded like he tried to make a Rock/Rap album and that just didn’t sound good. Offended is probably the best song if you want old school Em.
This is when I’d love HipHopDX to have login enforced Comments. How many of these negative reviews are newbie trolls mad at Em over Trump.
Wrong. Trump can eat a fat d*ck and so can this Pop/Rock album. Sh*t is complete garbage Kid Rock 2.0 nonsense! Em is finished.
Em is finished….Em is about to go Platinum again, but you have your say!
Don’t care what anybody says but I hated “Walk on Water” and “Untouchable”. This album is awesome and has more old school Eminem than his past 3 albums. I actually like those songs now because I heard the whole album. If he never said a thing about Trump everyone would be eating this album and loving every second. That’s the power of Trump though.
Nope. The Trump thing is just an excuse. Most people here dont f*ck with em for years.
Is there anything people won’t blame Trump for?…Em been wack for a decade ( and the masses have said this) but its becuz he dissed Trump that people are “hating” on this album. With everyday that passes my disgust for Trump lessens due to all the whinebags who are so unreasonable. I bet there’s so many people who defend Trump out of pure hatred for unreasonable whinebags
lol so back when everyone called relapse trash, that was because of trump rightttttt? Stans can’t believe that many Eminem fans simply don’t like his new music… fact is nearly all of the old rappers suck now. Eminem is lame now, ice cube sucks, jayz is not nearly as good as he was, DMX fell off a decade ago, dr dress last album was average, but terrible for a reputatiOn as amazing as his, snoop sucks… for over a decade, ludcaris isn’t dope for years…. in all honesty, one of the few older rappers I still vibe with is 50 cent…
Listened to the album last night .
Eminem is now way to sheltered from the world and is just too straight.
The delivery doesn’t sound right, and when I heard him on the new album try flow like Migos, that was enough for me.
I love Eminem. But this album is a flop.
This is a far cry from a Hip Hop Album.
i previously stated that I think this album’s terrible, but I will say that I think “river” is possibly one of em’s best songs. Between the storyline and honesty, and ed sheeran’s hook (who I believe to b one of the most talented artists out, beside writing one direction into fame, and all of his albums, and the slumden bridge ep he did with yelawolf) I think that song is the cleanest sounding track on the album, bad husband and a cpl others r okay, album sucks, but that song’s dope…n jus cuz there’s ppl on here saying ppl r hating cuz of the trump ish…FUCC trump…n FUCC most of this album
hey man this is so cool. eminem is so awesome. i hope you all agree and would like to have a discussion about this matter.
I hated the last two albums. I’m actually feeling this. Honestly he shouldn’t have released singles. As one cohesive body of music Revival is a good album. His fucking flow is amazing on this album.
Album is dope. Yeah a few songs were mehh. This album is 99% better than the shit that’s out. Let’s enjoy a great artist who’s trying his best to please all the fans. Even the so called pop songs still bang. Bad husband is fire. Oh yeah I’m a 35yrs old STAN; haters!!!
Well your either super old, em extremely ignorant for a young man, because I found that crappy album in less than two minutes… hint, it won’t be on mainstream websites that block copyrighted content…. common sense ain’t ain’t so common.
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