If it’s stronger than his last album, Encore, that’s because Em’s doing what he does best: cleaning out his closet. Relapse is like a hip-hop version of Richard Pryor’s Live on the Sunset Strip, the classic 1982 stand-up flick where Pryor makes the audience squirm through jokes about freebase addiction and setting himself on fire. It’s hard to keep all the drugs on this album straight, but that’s probably the point. Relapse, Em’s first album in nearly five years, is studded with brand names, but not Lexus or Cristal - more like Lunesta, Ambien, Vicodin, Valium, NyQuil and other brain candy that helped Marshall Mathers turn himself into a zombie, before he got clean last year. “I fall in bed with a bottle of meds and a Heath Ledger bobblehead” doesn’t even begin to cover it. So how did Eminem spend his time off? Drugs, mostly.
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