But backlash hit, as it always does, and even if Revival sold well-and it did-Em took the dearth of critical acclaim for the project as a loss. Even if the music wasn’t there, it was clear that Em was trying to take a stand. ![]() Revival might have been an overlong, schlocky mess of an album, but it had a few moments where it felt like Em was maturing the sober recollections of his addiction on “Castle” and “Arose,” and especially the caustic anti-Trump anthem, “Like Home,” on which Em offered support to disenfranchised trans veterans. That’s always been part of what draws people to him. Look: Eminem has made a career out of clinging to his adolescence. It’s a line that stings for a lot of reasons, but mostly because Tyler recently came out, however tenuously, as a gay man. ![]() Maybe the most miserable moment on Kamikaze, Eminem’s tenth studio album and second in as many years, comes on its tenth track, “Fall.” Atlanta skronk-rap wizard Mike Will provides an honestly gorgeous beat with a spare, pinball-ing synth lead and 808s that split the difference between trap and boom-bap Justin Vernon does his Auto-Tuned falsetto and murmurs the album’s best hook and then Eminem decides that even though he’s a straight, white, cisgender, 45-year-old man, it’s still cool for him to call Tyler, the Creator, who didn’t like Em’s (terrible) 2017 single, “Walk on Water,” a faggot.
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