Eminem comes to rescue a group that appeared to be on a collision course and savagely marks the sophomore jinx of the rap supergroup Slaughterhouse, made up of Royce da 5'9", Crooked I, Joell Ortiz, and a dude still far from retirement. Eminem is in charge of mixing, executive producer and lead producer on the record, credited throughout the album. Rhythms are provided by Eminem, Alex da Kid, Hit-Boy, T-Minus, AraabMuzik, No ID, Streetrunner, Sarom, Black Key, Zukhan Bey, Mr. Porter, Boi-1da, Kane Beatz, J-Mike, The Mad Violinist, The Maven Boys, and Matthew Burnett. The guests are, in addition to Slim Shady himself, Skylar Grey, Busta Rhymes, Cee Lo Green and Swizz Beatz.
The lack of ideas was one of the weakest points in the short history of this supergroup, now Eminem brings a lot of new ideas, unfortunately, they're all bad, one worse than the other. The production winks at pop rap and is destined for a commercial album, featuring some of the most insignificant, annoying and hard-to-deal-with beats of the year. It's at a worse level than the music provided in the mixtape published the week before, and you had to work hard to make that worse. Notable moments include Swizz Beatz's "Throw It Away", which for a reason I still don't understand, doesn't suck as much as it should, while Swizz uses ESG's "UFO" sample, and "My Life". "My Life" is beautiful. The hook is fantastic, Cee Lo Green plays his own way of Corona's "The Rhythm of the Night". The beat is beautiful. If you are an EMD fan, because this is an EDM dance pop beat. If you come to this album to hear hip-hop beats, you might be disappointed, it's not exactly the right album.
If the production is very disappointing, the rap is even worse. The Space Jam aliens also came here and stole talent and energy from the three MCs, they also removed budden from most of the album, but the LP can't really return to the right tracks. Guys aren't hardcore anymore. Eminem arrives, sings, talks, almost doesn't rap anymore, the boys imitate him. Nothing is hardcore here and the lyrics are more ridiculous than ever, other than placing hooks that deserve a separate chapter for how annoying, stupid and pointless they are.
Released by Shady and Interscope, it's distributed by Universal and achieves a resounding commercial success: five singles are extracted, the album comes second on the Billboard 200, first among rap records, fourth in Canada. It sells more than 50,000 copies in the first week, then sales stop pretty quickly and the tape doesn't reach RIAA certification. The album becomes their only major release and their last, before disbanding in 2018. An inglorious end to what could have been one of the best hip-hop supergroups of the period. 2/10.
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