We had a whole lot of superstars on this stage here tonight. But this is… Papoose's house? We're all still reeling that the 20th anniversary of Hip-Hop's Super Bowl featured the Nacirema Dream as a headliner. Damn you Kendrick Lamar and your generous ways. Yeah it's hip-hop to bum rush the show but c'mon Pap you know you didn't deserve that look. And you gave even less fucks by performing a new song. C'mon fam. You've paid a lot of dues through the years but this was the big dawg time in the program. Don't disrespect the game in your pursuit for fame. Oh well, Brooklyn took it. 
Speaking of BK, Fab had a master plan of bringing Lil Kim and Foxy Brown back together again. But when it was time to make history, Fox Boogie was nowhere to be found. Where was you at? Wack.
Bob Marley had it. And now, redemption belongs to Eminem. After leaving fans and critics bewildered with Relapse, he got back to rap and exercised his demons with Recovery. From the opening whistle, Em knocks it out the park. Haunting pianos shield “Cold Wind Blows,” while apocalyptic drums create the backdrop for “Won’t Back Down”. On a lyrical front, Em’s pen is still on point. His signature wit and rapid flows ignite “On Fire”, lure “Seduction” and push Lil Wayne (“No Love”) . But truly, Recovery’s secret weapon is its universal appeal. Led by “Not Afraid”, Em tapped into a space that he hadn’t been heard in since 2002′s “Lose Yourself”. Later he satisfied his forgetten female core with “Love The Way You Lie.” Too bad haters can’t handle the truth.
Who wants to bet that garbage known as Teflon Don will be #2??????????? JOKE!!!
KANYE IS ONE FOR SURE.
This album would have been so much better if Em didn’t have that shitty accent…
Wont Back Down was the only banger IMO
Teflon Don is better and Kanye is obviously #1
Worst single should be “Under Pressure” UGH
this shIt got no replay value.
HANDS DOWN THE WORST EMINEM ALBUM.
RELAPSE WAS MUCH MORE FUN TO LISTEN TO.
BUT YN AND B.DOT ARE RETARDED, PLEASE CUT THEM SOME SLACK.
ehhhh id say this belongs around #5-#6. wasnt that hot and not afraid was mad homo
It’s “Lose Yourself” not “Lose Your Self”. Either way, this album was fantastic.
Teflon Don absolutely deserves to be in the top 2. I’m glad that they didn’t just give Em one of those spots cause Ye and Ross’ albums definitely get more bump in the streets. Can’t knock Em though. This is so good that people are calling it his “comeback” album and choose to forget Relapse…
Teflon Don > Recovery
The Eminem Super-Stans must be Super-Sick right now…
@Mook What accent? He has no accents on this album. You are thinking about Relapse. And Officer Ross? Please. Kanye is dope but Recovery is better than all Hip Hop albums of 2010 IMO.
People don’t realize what eminem really did on this album. the only think that was bad abt it was the executive production. also he and dre are meant for each other. we need more doc dre.
That’s bullshit.. If Teflon Don is ahead of Recovery, I’m leaving this site for good
Either way, this album was fantastic.
^
Never say fantastic on a rap blog you fucking nerd.
@ Mook, it wasn’t a single. It was an unfinished song with no damn hook that got leaked.
I think you can’t handle the truth. Recovery was just not that good. I admit, it has a few bangers on it. You just can’t listen to whole album.
@Gabriel …of course it’s better than any albums released this year in your opinion because you don’t know rap.
EMINEM NUMBER ONE. RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM. FUCK OFFICER ROSS. EMINEM – BEST ALBUM OF 2010.
Didn’t Yn get fired from XXL?
hahahahaha
FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!
even if this was Em’s worst album, it STILL shitted on any other rap album out this year!!
Yes, Teflon Don was such a banger that it barely sold 500k in 6 months compared to 3+ million copies of Relapse.
Men lie. Women lie. Numbers don’t.
@Dashing yall kill me with that in the streets shit. Stop trying to hold rap back. That shit is universal. Take away Ross beats and he’s done. Tell me im wrong
RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…RUSSIA VOTE FOR EMINEM…
I liked the album better than Relapse,
I get tired of Eminem rapping about sticking shit up his ass and nose and shit. This album was more mature and grown up. All that crazy psycho shit was getting irritating. Music has to grow with the person
And i would listen to the album more if he didn’t sing so damn much, it got kinda annoying.
But i liked like 6 songs outta the whole album
Don’t hurt me stans lol.
@Dashing…BULLSHIT! It was a single…they leaked it to see if it would get a could response…it didn’t…so they scraped it! No different from artist that change singles to “promotional singles”…(see Young Jeezy’s “Jizzle” and “All White Everything”
Kanye shouldn’t be number one he barely raps on his fuckin album! His fantasy shit is fuckin overrated.
Album was trash
My only question is whose nuts will RR be on once Officer Ricky’s next album flops harder than Triple Cs and Waka’s ignorant ass goes to jail?????? The suspense is killing me!!!
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This was my fav album of 2010, if i had to put album infront of this one i would kanye and thas it teflon is not better then recovery to many features. But kanyes album can stand head to head with eminem they both even to me
Yes, Teflon Don was such a banger that it barely sold 500k in 6 months compared to 3+ million copies of Relapse.
Men lie. Women lie. Numbers don’t.
^ Cause white people buy albums. Duh. Eminem has little 10 year old white fans who parents have their credit card connected with their itunes accounts and probably bought the album over and over. FOH you don’t know shit. LOL Kanye is the king of this shit and thats why Em is here in the 3rd spot
GOD WHY SO MANY RETARDS ON THIS BLOG BUT YEAH EMINEMS RECOVERY RESTORED MY FAITH I THOUGHT HE LOST HIS TOUCH AGYER RELAPSE I HOPE THE NEXT EM ALBUM WILL BE MORE SLIM SHADY BECAUSE HES BACK ON POINT JUST LISTEN TO HIS WESTWOOD FREESTYLE ITS RAW
Anyway I agree with Kanye’s Dark Twisted being number one even though i’m not really a Kanye fan
i think u guys got this list some right em’s album, was not better than telfon don. rozay had fukin bangers though it was short. he was short and to the point. i felt this album had some fillers which kept it from its true greatness
i think Em should get the 2 spot behing Yeezy and Teflon Don should be #3…Ross had BMF, Aston Martin Music, and Free Mason but if u rly listen to ems album i think it has a better overall quality of a hip hop album
co-sign @dashing.
i’d basically say the same. no need to type tons of shit for the hell of it. ye n ross.
@Mook nigga you gotta know that Em has a bigger black fan base than Ross. Believe that
This album was not that dope. I don’t understand why everyone jocked the shit out of it. I’m an Eminem fan, and his last two albums haven’t been worthy of driving my fat white ass to the store to go get. This album is nothing but him whining about how he shouldn’t be here, how drugs are bad how much he’s glad he’s ok. He got one thing right though, at one point on one of the songs he said something along the lines of fuck my last album, i threw that shit in the trash. Guess what, so did I.
Where is the just don’t give a fuck em?
Where is the I’m a soldier em?
Where is the till I collapse em?
Bring that shit back and I’ll be a fan once again, till then keep making wack songs like top back with Nas, another rapper who’s been faking the funk lately.
@Mook
Total cop out argument. Everyone buys albums. Rap is becoming universal now – white, black, yellow, whatever. Statements like those are what holds it back!
Yo def a top 5 album but im glad it’s not #1
@weazel you’re right but the only thing niggas like Mook and Dashing look at is what banging in the street. If you go cadence for cadence subject matter for subject matter and voice control for voice control Em wins. But niggas don’t really wanna go there. Anyone?
@Mook 1. Biggie 2. Eminem 3. Tupac 4. Big L 5. Big Pun 6. Nas 7. Lloyd Banks 8. Jay-Z 9. Big Daddy Kane 10. Kool G Rap … I know Hip Hop. You are right, I don’t know rap.
This Album Sucked Major Balls
Sales don’t mean shit! Pink Friday sold more than Teflon Don does that mean it’s better? Tha Carter 3 sold more than Tha Carter 2 does that means it’s better? Sales mean nothing take your numbers to another site that actually gives a fuck
@Nadrojj this is the most valid argument I’ve heard all day
Anybody who like MM LP or Slim Shady LP can’t be happy with Recovery.
White people don’t love hip-hop.
They just love Eminem.
The buy whatever he puts out, no matter how wack it is.
Just look at Encore.
@thank me hater
i seriously doubt that, lol. the masses of black people are huddled up in inner cities and lil areas of metropolitan cities, where the culture is strongest. eminem’s affect on THAT culture is non-existent. ross’s brand speaks particularly to things niggas in these spaces either aspire to, can identify with, or are at least familiar with/hip too.
ems fan base is primarily where ross’s ain’t. which is also where black people are most scarce. whether you bought teflon do or not, if you’re a nigga you couldn’t escape that nigga’s album in 2010.
@MR October i completely agree…yeah teflon don was a good album but because rick ross is “street” (er so he claims) people havent seen a street hip hop album get the recognition as 50′s get rich er die trying and they expect it to be better than ems because he talks about his personal life? em has the syllables, flow, word play, and even the sales and radio over officer ricky
Album of the year, fuck the haters.
NIggas is bragging about album sales thats like me bragging about Em’s albums reviews….Em has a metacritic score of 62…and Thank Me Later has a score of 75…NOW WHAT?