What’s up mandem, it’s CDTVProducions back from London and back on making them video
tings.
(Please don’t block me again Shawn Cee).
And today we are gonna be looking at what I think the 10 worst Eminem Songs are, but
the interesting Lil spin is I’ve excluded every song from Encore, otherwise this list
would be too easy to make.
So let’s get right into it, you can follow me on Instagram under the name CDTVProductions
and let’s look at the 10 worst Eminem Songs, not On Encore.
10 - Eminem - Say What You Say (feat.
Dr Dre)
The Eminem Show is a top 3 Eminem album for me, but this is one of the very rare bad moves
on that project.
Which is weird considering it’s a collab between Eminem and Dr Dre, especially when
they’re both rapping, but maybe that’s what set my expectations so high for it, and
this track did not meet those expectations.
It’s always good to hear Eminem over a Dre beat, but this one just sounds a little bit
too obtuse and clunky that it doesn’t really come across as a strong instrumental.
As for it’s content, it’s got some decent bars dissing Jermaine Dupri, but on an album
so packed full of content it kinda stands out as a song that isn’t really laser focused
on a topic.
I feel like if you like this song, you will really enjoy every part of its run time, but
if you don’t like it, you’ll probably feel like the track runs a bit too long.
Eminem and Dr Dre are absolutely incredible solo and together, but I think they missed
the mark with this song.
9 - Eminem - Must Be The G@nj@
This song, like many others on here, has a pretty cool hook, but it’s probably the
least energetic Eminem sounded on Relapse.
He sounds so bored on this track, as if he’s just delivering his bars to get the song finished
and out of the way.
That’s a commonality you’ll find with a few songs on this list, on the rare occasions
where Eminem delivers his vocals in a bored fashion, it usually never produces a good
result.
It’s really a shame, because the hazy, sinister beat on this song is so well suited to the
serial killer persona Eminem was trying to portray on Relapse, and Eminem kinda matches
this vibe lyrically, but there’s no zaniness or personality to make it a notable track.
I guess that’s what annoys me, this song has so much potential, and that potential
was untapped.
8 - Eminem - Come On Everybody
I didn’t really realise how incredibly solid the tracklist for the Slim Shady LP was until
I tried to look for bad songs on there.
And honestly this one is the only one on there that I think is bad enough to have on here.
I’ve never really liked this song, and I’ve always felt it conveys the least fun on the
Slim Shady LP, despite it still having some entertaining lyrics.
One of the main reasons for this lack of fun is the beat for me.
There’s nothing wrong with having a simple or stripped down beat, but this one just isn’t
anything interesting.
The majority of it is just a drum pattern and a bass line, and it doesn’t alter too
much from that.
In my opinion, it’s just fairly boring.
Eminem describes this at the start as his “dance song”, so maybe that’s why it
just stands out as nothing special, it’s just super un-interesting.
7 - Eminem - Taking My Ball
This song was basically all the juvenile stuff from Relapse, amplified by 10 but minus most
of the wittiness.
That’s probably the most accurate way to summarise this.
Now part of me enjoys this song because there’s something about the beat and hook that is
somewhat catchy, but as always there’s the accent and nothing he’s rapping about has
a purpose here.
It feels like a song that we’ve already heard from Em before.
And some of these lyrics just really made me question myself as an Eminem fan, when
he mentions things like shoving diamonds up his ass, shoving toy trucks up someone else’s
ass, that someone else being a kid, it’s just not something I can vibe with.
The only thing I thought was really nice was the “Sarah Pailin/Parasailing” wordplay.
There’s not really anything that ties the verses together narratively, and it just leaves
me thinking that it’s a song that really has no place on an album from my favourite
rapper.
6 - Eminem - Nowhere Fast (feat.
Kehlani)
I didn’t like this song when I first heard it, and the extended version really didn’t
help it out.
So I’m putting both versions of the song here.
For the original, it just comes across as such an insanely directionless song that isn’t
really about anything.
I spoke about this in length in my track by track review of Revival, but what is this
song actually about?
I
still feel that way to this day.
The beat sounds kinda cheap with these really fast paced synthetic sounding strings, and
the extended version did not help at all.
It started out promising when Eminem added an 8 bar verse about gun control, and I thought,
ok he’s gonna remix this song that originally had no theme, and make it all about gun control
right?
Well no, it’s literally just 8 goddamn bars and the rest of the song is the same directionless
verses from the original.
I was genuinely upset when I first heard it, here’s what happened when I tried to record
my reaction to the extended version of this track.
As you
can see, I wasn’t very happy.
5 - Eminem - We Made You
I’ll always wonder why this song was chosen to be a single from Relapse, and I guess I’m
even more surprised that it performed really well commercially.
Then again, Revival went number one.
Now look, I usually very much enjoy Eminem’s more fun and erratic songs, such as Without
Me or My Name Is, but something about this one just doesn’t connect.
And honestly, I think the biggest issue with it is the exact same issue most of Relapse
had.
The accent he puts on here is just not fun to listen to.
This song does have decent elements, such as the rhyming which is always a strong point
from Eminem, and the lively beat has a really fun sound to it, but Eminem just doesn’t
hold up on here.
It’s like he tried to revive his Slim Shady persona with a bit of a new spin on how he
sounds, but it’s an unsuccessful attempt at doing that.
Eminem has a great knack for making stuff sound really catchy when it should be annoying,
but this song is annoying over catchy in my opinion.
4 - Eminem - Tragic Endings (feat.
Skylar Grey)
There’s no way that more songs from Revival weren’t gonna be on here, and I’ve chose
this one as my second pick from it.
Now interestingly, this song sounded like something from Recovery which is an album
I personally really enjoy.
But the problem is, it sounds exactly like a Recovery track, and that’s not what I
wanna hear.
It’s so interchangeable with the other poppy songs on that album, and comes off as a throwaway
from that project.
It’s got the same angry type of delivery, and it’s got really non-specific lyrics
about a relationship.
Not to mention, the strangest thing is that Eminem’s vocal mixing really sounds poor
on this song, and that is something I can’t rap my head about.
Like how can the most popular rapper in the world not get a good vocal mix, it’s insane.
The vocals are just laid on a bit too thick and don’t
really come through as clear.
Skylar Grey puts in a fantastic vocal performance on this song, but that’s not enough to save
this from sounding so passionless, and like I said this just ends up sounding like something
from the Recovery cutting room floor.
3 - Eminem - Heat
And following right up after that with my least favourite song from Revival, we have
Heat.
This actually sounds quite a bit like Remind Me from the same album, it has the Rick Rubin
produced rock rap beat, Eminem pointlessly rapping about hot women, but this one definitely
tops Remind Me in the cringe factor.
i could make a 10 Worst Eminem lyrics video from this song alone if I wanted to.
I just don’t know why this song happened honestly.
And I usually hate when people bring this up, but it particularly stood out to me that
Eminem sounded like a super out of touch 40 year old man on this song.
If you make it through this song without folding into a ball of cringe, I salute you honestly.
2 - Eminem "G.O.A.T."
So I decided to only pick one song that was leaked and not officially released by Eminem,
and as you can see the song I have picked is G.O.A.T.
This one was honestly an easy choice for me, in my opinion there’s almost nothing good
about this one.
The hook on this is so bad, it sounds like someone just hammered back 10 jäger bombs
and then tried to explain what the term GOAT means.
His flow on the verses really isn’t that bad, it’s decent, but he just sounds completely
unmotivated as the lyrics really aren’t anything special and his delivery is so downtrodden.
In the second verse in particular, he just kinda rambles on about white rappers and him
being the best one, and it just sounds so poorly thought out.
From someone who usually has so much impact with his lyrics, it’s just kinda sad to
hear.
The beat is just as uninspired as the lyrics, and it’s just difficult to listen to.
And also, it’s just very ironic that one of Eminem’s weakest performances came on
a song where he brags about his greatest of all time status.
Now obviously this song can be explained by Eminem’s severe drug issue at the time of
this being recorded, but I think I can say I’m glad Eminem never officially released
this song.
1 - Eminem "Fack"
Pretty obvious choice here, but it’s really hard for me to not put it at number 1.
Now I know I’m gonna get those comments that this is intentionally bad, but does that
make it any less worse?
No.
If hearing Eminem literally have an O-gasm in your ear is your thing, by all means you
can enjoy this song, but I only really enjoyed this song when I was a kid, which is a sentence
I didn’t realise was disturbing until I said it out loud.
I’m really not a fan now.
I will say, it’s oddly respectable in a way that Eminem could kick off his greatest
hits album with this song, a song that is essentially a troll, and meant to be bad,
but that is the only thing I can kind of commend it on.
That nasally delivery Eminem uses at parts of the song is so unbearable, and also did
I mention the song is literally about Eminem coming a lot?
If that wasn’t enough, we end the song with him shoving a gerbil up his @$s, and we get
to hear every single detail about the experience, with Eminem making these really wet licking
sounds into the microphone when he talks about it.
I guess I’m slightly happy that this was made, because it was an easy choice for number
1, but there’s not many other positives either.
This song actually makes me want to never ejac ever again in my life, i think I’m
gonna become celibate guys.
Otherwise, every time I bust a nut im just gonna hear Eminem making that really wet sound
into the microphone.
That’s how much I dislike this song.
It’s made me give up one
of the joys of life.