Gonna post this here for any further comments: no this was not my normal 30-40 minute full breakdown. This was a bonus request for a Patreon fan and I wanted to try something a little shorter while mixing in elements of breakdown and picking out more specific parts to discuss. I’ve been told to rest my voice for the next few days so decided to still give you guys content and share something that is normally exclusively on Patreon. Hope you guys still enjoy it 🙌
knox, i'm actually surprised you didn't get this! but i don't blame you , Eminem is wild. So, when he says " I'm the the kind of guy that's mild but might flip and get a little bit wilder", it's referring to how when you flip "m" it becomes a "w". so " mild " becomes " Wild" , you get what i mean? it took me a few listens to get that, but you're doing great my brother! all my love homie
I would also say, mild to wild as in wing temperatures on a menu from Buffalo Wild Wings. Flip em in the sauce. Also he could have foreshadowing for Buffalo Bill a song he has on the extended version of this album. But we wouldn't be surprised if thats the intention 🤣
Holy fuck dude I’ve listened to this song so many times cause I’m a Stan and relapse is my favorite album and I didn’t even clock this till now, now I just feel dumb lol. Thanks for pointing it out homie
i think it's underrated because of where eminem's career was at the time... people really didn't want slim shady back... if he released this earlier around sslp, it would've been critically acclaimed... only us eminem stans and rap fans who really appreciate actual rap skills appreciated it from the beginning lol
It really is!! Revival is as well. Both albums have grown on me throughout the years when initially I thought they were meh.. I only liked like 40% of the song but now I like most of them if not all.
I always "defended" the hate towards the lyrics by basically saying that this is a form of art, think of it this way, if this was a script for a horror movie, it would be praised for how crazy it went.. This is a form of writing, but the ability shown here that blew my mind is sticking to sound throughout the the verses, every verse matches almost entirely line by line, that's brilliant writing skills right there.
Its all just writing. Ive never understood why people attack EM when there are show and movie writers that write just as bad of shit into their stories...some recent examples are YOU, and Squid Games. Some older examples are Saw, and Devils Rejects....theres so many and people rarely try to cancel these writers. Also I'm not hating on any of these shows or movies just making an example. I judge on real life actions not fictitious story or song writing.
💯 THANK YOU!! This isn’t Marshall Mathers. It’s “shady” or “em” or whatever he calls his alter ego. Exactly as someone earlier commented. This is a fictional story. I don’t get why he gets so much hate for these “evil” songs when it’s clearly just fiction. Nobody ripped Biggie Smalls when this happened: “When I get dusted, I like to spread the blood like mustard Trust it, my hardcore rain leaves you rusted Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, huh Leave your toothless, you'll kibbitz, I'll flip it Tears don't affect me, I hit 'em with the TEC G's disrespect me, my potency is deadly I'm shootin' babies, no ifs ands or maybes Hit mummy in the tummy if the hooker plays a dummy Slit the wrist of little sis After she sucked the dick, I stabbed her brother with the icepick Because he wanted me to fuck him from the back But Smalls don't get down like that Found your father hidin' in a room, fucked him with the broom Slit him down the back and threw salt in the wound” That’s lyrically amazing and horrendously gross and offensive and in those days it wasn’t meant to be clearly fictional. It was part of the mythos of rap that they were slanging drugs and killing gangsters and objectifying and abusing women. Jigga, Mobb Deep, Wu tang, Immortal Technique and Big pun all did this and never got shit from hip hop fans. Yes old kinda racist white people complained about the lyrics, same as they did with Rock and roll, Marilyn Manson and video games and blamed the country’s problems on these things because it’s easy to blame something you don’t get. But real hip hop fans seem to have a sub group who’s only job is checking that Em never writes a line that doesn’t match up factually with his life. “They say I can’t rap about being broke no more, they didn’t say I couldn’t rap about come no more”. That was his second album I believe and already he was being told he had to stop rapping about hard times. We have a billionaire rapper who still talks about the struggles of the street and growing up in Brooklyn. I’m just gonna say it, this is a race issue. Even though rap is about truth and storytelling and then all the skills and delivery, flow, rhyming, puns, doubles and triples I can’t think of another rapper under that kind of scrutiny. Just as I enjoy a great horror movie or a Comedy I enjoy when Em lets Shady take the pen and sometimes I want to listen to some funny rap, lil dicky, Flynt Flossy, lonely island. They all have real talent and could maybe be mainstream if they pretended to be street or have cred. But they are real MCs and could all write more serious bars and maybe get bigger but they are true to themselves and that’s why they are real rappers. My only rule if you wanna be a rapper is don’t pretend, don’t rap about things you didn’t experience or even worse make a fake backstory about how “hard” they are.
It really is like a horror slasher movie, not everyone is going to be into it, and that's understandable, but you simply can't deny how good Em is. This is a masterful song whether you like the subject matter or not.
Definitely slept on that second verse. Em held an 8-12 syllable rhyme pattern through the entire verse while telling that psycho story of his lol. Legendary display of rhyme skill
Yeah that was the only reason I really watched this was to see somebody catch that 2nd verse scheme. Glad you did though! Lol. Em was definitely on one when he put that together haha.
No he didn't lol. So dark and so cold, my friends don't know this other side of me There's a monster inside of me, it's quite ugly and it frightens me But they can't see what I can see, there's a vacancy in my tummy First three lines there champ. There's a lot of internal e rhymes but it's not 8-12 syllable patterns. 'Side of me' 'inside of me' 'frightens me' don't really count when it's all 'me' - that's the same word lol. 'Me' in fact is repeated a ton throughout this verse and you want to credit it as him rhyming entire sentences? No lol. There's really good rhymes and schemes but you guys are out here in the comments stretching
I think it fried his Brain xD Looking into his eyes at that part, as soon as it hit like 5 lines of perfect 1:1 rhyme scheme, every line made him look a little more Braindead
The thing about this album is that, unlike most em songs, it's not about what he's saying as much as how he says it. He is testing the limits of what subject matter you'll listen to if he rhymes you to death to make it sound good. Really genius
I always compare Relapse to Eminem doing a theater play all by himself. On " Insane" He is literally playing a whole family by himself caught in an incest scandal while he is narrating the story as his older self still playing his younger self and both parents. That is just crazy
relapse goes hard while telling great "movie type" stories. pure entertainment!!! the beats and cadence are outstanding!!! you cant help bopping to ever song almost!!!
@@CrazeeAdam Exactly my feelings, this should've been MTBMB. This album is the darkest shit I've ever heard. I am a new fan so my favorites are changing every few days but imo every album by Em has a different place, no album can be compared with others or to any other artist's work it would be blasphemy
This was a great horror core album, and was honestly the reemergence of slim shady. Possibly only exists bc of the death of proof and the fact he did relapse and was going through an extremely difficult time. Sslp 2 in my book.
He wasn't on drugs during relapse he was flushing them out, said he had to relearn to rap again so this was him playing around with the rhymes, and said the accents helped him bend words to fit the rhymes. Relapse is highly underrated, different, but still fire. You should do "must be the ganja" next.
This is a classic example of rhyming in a rap song. Young and aspiring rappers should take note from this Em song. Em just brilliantly showcased the use of internal rhymes, external rhymes and the holorimes. His extraordinary writing takes the song to a whole another level. And the meta references used in this song was just outstanding. One of the best songs of Em and one of my all favorites.
“Stay Wide Awake” is off of Relapse, back in 2009, when he was just coming out of many years away, when he almost died from addiction to pills. He said he had writers block for a couple of years and just couldn’t rhyme anymore. It took him a long time to be able to write when sober. Relapse was him going WACKO, and while there are times when you can tell he’s not at full capacity yet - “Stay Wide Awake” shows what he can do, even when he’s coming out of a fog. The second verse of “Stay Wide Awake” is so crazy and what’s funny is the lyrics are so fucked up but nobody cares because they’re too busy counting the rhymes and pointing out schemes. Now in the other two verses, there’s a loose A-A-A B-B-B and etc. format, each separate thought ending with the same sound and this gives it a very creepy chant-y vibe. But the second verse is different and radically so. First of all, every single line ends with an “ee” sound, an identical rhyme sustained throughout - which makes it sound terrifying. Like you’re trapped with some wild animal. Or like it’s the sound of your own screams, if you were the victim, and the rapist/killer is mocking you. Sorry, I know it’s gnarly, just telling you what I hear. beyond his horrorcore imagination unleashed - is Eminem coming out of an anguished period of writers’ block, sober for the first time since he was a teenager, scared, under pressure and challenging himself to hear the rhymes again, to hear more rhymes, to discover more sounds, to break down words into tinier parts and rhyme those parts, to find more patterns, because you can bet that he, too, saw those vertical shapes, the rhymes stacked up on top of each other, making beautiful symmetrical columns of words. He was finding his way back and also forward.
For me, I liked every song I heard from Relapse. I even replayed this one and replayed it a couple of times and even rapped along. But of course, everyone has different ears for hearing music. If you will react to more songs from Relapse, I personally recommend Underground and Bagpipes from Baghdad (he disses Mariah and Nick) and Underground is insane with the rhymes, flows and everything. Thank you for reacting to this for me underrated and great song.
It’s definitely one of my lower ranked Eminem albums but this song and a couple others are classic Eminem and if the accent bothers you that bad, not you OP the people who bash it, then I imagine you must not have many rappers you like. I’ll take an accent over poorly enunciated words that don’t even rhyme well or have good flow. He also has at least one single on each album that is clearly meant to get airplay. That’s also true of almost all rappers, they do need to get paid if they want to continue making music. Sadly racism may be almost gone as far as true racism, but subtle racist ideas are still prevalent throughout our culture. I’m not being oblivious to the atrocities that occur all over the world due to race, religion, gender or sexual identity but I believe the overwhelming majority of the United States, and most of the developed world is made up of people who don’t actually believe that race,religion, etc. actually makes a group of people better or worse than another.
@@Johnnylowfive it's definitely lower on the list, but you're right, there are classic songs on there. For me, every song is that I heard. And yeah, some people are definitely racist against Em, which is unfair.
FAVE song on the album, this entire album is way over looked on the word play and schemes, LOVE this album. Knox has no idea what he is in for with this one.
This song is just drenched with genius. The word play, the rhyme scheme, the flow, the literal word play with wild and mild, the beat with the heartbeat, and to top it off the story with the perspective of a killer. As a criminologist understanding the psyche of some of the people he mentioned in the song is what I do. Not only does he have the graphic ways people get murdered but he does an excellent job at playing the part. How he struggles with himself to not kill but can't help himself is exactly what happens to a lot of the notorious serial killers. It's a secret they can't tell anybody because they enjoy doing evil things. Eminem further exposes his genius by his understanding of human psychology blended into his art. He's obviously a fan of learning about serial killers and how and why they do the things they do. This is why I'm astonished when anyone says he peeked at Marshall Mathers LP or that he's not even in the top 10 of best rappers of all time. This song alone with the amount of skill and creativity trounces 90% of rapper resumes imo and this isn't even his in his top 5 ever made. Rap God title is deserved because he earned it with his hard work and sacrifice. But I guess I'm a STAN for saying this and not because I appreciate genius when I see it, so just disregard everything I said.
I know this comments a year old, but Tyler said that if you give the script of this song to any rapper alive or dead they wouldn't be able to hit the rhyme scheme like em did as he twists the pronounciation of each syllabul so perfectly to rhyme.
Fun facts: He used the accents as a way to come around his struggle to write the same after his addiction, it made it easier for him to come up with words and rhymes, and this already started around Encore which you can hear in that album as well. It's like a freestyle-flow. The whole concept of this album is also a metaphor for his own demons, a way to process his darkness (addiction) through Shady and move on to Recovery.
This is one of my favourite Eminem songs if not my favourite. It really hits home when you are in a dark place yourself, because to me this song is about the dark side that every human has, but so many people seem to be not aware of. Carl Gustav Jung invented a concept called the ''shadow'' that every person has. One of the things he would do with his patients is making them aware of that shadow and coming to terms with it, because when you are not aware of it and it comes out of you without any control you can cause much harm to other people and yourself. Also the rhyme schemes and cadences are incredible.
Wonder how he felt when people called it trash and said you must be drunk if you listening to Eminem ,because this album got a lot of hate maybe not like revival but it’s up there
@@goldmo2427 when this album came out had a lot of hate and even Em doesn’t like this album.. but I think In time there’s a lot more love than hate from fans
In 2009 this is what MTBMB would have sounded like lol Def one of my favorite tracks, as a conceptual album he killed it for relapse, and as a whole probably his best production easily
ironic since em considers it his worst personally. it's his most technically creative, but he looks back on the accents and cringes. for me personally i prefer it to his newer stuff. even when he tried to mimic the style in his "discombobulated" song it didn't hit the same way without all the drugs flowing through his veins.
One of the best flow tracks em ever did. I love the. accents. These morons complaining about this album robbed us from a new genre of horricore rap. This is Detroit rap mixed with horror. Casual listeners didn't appreciate it.
Knox, *how could you not acknowledge how good that 2nd verse was?* *Him keeping the same cadence through the whole damn thing..??* *Shit is ridiculous!* 🔥🔥🔥
I loved how you point out how although the lyrics are messed, there’s a reason for it, coupled with em’s amazing lyricism and rhyme schemes it’s a sick rap, perfect for letting out a bit of anger and for when you’re in those “darker” times of life
Glad you did this. Enjoy your intelligence of worldly knowledge and music knowledge. It makes your reactions so amazing. Although this is so extremely dark by Em, it is a music masterpiece in my opinion. He did so much musically. He combined the art of music, wordsmith, and folk stories combined into one song. It's actually amazing if you think about what it takes to put all of these types of things together into a rhyme. The intelligence that it actually takes and to come out to be a banging song is amazing. Even as dark as it is.
ye actually I was waiting on this because of the insane twisted schemes em used, but somehow knox didn’t even bother to mention them. The flow is just absolutely nuts.
Sup Knox, I have been watching your reactions for a little while now, and this is my first comment. I got to say man, your material is great. I love the breakdowns to your reactions, and I love the fact that you catch most lines from Eminem that most don't. You also solidify your opinions that suit well with your audience. The vibe of the channel and your humor is top notch. Keep it up bro.
Hi Knox! My go to reactor for all things em! Been a Stan since 19 and I’m 41 now and I’ll be 61 and if he keeps going! still being a Stan! Love and wishes from Ireland ❤️🇮🇪
does one of "Careful What You Wish For", it's from the same album, and it's a really good song, it explains a lot of things Eminem was going through at the time.
My first Em song was Not Afraid(I was born in 2005) and up until like two years ago, I always got confused when Em came to the line "Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground", but I finally found out what he meant when I did my first actual listen to relapse. So, yeah, you're talking about Not Afraid, the song that introduced me to hip-hop.
This song is the kill shot of the album… he’s on the hunt the whole album and finally gets to go for the kill here - it’s amazing just like the story in the album. Day 1 fan and never fell off with the goat
Hey Knox i just wanna say hi and yeah just say something because I'm way down and feel like shit so thank you for making videos and music it always helps me feel better about my life no one not my mother not my father (he is one of the reasons I'm down) no one in my family helps as much as you do so thank you
Like knox I feel off listening to eminem after encore but I didn't know he made relapse wasn't on social media like crazy back then but when he made recovery came back to catch up with his previous album of relapse, keep killing it knox with the breakdowns
One of my favourite Eminem songs, Relapse is so overlooked cause of the accents, but I'm Spanish and I can see the work there's behind, and the album at points comes straight out SCARY. Do Buffalo Bill Knox : P
Glad too see Relapse finally making it too this channel, my fav Em album, hopefully it can lead to the song i have always wanted to see Knox listen to. Which is "My Darling", don't wanna spoil it for Knox, but i think he would love it and how it works, love ya Knox
Best track on this album. There is way worse rap being put out these days. The amount of hate this got back in the day was baffling. Great work as always Knox! 👏
Glad you finally got to this one Knox!! I recommend it under like every video of yours. Love the reaction!!! Thanks for blessing us with anotha banger. I knew you'd have fun with this one
Brenda is definitely a shout out to Pac. The "sit down beside her like a spider" is a shout out to the original Psycho movie. My favorite lines are the "Fe Fi Fo Fum, I smell the scent of a placenta" and the very last line of verse 3 "what was that, dial 911, someone's coming in from the back." The color coded video for this shows how many internal rhymes he has during most of verse 2! Amazing writing! Despite the horror core rap subject matter, this is one of the most technically on point verses!
some Crazy thoughts me and my friend had listening to Stay Wide Awake: Song has 3 verses and Each verse describes a horror scene like a movie... A Killer becomes a "serial" after 3 kills (1st verse/scene he kills Brenda from Tupac on the park, 2nd Verse/scene the Lady in her Bed , 3rd verse the Person who goes to the basement bc of a noise classic thriller victim) also He mentions 3 Serial Killers on the song (Jason/ Ted Bundy /Son fo Sam ) IFY: i really like the Chorus tho bc is a cool double / and i think you gonna love some songs is Relapse (Deja Vu/My Darling/Underground/Careful What You Wish For.)
The 2nd verse to me is his best lyrical display ever, he keeps the same internal rhyme scheme throughout it and with the same homophones (same rhyme sounds/words).
Gonna post this here for any further comments: no this was not my normal 30-40 minute full breakdown. This was a bonus request for a Patreon fan and I wanted to try something a little shorter while mixing in elements of breakdown and picking out more specific parts to discuss. I’ve been told to rest my voice for the next few days so decided to still give you guys content and share something that is normally exclusively on Patreon. Hope you guys still enjoy it 🙌
That’s alright
This my fav off relapse the flow is tight af.btw hope you get well soon brotha
you seem to have missed Hrry Mack omegle bars 4. my favourite
@@joescarecrow 4? 54 is coming soon. 😁
Thought you just didn’t care for the track. Had some real “After Dark” vibes I thought you’d appreciate.
knox, i'm actually surprised you didn't get this! but i don't blame you , Eminem is wild. So, when he says " I'm the the kind of guy that's mild but might flip and get a little bit wilder", it's referring to how when you flip "m" it becomes a "w". so " mild " becomes " Wild" , you get what i mean? it took me a few listens to get that, but you're doing great my brother! all my love homie
Eminem literally switched it to Wumbo.
Wario!
I would also say, mild to wild as in wing temperatures on a menu from Buffalo Wild Wings. Flip em in the sauce. Also he could have foreshadowing for Buffalo Bill a song he has on the extended version of this album. But we wouldn't be surprised if thats the intention 🤣
Plus I love how he says I'm the kinda guy that's mild after saying he will open up an umbrella inside a woman lol
Holy fuck dude I’ve listened to this song so many times cause I’m a Stan and relapse is my favorite album and I didn’t even clock this till now, now I just feel dumb lol. Thanks for pointing it out homie
Relapse is one of the most underrated rap albums of all time
Revival is under rated too
absolutely is the most underrated. Theres so much hate for this album yet it's a legit classic
i think it's underrated because of where eminem's career was at the time... people really didn't want slim shady back... if he released this earlier around sslp, it would've been critically acclaimed... only us eminem stans and rap fans who really appreciate actual rap skills appreciated it from the beginning lol
@@phil7121 that's an interesting point, I never thought of it in that way but I think you're right
It really is!! Revival is as well. Both albums have grown on me throughout the years when initially I thought they were meh.. I only liked like 40% of the song but now I like most of them if not all.
I always "defended" the hate towards the lyrics by basically saying that this is a form of art, think of it this way, if this was a script for a horror movie, it would be praised for how crazy it went.. This is a form of writing, but the ability shown here that blew my mind is sticking to sound throughout the the verses, every verse matches almost entirely line by line, that's brilliant writing skills right there.
This was my exact argument! He's portraying a serial killer - no different than Hannibal Lecter.
once you get past his accents, it’s easily some of his most creative writing
Its all just writing. Ive never understood why people attack EM when there are show and movie writers that write just as bad of shit into their stories...some recent examples are YOU, and Squid Games. Some older examples are Saw, and Devils Rejects....theres so many and people rarely try to cancel these writers. Also I'm not hating on any of these shows or movies just making an example. I judge on real life actions not fictitious story or song writing.
💯 THANK YOU!! This isn’t Marshall Mathers. It’s “shady” or “em” or whatever he calls his alter ego. Exactly as someone earlier commented. This is a fictional story. I don’t get why he gets so much hate for these “evil” songs when it’s clearly just fiction. Nobody ripped Biggie Smalls when this happened:
“When I get dusted, I like to spread the blood like mustard
Trust it, my hardcore rain leaves you rusted
Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, huh
Leave your toothless, you'll kibbitz, I'll flip it
Tears don't affect me, I hit 'em with the TEC
G's disrespect me, my potency is deadly
I'm shootin' babies, no ifs ands or maybes
Hit mummy in the tummy if the hooker plays a dummy
Slit the wrist of little sis
After she sucked the dick, I stabbed her brother with the icepick
Because he wanted me to fuck him from the back
But Smalls don't get down like that
Found your father hidin' in a room, fucked him with the broom
Slit him down the back and threw salt in the wound”
That’s lyrically amazing and horrendously gross and offensive and in those days it wasn’t meant to be clearly fictional. It was part of the mythos of rap that they were slanging drugs and killing gangsters and objectifying and abusing women. Jigga, Mobb Deep, Wu tang, Immortal Technique and Big pun all did this and never got shit from hip hop fans. Yes old kinda racist white people complained about the lyrics, same as they did with Rock and roll, Marilyn Manson and video games and blamed the country’s problems on these things because it’s easy to blame something you don’t get. But real hip hop fans seem to have a sub group who’s only job is checking that Em never writes a line that doesn’t match up factually with his life. “They say I can’t rap about being broke no more, they didn’t say I couldn’t rap about come no more”. That was his second album I believe and already he was being told he had to stop rapping about hard times. We have a billionaire rapper who still talks about the struggles of the street and growing up in Brooklyn. I’m just gonna say it, this is a race issue. Even though rap is about truth and storytelling and then all the skills and delivery, flow, rhyming, puns, doubles and triples I can’t think of another rapper under that kind of scrutiny. Just as I enjoy a great horror movie or a
Comedy I enjoy when Em lets Shady take the pen and sometimes I want to listen to some funny rap, lil dicky,
Flynt Flossy, lonely island. They all have real talent and could maybe be mainstream if they pretended to be street or have cred. But they are real MCs and could all write more serious bars and maybe get bigger but they are true to themselves and that’s why they are real rappers. My only rule if you wanna be a rapper is don’t pretend, don’t rap about things you didn’t experience or even worse make a fake backstory about how “hard” they are.
It really is like a horror slasher movie, not everyone is going to be into it, and that's understandable, but you simply can't deny how good Em is. This is a masterful song whether you like the subject matter or not.
Definitely slept on that second verse. Em held an 8-12 syllable rhyme pattern through the entire verse while telling that psycho story of his lol. Legendary display of rhyme skill
Was about to Say this
I was more impressed with the rhimes on the 3rd verse, the secound aways had the same rhime but it wasnt that complex
Yeah that was the only reason I really watched this was to see somebody catch that 2nd verse scheme. Glad you did though! Lol. Em was definitely on one when he put that together haha.
No he didn't lol.
So dark and so cold, my friends don't know this other side of me
There's a monster inside of me, it's quite ugly and it frightens me
But they can't see what I can see, there's a vacancy in my tummy
First three lines there champ. There's a lot of internal e rhymes but it's not 8-12 syllable patterns. 'Side of me' 'inside of me' 'frightens me' don't really count when it's all 'me' - that's the same word lol. 'Me' in fact is repeated a ton throughout this verse and you want to credit it as him rhyming entire sentences? No lol. There's really good rhymes and schemes but you guys are out here in the comments stretching
I think it fried his Brain xD
Looking into his eyes at that part, as soon as it hit like 5 lines of perfect 1:1 rhyme scheme, every line made him look a little more Braindead
"If I'm crazy enough to think it, I'm crazy enough to say it." - Eminem.
The thing about this album is that, unlike most em songs, it's not about what he's saying as much as how he says it. He is testing the limits of what subject matter you'll listen to if he rhymes you to death to make it sound good. Really genius
I always compare Relapse to Eminem doing a theater play all by himself.
On " Insane" He is literally playing a whole family by himself caught in an incest scandal while he is narrating the story as his older self still playing his younger self and both parents.
That is just crazy
This exactly
@@brandonayong5823 nah, that's Insane😉
relapse goes hard while telling great "movie type" stories. pure entertainment!!! the beats and cadence are outstanding!!!
you cant help bopping to ever song almost!!!
to me, this album was almost Music to be Murdered By, but to the literal sense XD Still pop in Relapse from time to time in the CD player
@@CrazeeAdam Exactly my feelings, this should've been MTBMB. This album is the darkest shit I've ever heard. I am a new fan so my favorites are changing every few days but imo every album by Em has a different place, no album can be compared with others or to any other artist's work it would be blasphemy
This was a great horror core album, and was honestly the reemergence of slim shady. Possibly only exists bc of the death of proof and the fact he did relapse and was going through an extremely difficult time. Sslp 2 in my book.
One of the most underrated Em songs. Easily the most technically sound song on the album. Them rhymes are incredible.
He wasn't on drugs during relapse he was flushing them out, said he had to relearn to rap again so this was him playing around with the rhymes, and said the accents helped him bend words to fit the rhymes. Relapse is highly underrated, different, but still fire. You should do "must be the ganja" next.
This album is so underrated because most people couldn’t keep up. Eminem murdered every track
This is a classic example of rhyming in a rap song. Young and aspiring rappers should take note from this Em song.
Em just brilliantly showcased the use of internal rhymes, external rhymes and the holorimes. His extraordinary writing takes the song to a whole another level.
And the meta references used in this song was just outstanding.
One of the best songs of Em and one of my all favorites.
“Stay Wide Awake” is off of Relapse, back in 2009, when he was just coming out of many years away, when he almost died from addiction to pills. He said he had writers block for a couple of years and just couldn’t rhyme anymore. It took him a long time to be able to write when sober. Relapse was him going WACKO, and while there are times when you can tell he’s not at full capacity yet - “Stay Wide Awake” shows what he can do, even when he’s coming out of a fog.
The second verse of “Stay Wide Awake” is so crazy and what’s funny is the lyrics are so fucked up but nobody cares because they’re too busy counting the rhymes and pointing out schemes. Now in the other two verses, there’s a loose A-A-A B-B-B and etc. format, each separate thought ending with the same sound and this gives it a very creepy chant-y vibe. But the second verse is different and radically so. First of all, every single line ends with an “ee” sound, an identical rhyme sustained throughout - which makes it sound terrifying. Like you’re trapped with some wild animal. Or like it’s the sound of your own screams, if you were the victim, and the rapist/killer is mocking you. Sorry, I know it’s gnarly, just telling you what I hear.
beyond his horrorcore imagination unleashed - is Eminem coming out of an anguished period of writers’ block, sober for the first time since he was a teenager, scared, under pressure and challenging himself to hear the rhymes again, to hear more rhymes, to discover more sounds, to break down words into tinier parts and rhyme those parts, to find more patterns, because you can bet that he, too, saw those vertical shapes, the rhymes stacked up on top of each other, making beautiful symmetrical columns of words. He was finding his way back and also forward.
For me, I liked every song I heard from Relapse. I even replayed this one and replayed it a couple of times and even rapped along. But of course, everyone has different ears for hearing music. If you will react to more songs from Relapse, I personally recommend Underground and Bagpipes from Baghdad (he disses Mariah and Nick) and Underground is insane with the rhymes, flows and everything. Thank you for reacting to this for me underrated and great song.
It’s definitely one of my lower ranked Eminem albums but this song and a couple others are classic Eminem and if the accent bothers you that bad, not you OP the people who bash it, then I imagine you must not have many rappers you like. I’ll take an accent over poorly enunciated words that don’t even rhyme well or have good flow. He also has at least one single on each album that is clearly meant to get airplay. That’s also true of almost all rappers, they do need to get paid if they want to continue making music. Sadly racism may be almost gone as far as true racism, but subtle racist ideas are still prevalent throughout our culture. I’m not being oblivious to the atrocities that occur all over the world due to race, religion, gender or sexual identity but I believe the overwhelming majority of the United States, and most of the developed world is made up of people who don’t actually believe that race,religion, etc. actually makes a group of people better or worse than another.
@@Johnnylowfive it's definitely lower on the list, but you're right, there are classic songs on there. For me, every song is that I heard. And yeah, some people are definitely racist against Em, which is unfair.
Goated albums bro
@@paritoshkailas725 facts
FAVE song on the album, this entire album is way over looked on the word play and schemes, LOVE this album. Knox has no idea what he is in for with this one.
This song is just drenched with genius. The word play, the rhyme scheme, the flow, the literal word play with wild and mild, the beat with the heartbeat, and to top it off the story with the perspective of a killer. As a criminologist understanding the psyche of some of the people he mentioned in the song is what I do. Not only does he have the graphic ways people get murdered but he does an excellent job at playing the part. How he struggles with himself to not kill but can't help himself is exactly what happens to a lot of the notorious serial killers. It's a secret they can't tell anybody because they enjoy doing evil things. Eminem further exposes his genius by his understanding of human psychology blended into his art. He's obviously a fan of learning about serial killers and how and why they do the things they do. This is why I'm astonished when anyone says he peeked at Marshall Mathers LP or that he's not even in the top 10 of best rappers of all time. This song alone with the amount of skill and creativity trounces 90% of rapper resumes imo and this isn't even his in his top 5 ever made. Rap God title is deserved because he earned it with his hard work and sacrifice. But I guess I'm a STAN for saying this and not because I appreciate genius when I see it, so just disregard everything I said.
I know this comments a year old, but Tyler said that if you give the script of this song to any rapper alive or dead they wouldn't be able to hit the rhyme scheme like em did as he twists the pronounciation of each syllabul so perfectly to rhyme.
Ive always viewed this song as one of ems best. period. Storytelling, style, delivery is phenomenal, it's so different!
Relapse is one of his most underrated albums in my opinion i still bump most of it
Favorite song on the album🔥🔥🔥
My Darling from relapse deserves a reaction too
Fun facts: He used the accents as a way to come around his struggle to write the same after his addiction, it made it easier for him to come up with words and rhymes, and this already started around Encore which you can hear in that album as well. It's like a freestyle-flow.
The whole concept of this album is also a metaphor for his own demons, a way to process his darkness (addiction) through Shady and move on to Recovery.
"I'm dancing to a different drum beat" was a comment on the bass track just being an actual heartbeat.
This is one of my favourite Eminem songs if not my favourite. It really hits home when you are in a dark place yourself, because to me this song is about the dark side that every human has, but so many people seem to be not aware of. Carl Gustav Jung invented a concept called the ''shadow'' that every person has. One of the things he would do with his patients is making them aware of that shadow and coming to terms with it, because when you are not aware of it and it comes out of you without any control you can cause much harm to other people and yourself.
Also the rhyme schemes and cadences are incredible.
Fun Fact: This is one of Tyler, The Creator's favourite Eminem track.
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@@diegorosales4365 He said that Relapse was one of his favourite albums.
Wonder how he felt when people called it trash and said you must be drunk if you listening to Eminem ,because this album got a lot of hate maybe not like revival but it’s up there
@@goldmo2427 when this album came out had a lot of hate and even Em doesn’t like this album.. but I think In time there’s a lot more love than hate from fans
He also has a song about Ted Bundy
This is arguably one of the greatest songs Em has ever released. Its technical mastery is really difficult to comprehend.
In 2009 this is what MTBMB would have sounded like lol Def one of my favorite tracks, as a conceptual album he killed it for relapse, and as a whole probably his best production easily
disagree the production was what killed it for me it was horrible
@@zombiewolf3244 personally, I'm the complete opposite.
@@kkay000 best thing about em is there's something for everyone
@@zombiewolf3244 you trippin😂
ironic since em considers it his worst personally. it's his most technically creative, but he looks back on the accents and cringes. for me personally i prefer it to his newer stuff. even when he tried to mimic the style in his "discombobulated" song it didn't hit the same way without all the drugs flowing through his veins.
Actually had to watch this twice because it's such a lyrically dense song and I'm blown away by how Em does this insanity.
I love the beats and flows on Relapse.
This album is in the top 3 for me🐐
One of the best flow tracks em ever did. I love the. accents. These morons complaining about this album robbed us from a new genre of horricore rap. This is Detroit rap mixed with horror. Casual listeners didn't appreciate it.
Can’t wait for more Relapse reactions, such an underrated album!
You finally reacted to this masterpiece 🔥🔥🔥
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS REACT FOR A LOOOOOONG TIME. THANK YOU!!! 🤩🙏🏻
Thank you for supporting
Knox, *how could you not acknowledge how good that 2nd verse was?* *Him keeping the same cadence through the whole damn thing..??* *Shit is ridiculous!* 🔥🔥🔥
I loved how you point out how although the lyrics are messed, there’s a reason for it, coupled with em’s amazing lyricism and rhyme schemes it’s a sick rap, perfect for letting out a bit of anger and for when you’re in those “darker” times of life
If you’re a Stan like myself you have listened to relapse over and I see again brother
When an Eminem song starts with Yeah Yeah, you know its going to be good.
About time!!!!
Glad you did this. Enjoy your intelligence of worldly knowledge and music knowledge. It makes your reactions so amazing.
Although this is so extremely dark by Em, it is a music masterpiece in my opinion. He did so much musically. He combined the art of music, wordsmith, and folk stories combined into one song. It's actually amazing if you think about what it takes to put all of these types of things together into a rhyme. The intelligence that it actually takes and to come out to be a banging song is amazing. Even as dark as it is.
I enter central park it’s dark it’s winter in december💯 crazy song and lyrics💯
ye actually I was waiting on this because of the insane twisted schemes em used, but somehow knox didn’t even bother to mention them. The flow is just absolutely nuts.
this song with colored rap schemes is amazing
The rhymes are absolutely crazy on this one🔥🔥🔥
Sup Knox, I have been watching your reactions for a little while now, and this is my first comment. I got to say man, your material is great. I love the breakdowns to your reactions, and I love the fact that you catch most lines from Eminem that most don't. You also solidify your opinions that suit well with your audience. The vibe of the channel and your humor is top notch. Keep it up bro.
Eminem Fact: Eminem Holds The Record For Having The Most Consecutive No. 1 Albums On The Australian Albums Chart.
PLEASE more Relapse, there are some amazing songs that are actually pretty deep like Beautiful or Deja vu.
Thank you Knox, we need more relapse reaction. It dope album and so underrated.
Hi Knox! My go to reactor for all things em! Been a Stan since 19 and I’m 41 now and I’ll be 61 and if he keeps going! still being a Stan! Love and wishes from Ireland ❤️🇮🇪
Love the rhyme patterns and story telling ability in this song. One of my Eminem favorites
does one of "Careful What You Wish For", it's from the same album, and it's a really good song, it explains a lot of things Eminem was going through at the time.
My darling tho
My first Em song was Not Afraid(I was born in 2005) and up until like two years ago, I always got confused when Em came to the line "Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground", but I finally found out what he meant when I did my first actual listen to relapse. So, yeah, you're talking about Not Afraid, the song that introduced me to hip-hop.
I specifically search your reaction to this song last week haha relapse was arguably one of his best albums I think
This song is the kill shot of the album… he’s on the hunt the whole album and finally gets to go for the kill here - it’s amazing just like the story in the album. Day 1 fan and never fell off with the goat
Thank you for finally reacting to this!
Thank you for supporting
@@KnoxHill you’re welcome, I also think you should react to Lupe Fiasco - Mural
KNOX Making mondays tollerable since 2011 ! 🙏
Much love! Thank you
I've been wanting this for months, I'm so hyped!!!!!!!!!!
This is arguably his *masterpiece*
YaY He Listened and Finally did Stay Wide Awake def one of the tracks M shows Alot of his Talent on. Best Rap Breakdown Channel on YT!
Been waiting for this for a long time.. finally❤️
More from RELAPSE please
Hell yeah bro always on your grind respect bro always look forward to your content breakdowns are the best
YES THANK YOU KNOX
Relapse was actually one of my favorite albums. One of those cds you put in when your driving and by yourself in a bad mood.
One of his most vivid storytelling tracks… audio horror movie 🎥 and his flow was incredible
Hey Knox i just wanna say hi and yeah just say something because I'm way down and feel like shit so thank you for making videos and music it always helps me feel better about my life no one not my mother not my father (he is one of the reasons I'm down) no one in my family helps as much as you do so thank you
This album was drastically underrated.
Like knox I feel off listening to eminem after encore but I didn't know he made relapse wasn't on social media like crazy back then but when he made recovery came back to catch up with his previous album of relapse, keep killing it knox with the breakdowns
Please do Music Box its criminally underrated
Yesssss Ive been waiting for Relapse reactions for a very long time, incredible song btw
This was much awaited reaction...
At some point, 3 AM needs to be reacted to. It's off of relapse and also has that Serial Killer vibe. It's phenomenal
I love 3 am
@@natashagreen348 Same!! It's so creatively great!!
Knoxy baby, one luv man!
“There’s a fine line between Genius & Psychopath” … fire quote. Deep quote. I really liked that. Keep on keepin it, Knox
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How did I sleep in TODAY OF ALL DAYS 😭 literally one of my favorite songs, his lyrical ability. INSANE. The color coded pattern for VERSE 2?!?! 🤯🤯🤯
Knox we need more relapse reactions ASAP. Love the videos
Relapse is so good, you should react to some more songs from it for sure. I would love to see a reaction to the track Underground it goes hard
Knox you're the best man. So fucking good at analyzing songs and lyrics. Thank you so much.
So glad I grew up with em from my day one (I was born 2003 and my brother played em a lot)
One of my favourite Eminem songs, Relapse is so overlooked cause of the accents, but I'm Spanish and I can see the work there's behind, and the album at points comes straight out SCARY. Do Buffalo Bill Knox : P
In the second verse, he is rhyming the whole sentence all the way through the whole verse…it is insane.
I’ve been waiting for this from you
Glad too see Relapse finally making it too this channel, my fav Em album, hopefully it can lead to the song i have always wanted to see Knox listen to.
Which is "My Darling", don't wanna spoil it for Knox, but i think he would love it and how it works, love ya Knox
Literally almost every syllable rhymes in the whole track. You should have reacted to the rhyme scheme version of stay awake
Please do the rest of this album, Knox!!
"Im the kind of guy that's mild but i might FLIP and get a little bit wilder"
If you FLIP the "m" in mild you get wild... Em is not human
The drumbeat in the background of the track is a heartbeat
This Song Is Criminally Underrated
like the hit song Criminal by nemnem?
Relapse has some of the best flows and descriptive story telling I’ve heard from Eminem.
So glad u finally put this on CZcams 😁😍
One of my favorite Eminem songs of all time. I loved Relapse
My favorite Em album of all time.. and I've been here since the beginning... butnthat side of Slim is my shit
What's really cool is you can hear a heartbeat in the in the beat
Best track on this album. There is way worse rap being put out these days. The amount of hate this got back in the day was baffling. Great work as always Knox! 👏
Glad you finally got to this one Knox!! I recommend it under like every video of yours. Love the reaction!!! Thanks for blessing us with anotha banger. I knew you'd have fun with this one
Love how the base line is a literal heart beat.
He's talking about the rap game, "Stay Wide Awake" and watch what he's about to do
Was waiting for this🤲🏻🛐
It's crazy the beat is an heartbeat genius 🔥
Brenda is definitely a shout out to Pac. The "sit down beside her like a spider" is a shout out to the original Psycho movie.
My favorite lines are the "Fe Fi Fo Fum, I smell the scent of a placenta" and the very last line of verse 3 "what was that, dial 911, someone's coming in from the back."
The color coded video for this shows how many internal rhymes he has during most of verse 2! Amazing writing! Despite the horror core rap subject matter, this is one of the most technically on point verses!
His horrorcore songs are some of my favorite em songs 😂 it’s crazy to go deep inside the mind of people like that
You should react to underground. It's such a underrated song man
some Crazy thoughts me and my friend had listening to Stay Wide Awake:
Song has 3 verses and Each verse describes a horror scene like a movie... A Killer becomes a "serial" after 3 kills (1st verse/scene he kills Brenda from Tupac on the park, 2nd Verse/scene the Lady in her Bed , 3rd verse the Person who goes to the basement bc of a noise classic thriller victim) also He mentions 3 Serial Killers on the song (Jason/ Ted Bundy /Son fo Sam )
IFY: i really like the Chorus tho bc is a cool double / and i think you gonna love some songs is Relapse (Deja Vu/My Darling/Underground/Careful What You Wish For.)
The 2nd verse to me is his best lyrical display ever, he keeps the same internal rhyme scheme throughout it and with the same homophones (same rhyme sounds/words).