If Eminem thinks his verbal box of tricks can overcome the weakness of any backing track, his recent albums have demonstrated otherwise. Rick Rubin – the man behind 99 Problems, Run DMC’s Walk This Way and Johnny Cash’s take on Hurt – produced the latter. Eminem is clearly a rapper, but there’s hardly a trace of hip-hop here. Play Video 4:29 Eminem lambasts Donald Trump in freestyle rap – videoThere’s more to like on Framed and the strange but intriguing Untouchable. But this maturity comes too late – we’re already past the point where you can no longer take Eminem seriously.

Source: The Guardian December 15, 2017 12:11 UTC