Here is the music video for the first single, Fast Lane:

Eminem and Mr. Porter are executive producers on this album and it’s released by Shady Records. This EP was said to consume about 5-6 months for Eminem, which doesn’t seem out of the ordinary considering his perfectionist ways. Eminem’s blueprint for success is evident throughout this album from the catchy beats and samples to the amazing lyrical onslaught in tracks like Fast Lane and Loud Noises. So far, the album is getting 4 and 5 star reviews and I really hope to see it top the charts for a while.


The only downside I have found with this record is that it is only 9 tracks (11 on the deluxe edition) and it would have been great to have a more traditional Eminem-style album with close to 20 tracks. The catchiest track of them all is the single Fast Lane and it just hits the spot. Some other tracks I really enjoy are Welcome 2 Hell, A Kiss and Lighters.

Order your own copy of Hell: The Sequel from CD Universe via Ebates and get 5% cash back on your purchase, plus an additional $5 bonus! As I write this, with the $5 bonus and 5% off you can get the album for only $2.60!

Tracklist:

[tags]eminem, royce da 5’9″, bad meets evil, hell the sequel, rap, hip hop, mr porter, bruno mars, dj khalil, fast lane, welcome 2 hell, d12[/tags]

Too late
For the other side
Caught in a chase
25 to life

Too late
For the other side
Caught in a chase
25 to life

Too late
I can’t keep chasing it
Caught in a chase
25 to life

I don’t think she understands
The sacrifices that I made
Maybe if this bitch had acted right
I would have stayed
But I’ve already wasted over half my life
I would have laid down and died for you
I no longer cry for you
No more pain
Bitch you took me for granted
Took my heart and ran it straight into the planet
Into the dirt
I can no longer stand it
Now my respect I demand it
Imma take control of this relationship
Command it
And I’m gonna be the boss of you now goddammit
And what I mean is that
I’m will no longer let you control me
So you better hear me out
This much you owe me
I gave up my life for you
Totally devoted to you
Why I’ve stayed
Faithful all the way
This is how I fucking get repaid?

Look at how I dress
Fucking baggy sweats
Go to work a mess
Always in a rush to get back to you
I ain’t heard you yet
Not even once say you appreciate me
I deserve respect
I’ve done my best to give you
Nothing less then perfectness
And I know that if I end this
I’ll no longer have nothing left
But you keep treating me like a staircase
It’s time to fucking step
And I wont be coming back
So don’t hold your fucking breath
You know what you’ve done
No need to go in depth
I told you you’d be sorry
If I fucking left
I laughed while you wept
How’s it feel now?
Yeah funny ain’t it
You neglected me
Did me a favor
Let all my spirit free
You’ve said
Got a special place for you
In my heart
That I have kept
It’s unfortunate but it’s

Too late
For the other side
Caught in a chase
25 to life

Too late
For the other side
Caught in a chase
25 to life

I feel like
When I bend over backwards for you
All you do is laugh
Cuz that ain’t good enough
You expect me to fold myself in half
Till I snap
Don’t think I’m loyal
All I do is rap
How can I moonlight on the side
I have no life outside of that
Don’t I give you enough of my time?
You don’t think so do you?
Jealous when I spend time with the girls
Why I’m married to you still
Man I don’t know
But tonight I’m serving you with papers
I’m divorcing you
Go marry someone else
And make em famous
And take away their freedom
Like you did to me
Treat em like you don’t need em
And they ain’t worthy of you
Feed em
The same shit that you made me eat
I’m moving on
Forget you
Oh now I’m special
I didn’t feel special when I was wit you
All I ever felt was this
Helplessness
Imprisoned by a selfish bitch
Chew me up and spit me out
I fell for this
So many times
It’s ridiculous
And still I stick with this
I’m sick of this
But in my sickness
And addiction
Your addictive as they get
Evil as they come
Vindictive as they make em
My friends keep asking me
Why I can’t just walk away from
I’m addicted
To the pain, the stress
The drama
I’m drawn to shit
So I guess I’m a mess
Cursed and blessed
But this time imma
Ain’t changing my mind
I’m climbing out this abyss
Your screaming as I walk out
That I’ll be missed
But when you spoke of people
Who meant the most to you
You left me off your list
Fuck you hip hop
I’m leaving you
My life sentence is served bitch
And it’s just

Too late
For the other side
Caught in a chase
25 to life

Too late
For the other side
Caught in a chase
25 to life

Too late
Caught in a chase
25 to life

B.O.B. went on stage at 7:30pm and Eminem didn’t conclude his encore until 12:15am, making this a whopper of a concert! I definitely got my money’s worth on this one. I am not as much of a Jay-Z fan, despite sharing his given name, but his opening set was incredible and had the crowd on its feet from the moment he entered the stage.

Eminem’s set included performances by Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, D-12, G-Unit and B.O.B. and covered his repertoire from “My Name Is” to “Love the Way You Lie”.

I was able to take some pictures and video with my new Droid X and got some decent shots. I really wish I was taller because I would have sprung for the $250 VIP tickets that gave access to the very front of the stage. But, being only 5’9″ I would have been swallowed whole in the General Admission section! This concert attracted more than 40,000 people! A very rare occurrence for a rap concert.

If I could, I would head to NYC and catch the second leg of the tour at Yankee Stadium.

[tags]eminem, jay z, shawn carter, marshall mathers, curtis jackson, comerica park, concert, detroit, rap, b.o.b, 50 cent, d 12, dr dre, g unit[/tags]

The track “So Bad” is by far my favorite on the album, with it’s amazing Dr. Dre produced beat and superbly witty Eminem lyrics. Eminem and Dre are always able to create magic when they collaborate on a track.

So Bad – Eminem (Prod. by Dr. Dre)

Yeah..
Haha..you feel that baby?
Yeah, I feel it too.
Damn.
You know..i’m so glad we could spend this time together
See, not as crazy as you thought I was am i?
Heh..

I’m the American dream! I’m the definition of white trash balling,
I’m right back on ‘em, with the
(*scratches*) I can’t call it
Same shit, different toilet, oh you got a nice ass darlin’!
Can’t wait to get you into my Benz, take you for a spin
What you mean we aint fuckin’, you take me for a friend?
Let me tell you the whole story of Shady’s origin
You’ll be sorry if you slam my Mercedes door again!
Now, it all started with my father
I must have got my pimping genes from him, the way he left my mama
I’m a rolling stone just like him, word to Johnny Trauma (??)
Keep my entourage with me, baby i’ll make a promise
There aint nobody as bomb as, me i’m as calm as
The breeze, i’m the bees knees, his legs and his arms i’m a
S-superstar, girl, i’m ready for you mama!
Why you think the only thing I got on is my pajamas?

[Chorus x2]
So bad
So good that i’m so bad
Guarantee i’ll be the greatest thing you ever had
Cause you aint never met nobody like me
And you aint gonna want no-fucking-body else at that..

I’m equivalent to a shot of Cuevo, first I kiss your navel
Work my way down, baby you can lay down on the table
But you may wanna find something more stable
I told you I aint fooling from the gate, this aint the first day of april!
But thank you for staying April, i’ma make you learn
To appreciate me, differentiate me
From these phoney, little fishy and sissy fake G’s
Skip over the huggy-bear and all the kissyface, please
Initiate phase three! Missy now service me
Take another shot of Jager, shake it so nervously
Take your time baby, ooh you’re the bomb baby!
Ooh you’re doing that even better than your mom lady!
I told you i’m Shady, you didn’t listen now, did you?
Relax woman, you know that i’m only kidding with you
Got a twisted sense of humour, it’s warped, but I didn’t hit you
I think you’re finally starting to get the picture, i’m..

[Chorus x2]
So bad
So good that i’m so bad
Guarantee i’ll be the greatest thing you ever had
Cause you aint never met nobody like me
And you aint gonna want no-fucking-body else at that..

[Bridge]
Dynamite, dynamite, dynamite, so!
Dynamite, dynamite, dynamite, so!
I can hold you in the morning
But in the evening I gotta go..
’cause i’m on to the next girl,
And the next girl I kinda like, oh, oh, oh..!

I got you caught up in the rapture
Make you recapture the feelings you had for your last boyfriend before he slapped you
You never wanted someone so bad you’re sweating
But if i’m what you wanted, why’d you panic when I grabbed you?
Girl don’t be so frantic i’m just a hopeless romantic
Don’t try to fight the feeling of something that’s organic
You can’t ignore it, so don’t just stand before it
Just drop them panties to the floor, let’s get to camcordin’
Damn shorty, I told you this was bound to happen
Soon as you wrote your number on a napkin I was bound to work a number on your back and
Throw your spine out of alignment
My love has got you so blinded you couldn’t pick Amy Winehouse out of a lineup
So stop with the snoring, pick your pint up
Let’s get the pineapple schnapps going, no one’ll knock cause i’ma hang a sign up
Saying “Don’t Disturb”, shorty i’m so superb
I say the right things, don’t I spit the dopest words?

[Chorus x2]
So bad
So good that i’m so bad
Guarantee i’ll be the greatest thing you ever had
Cause you aint never met nobody like me
And you aint gonna want no-fucking-body else at that..

[Bridge]
Dynamite, dynamite, dynamite, so!
Dynamite, dynamite, dynamite, so!
I can hold you in the morning
But in the evening I gotta go..
’cause i’m on to the next girl,
And the next girl I kinda like, oh, oh, oh..!

[Chorus x2]
So bad
So good that i’m so bad
Guarantee i’ll be the greatest thing you ever had
Cause you aint never met nobody like me
And you aint gonna want no-fucking-body else at that..

(Over the chorus) Haha..
Dr. Dre
2010!
Light years ahead of you..haha..
Whoo!

[tags]eminem, dr dre, recovery, rap, music, marshall mathers, hip hop[/tags]

“Careful What You Wish For” – Eminem

So this is it…
This is what I wished for
Just isn’t how I envisioned it
Fame to the point of imprisonment
I just thought the shit’d be different
But something changed
The minute that I got a whiff of it
I started to inhale it
Smell it
Started sniffin’ it
And it became my cocaine
I just couldn’t quit
I just wanted a little bit
Then it turned me (in)to a monster
I became a hypocrite
Concert after concert

I was raking in the dough
Rolling in green
Had the game hemmed up
Like a sewing machine
But I was losing my freedom
There was no where for me
To not go and be seen
And just go and be me
And there was no in-between
You either loved it or hate it

Every CD critics gave it a 3, then 3
Years later, they’d go back and re-rate it
And call the Slim Shady LP the greatest
The Marshall Mathers was a classic
The Eminem Show was fantastic
But Encore just didn’t have the caliber to match it
I guess enough time just ain’t passed, yet
A couple more years, that shit’ll be ill-matic
And eight years later, I’m still at it
Divorce, re-married
A felon
A father
Sleeping pill addict
And this is real talk
I feel like the Incredible Hulk
My back has been broke, and I can still walk

[Chorus]

So be careful what you wish for
‘Cause you just might get it
And if you get it then you just might not know
What to do wit’ it, ’cause it might just
Come back on you ten-fold

I said

Be careful what you wish for
‘Cause you just might get it
And if you get it then you just might not know
What to do wit’ it, ’cause it might just
Come back on you ten-fold

[Verse 2]

I got a letter from a fan, that said
He’s been praying for me
Every day and for some reason
It’s been weighing on my mind heavy
‘Cause I don’t read every
Letter I get, but something told me to go ahead and open it, but
Why would someone pray for you when they don’t know you?
You didn’t pray for me when I was local
And as I lay these vocals
I think of all the shit I had to go through
Just to get to where I’m at
I’ve already told you at least

A thousand times in these rhymes
I appreciate the prayer, but I’ve already got
God on my side
And it’s been one hell of a ride, hasn’t it?
Just watchin’ it from an opposite standpoint
Man, boy’s got to look
Nuts
And that’s the only word I can think of right now
On how
To describe the shit
This is like a vibe you get
Go ahead and bob to it
Just watch what you wish for, ’cause I got the shit

[Chorus]

So be careful what you wish for
‘Cause you just might get it
And if you get it then you just might not know
What to do wit’ it, ’cause it might just
Come back on you ten-fold

I said

Be careful what you wish for
‘Cause you just might get it
And if you get it then you just might not know
What to do wit’ it, ’cause it might just
Come back on you ten-fold

Some of the cars given away include a Nissan Maxima and Saturn Ion. Hopefully the new wheels help those 20 people keep their jobs and make their lives a little easier. Thanks go out to Ludacris for giving back on Labor Day in a time of difficulty for most of the nation’s labor force.

“My Darling” – Eminem

If I were to rap about the crap that’s out
That’s the route you probably want me to take
Cos your just dying to know what I think
And my take on some other rappers
If I was to say somethin’ bout’ Paul Wall
You’d probably crap in your pants cos I’m white and he’s white
So he’s like, my competition I mean, right
nope, Paul Wall is dope and so’s bubba
But, but, but….
But I don’t compete with nobody
I just go hard do the rope a dope Ali shuffle
And dance around my opponents do donuts
Sometimes I play possum like I’m asleep it’s awesome!
I’m like a sleeping giant and when I awake I’m like Dre
I just jump from outta no where and bite prey
And sink my teeth in and fill em’ fulla poison
And make a noise like a snake before I kill em’
And let em’ know I just don’t feel em’
And smack em’ with the backward E the Eminem em-belem
I was taught if your gonna murder somebody you should face em’
Tell em’ why look em’ dead in the eye then waste em’
And the dark shall emerge from the fiery depths of hell
And swallow the shallow the hallow who dwell
In the shadows of all who are willing to sell there souls
For this rap game and it ga ga goes…….

123 check, check 123, check 123
That ain’t the hook now follow me
There’s nothing else for me to say
My public adores me!
Everybody bores me they just so corny
So at night before I sleep I look in the mirror
The mirror glows lips and it whispers come nearer

( Hook )
My darling, I don’t ever want you to leave me my darling
You and me were meant to be together my darling
And if I can not have you then no one can your my darling
Cuz I posses your soul, your mind, your heart and your body
And I don’t want you too ever leave me my darling
You and me were meant to be together my darling
And if I can not have you then no one can your my darling
Cuz I possess your soul, your mind, your heart and your body

( Verse )

Shady I know your in there some where come here
Talk too me sit here pull up a chair, why don’t you cut your hair? Hahaha
Dye it back come on try it
Ahhhh no, I told you leave me the fuck alone will you!
But I’m here to re-build you
But I already killed you!
But shady we were meant for each other!
Think about your mother!
Yeah so what of her?
Think about what she did to you and your little brother!
All them foster homes!
Fuck you mother fucker! I had you beat!
No I was playin’ possum remember I let you watch your little girls blossom
I gave you enough time your souls mine I’m taking it back!
You fucking bitch! why ?
Because I love you look a little closer… Isn’t that us on that poster? Hahaha

( Hook )
My darling, I don’t ever want you to leave me my darling
You and me were meant to be together my darling
And if I can not have you then no one can your my darling
Cuz I posses your soul, your mind, your heart and your body
And I don’t want you too ever leave me my darling
You and me were meant to be together my darling
And if I can not have you then no one can your my darling
Cuz I possess your soul, your mind, your heart and your body.

( Verse )

Shady, listen (SHADY) you hear that ?
They screaming for you I can bring you career back!
But i don’t want it back, Yes you!, No I don’t!
Yes you do your gonna regret it later, No I wont!
I’m a get Dre on the phone I’ll just call the doctor
Go ahead I already talk to… Dre yesterday
Well I got him on the phone right now (Slim?)
You’re lying (Yo Slim?) how? Why now?
What up Dre?
Check this out slim I gotta talk to you
I dunno it just seems like ever since you got off your
Drugs you became a lot softer!
But Dre! all shady is, is a bottle of hair bleach and vodka!
Well just think about slim I’m here!
Just hit me back and let me know what’s up?
Fuck this mirror! Ahhhh!
I’m not in the mirror I’m inside you let me guide you!
Fuck you! Die you son-of-a-bitch!
Put the gun down! Bye bye!
(*gunshots* )
Okay I’m still alive! So am i too! you cant kill a spirit even if you tried too, haha
You sold your soul to me need i remind you?
You remember that night you
Prayed to god you’d give anything to get a record deal well Dre signed you!
This is what you wanted your whole life Marshall right boo?
Look at this house! look at these cars! I’m so nice ooooh!
Oh, but you didn’t know that fame has a price too ?
That your just now seeing the downside too!
Lose your best friend from high school your wife too!
Ain’t even sure if your kids like you!
Come off tour cant even sleep at night without ny-quill
Think of the valium addicts start a rehab cycle
But together we can break the cycle
Marshall? WHAT!
No ones gonna love you like I do!

(Hook )
My darling, I don’t ever want you to leave me my darling
You and me were meant to be together my darling
And if I can not have you then no one can your my darling
Cuz I posses your soul, your mind, your heart and your body
And I don’t want you too ever leave me my darling
You and me were meant to be together my darling
And if I can not have you then no one can your my darling
Cuz I possess your soul, your mind, your heart and your body.

[tags] eminem, marshall mathers, deshaun holton, proof, shaun carter, my darling, rap lyrics, music[/tags]

Beautiful Dream -Everclear

I had a dream I was living by the ocean
I had a dream I was living in the sun
I wake up sad because I’m living in darkness
I know I’m not alone
I know I’m not the only one

I had a dream that I had no depression
I had a dream I had a smile on my face
I wake up hungry so I feed my obsession
I know I gotta leave
I know I gotta run away

Far away
Where the faces all look happy and I know it’s a dream
A beautiful dream
I want to lose myself in the sunshine where I can be free
Yeah I just wanna be free
Free in a beautiful dream
Yeah but it’s a beautiful dream

I had a dream I was living by the ocean
I had a dream I was living for the day
I wake up sad in a perpetual emotion
I know I gotta leave here
I know I gotta run away

Far away
Where the faces all look happy and I know it’s a dream
A beautiful dream
I want to lose myself in the sunshine where I can be free
I just wanna be free
Free in a beautiful dream
Yeah a beautiful dream
Free inside a beautiful dream
Free in a beautiful dream

[tags]music, lyrics, rock, everclear, shaun carter, art alexakis, beautiful dream, hidden track[/tags]

“Hater”

Everclear

I don’t like the way that you talk to me
When you tell me how it’s going be
And I don’t like the way that you smile at me
When you tell me what is wrong with me
Sometimes I wish you would go away
Go away and never ever come back
I don’t like the meaning that makes the things you do
It makes me want to hate on you

Yeah it’s got me sad
I’m kind of stressed
You got me feeling anxious
I’m always depressed
And I don’t want to play this game of tug of war
I don’t want to be with a hater like you anymore

I don’t want to be with a hater like you anymore
No I don’t want to be with a hater
You are such a hater

I don’t like the way that you never took the blame
For absolutely anything
And I don’t like the way that you put me through hell
For all those things you do yourself
Sometimes I wish I could disappear
All the way into a happy new life
I don’t like the way that you’re always telling lies
You talk about me all the time

I hear you talk
You a such a bore
I see the way you look
I think you look like a whore
I know you know I know the way your working for
I don’t won’t to be with hater like you anymore

I don’t want to be with a hater like you anymore
I don’t want to be with a hater like you
Hater. Hater
I don’t want to be with a hater like you
Hater. Hater
I don’t want to be with a hater like you anymore
Anymore…

I don’t want to play this game
No I don’t want to play these games

Your a hypocrite
Yeah you lie to me
You use words you don’t understand
You embarrass me
Yeah your beautiful in a ugly way
Hey the sex was never that good anyway

Its got me down
I am super stressed
I’m taking medication
I’m always depressed
I don’t want to fight you in this tug of war
I don’t want to be with a hater like you anymore

I don’t want to be with a hater like you anymore
I don’t want to be with a hater like you
I don’t want to be with a hater like you
I don’t want to be with a hater like you
Hater