Eminem uses his music as a direct outlet for his life. This is a nice element to rely on as it feeds your music with passion and allows the audience to experience and feel the struggles, anger and jubilation. The only other rappers to exude this personality trait in their music are Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.

This is exemplified via a much music interview wherein “50 cent”’s music style is compared to the likeness of Tupac, even he chuckled at the notion. The only worthy mainstream rapper out there to date is Eminem. Unfortunately for this style of rapper, albums are produced on sheer personally experience and the album preceding this one felt forced and did not convey any real emotions from Eminem. “Relapse” was a hollow album, retelling a story that was already heard through his first five albums. Eminem himself says he was really drugged out during “The Eminem Hiatus”. Although a well deserved break, he was unable to produce anything new and exciting. Thankfully he rethought his approach, changing the name and the influence from relapse 2 to recovery. Recovery being a fresh clean update of where Eminem is in his life in regards to his new purpose in life, which carried throughout this album keyed by his single, not afraid, this is a non-verbally abusive look into the fresher cleaner yet ever passionate Eminem.