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Recording information Effigy Studios; Larrabee Studios, Universal City, CA; Shangri La Studios, Malibu, CA. Photographers Jeremy Deputat; Kevin Mazur; Paul Rosenberg ; Jenny Risher. After centering himself with the confessional 2010 Recovery, Eminem entered his forties while watching his beloved city of Detroit literally go bankrupt. The cover here displays this descent with an updated picture of the rapper's teenage home, first featured on the MM LP of 2000 but now boarded up, and yet this 8 Mile child cares much more about the present than the past, as this vicious, infectious, hilarious triumph is no nostalgia trip, just the 2013 version of Marshall the experienced maverick on a tear, dealing with the current state of events and kicking up dust with his trademark maniac attack while effortlessly juggling his over-40 wisdom with stuff you'd slap a teenager for saying. Key cut InchRap GodInch is the quintessential track as it blasts out homophobic cut-downs and other inexcusable lyrics, because Marshall's the InchDale Earnhardt of the trailer park,Inch but InchI still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind,Inch and suddenly his Stan Lee-like origin story begins to take shape. Marshall is a super villain so familiar with hate and depression, he's powered by all shades of anger. Be it pissing off the neighbors (rocking the house with a some Beastie Boys and Billy Squier samples on the Rick Rubin-produced party starter InchBezerkInch) or being threatened by critics (and his biggest ever, too, as InchBad GuyInch revisits the MM LP character InchStanInch via his revenge-obsessed brother Matthew), it all feeds into his super nova, and it's a unique spectacle when it explodes. Silly, manipulated voices and all, InchThe MonsterInch with Rihanna offers insight with it's InchI get along with the voices inside my headInch attitude, then InchHeadlightsInch ups the game and
