Recovery debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of 741,000 copies. Recovery featured more introspective and emotional content than its predecessor and the theme of the album revolved around his positive changes, anxiety, and emotional drives. Eminem also collaborated with artists such as Pink, Lil Wayne, Slaughterhouse and Rihanna for the album. Production of the album took place during 2009 to 2010 at several recording studios and was handled by various record producers, including Alex da Kid, Just Blaze, Boi-1da, Jim Jonsin, DJ Khalil, Mr.
It serves as the follow-up to Eminem's sixth studio album Relapse (2009). It was released on June 18, 2010, by Aftermath Entertainment, Shady Records, and Interscope Records. Eminem rapped about being caught in the storm this is him coming out of it.Recovery is the seventh studio album by American rapper Eminem. Both of these songs are worthy editions to the album and serve as a contrast to the rest of the record. But it actually comes as a relief to get some more raw and straight forward tracks. Both tracks lack the big choruses that most of Recovery had. It does a good job evoking a theme, alluding to a concert where Eminem is on stage in front of a big crowd, announcing he has some friends he brought along. “Session One” has a very organic sound, with drums and guitar riff underlying the song. No over bearing samples, just beats and rapping. Some will be pleased to hear that both these songs are more stripped down. Supposedly, the label blocked it from happening, so it was nothing that the artists could control.Īnother complaint about Recovery is the lack of traditional hip hop production. If I had any complaints, it’s that Joe Budden’s verse was cut from the final version. It would be great to see him work with more MC’s on the next record. Eminem also works well with the other artist, all of them working in sync rather then over shadowing the other. If anything, this song really shows Eminem with his confidence back. But after an album where Em self-assesses constantly, the boasting is welcome. The song is divided between the different MC’s, each spitting about how great they are. The real winner out of these two is “Session One,” which features Just Blaze and Slaughterhouse. The chorus is also kind of flimsy: “So what’s the deal, ridaz/ Will you excuse me before I feel my nuts, my balls are feeling mighty big now.” It’s the musical equivalent of one puffing up their chest and feeling big before they throw down. Unfortunately, Dre pushes out yet another good but not so great beat, that keeps the song going but nothing more.
The song serves as a good transition from the album’s original material, as Eminem takes action rather than just talking about it. Dre, sees Eminem spitting ferociously about how tough he can be when pushed. The bonus tracks that come with the iTunes version take a different direction, and almost act as fighting songs. For some, this subject matter over the course of an entire album was too much, and they would have preferred Eminem to show his confidence more, rather than talk about how he got it back. Thematically, Recovery spent most of its time chronicling Eminem’s hardships in the past several years.