Eminem returns to Hip Hop, to release his 6th album 'Relapse' after a 5 year break from the industry. Eminem has worked closely with Dre on this album and has returned to the style of his album 'Marshall Mathers LP.' Most of the album is about sinister thoughts, aggresion and his characteristic wit.

Eminem one of the best rappers alive when he’s talking the truth about his anger and personal demons. Tracks like “Stay Wide Awake” and “Same Song and Dance,” where he destroys pop cultural figures like Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse sound forced and played-out. This makes the album sound more painful, honest and much more than anyone expected for established artist like eminem to release at this stage of his career.

However, Relapse is basically the same as all his previous work. It is less sadistic and the flow is much better than 'Encore', but altough he manages to involve a drug theme aross some of the album's better tracks, it just sounds like old Eminem, trying to shock and awe his fans into buying an old persona, which now at almost 40 years old, its not quite so new. To make it worse, Eminem pulls out, all the stops to be as controversial as possible, increasing the lyrical intensity by swapping songs that were orginally about violence to tracks about incest and the raping children. This almost sounds like he is desperate to get the attention and desperate to live up to his self made personna of contrevers. I was expecting Eminem, with the talent he has to come back to music with something fresh, after all this is Hip Hop, the genre of change and innovation.

All being said, this album will still be up there with his best albums and probably one of the best albums of the year in Hip Hop. In sounds like iv ripped this album, but he has produced a very good album, when i and most people were expecting a great album. His next album 'Relapse Volume 2' is expected by the end of this year.

MusickNews score : 7.9/10

It’s been a long time coming for Jadakiss. Ever since his debut as a member of Puff Daddy’s "Family" in the late 90s, fans have been patiently waiting for the Yonkers emcee to become one of the leading stars in Hip-Hop culture. And now over a decade into his career, an older and wiser Jada hopes to shed that image with his third studio album, The Last Kiss.

The album picks up where his last LP left off, introducing brand new guest appearances by Ne-Yo - on the albums first official single "By My Side" - Jay-Z on the street banger "Who Run This," the Lox, Young Jeezy, and Lil' Wayne. Producers on board the new album project include the Neptunes, Eric Hudson, Buckwild and  Swizz Beats. Other singles from the Last Kiss include 'Letter To Big' (Featured from the film Notorious) where we see a humble side of Jada. 'Can't Stop Me' the second single after 'By My Side' is a straight up Jada classic taking back the times when he was in D-Block. However my best choice of the 5 singles Jada has put out so far has to be the Swizz Beats produced 'Who's Real?' the ultimate summer jam which is being airplayed a lot right now.

Combining all the factors of Jada's realease, the album does drag on with 18 tracks, most of which are collaberations (which takes the light away from the real piece). so some may say that this was a missed opportunity for Jada to unviel his potentail. All in all however the album reminads solid and New York Hiphop keeps ticking.

MusickNews score: 7/10