In another eventful week for Toronto's scorching-hot rapper Drake, the biggest buzz may have been for a collaborator: Eminem.
Last Friday was supposed to be the digital release date of "Forever," Drake's star-studded single off the upcoming album Thank Me Later. Instead, the track was leaked and many listeners agreed that among Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Slim Shady, it was the latter who stood out. MTV.com's Shaheem Reid concluded that despite the mediocrity of his recent album Relapse, Eminem "came back with a vengeance, using a machine-gun flow to have the hottest appearance on the record."
Drake's fellow Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon Twittered that "this song is insanely desperate, but Eminem is really amazing. When he turns it on, there's no one better. The internal rhyming is brilliant."
For those who haven't heard it, or refuse to listen to pirated tracks (are there still any of you?), see a YouTube version here –
http://tr.im/drakeever – or read below what Eminem packs into 48 seconds of mic time:
There they go, packin' stadiums as Shady spits his flow
Nuts they go – macadamia – and they go so ballistic, whoa
He can make them look like bozos, he's wonderin' if he should spit this slow
F--k no, don't provoke, his cup just runneth over, oh no
He ain't had it with bars like this since the last time that he overdosed
They been waitin' patiently for Pinocchio to poke his nose
Back into the game and they know rap'll never be the same as befo'
Bashin' in the brains of these hos, and establishin' a name as he goes
The passion and the flame is ignited, you can't put it out once we light it
This s--t is exactly what the f--k that I'm talkin' about when we riot
You dealin' with a few true villains who stand inside of the booth true spillin'
And spit true feelings until them two feelings come flyin' up out of our mouths, then rewind it
Payback, motherf--ker, for the way that you got at me, how's it taste?
I'ma slap the taste out of your mouths with the bass so loud that it shakes the place
I'm Hannibal Lecter, son, in case you're thinkin' of saving face
You ain't gonna have no face to save by the time I'm through with this – play some Drake.
