“Not Afraid” is the first single from Eminem’s upcoming “Recovery” album, due June 22nd. This lean, mean bipolar machine began life as 'Relapse 2', but when Shady decided he wasn't really Shady at the moment and that. In the end, Eminem raps “I’m raising the bar, Imma shoot for the moon / But I’m too busy gazing at stars, I feel amazing and I’m not afraid.” The book a sequel to Bozza’s 2003 best seller Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem dishes on Slim Shady’s battle with drugs, his recovery with help from Elton John. With 'Recovery' it becomes obvious that Eminem's richest albums aren't necessarily his most structurally sound, which isn't much of a surprise when considering the rapper's full-on embrace of flaws and contradictions. When I say Em is back on that Show and MMLP I. In the bridge, Eminem continues delivering optimistic lyrics, rhyming, “I just can’t keep living this way, so starting today I’m breaking out of this cage / I’m standing up, Imma face my demons / I’m manning up, Imma hold my ground / I’ve had enough, now I’m so fed up / time to put my life together right now.”Įminem confesses on the track that it was his own “decision to get clean, I did it for me,” and that he “promises to focus on only handling my responsibilities as a father / so I solemnly swear to always treat this room like my daughters and raise it.” Even at ems worst Encore he tries to create new music every album. “I’m not afraid to take a stand / everybody, come take my hand / we’ll walk this road together, through the storm / whatever weather… you’re not alone / holler if you feel that you been down the same road,” Eminem chants on the hook. Eminem Recovery (Interscope) There’s a great Onion story titled Former Addict Celebrates 10th Year of Mind-Numbing Boredom, in which a clean-and-sober 44-year-old named Tom Stubbens. Production for Recovery took place from 2009 to 2010 with. Originally planed to be released as Relapse 2, Eminem re-titled the album to Recovery when he found the music of the new album to be different Relapse. I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one,” Eminem says in the intro over strings and the chorus repeating in the backdrop. Recovery is the seventh studio album by American hip hop artist Eminem that was released of Jby Interscope Records' subsidiaries Aftermath Entertainment and Shady Records. Eminem’s manager, Paul Rosenberg, wasn’t lying when he told earlier this week that Eminem’s “Not Afraid” single was “an uplifting song.” The track, which leaked on the internet this morning (April 29) just minutes before Em was due to premiere it on his Shade 45 Sirius Satellite radio show “The Morning After With Angela Yee,” finds Marshall Mathers delivering a much more positive outlook on life than usual.