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He just dropped a brand new album, called "Music To Be Murdered By". Here's a video for the first single.

I really like that song. Besides rapping really fast or all the clever wordplay, his other strongest suit is the Stan/storytelling formula he's got. On first listen, solid all around, pretty much what you want and expect from Eminem at this stage of his career and life. The Juice Wrld feature was surprising, guys like him don't really seem like Eminem's lane but I guess it's a nice RIP. I liked how he put Young M.A. on the song that addresses his beefs so there's a lot of people gonna be hearing her now.

Apparently the second show is going to be something in addition to Dark. Bad idea, if you ask me.

Kind of wish that was an hour or two longer. Attitude Era stuff gets a bit boring because there's only so many times you can hear the same stories over and over, but Hunter having more personal insight into Vince as a family member makes him looking back on shit like that really interesting

From the Observer, Dave's write-up on Maeda after Fighting Network Rings went out of business To add to it, this was only a few months after Maeda and co returned to New Japan, after they'd left NJPW two years earlier. Early to mid '80s New Japan is super interesting because they basically had a boom period cut right off because almost all their currently relevant and future-star Japanese guys left within a few months of each other.

I wish Raw was 1 hour, maybe two if there was no Smackdown. There's like 1 hour of decent to good stuff and then 2 hours of filling time on Raw. 2 segment matches that only need to be 1 segment, 1 segment of promo-time that only needs to be three minutes, etc etc. I dig the Seth Rollins stuff right now, I like the squash-match format when it's not going two segments. A fast-forward through a lot more than I want to just because it's too long.