In comparison, The Wolf of Wall Street, used it 3.16 times per minute.
This is largely due to the debut’s short run time (37 minutes) and the song Open Mic, which features an impressive 18 uses of the word “fuck”. When looking at how much swearing there is on each album, per minute, what we find is that Encore and Relapse, with an average of 2.71 swear words per minute (swpm), are nearly as low as Infinite, at 2.37 swpm. More interestingly, as the chart below shows, Eminem cranked up the swearing on Recovery, making it his third most profanity-laden album, after MMLP and The Eminem Show. In fact, three of the four songs in Eminem’s discography without a single word my mother would tut at are on Infinite (the other is ’97 Bonnie and Clyde off The Slim Shady LP). Unsurprisingly, Infinite has the least swearing. Here’s how his albums stack up, starting with Infinite at the bottom:ġ money bag=10 swear words, to the nearest 10 Taking just his vocabulary into consideration, Eminem neither toned down his language for Recovery nor turned it up for MMLP 2. To some fans, it was beyond question that Eminem had softened his image, so when he used a few homophobic slurs on Rap God, they responded with spine-tingling nostalgia: it was as if the rapper who cussed to make your mom and everyone else upset was back.īut did Eminem ever soften up? Did he tone down his vocabulary on Recovery? Did he go crazy again on The Marshall Mathers LP 2? I decided to go through his discography and make a note of every swear word – any word that would make my own mother upset – and see what his swear jar is like (Note: more about what constitutes a swear word at the bottom these stats include all the words on his albums, including guest verses).
Reviews talked about his “empathy and humanity”, and the man who’d made a career from writing about women, his own infamy, murderous fantasies, bigotry and doing drugs spawned a whole new set of fans whose opinion of him can be summed up in this tweet, posted days after the release of Recovery:Įminem raps about life, not just girls, weed, and cars. Between collaborations with Rihanna and songs about keeping your head up or not being afraid, he’d become inspirational. Some time around the release of Recovery, however, fans and critics decided he’s not filling up that swear jar as fast as he used to. 13 years later, he promised to not stop till the swear jar is full. Eminem only cusses to make your mom upset.