Apparently, the God-talk hadn’t worked. Eminem doesn’t say this, but we might surmise he’d had a religious crisis. The religion puffed him up with hubris and expectation, then he deflated back into his depressed self.
Scholars write about Eminem. Marie W. Dallam’s 2007 paper, “Eminem: The Best Emcee Since Jesus” finds the religious cues so frequent that she presents Eminem as a Christian artist. She finds his music reflects “a typically Christian understanding of the world.”