Ever since Eminem announced he would be releasing a follow-up to his diamond-certified The Marshall Mathers LP, fans have waited anxiously to see whether Shady’s eighth studio album could meet the tremendous expectations necessitated by its title. After all, the original MMLP is widely-regarded as Eminem’s best project, a classic, and as one of the finest emceeing performances committed to wax. So does The Marshall Mathers LP 2 represent a return to form for Slim Shady, or just another in a string of disappointing-to-mediocre albums?
Eminem can rhyme with the best of them, and is peerless in his technique. Unfortunately, too often does Em focus on technique at the expense of actually making a good song. This technical hubris is on full display on MMLP 2. It’s difficult to be too upset with “Rap God,” which will have fans hitting the rewind button, but “Berzerk” and “Love Game,” among other cuts have the distinction of having an absurd number of syllables mashed into a track that ends up saying absolutely nothing. The album would have been much better served by Em spending more time crafting song concepts than he did on his über-complex rhyme schemes.
Listeners who have closely followed Eminem’s music will note that the production on The Marshall Mathers LP 2 is actually a tighter soundbed than the noisy mess that was Recovery. “Rhyme Or Reason” is a nice flip of a familiar sample from The Zombies’ “Time of the Season” (even though the hook is painfully obvious), while tracks like “Legacy” and the synths on “Evil Twin” do a great job of carrying Em’s wicked rhymes. However, it’s not all good, with “Survival” essentially unnecessary after Recovery’s “Won’t Back Down,” and “Berzerk” existing merely to let everyone know that, for the right price, Rick Rubin will happily make a poor Beastie Boys impression for you.
Although the production and detrimental hyper-lyricism place Eminem’s worst habits on display throughout the album, there is plenty of good here. Extremely compelling is the theme of Eminem’s growth, particularly in the form of repenting for much of his misdirected anger towards his mother (and setting his sights on his father, who abandoned him when he was an infant). This is a well Shady goes to on several tracks, including “Bad Guy” and “Headlights.” On the latter, he deals with agonizing guilt: “But I’m sorry mama for ‘Cleaning Out My Closet,’ at the time I was angry / Rightfully maybe so, never meant that far to take it though, ‘cause / Now I know it’s not your fault, and I’m not making jokes / That song I no longer play at shows and I cringe every time it’s on the radio.”
So how does The Marshall Mathers LP 2 fare as a sequel? Interestingly, on “Bad Guy,” the album’s intro track, Em rhymes, “And hey, here’s a sequel to my Mathers LP / Just to try to get people to buy / How’s this for publicity stunt? This should be fun / Last album now ‘cause after this you’ll be officially done.” It’s almost as if Shady is trying to be preemptively self-aware of the fact that calling this album MMLP 2 may scream moneygrab—and he’s absolutely right. A few lyrical references to previous songs, an extension of an old skit and a few played Insane Clown Posse references do not a sequel make. In all honesty, MMLP 2 suffers as a project when Eminem asks it to be compared to his best release. Sure, it may be one of the better LPs you hear in 2013, but make no mistake: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 only serves to tarnish the original’s legacy, whereas titling it something else could’ve just meant another passable addition to Eminem’s night-and-day catalogue.
Ya’ll shit on this and ass lick Em’s even worse LAUGHTERHOUSE? Yeah, makes sense.
Nah
Review already? Album didn’t even drop yet. Lol
They do this all the time.
Awesome album. Hits all the right notes. Truly a “Marshall Mathers” LP without just rehashing old time.
Best Album this year……..
You’re kidding me right?
I agree with 4/5 but the review is fucking trash
MMLP>TES>SSLP>MMLP2>RELAPSE>RECOVERY>ENCORE
good.
Wow what a dumb review , how does this tarnish mmlp1 ? This cd is damn near perfect . Seem as if who rated it is a differnt person than who reviewed it
haha what a bullshit review. This site wouldn’t know a quality album if it bit them in the ass. They’re playing hard to get just cuz it’s Eminem and he’s white.
shut the fuck up
why so serious?
Seriously? He has explained in an interview that is isn’t a full blown sequel. It’s a re-visitation, it’s about the nostalgia! He raps about the things he done back then, the things he has changed and the things he regrets. Also, he does the skits, the odd line referencing MMLP. Please do proper research before you do a review. I personally think its a great album. Bad Guy is one of his all time greatest songs it is genius using Matthew’s story from ‘Stan’. He managed to give us every style he has done on one album so in my opinion he done well with his idea of nostalgia.
i couldn’t agree more
Oh shut the fuck up and stop gargling Eminem’s dick please. Stop acting like such a bitch because the fine editors here @ HHDX didn’t like your favorite rapper’s album. My god, have some fucking dignity. Ok, he didn’t agree with it? Who fucking cares? Life goes on.
It doesn’t bother me that someone doesn’t like the album. That doesn’t change my opinion on it. It’s not doing proper research on it when it’s your job to do so! That annoys me, no matter what album it is. Simple as that. Don’t twist my words.
The editor did his job. He listened to the album (researched it as you like to call it) and made a judgement call. You’re free to write your own album review if you wish. I’d be more than happy to post a comment.
This album sucks. This ugly old pasty pale faced demon feminem cant rap for shit. Only uncle tom blacks and racist whites loke his shit.
The first album sold more then 10 million records. I highly doubt that all of them are white people. Stop bringing race into it. That grew old a long time ago.
75% of that 10 million was probably white. Actually even when a black artist sales well, you can guess whites bought most of those copies. Its been that way in Hip Hop for over a decade now.
No
This is an amazing album. Really listen to the lyrics and you will understand. Also listen to it in order. It’s important to do this.
I agree with the previous comments, seems like the rating and the actual review were done by different people. I personally like the album a lot, there were two tracks i didn’t like (the monster record and the other one he was singing in.
But other than that it seemed like it was one of his most complete albums, probably tied for his third best (best and complete are two different things to me
And something else, i understand the production on love game was kinda weird and different, but what about the actual song was bad, i heard dope bars, and a dope and funny story from kendrick and eminem, i think people are stuck in whatever seems like “methodical hip-hop” or whatever you think eminem should sound like. The cd plus the bonus tracks were pretty damn good
This album isn’t eminems best but it’s still a great album. It will be the past rap album of the year. I’d give it a 4.5 out of 5.
I agree with the written review, but i’d give this album 2/5. The beats are terrible. Am I the only one that’s not down with all these rock and pop fused beats? I wanna hear the raw hip hop style production that was on the original MMLP, not this pop and rock bullshit.
eminem back to his peak
Great
HipHopDX gave KANYE WEST – YEEZUS a 4.5. Has that writer been fired?
No since Yeezus was a better attempt at being different this this crap and it’s just a better album LMAO
Dude your fuckin crazy, Yeesus was horrible
So is MMLP2 so lets just go on the site your on review. YEEZUS >>> MMLP2
Yeezus is still trash.
hip hop is dead it never be back like it was
Surprised it even got a 4. Not better then Yeezus still…To bad for all the Stans hoping Em would win every single accolade over every other artist out…LMAO Better luck next crappy album
Awful review. Has the writer done this in 10 minutes? I expect more from HHDX when reviewing one of the biggest releases of the year. The review repeated itself and didn’t actually praise the album in anyway, despite giving it 4/5?! The album isn’t MMLP 1 or will end up being a classic, but it’s Em’s best effort since TES in my opinion.
No @fiji,u not the only one who sick of them. This album sucks!
I grew up listening to Em but i have found the older i get the less i like him. I feel i have outgrown him and his music.
AOTY
G.O.A.T
Not better than Yeezus, wow fans are delusional these days, fuck ha, and what the hell is hyperlyricism, making shit up, catch up, I heard everything he said perfectly
i know why would a Hip-Hop critic or fan not want super lyricism thats what rap is and should be. but theres no pleasing some people
Great album
i think HipHopDX need to take more time to review and Artists album. it was never a straight up sequel how could it of ever been? he even said it wasn’t, it would have of just been fake, he,s not 26 anymore. This is Marshall Mathers and his thoughts now! this is Eminem’s most complete work ever, the MMLP may have been better because of the time period he put it out and all the controversy around his lyrics. The songs you say are saying ‘Nothing’ like Berzerk well the concept to that is taking it back to straight Hip-Hop, And Eminem has always told funny stories like on Love Game…its hilarious so yeah that does have a concept to. your asking him to dumb own his flow and technique, why would a Hip-Hop fan ever want that? but then again most of these people are the same people that made trinidad james hot haha
The album’s already been reviewed and given a fair and reasonable review. Deal with it.
good
The beats in this album are bad. This is where hip hop is heading? These pop beats? the lyrics are on point, but the instrumentals alone get a 2/10
SMH. Dumb.
Dumb for having a different opinion then you? Well I guess that’s actually smart since your opinion sux as well.
Your opinion sucks ass.
A lot of the rhyme schemes and lyrics are what grab my attention on this album. Yes, there are some faults, like with “Berzerk.” But Eminem has said in past I reviews he has to do a goofy, ridiculous song so he can make a video for it. Like with “My Name Is”, “The Real Slim Shady”, and “Without Me.” He said after awhile those songs just sounded corny to him. The album as a whole is very well put together and a lot of the songs are very well put together. My personal favorite is “So Much Better.” One of his most complex thyme schemes I feel he’s ever done was on “Survival”, though. The man can rap, twist words, make you want to come back for more. There’s a reason he’s the highest selling artist in rap. He’s better than most, if not all, rappers in the game today. 4.5/5 for me.
This website is on Kanye’s dick. Kanye could just fart on a record and this site would give it a 4.5 rating talking bout nobody can fart like that. Or that fart was innovative and will be a phenomenon that the future of rap will depend on. Yeezus got a 4.5 and they shit on this album? FOH
You mad? (Camron Voice)
I’m guessing your not a fan of Rick Rubins production. I have a feeling many New Age Hip Hop fans won’t appropriate it.
9/10 because a lot of things about this album took real balls to do, production, song concepts and the 80’s anthemic scratching.
Very impressive stuff
not listened yet, but surely he should have wrote the album in amsterdam to truly try to capture the feel of the first. it would seem a more authentic attempt if it were a serious peice of work. you dont have to munch shrooms all day there.
HAHAHA you see all these Eminem fans getting all butt hurt because the editor didn’t give MMLP2 a fair review? Not everybody is gonna like the same fucking thing. What part of that don’t you stans understand about life? You get so caught up in your little feelings that you tell the editor that he/she should clean their fucking ears out or they should be fired. LOL. Climb off the artists’ nuts for a second and listen up: it’s not hating, it’s called AN ENTITLEMENT TO ONE’S OPINION.I, for one, just didn’t like this album. Some production was downright terrible, some of it was very good. Some songs are absolute trash/questionable, others showed alot of maturity and growth. I’d give this album a 3/5 stars.
Wow..I agree with this 100%
this shit goes hard
Lmfao @ anyone claiming Yeezus was good. Just simply..lmfao.
ROTFLMAO at anyone saying MMLP2 is a good album
Yeezus isn’t even a rap album.
Neither is MMLP2 – It’s defined as “POP” #BOOMSTANLEY
Nope. MMLP2 is hip-hop.
This is nearly as good as the original believe that this review is trash. 4.5/5
MMLP 2 > Born Sinner > …. > Yeezus
Not based on the website you’re posting this comment on LOL… #Yeezus just rose again
While this was not a perfect project, I think it really deserves more props for some REALLY BOLD moves in todays Hip Hop landscape.
Ever hear of Yeezus? That was bolder and a lot of idiots on this site hated on it and it was better then this album.
Giving this a 1/5 to make up for all the Stans giving this a 5 when I’ve only seen a few big Em fans even say it was a perfect album smh
Anybody who fucks with his album is a Stan? Lmaoooo you’re a loser breh
Read the comment again really slowly and see exactly what I said then come back to me Stanley.
I thought the album was fairly different from anything i’ve heard this year. There were a few tracks that were trash but a majority was good. I’d give it 4.5/5.
A few “Trash” tracks as you put it and still a 4/5/5. WTF kind of logic is that
How many rappers put out an album with 22 songs ? And out of those 22 songs, at least 15 are great – classic songs, thats the logic, u dig?
But trash is a strong word. If he/she said a few songs I wasn’t feeling cuz they’re so-so then I could dig. Trash says you hated them. I’ve never given an album a perfect score if I hated more then one song if that.
I really thought 3 were really bad, and then the rest of the tracks were either decent, good or really good. 4.5 is not a perfect score, however I suppose that 4/5 could have been a more appropriate rating.
THIS SORRY ASS NIGGA CANT EVEN RATE ALBUMS CORRECTLY. PEEP GAME DX. THIS IS THE TYPE OF QUEER THAT IS GIVING THE ALBUM GOOD REVIEWS. FUCK EM.
Lol…I know what you meant. It’s all good, I think you just worded it wrong by saying trash at first.
Okay.
MMLP2 is a really good album.
Best Tracks: Desperation, Rap God, Rhyme Or Reason, Brainless, Groundhog Day, Beautiful Pain, Wicked Ways, Evil Twin, Legacy, So much better
-> Good Work, Em!
Goooooooooooooood God, he spazzes on this album. Every single song, even the slow ones, are pure adrenalin and have Shady practically screaming into the mic.
The thing that really impresses me about this album is just how ‘against the gain’ of almost every modern hip hop convention is. I almost want to say that calling it MMLP2 is sort of a miss representation of the LP because people will go in expecting the sound of 2000 when really its a re-visitation of the ideas and mindset.
This is essentially Eminem saying I will do whatever I want and if you don’t like it. Suck it……. pretty ballsy.
The lyricism is grade A, this is undeniable. at the age of frickin 41 Eminem can still kill most of these 20 year olds! That is insane.
The only real negative I can come up with is, as was referenced in the review; the very few popier songs that sound like they should be on Recovery. (The Monster and Survival) These feel like much more of an attempt to appeal to mainstream audiences than the rest of the album.
9/10 is probably an apt score, as he almost certainly achieved what he set out to do, abet a few select songs, but they hardly detract from the album.
Quite impressive stuff.
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Dope
I don’t get it HipHopDX, when I read your critic I would rather see 3 stars instead of 4. Your analysis doesn’t fit the grade. Anyway, I put a 3 stars to MMLP2, not a bad album at all, but I didn’t get the feeling I usually have when I’m listening to an Eminem album.
review is 100% spot on
My score is more 2/5. It has a couple of good tracks but this album just raped eminem’s legacy. Amazing how EMinem’s fallen off and Wayne has risen.
lmaoooo Wayne been garbage, he not even the best on Cash Money
I agree with 2/5 and thank god the review mentioned this:
“Unfortunately, too often does Em focus on technique at the expense of actually making a good song”
Em can still rap and rhyme with the best, but the actual songs are mostly awful! They threw a whole load of crap together and saw what stuck.
You got it backwards. Em has risen while Wayne fell off.
Fire….except for that singing shit
mmlp
Em’s worst album by far, still better than 90% of the other shit
5/5
Some of the bonus tracks are better than a couple on the actual album. I think if he were to switch them out it would be a 5/5 without any question.
this is the best album all year Em and Pusha t’s album anyway! 5/5
You got one of those right..The other not so much though
Never thought I see the year when Drake released a better album then Em. Smh, I’m made at my ears and brain for hearing the obvious….
*mad
Drake didn’t make a better album than Em.
i think you need a new critic! Drake’s album got the same rating as this, like how is Drake HipHop wise touching Eminem really? i mean i love Drake but his albums are half rnb! get a critic who actually loves Rap and hiphop
Drake’s album was better all around though. Lyrically Em’s was better cohesive and production wise Drake’s was better.
Really doubt drakes album being better than mmlp2 ….
drake is gonna steal the grammy from em. cuz ppl still remember em from 99-03 they dont realzie this man has changed.
I’ve heard both albums and their about even and that’s taking into account that I skip all the 100% singing songs on Drake’s album most of the time when I play it.
“drake is gonna steal the grammy from em.”
No, he won’t.
I feel like people think they are cool and popular for hating this album and just Eminem in general. This album is a 4/5 imo.
you’re wrong. people hate this album for the production. And I agree, the beats in this album suck.
Co-Signature @jessie
DX…on the last paragraph you didn’t put that bad guy is in Matthew (Stan’s brother)s perspective…
MMLP2 is one of best albums (lyrically) in the past decade at least. Among many other factors, hip-hop is about not only the technicality of lyrics, but the content within them, and (should be) about the story underlying those lyrics. Em truly accomplishes that goal again, as he did in MMLP.
at the end of the day, he is one of the legends
True but wonder how many people would’ve let a legend like Jay-Z slide if he put out a half ass album like this.
wtf do you call taht terrbile lazy holy grail album????
tom ford….tom ford…tom ford….tom ford….tom ford GTFO jay aint nowhere near em technique, lyrically and selling albums you name it
Thing is, they will let Jay-Z slide
MCHG is 10x better then this….Yakkity, Yak..and Yodeling crap Em does on Rap God so stop nitpicking. Tom Ford is better then 90% of the songs on MMLP2
Tom Ford is trash.
The content of the review (3/5) doesn’t match the score (4/5). Typical DX, I knew the rating before I even clicked the link.
I knew it wouldn’t get a higher score then Kanye’s last album did.
the only thing I don’t like about the album is the production.
Sorta important for an album don’t you think? This isn’t an open mic at acapella night so the beats are a big deal in regards to how good an album is.
Lol, dx is basically asking Em to dumb down his lyrics? Lol…..when he does, you call him a sellout. Tragic.
can you read?! they’re saying he saying he should focus on concepts like in his old albums more so than technical ability which can be and are detrimental for his music.
Co sign Juke’s comment
4/5
Asshole & Desperation i liked the lyrics but not the production. Alex da kidd fell the Fck off.
Exactly! The review doesn’t match the score. If u don’t like the album, don’t dickrider. The review is more like a 3 – 3.5, but the score is 4. What’? U are scared em Stan’s will tear u up ?
ahhhh ahhhhh ahhhhh lalalala lesbian!!!!!Album is dope just like all of em..this is gonna b playin a repeat..as it already has been wrth my $ 2 put in the archives..thankz EM!!!!!!
what you just wrote is the equivalent of saying you’re gonna suck 20 dicks tonight and seeming enthusiastic about it. even straight women aren’t that blatant dude.
brianless is mt fav song
fucks the whole music scene.
fuckin great album
Horrible review. Even if you agree with what is said how does the words match the rating it was given. To be perfectly clear and honest I would of given it a perfect 5, because after all the nostalgic lines and sounds finally sink in you start to hear the present genius that this album holds without it. In my opinion, his talent is unprecedented, and it shows.
that album is so good
I agree with the score, I think the standard version is an 8.25/10. Haven’t heard the deluxe yet. However, this review is awful. It seems more like a 2.5 star, considering the reviewer spends more time bashing the album than he does talking about his strengths. Also, how are you going to call out Eminem for not making the MMLP2 sound like a sequel to the MMLP1, while quoting “Bad Guy”, and failing to mention that song is Stan Pt 2? Love Game wasn’t just “syllable-mashing” it was a funny song about some chick. So Far…, Rhyme or Reason, Brainless, and others sound like they would have fit quite well on the original album. So yes, it was deserving of the title.
Anyway lyrics are just about a 10/10, hooks are like a 6.5-7, production is an 8ish.
EM DOESNT SUCK. THIS ALBUM WAS JUST HIM PULLING A PRANK ON HIS FANS CUZ HE’S CRAZY LIKE THAT. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS ALBUM IS A LEGIT ATTEMPT. FUCK EM.
So in the eyes of HipHopDX Yeezus (4.5) was a better album than MMLP2… that says everything you need to know about this site. I’m not an Eminem dick rider, but I respect lyrcism when I see it. This album is pure hiphop, Rap God was more lyrically dense than Kanye’s whole album.
yeezus sucked and this album sucked as well. don’t act like this was a 5/5
BlackSkin Heads and New Slave have more meaning then any song on this album are you kdding me? Are you telling me a bunch of random words meaning nothing on Rap God have more meaning then New Slave? See right here is why Hip-Hop is dying folks.
Mediocre album,and mediocre rapper to be honest. Yeah he can flow but he can’t write a song to save his life.
Lmao if Lose Yourself, Bad Guy, Going Through Changes, 25 To Life, Headlights, etc, aren’t good songs then I wonder what are…
Exactly my point, There’s only a few on his album like always.
Classic.
This review makes sense, Em’ can rhyme but its all just randomly distributed
It’s an album review! I sure hope it makes SOME sense. He needed to come with something more in my opinion. His review was all over the place, just as he described Em’s flow throughout.
a very good album! his best since The Eminem Show…
Best since TES.
his best work since the eminem show,really great and is almost equal to its precedor
! this shit was as wack as his last two albums.
4.5 stars would be better and correct for mmlp2
No doubt, this review read like a 2.5 – 3.0, dude just slammed the album for a couple of paragraphs and gives it 4 stars…”Passable” is not a very high rating.
People are too picky about what they hear. Can you really expect perfection every time? The original album with said title wasn’t perfect either, but it rocked out as a classic. If this album was named anything else, expectations would’ve been different. The only track that was questionable to me was the one with Rhianna, the rest is scarily solid. This trumps Relapse and Recovery, why the over-dramatic nitpicking? Ease up and listen up, almost classic, 4.5/5.
The track with Rihanna u speak of is “The Monster” & MAY HAVE been geared more toward pleasing any/all of his female fans. They LOVE this track. I agree with u on the title & expectations. If he would’ve simply give it no thought and called it King Mathers, people who don’t really dig this album or want to compare it to the first may be singin a different tune. “He sounds nothing like the old Eminem” haha, guy is 13? Years older since that dropped. We, the real fans know that him naming this album MMLP2 was no mistake, he planned for this and won.
I can’t understand some people here…Why are you saying that beats on this album suck?? They are actually nice,simple and boom bap…it is way better than any Drake, Kanye or whatever album with trap beats and dumb experiments…I am not hating Kanye and Drake but Em’s album actually is more of a rap album than these of Drake and Kanye…
Well Drake is a singer partial and Kanye did a completely experimental album with Yeezus but other then that MDBTF is 10x better then any album Shady has released
great!!!!
Man…all I can say is INSTANT CLASSIC…lyrics insane…beats are good…people thought Em had maybe lost it, that he didn’t have the hunger in him no more…listen to this album get the deluxe version…a great way to continue the The Marshall Mathers Lp indeed…he got a bit of everything on here…boy is nasty with the pen…putting the rap game on notice once again if they forgot..like he said WHY BE A KING WHEN YOU CAN BE A GOD….and for the haters well you know what you can go do…lol
fail
Still rapping like he’s on his Pharaoh Munch grind! Album is great! As is Wicked Ways, and Groundhog Day on the deluxe.
Eminem has the highest standards in rap.
mmlp2 is really awesome and everyone must buy it, its really worth the wait
It’s a very solid album. I thought it was gonna be a disaster judging from the singles, but there’s a lot of gems on it. Lyricism & storytelling is top-notch as usual, production isn’t too bad. Much better than his last 3 albums.
I know a lot of fans will be surprised the review didn’t match the score. The fact is that I rated it this a 3/5 but just before it was published James “Jimmy” Iovine called and asked for it not to be published unless one more star was added. The only way to get you guys to read this review was doing as he said. Thanks all and keep supporting HipHopDX.
you are a faggot.
THAT’S WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY AFTER YOUR POOR REVIEW??? Dude, step your knowledge up/lack there of… What exactly are u trying to say? Why are you trying to deflect any/all attention away from YOU, the person who wrote the review? By saying Jimmy said don’t publish unless you add a star. That’s all the more reason people are going to say that your review was horrible. Speak the truth!!! & if you think u did, on this review, you have some serious work to do. I’m not upset in the least about what u rated this, it’s your job, it’s the way you expressed how you came to your 3/5 conclusion. I wouldn’t have ANY problems if u gave it a 1, as long as you backed it up, came with facts, and more knowledge.
@Moonie You’re a fucking dumbass, I swear. You know that’s not really Roman Cooper right? ROFL.
guys buy the album its worth it. his best album in years , i just love it and gonna buy two cd’s tomarrow
great album, hiphop is back love it. 5/5
oh…and to whoever wrote the review there roman cooper…shut your dumass up…the only album as you say that was mediocre album he dropped was relapse and the man came back and said his shit was weak on the next cd..RECOVERY…amazing how you can diss your on cd come back and kill on the next…get your reviews write yeah…its your opinion I get it…but please be real with yourself..
We’re being real this album is so-so. Stans are the ones being unrealistic giving this album a 5..
If people keep co-signing this shit, he’ll continue to feed you shit records.
Well if this is what he’s going to keep doing I’m more than happy with this. Every album after Encore he’s improved dramatically.
That’s because opinions are subjective, stupid. What u like might be what I don’t. I bet u like manga carta.
Trust any casual fan would like magna carta more then this subpar album..Stop it
The album is good, better than most of those ones that are out there.
These critics could be funny sometimes. For example, the consequence of sound critic put up a review worthy of 4.5/5 and ended up giving it a 3.5. Now dx basically writes off the album from the first paragraph to the last and still give it a 4/5. Funny tho.
Good album, best since his return, but please Eminem, for the next album… Just have Rick Rubin production 😀
The Rick Rubin produced tracks were the worst ones.
please no more rick rubin he ruined every album he touched except #MCHG
Best rap album in the last years, the album of the year
SPoken like a true stan that doesnt listen to rap
Everyone wants to hear the same shit in rap these days. The cd is compelling from start to finish. When your biggest complaint is “too good of lyricism,” clearly you are reaching for shit. Appreciate the work for what it is; a great album.
EXACTLY!!!
Doris, MCHG, YEEZUS, NWTS, Four other top rap albums of the year which sound nothing alike, so what are you talking about.
TRUE DAT!!!
“Doris, MCHG, YEEZUS, NWTS, Four other top rap albums of the year which sound nothing alike,”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Those 4 weak albums? HA!! Tell me that’s a joke.
The review sucked.
This album is for the fans and whether you hate it or love it you gotta respect what this album represents. Every song is not a gem (particularly the singles with the exception of Rap God”) but as a body of work it’s great and I’m personally satisfied…as a fan. We have watched this mans journey from jump street and its no doubt he holds a special place in the hearts of hip-hop heads so to hear MMLP2 is more than just comparing a 41 year old Em to a hungry 28 year old version of himself. Its about witnessing a journey coming to it’s end, and he is fully aware of that end.
I love that he’s speaking on his own contradictions and faults. Thinking about his karma for every insult and how his words have affected people in neg/pos. ways. He is aware of himself not only as a man but of our perception of him as an artist. Possibly the most self reflecting album we have ever heard from him. He comes full circle on this one. One lyric he says “I’m back before it fades into black and it’s all over. Behold the final chapter in the saga. Trying to recapture that lightning trapped in a bottle”.
This album is a revisit as well as a celebration of why we fell in love with him. I like it cuz no matter how it compares to the earlier work, I can tell he put his all into this and the thing is he didn’t have to. The feeling kind of reminds me of how I felt when Jay-Z said he was retiring and released the song “Encore”. That “For one last time I need yall to roar” line comes to mind. I also like how experimental it is lyrically and instrumentally. People complain about that but isn’t that why we liked him in the first place?
Anyway i say all that to say that this album although not the 1st MMLP still holds a very important place in his catalog and as a FAN i have to respect and appreciate what he has done with this project. Here’s to you Shady.
CO MUDAFUCKIN SIGN!!!!!
Stop dick riding 4/5 is reasonable should have been lower.
I concur. I didn’t read ANY comments until I posted mine, and I see I’m not alone in my thoughts on that “review”. Now, I didn’t write my own review to post on THIS page like you did. However, you did as better job than the person whos job this is! You said “Here’s to u Shady” to which I say, Here’s to U BadJet!
@Moonie313 Cheers 🙂
I feel like the bigger eminem fan you are the more you’ll like this album.. And not b/c of dick riding. He’s got a lot of references to his old material and a lot of insight into his viewpoint back in his prime. Like how he felt when he was criticized all the time, his defense of using “Shady” as his alter ego to hide behind, his double-standard with talking to kids but having two daughters of his own he wouldn’t want to hear it.. He also provides some closure with his mom and Kim with “Headlights” and “Stronger than I was”. I feel like this album was made more for his core fanbase and not the everyday hip hop head.
I guarantee that if you replace survival, the monster, and Asshole with the deluxe tracks, this album will be 4.5/5
This is how my tracklist looks:
Bad Guy
Parking Lot
Rhyme or Reason
So Much Better
Desperation
Legacy
Baby
Berzerk
Rap God
Brainless
Stronger Than I Was
Beautiful Pain
So Far
Love Game
Headlights
Evil Twin
Groundhog Day
Wicked Ways
Adding the COD bonus track ‘Don’t Front’ is going to make it better.
LOL when stans are switching songs with bonus tracks to up a fake rating you know they are reaching to make the album good.
LMAO
great album imo.more cohesive than Recovery
Most rappers wont put out albums with 15 tracks. Yeezus got 10 or so. And out of the 15 tracks on mmlp2, only 3 are trash songs….I can replace that with the bonus songs.
Yeezus had 3 bad tracks to and still had more great songs with replay value then this crap. Its kind of sad
DOPE 5/5
Album of the year for me, a few tracks I didn’t really like but the rest is unbelievable!
STAN
HATER
classic
I think it is now clear that Eminem is not the best rapper of all time. He is simply one of the best. His music lacks soul and replay value.
His best work like most rappers was his early work. But ask yourself this question…
When you go to a club underground or otherwise when do you ever hear his music playing? I know that 90s club nights BIG, Mobb Deep Wu Jay Z gets heavy rotation. At 80s events run dmc, public enemy etc get play. Shoot even for the 2000s 50 cent songs will still get play. Em does not.
Furthermore, when people talk about greatest albums of all time. they talk about albums like Illmatic, Tupacs albums, Jay Z etc as thorough classics. You would say Ems best album on a consistency level peaks just below these albums.
Finally, the streets dictate everything in hip Hop. Em has really done nothing for the streets or the culture of hip hop really. He has done a lot for himself. His legacy as a lyricist is not groundbreaking. He has more or less taken flows from Rakim and made them commercial and they lack depth see Rap God. The consistent argument for Em has been is that he kept rap alive by hs sales. But did he? He is one of only few rappers who still sell well (credit to his hard work) but the vast majority of hip hop sells abysmally.
I will give him credit for bringing a street dude like 50 cent and D12 a chance to shine on a greater platforms. To me that is his only legacy of note. The record sales are debatable. And as a caparison, Rakim revolutionized the art of emceeing, Tupac touched you emotionally like no other, Nas brought to you for the first time the street poet and Jay z was the first credible rapper to take his street hustle to the boardroom and become a mogul. Em pales in comparison.
Rick Ross and ace hood gets more rotation than em can ever get in clubs….what’s your point ?
Don’t pick one point look at all the points I made as a whole.
1. I don’t care if he gets plays in the clubs or not… doesn’t effect his status
2. You’re right, his best album is not better than say Illmatic or Reasonable Doubt. However, Nas and Jay-Z’s discography’s overall are worse than Em’s in my opinion, and he’s more skilled than both. No disrespect to them though.
3. I don’t care about “the streets” opinion. He’s white and a mainstream rapper so he’s automatically disadvantaged there.
Em is respected by every MC on this planet and beyond….so, your opinion doesn’t count, at least to me.
You have proved my point. All the points I stated were about legacy in hip hop context. He is a very good rapper. But in hip hop terms he just does not register. Look Beastie Boys are white and they are definitely hip hop.
Sorry – I hear what you are saying. Maybe people don’t want to openly say what I am saying here because they know they will be blackballed.
Excuse me? mmlp and sslp are both better than illmatic and reasonable doubt. Once again, it’s subjective…u fuckas just want to shove ur opinions down another persons throat. Wtf?
Fuck the dickriding Anonymous. No way in hell is any album by Eminem as good as Illmatic and Reasonable Doubt.
I guess we call all play the subjective card. Hey I’m a moron like Anonymous, and I think the Yin Yang Twins make better records than Outkast. Get the fuck out of here.
Most hip-hop critics rate Reasonable Doubt and Illmatic as better albums than MMLP and the SSLP for good reason. They’re better albums.
Look anon even commercial MTV did not have eminem on their list of albums
SSLP AND MMLP ARE CLASSIC BUT THEY ARE NOT BETTER THAN ILLMATIC, CHILL WITH THAT DELUSION
Hahahaha….go check rolling stone goat list, that’s a reliable source for me. Your choice of great album is still subjective. The chronic by dr dre is better than illmatic 10x, but that’s my view, not yours. So, chill out with ur delusion.
Em took flows from rakim? Makes me wanna puke. Well, em is rakims fav mc, I could care less. Bye.
y do u keep proving me correct. Rolling Stone is not a hip hop publication. What has Rolling Stone ever done for hip hop? AT least MTV had MTV raps. EM has taken Rakim’s flow no doubt. There is nothing wrong with that it is a form of flattery. However, my point is Em has no legacy in hip hop. He has brought nothing original and really has not given hip hop back anything original. I will give him 50 cent and of course the epic Stan record (ironically).
Eminem does have a legacy in hip-hop. He brought different flows and styles that rappers today try to imitate. He brought us classic albums like SSLP, MMLP, and The Eminem Show. Many rappers that came after him are influenced by him. You’re a fool.
Bigger artists face bigger criticism. Em worst album is better than 95% of what most rappers put out. Who’s to blame then ? Em. He set the bar too high, even for himself.
95%? Jesus Christ man you must not listen to any good hip hop! I feel sorry for you
Kanye catalog >>>> Eminem’s. So I guess he’s in that 5%
that review was ridiculously short for an album that has it’s assumed expectations. yeezus an album about nothing had a review much more thought out and a higher rating….that’s bullshit
That yeezus review was one of the best I’ve read on this site, even though i hate he album and the rating.
Co-Sign rapgod. Yeezus wasn’t my fave either but it deserved a really high score. Kanye set a whole new bar in Hip-Hop, just don’t know who wants to go for that same bar lmao
In love with this
Fuck Eminem and fuck DX! No way this deserves the same rating as Nothing Was The Same! NWTS should have got 4.5 and this garbage deserves a 2.5.
Exactly
No, Drake stans. MMLP2 is better than NWTS.
Are you kidding me with some of these comments. Do you hear the trash that gets released weekly. This is Album of the year, relative to what gets put out nowadays.
Real Talk!
Huh? Czarface, Run The Jewels, Black Milk, Chance The Rapper, Mac Miller, Blockhead and Illogic etc. all put out better albums than this.
There’s been a lot of good albums this year. No way in hell this is the best.
this sounds like pop/rock. It’s easy to call everything else trash but u cant back that up
The fact the person who reviewed this album has the nerve to say Danny Brown’s Old or any of the other 4/5 rated albums were at the same level as this album is absurd, shitty review but not surprised
Classic!
Y’all just spent the whole time ripping on the album…yet you give it a 4. Another thing is…will this really tarnish the first MMLP’s legacy? Does this have any effect on an LP released over a decade ago? I think this was a really poor review
Thought this might be getting a 5, or at least a 4.5
sick as fuck. 5 stars
This was a horrible review, regardless of what I feel about the album. To say Recovery’s production was a noisy mess, shows that you really don’t have a clue of how to rate this album. All the good songs you rated as bad and vice versa. The ALBUM REVIEW means nothing anymore when you review it like this.
Dissapointed with the review, album of the year for me, very nearly 5/5 imo
We are complaining that hip hop artists now are not lyrical and you are complaining that Em is being too lyrical????? Dumb excuse to downplay the album.
son its not just about lyrical,its about the substance in those rhymes not just verbal acrobatics alone.
The reason he did not give it 5 stars is because this wouls only really be 5 mics for Em fans. For regular hip hop fans this is pretty much an above average album which will be forgotten in no time trust me. And there have been many of those in hip hop over recent years.
EXACTLY HONEST TRUTH
Fan of Eminem and I agree.
Amazing!
should have been 4.5 at least.
figures.
and fuck theman from ktt fucking wisconsin faggot!
KTT sucked ass so I left you hoe!!!
3/5
damn you guys got the album early i see a lot of comments best nuy has it for sale today?
it leaked last week
downloaded almost a week ago …. although for the first time in years im gonna buy this shit cos its that damn good, may cop the pusha t album too
Cop that Pusha T. Its a better album and he actually can use the pennies on the dollar. Em doesn’t need a dime and he’s still set for life.
best buy*
It doesn’t tarnish the original’s legacy… I think that is a flawed way of thinking about any sequel or remake, in music, movies, videogames, and other media. No matter what you think of this badass album, if you let it affect your love for the original than that’s your problem.
It’s clear based of the review this album should be a 3/5. DX didnt want a stan backlash.
Same thing I was thinking. Their pissing the bed over a 4/5 and I’m like he’s lucky to even have gotten that score lol
4.5 album. Maybe – just maybe – album of the year. But whats bugging me now is Em’s using pop/rock muhfuckers on his album. Remember during his best years he worked with Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, D12? Wassup with that?
this is the album that will stop my heavy rotation MIC TYSON
I think the album is good overall, but the bonus tracks are where it’s at.
That review was absolutely painful to try & read. I’m buzzing down from the booth for you to take a look at your call on the field and giving u the chance to make the right call. This “review” makes MANY, including myself call into question your credentials, and what allows you to review ANY music. The last thing I want is for you to follow suit and be part of the herd when you write a review and praise projects that don’t deserve it. I hope this is a rough draft. If I submitted this to the higher ups I would be embarrassed.
Am I the only one who actually likes Survival?
Yes.
No.
Im sure millions will love it in the world. Its a hit. I hate it because its not like Eminem
HAHAHA you see all these Eminem fans getting all butt hurt because the editor didn’t give their hero a fair review? Not everybody is gonna like the same fucking thing. What part of that don’t you stans understand about life? You get so caught up in your little feelings that you tell the editor that he/she should clean their fucking ears out or they should be fired. LOL. Climb off the artists’ nuts for a second and listen up: it’s not hating, it’s called AN ENTITLEMENT TO ONE’S OPINION.I, for one, just didn’t like this album. Some production was downright terrible, some of it was very good. Some songs are absolute trash/questionable, others showed alot of maturity and growth. I’d give this album a 3/5 stars.
Stonger Than I Was is corny as fuck, he was on some Drake shit on that joint
Ass production, lack of content, only redeeming quality is an element which gives no replay value. Trash album won’t keep any tracks.
We’re you listening to the same album as the rest of us?
Look, i personally think this is the best hip-hop album this year, stronger and more focused and powerful than MCHG,NWTS and Yeezus, my opinion, i hope the ones commenting negatively have been around with eminem and followed his life to truly appreciate this album, that’s the key to this, to really appreciate it, don’t just know that his dad abandoned him or his life was hard, know why he writes certain things and why they sound a certain way and please grasp his reasoning. He really hand crafted this album and made it a completed piece. 4.7 for me, would’ve been 5/5 if the rihanna song wasn’t better or completely off it, really good album, misleading review, still proud to be a fan for over 13 years..
I guarantee that if you replace survival, the monster, and Asshole with the deluxe tracks, this album will be 4.75/5
This is how my tracklist looks:
Bad Guy
Parking Lot
Rhyme or Reason
So Much Better
Desperation
Legacy
Baby
Berzerk
Rap God
Brainless
Stronger Than I Was
Beautiful Pain
So Far
Love Game
Headlights
Evil Twin
Groundhog Day
Wicked Ways
Adding the COD bonus track ‘Don’t Front’ is going to make it better.
Anything to have this get a better rating then Yeezus I see. The product is what it is, you can’t change up the songs. As is this is a 3/5 at best
Not terrible but not great, just makes me wanna turn it off and rather bump Slimshady Lp or Marshall Mathers LP
PEOPLE BOUGHT YOUR OLD SHIT EM!!! YOU WENT FUCKING DIAMOND OFF THAT SHIT!!! DON’T GIVE US WHAT YOU THINK WE WANT, DO MUSIC YOU LOVE AND SO WILL YOUR FANS. YOU AREN’T SELLING AS MUCH NOW AND CRITICS ARE STARTING TO BASH YOUR MUSIC!!! YOU ARE REGRESSING AND YOUR MUSIC IS CLEARLY SUFFERING!!! YOUR LEGACY IS CHANGING WITH EVERY SHITTY RECORD YOU PUT OUT!!! YOU WENT DIAMOND OFF SHIT THAT REAL RAP FANS FUCKING LOVE TO DEATH!!! WHAT IS THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!
I think this album is fucking amazing the best album after his 3 classics. ppl are very quick and automatic to hate just because of the title and because they know its gona be mega successful yet again by the white boi. ppl are fuckin way too stuck in the past learn fuckin music and actually listen to the lyrics and wordplay. not the best production but way better than almost all the recovery beats. showed muhc growth as a person and artist and thats why hes still as relevant as ever and multi plat. you haters hate it soooo much yet you jump on these articles quicker than fans do….
i think that as well,hiphopdx is full of shit lately,their rating don’t mean shit anymore.
Ranking Em’s albums
SSLP
MMLP
Infinite
Eminem Show
Encore
MMLP2
Relapse
Recovery
LMAO hiphopdx gives it a 4/5 which is reasonable and Stans rush to say hiphopdx is awful, when there are actual songs from the album with less than 4 stars. come on now you stans have been ranting for a week, now that the album is circulating more around the public the ratings will get lower and lower. COrny pop shit.
Nope. The ratings stay high.
This album is a 3.5/5 for me, can’t say its bad, but its not close to the album of the year (No Poison No Paradise, Twelve Reasons to Die (and Twelve Reasons to Die: The Brown Tape), Czarface, Abrasions, 360 Waves, York, 13, Legends Never Die, Albert Einstein, Run the Jewels, ESGN, The Kitchen, Highway Robbery, Old, Get Home Safely, Gods in the Spirit, The Nights Gambit, Yessir Whatever, Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent) but it definitely wasn’t bad. That being said, I wouldn’t say that Eminem lived up to his standards, with his technical skill far outpacing his skill as a writer of compelling stories. Maybe he needs to write out his stories before writing his rhymes, I don’t know his process, but I am sure it would make for a more coherent song. I also don’t really dig the hooks, maybe he could go call and response or just let the beat play. Speaking of which, his beat selection is not that great either, as it does seem a little disjointed and doesn’t bring out the range of emotions that some other albums I have listened to have. Obviously not everyone will agree with me on that, but in my mind, that seems to be the case. The fact that I give this a 3.5 really comes down to how well Eminem works with rhyme schemes, which is the one thing he is outstanding at (whereas he is somewhere between above average and good at everything else, and below average in beat selection), and it does show, especially on Rap God for example, where his sound really brings me back to some of the rhyme schemes Treach used on Yoke the Joker, which are incredible. I mean, as a cultural icon, it makes sense that Eminem will try to pander to public opinion to an extent. That being said, he would be better served making a concept record, or an intellectually fueled record, allowing him to use his full range of talents (which are considerable but heavily overrated) instead of having to simplify his music. Overall, not bad, but Eminem really had to simplify his style, and that took a lot away from what he had to offer.
all the albums you named were certified grass by the riaa. fuck out of here with that i-sold-three-copies-but-my-album-is-a-classic shit.
Based on Anon comments then Drake is a King rapper FOH With sells determining everything. 12DTD sold thousands of copies with nowhere near the marketing that Em has.
*12RTD
Because sales mean you are good, get the fuck outta here ya dumbass. The best work comes from artists that have that creative fire, last I checked, Drake, Lil Wayne, etc. all had none whatsoever. Sales is for pop, lyricism is for hip hop.
“from the first album the gals were like catchy lyrics, dreamy eyes, but my FUCKING mouth was NIGHTMARISH.” haha i love it Em is back and he just put hiphop back up on its feet as it was slowlt diminishing with fat ross, lil gayne, big poppy sean and kendrick wanna be the new king of west coast crap
4 that I will skip everytime
Headlights
The Monster
Berzerk
Survival
6 songs are great-
Bad Guy
Parking Lot(Skit)
So Much Better
Rap God
Brainless
Evil Twin
^^^^
Agreed
1 000 000+ units in a week.
no, it won’t even sell more than drake.
I’d say 800k 1st week
Although, I wish the kendrick song was more hiphop than fun.
YOU’RE DOING WHAT GEORGE LUCAS DID TO STAR WARS!!! STOP RAPING MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES!!! IT’S NOT LIKE PEOPLE ARE EXCLUSIVELY BUYING SHITTY MUSIC, THERE’S STILL A SMALL BUT LOYAL MARKET FOR GOOD MUSIC ALSO!!!
This is easily album of the year. The only thing that could have made it better would have been a track dissing Kanye.
Y’all are short sighted….. No Poison No Paradise, Twelve Reasons to Die and Czarface are all way better (this wasn’t horrid, just not close to the best), also, if you don’t go into Yeezus looking for a traditional hip hop album, it sounds better (i.e. if I listened like I did for soul, it was better, its a difficult listen though)
Eminem even thinks Kanye is a genius he’s alluded to it several times. I doubt he’d ever fix his face to diss yeezy
did yall see papoose’ version of rap god? lol see the difference is EMINEM delivers nobody spits it harder on that mic like he does. appreciate it bitches! all about who delivers that shit
Go and check out “Casual’s” version and get back to me
the white boy has taken over the hip-hop culture and he is killing it
best album in this decade!
HIPHOPDX ARE YOU HIRING? YOUR EDITORS NEED SOME HELP WRITING THEIR ARTICLES. I NOTICE THERE ARE HORRIBLE WRITES MAKING THESE REVIEWS & ARTICLES. “a few played Insane Clown Posse references do not a sequel make” DO NOT A SEQUEL MAKE? HOW ABOUT “DO NOT MAKE A SEQUEL.”
It’s a cliche..Get over it
Do not a sequel make is actually right. Now get back under your blanket.
There is nothing wrong with the way he used it, and I disliked the review for different reasons, not something as trivial as that. With that being said, I WAS going to ask the same thing about hiring, that is until I saw hiphopdx make a comment in this section saying to someone, “the album sucked, deal with it”. &THE TRUTH COMES OUT!!! Biased ass people reviewing shit, go do another story on something u know about like Lil Debbie and Miley Cyrus. Bunch of homosexuals working here it seems.
“I WAS going to ask the same thing about hiring, that is until I saw hiphopdx make a comment in this section saying to someone, “the album sucked, deal with it”. &THE TRUTH COMES OUT!!! Biased ass people reviewing shit, go do another story on something u know about like Lil Debbie and Miley Cyrus. Bunch of homosexuals working here it seems”
– Maybe the editors aren’t biased. Maybe you’re just a nut hugging stan who needs to move out of his mother’s basement, get some fresh air, and stop taking these reviews so seriously.
BEST ALBUM!!
on the same level as mmlp, fucking genius.
SPEECHLESS…I love the album!
Man, you stans are relentless…. This album isn’t bad, but it has nothing on No Poison No Paradise, Czarface, Twelve Reasons to Die, and a bunch of other lesser known projects.
co-sign
Twelve Reasons to Die was ruined by that chick singing throughout all the tracks and Ghostface’s flow wasn’t really there.
Twelve Reasons to Die isn’t a perfect album, I can say that much, but I don’t rate flow high on the list of things to look for. All in all, it was a compelling concept album with great production, and a few flaws that kept it from being a classic.
Those albums flopped hard.
I do. I don’t want to hear someone talking on beats, I want to hear them rapping. I couldn’t get through Ghost’s album, and even the lyrics weren’t that great. I am kinda excited for the next Wu album though, if it ever comes out.
5 stars
FUCK YOU HIPHOPDX! YOU GAVE YEEZUS A FUCKING 4.5 BUT ALL THIS GETS IS JUST A 4!!!! FUCK YOU
Yeezus was a bolder and better album #ijs
@Stanley Kirkus: The album sucked deal with it.
1 star and only because he’s a legend.
2/5 as a hip hop album
4/5 as a hip pop rock album
PS new Lloyd Banks mix tape bangs
I agree. The beats are too mainstream
OHHH HE’S “TOO MAINSTREAM” WELL THAT’S WHAT THEY DO WHEN THEY GET JEALOUS, THEY CONFUSE.-Eminem was definitely on point when it came to that. 2 examples right here.
See Moon Stan is real sensitive
listen to the sound of me spillin’ my heart through this pen,
motherf***ers know that i’ll never be Marshall again,
full of controversy until I retire my jersey,
’til the fire inside dies and expires at thirty
stans are the most disgusting scum on earth. will u suck eminem’s dick when you see him? the album sucked and no one will be talking about it a month later.
ya id suck it and im a male, he would have to give me a couple mill first tho
Someone’s butthurt.
haha hipdopdx is soft pussy shit, last time i visit this website learn some fucking manners
bye stanley.
Pretty solid as a whole
Dope.
Let’s be honest about a few things here. Noone in the rap world has as much complex rhyming ability as Eminem. Maybe Pharoahe Monch comes close and is at about the same level. Nas is consistently excellent but his best ain’t never gonna be better than Eminem’s best and that’s the difference between Eminem, Nas, Jay-Z, and most other legends. True that Eminem can’t put out consistently excellent content like Nas but hey, at least he puts out an album every 3 years unlike Andre 3000 who puts out one special verse (pretty much the best verse of the year hands down) every year. The amount of respect Eminem commands from his rap peers, especially ones not in the mainstream, can only mean that his talent and ability is truly unparalleled.
Actually, Eminem’s entire flow was pioneered by Treach of Naughty by Nature, check Yoke the Joker if you need an example. Em is very talented, but he doesn’t have the soul like he used to.
Was he one of his early mentors?
Not directly, but there is a clip of Em rapping that first verse off Yoke the Joker in an interview with Ice T. and the rhymes schemes that Em uses are present in Treach’s rhymes.
“from my first album even the gals were like catchy lyrics, dreamy eyes, BUT MY FUCKING MOUTH WAS NIGHTMARISH” bahahaha Eminem you spit those lyrics off the wahzus mann
This album is too repeatative
“from my first album even the gals were like catchy lyrics, dreamy eyes, BUT MY FUCKING MOUTH WAS NIGHTMARISH” bahahahaha Eminem you spit those lyrics off the wahzus mann
Very confusing review / score. You basically slammed the entire album, then give it a 4/5?
hhdx’s grading system: Great album= 4.5/5 Bad album= 3.5/5 Everything else in between= 4/5
Reposted for prime real estate (hate doing this, but I gotta educate the blind)
This album is a 3.5/5 for me, can’t say its bad, but its not close to the album of the year (No Poison No Paradise, Twelve Reasons to Die (and Twelve Reasons to Die: The Brown Tape), Czarface, Abrasions, 360 Waves, York, 13, Legends Never Die, Albert Einstein, Run the Jewels, ESGN, The Kitchen, Highway Robbery, Old, Get Home Safely, Gods in the Spirit, The Nights Gambit, Yessir Whatever, Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent) but it definitely wasn’t bad. That being said, I wouldn’t say that Eminem lived up to his standards, with his technical skill far outpacing his skill as a writer of compelling stories. Maybe he needs to write out his stories before writing his rhymes, I don’t know his process, but I am sure it would make for a more coherent song. I also don’t really dig the hooks, maybe he could go call and response or just let the beat play. Speaking of which, his beat selection is not that great either, as it does seem a little disjointed and doesn’t bring out the range of emotions that some other albums I have listened to have. Obviously not everyone will agree with me on that, but in my mind, that seems to be the case. The fact that I give this a 3.5 really comes down to how well Eminem works with rhyme schemes, which is the one thing he is outstanding at (whereas he is somewhere between above average and good at everything else, and below average in beat selection), and it does show, especially on Rap God for example, where his sound really brings me back to some of the rhyme schemes Treach used on Yoke the Joker, which are incredible. I mean, as a cultural icon, it makes sense that Eminem will try to pander to public opinion to an extent. That being said, he would be better served making a concept record, or an intellectually fueled record, allowing him to use his full range of talents (which are considerable but heavily overrated) instead of having to simplify his music. Overall, not bad, but Eminem really had to simplify his style, and that took a lot away from what he had to offer.
Ayo your knowledge was cool and all…but what made Twelve Reasons to Die such a good album to you bruh? It was cool, but shit gets a little dull after a few listens.
And about that Em shit, this album’s a 3 at best yo. This dude just made an album where all he did was shove in as many syllables and shit into each verse that he could and proved he could rap to any wack beat you can throw at him. The only song on here with any kind of decent storytellin is Bad Guy and even that shit is played out for way too fuckin long. Not to mention Son’s delivery is empty yo….rapping fast don’t equal good delivery. But bruh you was the best comment I’ve seen yet so much respect
Idiots.
Great album. Eminem is a living legend.
Overall great album, but he lacks the content that was present in part 1 of mmlp. His passion for being a media scapegoat in the first, paired with his disdain for Kim and Debbie, made an album’s worth of tracks seem like not enough.
Take all that away, and you have a mature Eminem seemingly at peace with the world. For lack of better words, he has nothing to scream about.
That being said, for essentially having nothing left top say, Em says it in about the most jaw dropping way possible. This should serve a s a lyrical how-to for aspiring rappers for years to come.
This is an album with some great moments, where the original mmlp was a great moment.
At this point, we should be thankful that Eminem is still giving us his art. He has had a 6 star career, but isolated, this is a 4 star album.
I have yet to listen to it front to back in order. If after I do that, I see some sort of underlying story to the album, I will certainly change my opinion to 5 stars.
Awesome album!
Not on the same level as MMLP but this album is classic too (not counting The Monster and Survival)
His best album past his druglife…
This album is Great! But the MMLP2 Name is wrong !
Its a little bit like Eminem Show and Encore but very very better as Relapse and Recovery..
5/5
the entire internet seems to be run by a bunch of morons. em himself said it wasnt a sequel. its a revisitation. marshall mathers at 41 going back to revisit marshall mathers at 28. as far as THAT goes, he accomplished it and THEN some.
that’s if you name your album part 2 of a previous album its a fuckin sequel retard…any way you put it. quit trying to defend him stan
The album is good. Is it mmlp? No! Was it ever gon be? No! As far as em’s past 4 albums this is the best one. It’s not MMLP or TES but it’s good. It’s close to SSLP. It has to be listened more than once to actually respect what he’s done here!
It’s aoty 2013 guaranteed
Nothing Was the Same > MCHG > Born Sinner = The Gifted = Doris > Hall of Fame > MMLP 2 = Yeezus
eh
Those weren’t the only albums released this year…….. No Poison No Paradise is the best I have heard, or Czarface for 2013 anyway
Anonymous, you’re a fucking idiot.
My name is my name > all you just named
At the other Anon, this is what hate about Stans, I state my honest opinion on the great albums of this year and I’m a “fucking idiot” Let me guess, you opinion is the smart one?
Is there a typo in the review score? It says 4 stars but I read the review and author basically called this a shitty album. Why then does it have a four star rating from the reviewer? HHDX, you need to this fix this typo cause I am sure we are not giving 4 star reviews based on someone’s name alone.
lol that’s what I was wondering…but I guess its Eminem..he gets an automatic 4
Oh but that’s where u are wrong John-boy…U must’ve not saw the poor excuse for the review he gave, which said, wait for it… Jimmy Iovine called, said not to publish unless they gave it one more star. I’ll wait for u to stop laughing before telling u I’m being dead serious.
@Moonie that wasn’t him it was a troll that wrote that fake review. How old are you to have really thought they would come on their own site and say that an exec forced them to add points onto a review smh
wtf…this is his most garbage album since encore…horrible production on most tracks…the kendrick song is a fucking joke…the best record on the whole album is the intro track…eminem is falling off trying to make this poppy bullshit…
YOUR MOTHER HATES YOUR DICK! PUSSY BITCH! ILL TONGUE PUNCH YOUR GRANDMA’S FARTBOX! YEAH! SUCK IT!
cut survival & the monster, slap some actual hip hop beats on the tracks and you have yourself a pretty damn good album
Em’s best album since the eminem show
Ayo bruh that ain’t saying much
For those hating the underground because of lack of sales, guess what, Illmatic was a commercial flop, the sales argument was never good. Illmatic is musical proof of that. In other news, MMLP2 was decent, not great.
I can’t stand the production..and the choruses are pretty weak. Lyrically eminems always does what he does. But I’ll pass on this one…not even gonna download it.
Choruses??? Fuck outta here. Em is a lyricist not a YMCMB circus act. People don’t listen to Em for choruses, they listen for lyrics.
@John boy,
He may not be known for his choruses (is that a word?), but if he is going to use them he should ensure that they are good don’t you think?
I think it’s hilarious that some black people refuse to accept that the best rapper alive is white. This album is dope.
Rakim is the GOAT…. anybody with a working knowledge of the culture knows that.
Sorry to tell you Em is not even in my top 10 and I’m white. To many sub-par albums to be up there with greats like Nas and Jay-Z.
lmaoooo. nas and jay-z are the two kings of subpar albums. its fuckin hilarious u said that actually
yoo nas has like 11 albums and the only ones worth mentioning are illmatic, it was written, stillmatic, gods son and life is good. jay-z hasnt made a good album since black album. so idk what ur saying
Still Nas has more classic albums then Em…To even contest that is lying to yourself. Ghost even has a better catalog.
Love it! #RapGod
flip rap on its ear, liked i dropped corn, fuck top 5 BITCH! im top 4! and that includes biggie and pac whore, and i got an evil twin so who in the fuck you think that 3rd and that 4ths spots for?
I think its actually “Flipped rap on its ear, like I dropped Korn” – a reference to how Korn dabbled into crossover-rap, collaborating with the likes of Ice Cube. If this is so, the layers on this wordplay are insane.
ohhh shitt, did not caatch that aaha crazyy
Layers on this are insane..Really? Hip Hop really is in trouble if this is uber-lyricism..Str8 garbage
You’re garbage.
The Reason Em says that in bad guy is because he’s rapping from stans brother “Matthew” Bad Guy is stan part 2. This is easily his best album since TES, album of the year in my opinion. (Any money some cunt will reply telling me it’s not album of the year like i actually give a fuck about their opinion)
If only he was intelligible like he was in “TES. You aren’t Tech N9ne Em!!
Come on people. Em’s stans are some of the rudest yoU’ll meet. They’ll go on your fave artist page and str8 troll hate. So now is your time to reciprocate the hate LOL 1/5 All Day HA HA
Oh you’re white? cool. I’m Tupac. awesome how you can be anyone you want to me on the internet.
I’m Asian where is my spot in this convo bro
why does everyone like this album???? There is not a single memorable song on here 3.5/10
nigga fuck u
Wigga fuc U
This album SOUNDS messy and amateurish. Em’s vocal delivery doesn’t have anything behind it anymore. I don’t care how fast or technical he’s rapping, there’s nothing behind the words he’s saying that draw me in anymore.
Also how the fuck is Eminem getting a pass for that bullshit Survival song that was basically a song made entirely for the purpose of pushing advertisement for Call of Duty? Stronger than I was is unbearable, Love Game is just a cluster of noise that tries to masquerade as “storytelling” when really the lyrics aren’t saying anything interesting…
You stans even let Em get away with lines like “So I sneak vengefully and treat your bedroom window/ Like I reach my full potential, I peeked”?! That’s straight corny. Em doesn’t get a pass just because he has a storied career or because he’s white. Wack and corny is wack and corny.
nigga fuck uu
Co-Sign on the wackness being evident
Not sure how that line was corny considering it’s not even a punch line or anything. Lol what a tool
Are you kidding? The pun/double meaning of “peeked” in that line is corny as fuck and unnecessary, which is basically a sum up of Eminem today.
“Rakim is the GOAT…. anybody with a working knowledge of the culture knows that”
His body of work is spotty at best. He’s in the discussion, but not the goat.
Same can be said for Em’s catalog. Half of his album are suspect so based on that. Ghost is the GOAT. He only has one so-so album with all the others being above average to great.
your president is black but the Rap God is white!
Nah he’s still black unless Nas pulls an MJ LOL..Nice try though we don’t believe you – you need more people.
Everybody’s freaking out because he made an album better than his last three…..is that even a comparison? Encore, relapse & most of recovery was and forever will be a pile of shit. MY OPINION, so let’s let the hate begin!!!!
Amazing.
he didn’t really do that hyper-lyricism much on this album like the review complains about. he did some of it for sure but really not that much. his flow has changed and he doesn’t use that nasal sounding voice like he used to so people always accuse him of yelling or whatever but even with the nasal voice back in the day, it was usually done in an angry, yelling type of way. the first marshall mathers lp is full of angry yelling whether people admit it or not. eminem show was a pretty hyped up album too with a lot of intensity and more aggressive beats then encore came out and it sounded like eminem on a heroin binge lol. the only two albums where he’s talking soft are infinite and slim shady lp. i think the dudes current style of rapping is still incredible. he doesn’t sound remotely like anyone else. it’s pure original and he sounds more grown up with a deeper voice. i like the so called yelling most of the time. it’s his way of conveying his message and with his current content, it fits perfect. he feels like an underdog that just overcame a drug habit so he’s on that Rocky shit plus the stuff he says about his life is usually real serious and kinda sad so it puts emphasis on the emotion he’s putting across. i thought the standard edition was pretty good. the deluxe is incredible. especially that new song he released a minute and a half of called don’t front. if you haven’t checked it out, do so. he sampled a 20 year old classic hip hop beat and went old school with it. the bonus tracks are a huge part of this album. the first 16 tracks are great but the bonuses are mostly all better, especially wicked ways. honestly the only songs i don’t care for a whole lot are asshole (sounded like a freestyle and not a real song, sounded elementary..), then love game and so far. both of those songs had the corniest beats and production. it sounded like the theme songs for a nickelodeon show. forgot to mention but survival i don’t like either. i deleted it from the cd and just pretend it never even came with it. i don’t hate the song but it sounds completely out of place on this cd.
I’m not reading all that
Wow, Em got ripped apart!
yo nas has like 11 albums and the only ones worth mentioning are illmatic, it was written, stillmatic, gods son and life is good. jay-z hasnt made a good album since black album. so idk what ur saying
WTF??
NAS has 4/5 classics easily…
HOV has 3 maybe 4
EM has 1 classic…
GSAD (GO SUCK A DICK)
So if Nas has at least 5 albums worth mentioning (as you say), while Em only has 3 worth mentioning, then that makes Nas a better artist, right?
And American Gangster was a good album, and Kingdom Come is better than this shit.
Kingdom Come was not a good album at all imo… nas has a very solid catalogue when it comes to content in my opinion and is underrated even with all the love he gets. But most of jay z’s post-black album stuff is sub-par. There were a few good albums mixed between a lot of nonsense.
Jay Z Classics: Reasonable Doubt, The blueprint, The Black Album, American Gangster
Nas Classics: Illmatic, Stillmatic, Life is Good
Eminem Classics: SSLP, MMLP, (8 Mile Soundtrack)
“The best work comes from artists that have that creative fire”
That’s your opinion. A rapper can be creative like say Tech Nine, but if they can’t apply that to a mainstream effort that reaches the masses then they will never be more than what they are, a cheap lounge act appealing to a small segment of people with no standards.
What the fuck does your point have to do with the quote? Shit can be dope even if only 100 people know about it…mainstream is a big part of the game, but it isn’t the biggest part of it. ATLiens and Aquemini are Outkast’s best albums but Stankonia and Speakerboxx/Love Below are their highest selling with most mainstream appeal…
Em stans have no standards though
Wackest Eminem album ever, Eminem Show is the remedy for this bullshit
Truth!!!
TES is one of the corniest albums.
He just can make music like he used too. If this is a sequel to MMLP then I guess relapse, Encore and Recovery are sequels also. I like music you can actually hear what they are saying. Eminem!! You are not Mike D!!!
Supposed to be *Cant. Definitely not “can.
Put Soldier on repeat for 70 mins, it makes you forget about this new stuff.
Or “The way I am
You didn’t listen to the album. There’s no way someone can say this is worse than Encore.
Can i just do this too?
my bad, meant to reply to that other kids comment, not straight up out of nowhere lmao
Eminem’s catalogue will always divide opinion but what cannot be debated (in my opinion) is that he has proven himself “technically” stronger than any mainstream rapper to ever lay down a verse. I am black, I’m no “Stan” and I have a pretty decent knowledge of hip hop and its history and reserve my judgement on what it has become. I profoundly believe that if Marshall Mathers were black he would have been acclaimed as the best that ever lived. His knowledge of, and respect for, the art form and the culture is unlike most the rappers out there. He is the GOAT in my humble opinion. His will join poets like Keats and William Blake in having his work deconstructed by future generations.
TRUTH!
Ayo bruh you sound insecure when you gotta bring up “credentials” before making your opinion heard… I truly believe if Em were black he’d be considered corny as fuck because no black acid rapper ever moved into the mainstream the way Em did with “My Name is” yo. Yeah son has respect and understanding of the genre…but ayo that doesn’t automatically translate to dope material all the time.
And bruh your last comment is some dumb shit. You think people are gonna deconstruct songs like Cum on Everybody and Not Afraid and Big Weenie? I’m sayin yo…this dude made a song called Big Weenie…no black rapper would ever get away with that fuckery.
Yea some song titles and leaad singles are wack but catchy that has always been apart of his fun/controversial “slim shady” shtick so to speak. and hell yea wtf his work is already studied in universities he has some of the most creative and complex rhyme schemes and wordplay ever seen in rap and any music. songs like lose your self, stan, 8 mile, not afraid, renegade white america, til i collapse sing for the moment and way too many more to name
Ayo all of those songs you just mentioned really ain’t that deep except to teenage white boys without role models in their lives
DaMamba-
far from insecure – insecure means to lack confidence or self esteem. I lack neither 🙂
Don’t get it twisted there are and have been some amazing rappers – treach, lupe, nas, AZ, Pharoahe, black thought, gangstarr, common, big l, krs, chuck d, Rakim, Kool, Bambatta, ice cube, immortal, Biggie, vinnie paz, Odd Future, Kendrick, mos def, Pun, Joe Budden…the list goes on and forgive me for missing any but name one that can twist words like Eminem.
Forget sales, i’m talking skill and ability.
Why don’t you point to Eminem’s word play and ability to tell a story as opposed to the “not afraid(s)” of this world. Think Infinite on Infinite, the tracks off MMLP (!), SSLP and some of those off this new album. Listen to his BET cyphers and his freestyle on Tim Westwood’s UK radio show or any of the other freestyles he has done. This is where his knowledge comes in. He pays homage to and has studied the greats. This reflected in the diversity and depth found in his ability. Listen to how his peers, who know more than either of us, speak about him.
Fuckery? if you want to speak content, lets speak Jay Z, Kanye, Lil Wayne, Drake and all these other apparent professed “GOATs” who are destroying hip hop. That Magna Carta was a disgrace.
Eminem’s tongue in cheek content, while most of which is not to my taste either, is no less fucked that the bullshit these clowns regurgitate year after year.
And my reference to poetry is far from dumb shit, I think you’re the dumb shit who missed the point. The romantic poets like many of the “poets” (rappers) of the modern age (not just Eminem) were criticized in their day and were seen in just as controversial a light; yet we study their works in our schools because of the way they manipulate our language to tell stories.
Ayo I give up bruh. You lumped Jay in with Lil Wayne and Drake like their careers are similar. MMLP and SSLP are classics in my book, no doubt. THAT was when Em had actual storytelling, one of the best deliveries ever, and heart behind every line. But don’t act like Em is hip-hop savior either yo when he’s on the list of most misogynistic soundin dudes to ever grace rap.
Those Westwood shows were cool freestyles and show that Eminem can RAP forever and ever and ever…but the shit wasn’t saying anything special in content. I’m saying that Em, as a black rapper, wouldn’t be accepted by the masses for rapping about killing his baby’s momma constantly and how he hates his mom’s life. The best Jay and Nas songs are way better stories than the best Em songs. I Gave You Power and You Must Love Me top basically anything in Em’s catalog for interesting stories yo.
I ain’t sayin Em’s trash. I’m sayin he’s good but he ain’t the greatest. You could study Em’s shit for the technical aspect of how rapping works, but poetics and creativity? Nah, I don’t consider Kim, Love You More, The Way I Am, or whatever Em songs to be all that poetic or insightful… their basic concepts through and through, its just that Em used to have the best delivery so we felt what he said more.
Jay Z is the most over-rated rapper to ever touch mic. Jay Z has not said anything worth listening to in years. I can’t speak about the two in the same light. Eminem’s lyricism is different from Nas’s. Nas is a streets story telle – the best from that perspective. Eminem is not from the streets, he talks about his personal experiences and lays it on a plate. I think he is at his best when he raps introspectively and about human emotions – The Way I Am, Stan, Bad Guy (off the new album), legacy, rock bottom, sing for the moment etc.
He still can still story tell:
Legacy
Bad Guy
Big tracks.
I think a world where Eminem being GOAT is more believable than one where Rick Ross, Big Sean, Pusha T, Jay Z and Drake can be MVPs.
Lets agree to disagree. Beauty of rap – everyone has an opinion
You really are an idiot.
Ayo bruh in my humble ass opinion Em hasn’t said anything worth listening to in years either. Relapse, Recovery, and this album all got nothin to say. The story on Bad Guy doesn’t mean shit because Em reflects on how bashing gays and women would come back on him then he just does more of the shit all through the album. Legacy is a wack song I ain’t even gonna debate that.
And that’s some blatant disrespect for Jay when you lump him in with that crowd. Fuck opinions, if you gonna bring up how respected Em is do the same for Jay…cause he earned that shit.
And bruh I could argue that Jay-Z Blue is a song with more emotional depth than anything on this whole album… but nah apparently the dude who gave us Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint, and The Black Album is overrated
Jay hasn’t said anything relevant in years and I stand by that.
3 great albums….out of 16/17.
That was my point.
This is my last comment on the matter.
Funny how irate some people get 🙂
Ayo opinions are opinions, but he’s got more than 3 great albums yo.
Great album 5/5
I’d really like to know how many people are bashing or praising the album, but haven’t even heard it yet. LOL. I guarantee it’s a big percentage.
Man…I’ve never seen so much hate coming from all you fuck boy, 2 cent, wannabee critics in the comments. Congratulations, good luck ever been anywhere as successful as Em, as far as life goes.
4 stars??
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Production is terrible on this album. Not one beat that can be described as “hot”… groundhog day maybe…
ok album
Based off of these comments, Hip Hop STILL has the worst fans out of any music genre. Country, Rock, Electronic, Heavy Metal, and even Dark Metal fans would be like, “yeah…this album is nice, but certain parts of it didn’t really interest me much, but I still enjoyed it!”
Hip Hop fans be like “THIS ALBUM IS GREAT/GARBAGE” There seriously no inbetween anymore with you fucks.
There’s maybe 3 or 4 songs on this shit that are decent. But Em’s delivery and the messy production ruin the rest of the album. And if people can back up their opinions then its fine if they say its great or garbage. If I say its borderline mediocre, is that alright with you?
@YouSerious THANK YOU. That’s exactly what I been trying to tell all these lame brain fucks and stans who riding Eminem’s jock extra hard with no saddle.
@Cealix, I 100% agree. There is no common ground with hip-hop fans. Either something is fantastic, or it’s the worst thing they have ever heard in their lives. Shit, half of Good Kid is underwhelming, while the other handful of songs are really, really good. If the entire album isn’t amazing songs, it’s called shit. I’m also a metal fan, and metalheads don’t even go out hating on other bands the way hip-hop fans do (unless it’s some emo band, but everyone hates emos so it’s a moot point.) Hip-hop has the worst fans in music, and all the comments I read on this site prove that fact.
Also, all of the people here who can go and call Eminem a terrible rapper are evidently nothing but trolls. If Eminem was shit he wouldn’t have people like Kool G. Rap, Rakim, KRS-One, Redman, Tech N9ne, Ice-T, etc. calling him insanely talented and one of the best.
Case closed.
Average album. Nothing compared to the original MMLP
Incredible album man he aint fuckin’ around no more people..
album review on point. thers some good shit that lets you know eminem still has it when hes serious about it.. but when hes not serious you get bullshit corney country and pop sounding tracks.. fused with rock just added w rap verses
weak return bec of choices not bec the skill isnt there.
Even Relapse had better beats than this album. The best track of this album is the Intro track. Only true hiphopheads know the album sounds too much pop. We need Dre production, not Rick Rubin shit. Even Jay-z had better beats on Magna Carta than on this album. Em please make a leftover mixtape or something, we need it.
Pop doesn’t mean it’s bad though.
Wise words.
@Anonymous
Pop in general is usually not going to help, either. The poppy sound of alot of these beats, coupled with the lame lyrics in half of these songs, plus the wack hooks, makes for an album that feels disconnected from what Hip-Hop should be.
the eminem show his best album
Please fool, an 808 kick with ttriplet hi-hats are not good beats, which is pretty much what Jay-Z’s album was made up of. And LISTEN to this album, it is pure fire.
People did LISTEN to the album….and its underwhelming and the production sucks. And I’ll take MCHG production (except for that BBC song) over this album any day.
Iwe listened this album many times, and Jay-Z’s album too. Still think theres better beats on magna carta. i prefer 808 more than some britney spears sounding pop shit.
obie trice ft eminem – lady
thats the eminem i want
fuck this new hybrid version of eminem
90% of the people talking shit haven’t even listened to the album, I swear!
Exactly my mans, this album is fiyah and the fools here probably can’t understand it.
What is there to understand, exactly?
It takes time to force yourself to like the wack beats and hooks.
Regards
stan
87% of Em fans gave the album a 5/5 before it came out
87% of Em haters gave the album a 1/5 before it came out
no offence to eminem but im waitin for him to die and release albums like 2pac did
hope he lives a long live tho
so glad EM is back
Amazing mix between the feel of old and new Eminem albums
true that
dope album his best since TES
no the eminem show his most focused album
till i collapse is classic
r.i.p
nate dogg
brainless is dope
From this time, in a 3 years this will be a classic . sure for that
5|5
5
I don’t like the album…..i’m sorry
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THE GREAT ALBUM!!!
Best album to come out since Good Kid. Classic
2nd this homey
“all the albums you named were certified grass by the riaa. fuck out of here with that i-sold-three-copies-but-my-album-is-a-classic shit”
BEST COMMENT ON HERE. not sayin numbers are everything but eminem is one of the best ever runs this shit stop hatin I hate how cats gotta try to be cool and make a huge list of underground shit and act like eminem is 2chains or some dog shitt rapper
This album is for the fans and whether you hate it or love it you gotta respect what this album represents. Every song is not a gem (particularly the singles with the exception of Rap God”) but as a body of work it’s great and I’m personally satisfied…as a fan. We have watched this mans journey from jump street and its no doubt he holds a special place in the hearts of hip-hop heads so to hear MMLP2 is more than just comparing a 41 year old Em to a hungry 28 year old version of himself. Its about witnessing a journey coming to it’s end, and he is fully aware of that end.
I love that he’s speaking on his own contradictions and faults. Thinking about his karma for every insult and how his words have affected people in neg/pos. ways. He is aware of himself not only as a man but of our perception of him as an artist. Possibly the most self reflecting album we have ever heard from him. He comes full circle on this one. One lyric he says “I’m back before it fades into black and it’s all over. Behold the final chapter in the saga. Trying to recapture that lightning trapped in a bottle”.
This album is a revisit as well as a celebration of why we fell in love with him. I like it cuz no matter how it compares to the earlier work, I can tell he put his all into this and the thing is he didn’t have to. The feeling kind of reminds me of how I felt when Jay-Z said he was retiring and released the song “Encore”. That “For one last time I need yall to roar” line comes to mind. I also like how experimental it is lyrically and instrumentally. People complain about that but isn’t that why we liked him in the first place?
Anyway i say all that to say that this album although not the 1st MMLP still holds a very important place in his catalog and as a FAN i have to respect and appreciate what he has done with this project. Here’s to you Shady. Whoever put up this comment is a genius with IQ above 120. The rest of y’all need to grow the fuck up, especially the niggas, no disrespect.
Its fine if, as a fan, you like the album. I think the problem is when people try to take an album that they KNOW has faults and attempt to throw it up as the top album of the year with no regard for perspective. Like sure, Em’s reflective on this, but he’s been reflective before, and he’s only meaningfully reflective on songs like Bad Guy and Headlights. And even when he talks about how all of his gay bashing and women bashing will come back to haunt him on Bad Guy…he turns around and keeps up the women bashing anyway, so the impact is lost.
The album isn’t too experimental. Em’s been using this superfast-technical delivery ever since he came back from the post Encore drug shit. And the beats just sample old songs…that doesn’t mean their inventive. I mean, rhyme or reason rips off another song’s beat straight up.
People didn’t like Em because of how “experimental” he is, what? They liked him because he used to have the best delivery in Hip-Hop. He had soul behind every line, emotion, heart, personality…now he sounds bland. And whenever he attempts to be funny with a punchline, its really, really corny.
Its nice that Em’s growing up, but that doesn’t mean the album sounds good.
@youserious…. There goes a hater spotting out only the faults and ignoring the glory moments. What rappers rap about is completely subjective, u fucks don’t seem to get it. Drake raps and sings about love n shit and people still love it. Jay raps about his riches n all and people still jump on the band wagon…..has raps about selling drugs n shit and niggas still adore him… Em raps insulting gays and women hate, but u know what? The woman he insults and gays still love his shit…the story goes on…it’s subjective, stupid. Cheers.
How do you know that gay people love Eminem music? Like, did you ask gay people if they appreciate the shit he’s said about them? And Em’s problems aren’t only his subject matter…its the fact that his delivery is boring as fuck now. I’m a hater because I have criticism about Eminem? I love his first three albums, but I can tell what’s bullshit when I hear it. Meanwhile Eminem puts out songs like Survival and The Monster but his fans scream “CLASSIC”.
@YouSerious? agreed 100%, And you didn’t even hate on the album but the very first stan that read your post assumed you were doing nothing but hating and bashed you. In their minds honest criticism is seen as a hateful attack
So d gay slurs bothers u ?@youserious. Secondly, spot out a rapper with better flow and delivery. 99% of the world thinks you are wrong. Ok, what and where are the glory moments on mmlp2? I doubt uve even listened to the album.
This is my comment and thank you!
5/5 stars
5 Star Album easy
The Gayshall Mathers lp is wack. The original was trash too. All fans of this are bi-sexual at the the least if not full homo. Wack voice, beats, and concepts.
gayshall mathers? thats creative
it’s 4 of 5 but somehow tarnishes the legacy of MMLP?? This review does not reflect the score at all, XXL’s review is spot this one feels like an afterthought just lookin’ to stir people up.
Sequel To The Lp For Sure.
5/5 another classic by The greatest rapper alive.
If you think this is a classic, your opinion on rap doesn’t matter
It’s people like you that make people like Eminem filthy rich.
As an Eminem fan, i think the album is dope, did it or will it ever be better than the MMLP…no and we all knew that from the start but the album is dope. What i don’t understand how some of you really thought the MMLP2 would be exactly like the first one….all of know very well that mentally he is not in the same frame of mind he was in back in 2000 (drugs, legal issues, adjusting fame, etc) by that alone you should’ve known that the album would not sound like the first one
has no one picked up that bad guy is stans little brother ??
If it serves to tarnish MMLP’s legacy, why the hell rate it a 4/5?
this review is shamefully short and doesn’t even slightly go into detail. it’s not Shady that says that the title MMLP2 is a marketing technique, it’s Matthew Mitchell. i wouldn’t mind this review so much only you scored it a 4 and then call it “passable” and “tarnishing the legacy”. and how is over-technicality Eminem’s worst habit? before this, shouting was his worst habit, before that it was the accents and before THAT it was mumbling shit. this is by far and away his best record of the last 10 year. he didn’t call it a sequel he called it a revisitation, and he revisits the themes, lyrics and impact of his earlier work on every single track. roman cooper you cannot review for shit.
yous a dick riding faggot, you love the attention
Classic!!!
I don’t disagree with the rating but I think the review itself is short and goes into no specifics. There is 21 songs and you dont talk about any besides a few singles….4 star cd …really good
MMLP 2 >>>>>>>> Encore, Relapse, & Recovery.
2nd this
So in HipHopdx’s mind MMLP2=The Gifted.
(4.0=4.0) This is at least a 4.6-4.7
Yeahhhh no. Either fairly rate everyone included the overhyped and superstars, or don’t rate at all. Anyway this album was pure fire, because TECHNICALLITY is what hiphop used to be he was revisiting the days where mashing as many syllables as you could in to a song was fucking fire he’s going back to the day where the goal was to make the whole fucking song rhyme he does have PLENTY of concepts on there and for the singles like Berzerk or The Monster as a business man he understands he needs those to make radio heads head straight for he CD via radio play. The mothefucker is the best to do it today one of the best to ever do it and this album was pure fire.
You have no concept of hip hop if you think this is hip hop.
lol no kid DxaJoke is right back in the late 90s early 2000s when hiphop is blooming that is exactly what everyone was trying to do. The song bad guy going back as Stans little brother coming back to kill Eminem is by far a better concept in one song than your favorite rappers entire album. You can argue with yourself all you want but it has already gained critically acclaimed status as rolling stones gave it 4/5 spin gave it 8/10 artist direct 5/5 NYDN 4/5
The album is real dope and TRUTH to your Mother if you don’t get that.
The gifted was actually a solid album. Gurantee you didnt listen to it at all. MMLP 2 is not hip hop
The Gifted is mediocre and boring. MMLP2 is hip-hop.
Reading this review it seems the author themselves have no concept on taking the artist’s own words and using them . This was never meant to be a sequel as its title implies. Eminem is alive and around for all this to comment on. As he has said in interviews, it is a revisitation. an homage to his best work and almost a way to update the outcomes of the tracks. the Parking lot skit was funny to me because as a child I wondered the outcome . If we look at the album as a reference point to shady now in comparison to shady then , I would ask the author of this review to maybe considering opening up his mindset. All ready I cannot take his word serious as an essay writer because the fact the he assumes this to BE a sequel and not the revisitation as many fans have known it to be discussed as since the get go, well I am sorry. I do value opinions and will not ever knock you down. besides that one point, you have been poignant on your pros and cons for the album and make very good points in discussing and pointing out relevant lyrics found in the CD.
So for that, I do understand why you have the honor of writing for hiphopdx.com. I Just ask that you write in the future taking into account any and all artist comments made for future reviews.
-D
dope album
DX, if you’re gonna tear it apart, then tear it apart with your stars as well. 4 stars should mean something, but if you give 4 stars to an album that you obviously find just aight then give it 3 or 2 and a half. STOP PUSSYFOOTIN’ DX! GROW SOME STONES AND MAN UP!!!
Dope shit
Very poor review. However, hhdx has no credibility when it comes to reviews, they are not even recognized as a real critic. So this is the same as having a regular joe blow comment in the comment section of a blog. They are desperate for traffic so they post ridiculous reviews, news and updates. Its almost like reading your news feed on facebook, everything seems completely redundant and futile. How often have talked about Kendrick and is Control verse… Also, check the singles, all eminem except for one song….desperate for web traffic. You guys a pathetic, get a real job and stop doing bullshit reviews on a bullshit site.
horribe review. don’t care about the score. score’s don’t tell you much about an album. the actual review does, and this one lacks.
seems like a high school project.
Fuck Roman Cooper
Definitely need to give it a couple more listens but its better than Recovery Yeezus n MCHG
The beats on relapse were far better tho
What isn’t better than Yeezus? I think I’d rather listen to Lil Wayne than that garbage, and that’s saying something.
Worst review ive read in ages. The album is good, but a real review should give you the taste of every song on the album, its main thoughts and the whole message of the album.
Fire the author.
album – 4.5/5
review 1/5
Stans have gotten so exposed with this album.
Most of y’all haven’t even listened to the album (both the stans and haters)…lol
My thoughts exactly. The review almost completely contradicts the score.
lol u give yeezus a 4.5 and mmlp a 4?
fuck outta here roman cooper
mmlp2*
my mistake
This review covered everything and is 100% accurate. Really pleased to see HHDX being on point.
Hi Roman Cooper’s mom.
I got here through metacritic and I really really gotta say these critics are fucking jokes. The COS critic wrote and overwhelming review about this album that one will think its an easy 4.5, but ends up giving it a 3.5( 1.5 was taken away bcoz Em is winning too much). Now, this roman cooper guy slammed the album from start to finish and still gives it a 4/5..what? U are scared of being fired? Jeez.
An overwhelming**
The bias is so obvious. The writing itself is really unprofessional too. Why would I listen to a reviewer that couldn’t even figure out that bad guy wasn’t from em’s perspective
True that!
I DONT CARE MMLP2 is sick, AND YES I AM A STANLEY AND YES I AM A DICK RIDER AND YES ILL BUMP TO IS EMINEM BITCH AND IF U GOT A COMMENT TO POST THEN EAT MY BALLS
You really need medication, this is exactly the problem of these days. Dickryding first class. Funny thing is Eminem doesn’t give a shit to all ya’ll claiming to be stans hahah. For real, he even playbacked in his European tour and in SNL cause he makes money and thats all, he doesnt give a fuck about you dickryders why you think he made the song Stan?
To describe how pathetic stupid you dickryders are, yet he calls himself to be proud of being a pathetic faggot like this LOL!!
I DONT CARE MMLP2 is sick, AND YES I AM A STANLEY AND YES I AM A DICK RIDER AND YES ALL I BUMP TO IS EMINEM BITCH AND IF U GOT A COMMENT TO POST THEN EAT MY BALLSS
I like it too, and I’ve always enjoyed Eminem’s stuff. I’ve always found a good portion of the tracks on most of his albums to be pretty good and catchy, and then a handful to be ones that I need to listen to longer and come back to appreciate or just forget about. Having said that, I would really encourage you to broaden your tastes. Em is great, but there are lots of other greats out there.
I don’t think it matters “who is the best” it’s just what you like. Like what your ear likes and when you get goosebumps, then I think you know you have a keeper.
The review sums up the album perfectly. Like all eminem albums, most of the tracks are crap but there are always a few which are sheer brilliance. The great tracks picked from all his albums makes up one perfect album for me if I ever fancy some eminem.
there’s only a handful of rappers that are as lyrical and put words together like Marshall(That have dropped this year). If you compare this album with Drake, Wayne, Jay Z , J Cole, Kanye albums. They all fall short. JCole and Pusha are the only ones who put up a lyrical fight. Musically some of it is weird, but weird= good
Drake;s album destroys this unless you are an angry white boy
That weak shit doesn’t destroy MMLP2.
It certainly exceeded my expectations, though it wasn’t as good as MMLP.
My favourite song is Legacy. Brainless and So Much Better are great as well.
wack album
Not sure this review actually reviewed the album did it? lol. I though it was going to be poor but i actually like it a lot, seems like they are accusing Eminem of being too lyrical. Prefer it to Magna Carta or that Wale album they gave a 4.
Having said that, i kinda lost respect for hiphopdx when they reviewed kanye’s album so highly (best of the last 12 months)
id give this a 4 but think it could get better with more spins
Love almost every song. Just goes to prove Em is the best and will be for the foreseeable future.
I would argue this album deconstructs the original Marshall Mathers LP, and it’s showing Em’s growth from the first one.
I don’t know what’s up with you, but after the Eminem show we could see Eminem’s growth
look at this not even a few hours and this is already the most discussed topic . Y’all haters need to find a new job !
Not that good
This album is way hotter than recovery and relapse. There are some pretty unnecessary songs like the Monster, Survival and Berzerk, although eminem is a business man and he understands how the system rolls, if I had to choose the best sing out of those three I’d probably take survival, I never felt Berzerk and the monster gets too emo at times but it not a bad song, o guess we just have high expectations because its eminem. This is not a sequel to the masterpiece. Definetly not, but this is the eminem people have been wanting to hear. Some songs like rap god, brainless, legacy and especially bad guy are out of this world, pure slim shady shit
Bad Guy 5/5
Rhyme or Reason 3.5/5
So Much Better 3.5/5
Survival 3/5
Legacy 4.5/5
A**hole 3.5/5
Berzerk 2.5/5
Rap God 4/5
Brainless 4/5
Stronger Than I Was 3/5
So Far 4/5
Love Game 3/5
Headlights 3.5/5
Evil Twin 4/5
Baby 3/5
Desperation 3.5/5
Groundhog Day 4/5
Beautiful Pain 3/5
Wicked Ways 3/5
Overall Album 70/100
your overall score doesnt add up to the singles scores..
The monster is 3/5
The album gets 3.5 stars for me
if you dont like my article then fuck you bitches. send me an email and kiss my ass. ive been against eminem since infinite, sslp, and the first marshall mathers. even eminem show. I love Encore though 😀
Well, to be fair, it was quite possibly the most brief review I have ever read. Also, it was not very good, you hardly mentioned any of the album except the same lame radio tracks DX has been pumping for weeks. Try to at least listen to the entire album, make notes & then write your review. All that said, I don’t care much for this album either & the production was all over the place. The mom tribute was absolutely fucking pathetic.
“fuck you bitches”?? Please tell me this isn’t the guy who HHDX made write the MMLP2. The biggest dissapointment of this album has been having to read this review. Hey Roman, you suck at writing, your hooks are shit, and no one cares if you don’t like eminem. PeAcE!
Stans are the only group of fans that claim to be hip hop experts, but will take any form of criticism of Em as slander and 100% untrue. When Jay-z put out kingdom Come or even MCHG, the majority of Jay fans recognized that they could have been much better. Yeezus, tons of rap fans said it was the worst shit ever. Nas N*gger, Nas fans said that shit was a step back. This mediocore MMLP 2 album is a 3.5 and y’all are up in arms they gave it a 4? You’re claimng it’s the best album of the year? F*** all of y’all.
Agreed. Shit is NOT that dope.
Yes Amen to that!! Soooo true, I noticed that. It’s the same old stories with the Stans. They can’t accept any criticism towards Eminem. They be mad as fuck when HHDX come with honest reviews everybody can see except the dickryders. Always the same, even in Relapse which was Eminem worst shit ever they still wanna tell you thats the best album.
It’s like you say the USA offcial flag has white, red and blue colors and they’ll tell you it’s pink with green LOL
Y’all retarded.
It was awesome well the songs were like all eminems albums in 1 like u had 1 song from every album and this is cool
Its obvious from this review and the comments on here that 90% of you haven’t even listened to the album. You don’t even have the right concepts/ideas of half of the songs for fucks sakes lol. How you gonna review a CD if you don’t understand what you are reviewing? Like most of you still haven’t clicked on that “Bad Guy” is “Stan Part 2” from Stan’s little brother.
4/5 for me. Shady is back. Haters can suck a dick!
Technically he has raised the bar. But that’s about the best thing you can say about this album. No great singles, his rhymes are too dense on tracks that dont require it. He has run out of topics to talk about ie he’s not saying anything original
4 stars is about right. His best days are behind him. He’s still very talented lyricist though
Awesome, third best after mmlp and tes.
Great album .. A few songs aren’t as strong as his others .. Eg. The Monster is a3/5 at best .. Bad Guy is up there with his best .. Such an Em’ fan .. 4.5 over all
Eminem’s recent Lip Syncing on SNL further proves he doesn’t even care about this album, his hearts not in it. He made it cause he knew the stans would flock in full. This was a easy album for a rap genius, but no where near as good as it could have been if Em cared. I
Em said in an interview that this is the hardest hes worked on anything in his career since the Eminem Show and 8 Mile. This album is the hard work and dedication from both of those put together in one album. The album is solid and Em killed Rap God live at the youtube awards.
PEOPLE BOUGHT YOUR OLD SHIT EM!!! YOU WENT FUCKING DIAMOND OFF THAT SHIT!!! DON’T GIVE US WHAT YOU THINK WE WANT, DO MUSIC YOU LOVE AND SO WILL YOUR FANS. YOU AREN’T SELLING AS MUCH NOW AND CRITICS ARE STARTING TO BASH YOUR MUSIC!!! YOU ARE REGRESSING AND YOUR MUSIC IS CLEARLY SUFFERING!!! YOUR LEGACY IS CHANGING WITH EVERY SHITTY RECORD YOU PUT OUT!!! YOU WENT DIAMOND OFF SHIT THAT REAL RAP FANS FUCKING LOVE TO DEATH!!! WHAT IS THIS SHIT!!!!!!!! YOU’RE DOING WHAT GEORGE LUCAS DID TO STAR WARS!!! STOP RAPING MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES!!! IT’S NOT LIKE PEOPLE ARE EXCLUSIVELY BUYING SHITTY MUSIC, THERE’S STILL A SMALL BUT LOYAL MARKET FOR GOOD MUSIC ALSO!!!
I give this comment a 5 star rating!! Couldn’t have said it better myself!! Let’s me know there are some real HIP HOP fans out there still!! Way to go, homie!! LOL
Deop album..Including the bonus tracks which should have replaced one or 2 songs off the album, this album is the best since The Eminem Show.
DOPE album.
Seriously? It’s TOO lyrical?
THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2 is a SOLID ASS ALBUM!!!
Obviously it’s judged different cause it’s Em, if this was an artist people never heard before and didn’t already have a built in hate for dude…there’s no question this is incredible lyricism. Half the niggas on this site don’t know good hip hop when they hear it anyway.
after listening to this for about 6 days now, a few tracks have been getting better it seems…..Bad Guy is Stan pt 2 by the way it sounds and apparently there is a lyric in the album where he states “yall thought this was going to be just like The Marshall Mathers LP, its a publicity stunt”…………Brainless, Rap God, Evil Twin, Rhyme or Reason….Love Game is ok not great on the production aspect/…..two songs i hate and avoid are So Far….and Stronger than I was
stronger than i was has grown on me.
I know people get mad when the review says its too lyrical but for the most part he is right. Yeah its impressive that he can spit that fast but I also have no idea what he’s saying for the most part and I cant bob my head and sing along, so I wouldn’t call it a good song. It’s a good album considering that he’s 41 and years past his prime.
then get better at rapping or go listen to your 5 words a minute drake.
omg this is fucking rap music and to say the song is bad cus you cant nod ur head to it is so dumb i cant stomach it. Kool G rap and Treach became legends by using those type of high powered schemes. Hip hop must be judged by a rubric that simply doesnt apply to other genres. rappers r meant to rap yet when its time to hate ems new music rapping to “good” is bad? This is HIP HOP
I hate the internet for shit like this sometimes. Why bother reviewing the album before its even out. Its not that a lot of ppl don’t really listen before they give an opinion. Its that they listen what, maybe 2-3 times and then open their mouths. Even worse maybe just after a brief first spin. Let the album sit in your rotation for 6 months-1 year. Listen 20-30 times maybe and then so if you feel the same way you did after the first couple spins. All of this is a bunch of initial reactions. Em’s even rapped about this. Every album gets trashed, maybe 3 stars or mics, and then 5 years later they go back and re rate everything. That’s how classics are determined, the effect of the music over time. All this scrutiny is premature. I know its Em and the standards and bars are high, people expect the unachievable. After 2 or 3 spins myself, I feel like theres a lot of strong material here, and some mediocre. But its too early to judge.
Word!!!
The practice of reviewing albums before their release has been going on for decades.
That is what’s wrong with fans today!! WAKE DA FUCK UP!! If you don’t like an album/song in the first couple of plays, then IT IS NOT A CLASSIC!!!Liking the album/song after 20/30 plays is what the radio does to the youth now! Force-feeding them nothing but garbage rap and hip pop! What a stupid ass thing to say!! LMAO!! SMDH!!
Amen to the 3rd Anonymous..
You are 100% right, I never heard before I have to listen 10 times to something before I like it, it’s yes or not. Like I suppose to listen 70x to One direction before I will like it?
I totally agree with you that’s the problem. They just literally feed you garbage. Funny thing is you hear these frustrated fans saying listen to it couple times LOL..
Im sorry but I can recognize if something is hot or not the first time I hear it. It didnt take me to listen 6 times before I released the MMLP 1 & SSLP were dope album LOL!
Very satisfied
this fool should be fired and whoever assigned him to this album review should be fired, because he obviously doesn’t know shit from shit.
” Love Game, among other cuts have the distinction of having an absurd number of syllables mashed into a track that ends up saying absolutely nothing.” ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED!??! Saying absolutely NOTHING?? You’re retarded… you have to be.
Any moron with one ear and half a brain can easily figure out what the fuck Em and Kendrick are saying on that joint, good god…
“Unfortunately, too often does Em focus on technique at the expense of actually making a good song” WHAT?!??! Do you even know or appreciate REAL HipHop, Roman Cooper?? Technique is EVERYTHING!! It always has been, and always WILL be, about STYYYYLE! FUCK whoever can’t dance to it, or can’t shake their ass to it in a club. This is fuckin lyricism at it’s top tier! Are you kidding me?! And how is “hyper lyricism” a bad habit??
Em’s pen game and flow have been so fuckin on point since being sober, i cant understand how people don’t see that. This is the best he’s ever been. His writing’s so advanced right now…
You’re obviously too simple-minded to grasp something so advanced… stick to reviewing 2 Chainz albums. “Recovery was a noisy mess” pssssh jeeezus man, why are you even attempting this job right now.
Take a deep breath chief. This is the internet, not real life, and if the review enrages you this much, then I suggest you seek help immediately.
Lmao this was the funniest comment, pretty much exactly what I said except you seem legit pissed about it. So true what you’re saying though, but yeah you may need a break if this is pissing you off THAT much..
How the fuck are you going to write this review, mention “Bad Guy”, and not mention that it is a sequel to “Stan”? This has to be the worst review of any album I have ever seen in my life. Did you listen to it more than once?
Yup thats what i thought, they give 4/5 ratings to such shitty albums and praise it and then they give 4/5 to this and just straight trash it. Listen to the cd 4-5 times before you rate or just dont rate it. if they dont like it then why fill your whole website with eminem singles and news
What’s your name ? Marshall.
Who’s ur daddy? I don’t give a fuck.
Is he rich like u? I doubt it.
Ah ah ah lesbiannnnnnn…..ahhhhhh
Man this review is pretty terrible. I agree with the score but you’re contradicting yourself the whole way though. Seems like the biggest critique is that he’s too lyrical. And it tarnishes the legacy of MMLP. Whatever.
comparin to Magna Carta Holy Grail& yeezos ratings
MMLP2 should get a 5 stars!!
Very good
very poor review. I’m not even just saying that because I’m a Stan. Does the reviewer even realize that the song Bad Guy is a sequel to Stan? Stan’s brother is the one mentioning the MMLP publicity stunt, basically because hes crazy. I’m sure the reviewer scanned through all of the songs and then wrote this. Horrible.
Your reading it for free. Stop crying like Joe Budden.
I’m reviewing this review, which sucks balls.
Excellent.
Why is it that the production on his albums always SUCKS! Can you imagine some good ol boom bap behind his lyrics!?!? Shit, throw in some Just Blaze or have 50 or Ghostface be the executive producer on his projects cause them 2 dudes have the best IF not the best ear for beats. 50 always gets quality production at a low cost. YO EM! STEP YOUR PRODUCTION SELECTION UP!
It ain’t “too” lyrical, it just sucks.
This is is a really horrible interview. I want to say this person either didn’t hear the cd in entirety or has too low of an IQ to understand what he heard. To mention that Eminem discussed his dad on Bad Guy even…and not even reference that song to Stan…I think SEVERAL things went over his head. If he wanted to mention eminem blasting his dead he would have discussed Rhyme or Reason
wait where is the interview? i thought it was a review? dohhh
Like any album could’ve been better but I’ve got no complaints
Album is a classic, enjoy every song. The original may always remain the best, but this album is definitely worth buying. Lyrical, chorus-packing, lengthy tracks give you what you pay for. The story telling, the humor, shady, is all there in this album.
i agree completely! really is a great album, especially lyrically! love the Em choruses as well
STOP CRYING- the album is borderline whack. People who actually came up on Eminem back when he released the ORIGINAL MMLP know that Em is a shell of himself. And saying that it’s better than Recovery isn’t saying much.
Almost anyone of the songs off of MMLP 1 shits on this whole album.
^^^Sounds like you know hip hop! LOL Album sucks!
only songs below par are Asshole, Love Game, Berzerk, and Stronger Than I was. Thats 4 songs out of 21. Please tell me what other songs on the album are “wack”?
Almost ALL of them. OK quite a few are just AVERAGE. But you cats in here are saying this is a CLASSIC! Really????? FOH.
What about “Monster”!?! Worst song on the whole album! Ugh..
Every Em album is constructed differently. different flows, different rhyme schemes, just different styles of rap, and in my opinion he masters them all. what rapper can do what Em does on a track. To me he’s the greatest to ever grip a mic, he definitely deserves to be on everyone’s top 5, at least top 10. Great Album! 4.5 out of 5!
You were way to nice! Album is garbage!! I appreciate you for giving the real and understand the reasoning behind sugar-coating it. Cuz if I had written the review for this album, I wouldn’t have a job the next morning!! The “Stans” would’ve seen to that! LOL Good review though… Album get a 1 star from me… and that’s only due to the genius which is the track “Rap God”.
haha super funny. use more !!!’s. hella haters
I like exclamations!!!!! They look funny! LOL Album still not good “exclamation mark” hahaha
Would you mind to LISTEN to the fuckin album before rate it?, i mean i think you are judging this CLASSIC just for the singles…
If you call this a Classic then… OLD, No Poison No paradise, 360 waves, Rare Chandlier blow this album out the damn water! I just named some of the best albums to come out this year , not this shit. The first 10 songs on Em album are wack and corny man, horrible choruses. SO funny how he can make some of the crappiest music and you fans suck it all up, get your damn ears cleaned!
Fuck makes you think the reviewer didn’t listen to the album? Because you don’t agree with him? Butt hurt ass-the ALBUM SUCKS!
@Rain Took the words outta my mouth!! Don’t know what the hell these people are listening to, but this album is like Vanilla Ice mixed with Katy Perry! Bleh!!
All three of you are idiots.
Oh, and after reading some of the posts on here… just had to say if any of you consider this hipster rap classic hip hop need to stan theyselves off of a bridge with Stan!! Regardless of the fact, which I am well aware of, that Em is one of the dopest MC’s ever, this album sounds like straight hip POP garbage that is destroying what hip hop is all about! I respect Eminem for his past, especially his scorching mix tapes that slay most albums put out, but this new shit is definitely not hip hop!
maybe its not traditional hip hop, (which i have to disagree on some regard) but it sure as hell is not pop, with the exception of The Monster. These types of critiques are just because it sounds different… similar to Yeezus or 808’s from Kanye. Are any of us gonna say the Blue Print 3 is like the first Blueprint? i don’t think so, except they were both dope. Rhyme or Reason, Lovegame, So Far…, are all tracks that I never thought eminem or anybody could create and they’re hillarious and brilliant. Em’s content is on point and his rhymes and flow are dope in this entire album.
and you are…a rapper? producer, music engineer? like what qualifications do you have that make you capable of making that judgement? you sound so stupid..lol pathetic. I cant believe how many people feel the need to comment on something they do not like. Just because you do not like mmlp 2 that does not make it pop. Sure i will agree that berzerk, monster, survival are pop but that is for promotional purposes. Guess what, even Eminem has bosses “Jimmy Iovin” and they want MONEY!! so guess what happens when the highest selling artist at interscope decides to make an album, Jimmy wants radio singles that all the pop teens buy. Wayne got huge and guess what, they made him put pop singles out… its a formula.
^^^ LOL you don’t have to be an artist, or a producer, or in the industry at all to understand and appreciate real hip hop, which this isn’t!! And at yes, you are correct in saying that Blueprint and Blueprint 3 are different, but Jay didn’t tuck his balls and put out garbage like this with “innovative” beats! Fuck outta here with that new age hipster skinny jean ass bullshit!! And if you thinks that’s a formula… go listen to the “Formula” by the D.O.C.! Matter of fact, go listen to “Step Into a World” by the BlastMaster! Sraight explains exactly why this album sucks, and why it doesn’t matter how many albums/songs you sell. Content is what matters, and whiny, angry, oh poor me, lyrics DO NOT QUALIFY! Just because there is a message in most of these songs, doesn’t mean that they are good… BY ANY MEANS!!
Somebody’s bitter and didn’t listen to the album.
Some of these posts calling this album a classic is really showing how much REAL HIP HOP has gotten lost to this watered down, industry controlled pop-ladened bullshit! Damm whiny, feminine-ass high school dudes in skinny jeans are eating this garbage up like peanut m&m’s!! Even if the lyrics are masterful, they don’t hold any water if the beats are complete garbage like on this album!! Wake up, hip hop heads, from this nightmare of radio hip hop!! DAMM YOU YOUNG MONEY!! Done turned all the hip hop heads feminine!! LMAO!!
But the lyrics aren’t masterful- that’s the problem. He’s just regurgitating false anger about his past. Em acts like NO ONE likes him and that’s utter bullshit. And all these white kids act like they are THE ONLY ONE’s who understand Eminem or bought his shit. YES he’s catering to the mainstream at this point, he even says so on THIS album.
Retards.
Rap God. All these fake rappers can choke & chew on the same dick.
worth a 3.5 due to cheesy songs eg hooks on songs, berzerk and monster
& spew.
3.5 / 5
AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP MAKING SONGS WITH SKYLAR GREY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
abca
albums classic
zda
it’s a 5
You know what, let me stop. If you guys like it, then cool- that’s you. I’m just hungry for that old funky, Dr. Dre type, loose Eminem. Sigh.
I respect that reply, at least your not hating like all these other idiots
I feel like we got a lot of the old Em back but yeah a couple Dre tracks would’ve been nice.
Im sure if Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Kendrick, Wale, Krit etc…were half as big as eminem when it comes to selling records they would to have a few pop singles on their albums. They wouldnt have a choice, record execs want money and big album sales. The bigger you are the less you control what happens on your album. And btw, there is a reason they arent as big as eminem, because they suck when compared to Em, if any of them were nearly as talented then guess what!? they would be as big as eminem and they would be criticized and hated on like eminem. Haters come with the territory. You sell 70million + records and eventually you will run into haters, no avoiding it. However lets mach up the number haters vs real fans who appreciate and love his music. Em will be again…the highest selling artist this year and his album will be number 1! so eat a dick
This comment is exactly the reason why hip hop is dying! Album sales don’t mean shit!! And all those rappers you mentioned, with the exclusion of K Dot, suck any way!! There’s a hell of a lot of good hip hop being put out these days, but you’ll NEVER hear any of it on the radio! Putting a few pop songs/radio friendly hip hop on your album???
I am not saying record sales dictate quality, I am simply telling you that when you get that big you sorta cant control it. But, I also said that he got that big by putting great music. Figure it out
I’ve got it figured out already… Your whole arguement was albums sold, number one album (which I don’t doubt thanks to radio bullshit), blah blah… Look man, I’m not hating on Em, got some of his dopest shit on rotation in my iPod, but this album is just bad, man, and I get my panties in a bunch when muh’fuckas call average to mediocre hip hop like this, CLASSIC!! Rap God was goddam refreshing and a masterpiece, but all else is not CLASSIC! Anyway.. I’m done.
Great album!
Shady for President
nigga fuck eminem. he a sellout cause he sold his soul to tha devil for fortune, money and fame. just like 98% of the mainstream rappers.
they all fake, FUCK em all.
UNDERGROUND FOR MUTHAFUCKIN LIFE!!
Em really comes back on this one. Forget RECOVERY and that other one after that, this is the EM that made him the well respected rapper megastar.
That’s what we hear for years, ”forget Encore Eminem has Relapse, forget these Relapse accents Eminem is back in Recovery, and now forget Recovery Eminem is really back blabla”
Im sure his next album will be called the slim shady lp 2 featuring Lady gaga, justin bieber, katy perry and Adele.
Then you’ll say, forget the MMLP2 etc..
Word up @Lord
it will look like this:
The Slim Shady LP 2:
Lead single:
Eminem feat Katy Perry – Hit Me Baby
collabs:
Eminem ft Lady Gaga – MaleLadies
Eminem ft Justin Bieber – Sorry Mama
Eminem ft Chief Keef (Only rap collab) – These Bitches Can’t Hold me back.
Eminem feat Rihanna – We’re Back Again
Call of duty promote single:
Eminem feat Once Direction – Fighting
Producer: DJ Khaled & Dr Dre
(extra notes for the productions: Dr Dre will not produce any beats but just to get every credits of others like he always does)
Bonus tracks:
1 feature with Nelly Furtado
and one feature with Taio Cruz.
Boy and I am looking out for Infinite part 2 aswell!!! LOL
LOOOL Hahahahaha I Laughed MY ASS OFF to that one hahaha. Great analyzed hahaha!
You know I wouldn’t be suprised if Eminem would do that for his next album ahhahahah!
All of you are fucking idiots.
this whole entire thread was written by one person
ha
Eminem will never win with his fanbase.
My thoughts exactly. I don’t even see why Em continues to pour his heart out on an album. He can’t please this so black they’re navy blue fanbase ever. Even if his shit is dope it won’t ever be enough. All these niggas want to hear are neptune boom bap beats and Em spittin like he did on Infinite.
In a Battle Ice Cube>>>>> Eminem
Death Certificate is his 2nd best album>>>>>>>>>>> any em album
Energy and passion on the mic Cube>>>>>>. EM
His 1ST verse on No Vaseline>>>> any Eminem verse
Cube’s single >>>>>> ems singles
Cube impact on the game >>>>>>> Eminem impact(Just made kids think cross dressing is cool)
Top notch lyricism however average (and in case subpar) production and one too many poppish tunes and lack of any game changing aspect keep this from being a classic album. But despite that it’s still a top notch hip-hop album. But overall I can see a 4 out 5 rating.
It’s called growth. He tried revisiting that whole “punching celebrities, raping babies and eating children” shtick: it was called Relapse and it sucked. Listen to it the same way you listened to Life is Good and you’ll see its value
Life Is Good was doper then Eminem’s last 4 albums so dont even compare that. Relapse sucked because he used too much
of that gay accent which was annoying as fuck. Its not about
growing up because he was waaaaaaay more mature in The Eminem
Show than MMLP and that was also a big success. Nas kept it
strictly himself while Eminem just trying to get these Rihanna’s and Sia, and that faggot from Fun just to boost his album sales.
Nahh man this is the right review for the album.
Ill keep that in mind when i listen to it 2morrow, cuz fuck the leaks im bout that buying that CD tho.
To the Eminem fans who say niggas is scared to feature him on songs. Bad vs Evil Royce was pretty much bodying Em on every song. Keep it real you have to be a big fan to not realize how much this dude fell off. And if this next album sounds like the crap he has been producing himself its gonna be straight trash.
This should’ve been a mixtape.
fuck DX for leaking his album before it’s even out
I am sorry it won’t happen the next time..
Oh and to inform you, his next album is going to be ”Detroits Finest”.
Dude gives the album a 4 but reviews it like a 3 star album.
Hoping for a 5 but i feel itll be a 3… FUUUUUUCK
Hip Hop started in the streets and it will forever be in the streets, the fact of the matter is. Nobody in the streets is listening to eminem, only kids from the burbs.
I ain’t feelin this track, i don’t care how lyrical he is, it’s fuckin wack in the streets. Only people in the urban community (not suburban ) should have say to what is dope hip hop and what isn’t, this is NOTHING special. Kids from the suburbs tend to think just because a rapper is “lyrical” that makes them great! 2Pac , Too Short, Eazy E, and many many others weren’t the most complex rappers but they are more legends, why? Because they kept it street. These underground, and lyrical cats can rhyme as many words out of the dictionary that they want and it is still wack in the streets why?
Wack subject matter, wack beats, nobody wants to listen to any of that. People wake up, street hip hop (biggie, 2pac, big l , jeezy, dmx ) any rapper that reps the streets, YES even 50 will have more respect than these lyrical cats, because hip hop IS the streets, and if the streets aren’t feelin it, than it doesn’t matter how versatile you are, wack is wack no matter what and kids from the burbs need to stop givin this shit 5 stars!
fuck yo streets nigga
who cares what a bunch of losers with nothing going for them who dont buy albums think LOLOLOL
lmfao claiming to be from the streets in 2013, shits like bragging about eating ramen noodles
eminem only sold records to the little 15 year hoes and whiteboys. fuck em all.
also, FUCK drake, FUCK 50 cent, FUCK lil wayne, FUCK soulja boy, FUCK the WHOLE mainstream and radio MUTHAFUCK em all.
underground n old school until da real mainstream shit be back like da 80s-90s.
westside, MOB, bay to LA!!
more like Fag4Life
soulja boy is the best to eva do it fuck boi!
superman yo momma hoe
i love how some of greatest emcees of all time, Kool G Rap, Rakim, Meth,Cube etc.. all say that em is the best and most of them put them in there top 10. Kool g rap recently put Em in his top 10 of all time. Rakim in an interview said numerous times that no one can touch Em and that he is the best(you can youtube these interviews)Numerous amazing emcees always say that shady is the one of the greats, even jay, kanye and drake say it. I dont understand how fans get to criticize something they cant so themselves.
what do those guys kno though?
my opinion comes from ppl who troll comments on this website cause they know tru hip hop
i advise everyone to go back and listen to old eminem
eminem – our house
off the wall ft redman
I feel like its popular to “hate” on Eminem and this album. Just enjoy the music and stop being Debbie downers. 4/5
can i bitch
y’all have too many expectations for someone whose life you do not live. If the album doesn’t fit into your narrow minded expectations, its “disappointing” its “hip POP” its “garbage”. Don’t be afraid to hear something new or different.
i agree with the 4 star rating but the review bashed the hell out of the album. This album is much better than his last 3 albums, maybe Eminem Show too. Jay-Z said it best “niggas want my old shit, buy my old albums”
Anyone who thinks this is better than TES should have their ears cut off.
eminem – if i get locked up
cleaning out my closet better than rap god
he cant match the first marshall mathers lp
eminem – who knew
i did
Get hold of Dre/Mel Man/Storch/Jeff Bass for the next record Em. You know, guys that produced your best shit.
i don’t like this review i think the album should have got 4 or 4.5 the rhymes are some of the best but the hooks aren’t but if u were to just read this u wouldn’t think the guy gave it a 4
Bumps in the whip
eminem – what if he were white feat sticky fingaz
eminem – flyest material feat high and mighty
this album was so good, exceeded my expectations. I don’t know if I would call it a classic, but its the best album of 2013 in my opinion.
It was better than recovery though it could of used a few dre beats n a few alchemist beats. I thought the Kendrick feature was wasted on a weak beat rappin bout love that collab should of been a fuckin banger
Horrible review. For one, the rating does not match the opinion of the album. Secondly, there was so much a divulge from this album and you get a few paragraphs of general blah. You don’t like his “hyper-lyricism” and beats, but, within both is ridiculous concepts, lyrics, and creativity that is the best I have heard SINCE MMLP. But…you seem to get caught up in HOW he is rhyming. No one wants to see MCs grow or evolve, they want them to be in this vacuum of art. You can tell when non-MCs give opinions on music. Maybe next time, go into detail about why the album gets talked down on, but a good review. You shouldn’t be afraid to give it a 2 or a 3 for it’s “hyper lyricism”. Personally, if people want the old Eminem, it’s easy to go back and to all the music the old Em released. I just happen to enjoy anything refreshing and new from an all time great artist and what they are doing TODAY and not based on what they did. Or else, nothing of today can be considered good. Fill in the blanks with Lebron or Today’s NFL or fashion. Living in the past means you never grow when the people with the most influence do. Simple shit.
This has to be the realest shit I’ve ever heard regarding hip hop criticism. How can anyone not like growth from their favorite artists. I’m a hip hop head, fan of 90’s rap but recently gave up listening to guys like The Lox or Mobb Deep because they’ve shown no growth. I want refreshing music from all time greats too. And yes, this review was horrible, hope he doesn’t write another review again.
it wouldve gotten a 5/5 if french montana & lil b were features but the album is ok..2chainz had a lot more complex rhymes & showed a lot more talent tho..em keep workin at it, you could be a legend one day..but for now youre still on the mackelmore/mac miller/mgk status..well mac miller > all the other white boys but hes getting there for sure TRUUUUU HAAAAAN BUURRRRRR free gucci free scooter free OJ
Em live performances >>
Em overall albums including this one >>
Em freestyles >>
Em features >>
Em sales >>
..and I could keep going, shit even Em’s production now is better than most.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a WINNER.
eminem – threesixfive feat skam
First of all, motherfucker who wrote this article, you can go suck a dick…two times. Who are you to criticize, out of all rappers out there, Eminem’s content?? At least you have enough sense to not disregard his ownership rights to delivery. Asshole. Get your shit straight.
I just don’t get it…Who are these people? How in the hell are we demonizing lyricism now? Isn’t that what you turn on a record for? Isn’t that why we constantly diss all the mainstream hip hop from the last decade? Because they had ZERO bars? Because they had ZERO lyrical agility? And now we are smashing people for showing us the greatest lyrical product that the human mind can create?
I don’t get it. I can do without the Mama track…but 5 Starts!
whats up with all the bugs on this fucking welfare ass website.. you cant fix mobile version, first page comments dont show up, you post articles that have nothing inside the link..
you guys are welfare and trash, you have no budget to hire ppl to do a proper review too so you get retarded nobodies who post their opinion like it actually means something
To be perfectly honest, because of one, two – maybe at a stretch three songs being below par, a 4.2 is accurate and fair.
Quality album. Brings back nostalgic thoughts and feelings, has better lyricism than everyone out and is just a great creation of music.
as I say, 4.2 is accurate and fair.
deserves 5/5
They gave it a 4/5 which is good right? Then you start to read and it’s probably a good assessment of what the album is (I did not listen to all yet, go buy). It seemed to focus on the negative and not why it scored what it did. If I were to read this and then guess what they rated, I woulda said a 3/5 MAX.
I agree. The review seems to me that he’s really disappointed with this album. This is the same dude who wrote the article saying that he has to do much more than add a 2 to the album and dye his hair blond to impress on the album.
Exactly, the one who wrote this article needs to get his ass fired asap! Horrible article and full of contradictions. The guy is an idiott.
really enjoyed the whole album it seems like he is back to his game.
few tracks are WACK af but loved the other tracks
same.
do you ever bother to listen to the album and the lyrics and try to find the meaning and just listen and really listen taking one or 2 goes through the album isn’t enough listen i repeat LISTEN it does deserve about a 4.5 out of 5 maybe a 5 there are some weak songs you goes don’t listen to the music just skimming through it also its stupid to compare this album to underground shit 2 totally different types of music when you put it that way so those hater stop hating and people who are acting all butt hurt stop it you are making those haters even more right you might think im butt hurt but it bothers me that there is one guy commenting and replying to everything and you know who you are lol but overall its a good album eminem show was his best and the mmlp 1 was about the same as this but look at the change in tone from some songs and some of the songs are like sequels to old ones
Yeah it was a dope album, some people need to stop hating..It’s actually the best he dropped since The Eminem Show in my opinion. although it has it’s flaws, it’s an overall better project than the last 3 album he dropped since The Eminem Show.
Amazing album! Better than Relapse and Recovery!
Definitely one of his best albums. It has a mix of all the different styles showing his versatility as an artist and as a master of his craft. Mad lyricism and flow too.
ffwgggggggggggg
as Dilla would say, FanTastic!!!!!!
So this album isn’t better than Black Milks?
Quote from this review: “Eminem can rhyme with the best of them, and is peerless in his technique. Unfortunately, too often does Em focus on technique at the expense of actually making a good song”.
– That’s what I’ve been saying about this nigga for YEARS now! That’s what the fuck I’ve been saying on all of the recent articles about Em on HipHopDX that his Stans have been reacting to angrily. This nigga Em is on another level in terms of technical rapping, but he can’t make a album that sounds good to grown ass men — he just doesn’t seem like he’s capable of it. Now let me make something fucking clear to the Stans: no one in their right mind thinks Em doesn’t get it in on the technical/wordsmith aspect of rapping. Niggas are just saying they don’t fuck with his music.
racist
Best reasonable criticism of Em I’ve seen on this site.
Is not here.
completley agree, this guys fuckin good at rapping and what hes doing..but i cant listen to it, get over it real quick..
I am a fan of EM and appreciate both his lyrical skill AND his music, even if he isn’t at the same level he was years ago and even if the quality of the material has diminished.
But i respect your opinion and i’m happy to see someone on this site who finally has a reasonable opinion and who can give an honest critique without having to hate on the artist or dickride him.
Reposted for prime real estate, people need to learn
This album is a 3.5/5 for me, can’t say its bad, but its not close to the album of the year (No Poison No Paradise, Twelve Reasons to Die (and Twelve Reasons to Die: The Brown Tape), Czarface, Abrasions, 360 Waves, York, 13, Legends Never Die, Albert Einstein, Run the Jewels, ESGN, The Kitchen, Highway Robbery, Old, Get Home Safely, Gods in the Spirit, The Nights Gambit, Yessir Whatever, Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent) but it definitely wasn’t bad. That being said, I wouldn’t say that Eminem lived up to his standards, with his technical skill far outpacing his skill as a writer of compelling stories. Maybe he needs to write out his stories before writing his rhymes, I don’t know his process, but I am sure it would make for a more coherent song. I also don’t really dig the hooks, maybe he could go call and response or just let the beat play. Speaking of which, his beat selection is not that great either, as it does seem a little disjointed and doesn’t bring out the range of emotions that some other albums I have listened to have. Obviously not everyone will agree with me on that, but in my mind, that seems to be the case. The fact that I give this a 3.5 really comes down to how well Eminem works with rhyme schemes, which is the one thing he is outstanding at (whereas he is somewhere between above average and good at everything else, and below average in beat selection), and it does show, especially on Rap God for example, where his sound really brings me back to some of the rhyme schemes Treach used on Yoke the Joker, which are incredible. I mean, as a cultural icon, it makes sense that Eminem will try to pander to public opinion to an extent. That being said, he would be better served making a concept record, or an intellectually fueled record, allowing him to use his full range of talents (which are considerable but heavily overrated) instead of having to simplify his music. Overall, not bad, but Eminem really had to simplify his style, and that took a lot away from what he had to offer.
Co-100%-fucking-sign. Bravo Sir, really comprehensive post.
PS.: maybe you should try to divide the content into paragraphs next time, it would be much easier to read
hate the singles but overall its good
good album but gkmc is better than this
fact!n
No and u suck.
Awesome album
who cares about the title?
4.5
awsome album
Fuck you cunt and enjoy the music
Great!
wack
Absolutely perfect album.
Someone needs to fire the poor excuse of an editor for the crafting of this monstrosity of a botched review. He showers the album with praise by awarding it a 4/5, then launches into a tirade of a rant that disparages it. Are you serious, dude? I can’t remember the last time I was so enraged by reading something that was so contradictory at the same time it managed to be wholly false and ridiculously ill contrived.
You’re pure garbage. This is the best album of the year. Hip Hop fans have spent the past half decade lambasting artists like 2 Chainz and Waka Flocka for deadening the lyrical ability rap was known for, and editors alike tackled the issue head on, expressing their frustration with poorly thought out rhyme schemes and elementary lyrics. Then, along comes Eminem with an album that features perhaps some of the best lyrics and rhymes we’ve heard since 2005, and what do you do? You chastise him for precisely the opposite of what you have scolded other artists for? And to top it off, instead of logically reviewing the album for its own merits, you compare it to its predecessor and speak nothing of the illness emanating solely from this work? Fuck you.
Eminem’s beats on this album are pitted perfectly to provide the ideal backdrop for the lyrics he uses. I can’t even take you serious, as you have the audacity to assert that this album “tarnishes the original” while even going as far as saying titling it something else would have merely placed it into another of Eminem’s passable additions into his catalog. Are you fucking serious? I don’t know whether you’ve spent the last fourteen years under a rock or simply had your nose stuck so far high in the air that it was unable to smell anything, but Eminem doesn’t make “passable additions”. He’s the ONLY mainstream MC who still takes rap back to its roots. Even Kendrick Lamar hasn’t yet breached the territory Eminem has.
I’ve lost a great deal of respect for Hip Hop DX. It’s time you fill your staff with people who have capabilities beyond that of a pampered suburbanite whose conception wasn’t the result of an alcohol induced frolicking at a proletariat dinner.
Its not hip hop album of the year.
Calm the fuck down you smart-ass stan.
Co-sign
Wow Man! Props to you for taking litterally all the words out of my mouth and putting them all into one brilliant response to the editor of this terrible and contradicting review. Seriously, i just couldn’t believe this piece of shit review after i was finished reading.
I also want to add that Eminem prcisely said this was a revisitation and NOT a sequel, so people need to stop comparing it to his older material and actually start giving an honest review on what it is and not on what it should have been! It is not a fuckin sequel.
shut the fuck up stan. this album is a 2/5
^^ Perfect example of a hater who can’t back his statement with anything smart.. GTFOH retard.
ahww
pretty good album for 2013..probs nearly his worst though..i hated this survival song at first, love it now, he kills it..i think this review is pretty spot on though! im a huge em fan, but fuck all you ass licking stan fans, biast mother fuckers! this is nothing to fuckin carry on about, i had my opes up but yeah pretty dissapointing..
lol at butt hurt stans who listen to rap only when eminem has an album out.
4.5/5
Man, this review does not mesh with the rating at ALL. It’s like the rest of the DX staff collectively agreed to give it a 4 and Mr. Cooper disagreed and chose to write his own opinions instead.
But with that being said, I agree with his review. This is easily Em’s best release in over 10 years but there are still some complete SHIT tracks and most of the hooks don’t work. That being said, Em raps his ass off and the beats are mostly on point.
All this considered, I’d give the album a 6.5/10.
You say it’s the Best Eminem release in 10 years and you give it a 6.5/10. Seriously?
^ yep
Its fuckin too gud
the god is back.
Amazing album. If an artist like Jay-Z or Drake came out with an album like this, then the reviews would sky-rocket through the roof, but since Eminem’s expectations are higher than any other MC in the game, he only gets a 4/5, which sucks, but definitely a modern classic.
cosign ^
Co-sign.
Word
Em’s best album since TES. Probably deserves a 4.5 because of how bad the singles are excluding rap god and berzerk is ok as a 1st single but survival is trash and the monster is pop but its okay. Songs like So Much Better, Rhyme or Reason, Bad Guy, and Stronger Than I was seem ripped straight outta 2002. The bonus songs are great too and can replace any songs you don’t like on the main album. Beautiful Pain is one of the best eminem songs since 2008. Bad Guy is epic. While some people will feel that nothing he does now can touch his first 3 albums, I feel it comes pretty close and stands up well against them. This album is a must have for any Eminem or hip hop fan.
Recovery stood up well against his work too. And you didn’t mention the song that most resembles/revisits the old Em, “Legacy”. How old are you lol
eminem only sold records to the little 15 year hoes and whiteboys. fuck em all.
also, FUCK drake, FUCK 50 cent, FUCK lil wayne, FUCK soulja boy, FUCK the WHOLE mainstream and radio MUTHAFUCK em all.
underground n old school until da real mainstream shit be back like da 80s-90s.
westside, MOB, bay to LA!
classic, vintage shady.
goat
awesome album !
If we pretend this isn’t Eminem, rather some other rapper, people would not like this album as a whole. There is a lot of Shady dick riding going on, but in all honesty, this album is 3/5. Whack beats, choruses made primarily for the radio. Of course lyrics and rhyme scheme is dope, because its Em. No one can compare to his rapping, but as an album, BIG let down.
Finally, some honesty on this damn board
No one can match Em’s rapping? If you mean being bland, repetitive and uncreative then I see what your saying.
But if you mean actual skill, then hell no. Sure em can flow straight and can spit out some simple multi’s, but other than that, his lyrics are extremely simple and straightforward. That’s why people like em so much, his lyrics are so easy to decipher and seem complex because other rappers lyrics like DOOM, homeboy sandman, Ka, Roc Marc are too hard to understand at first listen and go unnoticed.
I’ve been seeing a lot of people hating on Recovery, I thought that album was a solid release from him post Relapse. It has a lot of great tracks, beats/production is more on point than MMLP2.
BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED LYRICISM!
lol ok after reading through this thread I see why out of towners get capped all the damn time. Let me break it down for some of you bamas. They are hood niggas EVERYWHERE. Real talk. I don’t care how hard you think your hood is how serious you think you bang but that shit only holds weight in your city. Period. End of discussion. Once you enter another city you gotta abide by a new set or rules or that is your ass. If you seriously think that their aint not killas in Oklahoma you done lost your damn mind. I aint even never been to Oklahoma but I’ve been to enough cities to know that there are hoods everywhere and in everyone of them if you aint staying in your lane something will happen to you. When I used to go to school in Richmond I used to see it all the time. Niggas would come from out of town thinking that they hard and get sent home in a body bag.
So you can be like come out to Cali and try that shit and see what happens but lets be real that is in your hood. You go out to their hood and try to test niggas and see how you end up. You will prolly find your ass face down in the dirt of some Oklahoma prairie on some cowboy shit. Niggas forget that Oklahoma is the wild west. Niggas been had guns and been shooting fools up BEFORE they started banging. Just because they flashing colors now don’t mean that they just started going hard. Y’all need to learn to respect gangsta cause if you don’t that shit will get your dumb ass killed off some stupid shit.
Just look at what happened to when T.I. thought he could G check niggas in Cincinatti. They sprayed that niggas whip reloaded drove back around and hit his ass up again. When you in someone elses city you gotta play by their rules.
the fuck?
Preach!
the huffington post gota more accurate review imo
“all the albums you named were certified grass by the riaa. fuck out of here with that i-sold-three-copies-but-my-album-is-a-classic shit”
BEST COMMENT ON HERE. not sayin numbers are everything but eminem is one of the best ever runs this shit stop hatin I hate how cats gotta try to be cool and make a huge list of underground shit and act like eminem is 2chains or some dog shitt rapper…
better then i expected, 4/5, ole boy still got a lil gas in the tank
better review IMHO:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/eminem-mmlp2-review_n_4214663.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment
Roman Cooper is a complete asshat. Who complains about top notch lyricism on a rap album. A fuckin idiot thats who. GTFOH HHDX
Oh yeah and fuck all those TOP 5 of all time blah blah blah. You think you are special because you put Planet Asia on your top 5 and not drake or Lil wayne? So you are a cool guy cause you think Vinnie Paz could out rhyme 2 Chainz? Like Paz or Asia are gonna stroll in here and see your comment and contact you and you’ll be best friends. Y’all are fuckin stupid dumb motherfuckers. Its music. listen to it or don’t
In a Battle 2Pac>>>>> Eminem
Albums 7 day theory is his 2nd best album>>>>>>>>>>> any em album
Energy and passion on the mic 2pac>>>>>>. EM
His 1ST verse on DEAR MAMA>>>> any Eminem verse
2pacs single >>>>>> ems singles
2pac impact and influence on the game >>>>>>> Eminem impact
You’re an idot. the only reason Pac never lost a battle is cause the fucker never really battled anyone. NO LYRICISM whatsoever. If biggie would have gone at pac. He would have ate him. Same with prodigy back in the day. I mean he went at Chino XL. CHINO WOULD HAVE FUCKING RAPED PAC on wax. Pac didn’t make battle records. he made Im a tough guy music when he wasn’t a fuckin tough guy. Dude was a poet. he brought the story of the lower class to the world in pictures painted with words. so fuck you and quit dickridin
84 shut the fuck up and 84 mixtape sucks its trash by a depressed rapper
i just made my mom slip to tell you to fuck off 1984
Wayne is a true blood gang member and I KNOW you fuckboys will say he isn’t.
Go to LA and ask Triple OG Rodgers that and hell slap the chap outta u for even questioning Waynes Blood Gang legitimacy.
YMCMBloods!
What up five!
Lil Wayne is the KIGN of HIP HOP!
Does the reviewer even realize that the song Bad Guy is a sequel to Stan? Stan’s brother is the one mentioning the MMLP publicity stunt, basically because hes crazy. I’m sure the reviewer scanned through all of the songs and then wrote this. Horrible reveiw.
“A few lyrical references to previous songs, an extension of an old skit and a few played Insane Clown Posse references do not a sequel make” –when does Eminem talk about ken kaniff on here?
Recovery was the best album out at the time – with hip hop being dead and all – but this is album is ridiculous -on par with MMLP, almost as good as slim shady LP
garbage album eminem makes wack music with no replay value he fell the fuck off. Drake makes better music thats easy to listen to party to and enjoy. Eminem is done washed up and old drake is the king now he runs this rap shit.
1.MMLP 1.D-12 Devils Night
2.The Eminem Show 2.Bad Meets Evil
3.SSLP 3.D-12 World
4.Encore
5.MMLP2
6.Relapse
7.Recovery
8.Infinite
MMLP2 is solid I feel it could have been better but it definitely is very solid in spots the songs i love are some of his best work ever the ones I couldnt feel I never wanna hear again
Lol how can you possible rate encore over MMLP2 or relapse. Or recovery. Or infinite.
Encore is the lowest of low when it comes to Em’s album. Shit like Big Weenie, ASs Like that, etc, good lord my man. just no.
The quality of reviews on HHDX has severely fallen lately… I don’t know what’s going on, I just want an objective opinion about the music but can’t find that here. Disappointing. HHDX used to be my only go-to site
COSIGN!!!! Fuck this website and Roman Cooper. What a moron, who the fuck complains about HYPER-LYRICISM! LMAOOOOOOO GTFO ROMAN, go find a job for your brother niko!
Cosign ^^ “The album would have been much better served by Em spending more time crafting song concepts than he did on his ber-complex rhyme schemes” haha OK Mr. Cooper, i’m sure EM DRE AND RICK RUBIN could learn a thing or two from you
I removed 5 of the songs that are complete garbage and I’m liking it more. 6/7 of the songs are classic Em. 3/5
the review doesn’t match the rating lol,just give it the three stars it deserves and say its just another weak album by slim since em show
14 yrs later em still relevant. album was fiyah
How about 20 years later and Jay-Z, Nas, and Ghost are still relevant. So whats your point
So why the hell did you give it 4 stars lol? Maybe the labels aint having it. This review sounds like nothing higher than a 3.5
I prefer Relapse. That albums is one of the most underrated of the last 10 years
I didn’t like the album much but it has some good songs. I think the accents are annoying cause he overdoes them.
Is Hiphopdx ratings button stuck on four stars?
I dunno I think the album is pretty decent overall. I agree with what is said about lovegame and survival, but I think there’s more good than bad on this album. I read an interview where Em called it a “revisitation” and I think if you approach the album with this mindset rather than as a sequel it helps you digest its content differently. Thats just me anyways. Headlights is just completely on the next level.
I agree with everything you said. Album is decent overall and has a lot of good songs. Bad Guy is my favorite. That last verse gives me chills every time.
its somewhere between 4.6- 4.7 album but ill go with 5 🙂
When I listen to this cd, I just dont know who could do this but Eminem. Thats hip hop. What is this a scale of 1-5? I give it a 6!!!!
hahaha
seriously some of you guys are probably better suited to review albums than this no name / minimum wage scrub DX has hired..
DX can’t even afford to fix their website and make it work properly let alone give a proper review of an album
..and who the fuck are they to leak songs when an album hasn’t even been released yet?
bomb album, the closest thing to a “return to form” that we’re going to see from a 40 year old eminem.
A classic sequel to a classic album
Amazing… a 40 year old Eminem on his A game. Its def a 5/5 album and definitely the best album I’ve heard in many years. For the people comparing with other hiphop artists Nothing was the same takes number 2. It doesnt touch this. Tremendous job Marshall
dude, please widen your horizon. if this is the best hip hop album you have listened to in years you don’t listen to enough hip hop.
You are probably reaching out for shit if your highest complain is too much lyricism. Did you guy listen to that Kool G Rap interview ? Go back n listen to it. The reason why hip hop pioneers are pissed with today’s hip hop is bcoz of lack of lyricism.
Yeah! People will begin to ask, what about content?! It’s very simple, ur choice of content is exclusively subjective. I prefer to hear jay z brag over tupac talking about how he wants to change the world. I prefer to listen to Em kill his wife and rape his mom over nas street introspective lyrics. I prefer to listen to lil Wayne fuck bitches all night over drakes lover boy stories. It’s that simple.
Ok! What content does the first MMLP have? Yet we still celebrate that album till today. Don’t get me wrong, am not a big fan of this album( although it’s slowly growing on me), but to discredit a man because of too much lyricism cracks me up.
remember when HHDX gave slaughterhouse 4.5/5 last yr? yet they give this 4/5, lol
Em gets tons of haters and tons of dickriders as well. I know dudes who never listened to any of his songs b4, but blatantly hate him because he’s a white dude doing rap music( and he’s actually very good at it). On the other hand, I know dudes who listens to nobody else, but Em. Lol, what more can I say?
Whining about superior lyricism? LMMFAO. Go buy a Lame Wayne or Fake Drake tape sissy. Someone fire the clown that reviewed this……
Better than Recovery, but still ain’t like his old stuff YET!
For am emcee of his status, the album is definitely going to be hated on. If a younger artists to underground cat dropped this shit, everyone did jump on top the band wagon, the user rated will sky rocket to, at least, 4.7, but it em….c’mon son, the artists of the decade, this blasphemy to see anything he does get just love. When the first mmlp came out, most critics and haters called it trash as well, am not surprised tho.
If a younger artist or underground cat**
Best albums this year so far
Pusha T – MNIMN
RA The Rugged Man – Legends Never Die
Prodigy and Alchemist -Albert Einstein
Ghostface Killah – 12 Reasons To Die
Eminem – MMLP2 Deluxe version
Tech N9ne – Something Else
Rittz – Life And Times Of Jonny Valiant
strange music is wack as fuck
Add Czarface and take MMLP2 out of your list
not as good as the mmlp but still a solid album none the less u gt sick of idiots talkin crap on this ,prob his best project since eminem show,even though recovery was a good album 2 but when ur as big as he is people either hate or love but shady is always on top
For all of those that need to be educated on the culture and the lifestyle that is hip hop, or for those that want a review from someone who is passionate about hip hop and its legacy.
This album is a 3.5/5 for me, can’t say its bad, but its not close to the album of the year (No Poison No Paradise, Twelve Reasons to Die (and Twelve Reasons to Die: The Brown Tape), Czarface, Abrasions, 360 Waves, York, 13, Legends Never Die, Albert Einstein, Run the Jewels, ESGN, The Kitchen, Highway Robbery, Old, Get Home Safely, Gods in the Spirit, The Nights Gambit, Yessir Whatever, Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent) but it definitely wasn’t bad.
That being said, I wouldn’t say that Eminem lived up to his standards, with his technical skill far outpacing his skill as a writer of compelling stories. Maybe he needs to write out his stories before writing his rhymes, I don’t know his process, but I am sure it would make for a more coherent song. I also don’t really dig the hooks, maybe he could go call and response or just let the beat play.
Speaking of which, his beat selection is not that great either, as it does seem a little disjointed and doesn’t bring out the range of emotions that some other albums I have listened to have. Obviously not everyone will agree with me on that, but in my mind, that seems to be the case. The fact that I give this a 3.5 really comes down to how well Eminem works with rhyme schemes, which is the one thing he is outstanding at (whereas he is somewhere between above average and good at everything else, and below average in beat selection), and it does show, especially on Rap God for example, where his sound really brings me back to some of the rhyme schemes Treach used on Yoke the Joker, which are incredible.
I mean, as a cultural icon, it makes sense that Eminem will try to pander to public opinion to an extent. That being said, he would be better served making a concept record, or an intellectually fueled record, allowing him to use his full range of talents (which are considerable but heavily overrated) instead of having to simplify his music. Overall, not bad, but Eminem really had to simplify his style, and that took a lot away from what he had to offer.
You named some amazing albums man, I totally agree. I was never an Em fan, funny how he’s the worst artist making music out the D for years now. Elzhi, Royce, Guilty Simpson put Em to shame, especially Danny Brown Catalog.
^^ LOL you’re a joke
“They fucked me out of my mics twice, I let it slide,
I said I wouldn’t hold my breath to get a 5,
shit I was right; i’da fuckin died already tryin”
Remember guys: MMLP was rated LOW when it came out by the majority of reviewers.
He was only referring to The Source in that line/song though.
why the fuck doesnt dr dre ever come out with any insight or opinion on any of eminems albums?? what did he think of all of them separately theres never articles or interviews of him on ems work is it just me?
I was just a freshman in high school standing in line to buy thee MMLP back in 2000. I had heard everything he’d done up to that point: from Infinite to the glory days at Rawkus. I even had the underground shit he did with Scam.
The MMLP marks a moment in time. It became ubiquitous. Your best friend’s mom had the MMLP. In many ways, it was our Thriller. Eminem was literally the biggest thing on the planet in mid-2000.
Marshall would go on to own the decade. More classic albums, 8 Mile, the 50 Cent signing and an Oscar. In the end Marshall would sell more records than anyone is the 2000’s. Coming in second: The Beatles.
Rather than going into a long winded, track by track review of the album… I would just say this. My top 5 changed today and Marshall moves up from number 4 all time to number two, behind the Notorious BIG. (3 is Jay 4 is Nasty)
Biggie is your favorite rapper? How do you judge your list? Just curious…
Lol. Was about to ask d same question. Big got just 2 albums. People need to wake up from their illusions.
BIGS two albums are twice as good as any album Em has ever made. So his list make sense to me Stans
biggie is great but just NO simply no im sick of the biggie and pac stans on their dicks because they died. go to listen to biggies fast ass monotone mono-syllable rhyming bullshit until those TWO albums finally, if ever get old to you lmao….
Nas, em, tech9, (old) jay z, AZ, RAKIM, k-rino, chino xl, big l, big pun, RA, krs1 JUST TO NAME A FEW ARE WAYY WAY BETTER RAPPERS AND LYRICISTS GET IT THRU YOUR FUCKING HEAD
I don’t like this review at all. Is this guy complaining about lyricism? That has to be the stupidest thing I heard. The lyrics are what make the song. If you want to listen to nice beats and simple lyrics, go listen to some chief keef.
I can’t believe this review at all. I don’t think it was a classic album but it was a great listen. There are a lot of gems on this song. Rap God is Eminem pushing the boundaries. How many mainstream artists can make a song like Rap God? None besides Eminem. Jay Z went away from that a long time ago. Berzerk was a track that brought the old sound back. I don’t like the song but I think it was catchy yet it was your classic Eminem song mixed with some rock.
I love that this guy uses the lyrics from bad guy to justify has stance. Eminem knows that he thinks people will want to buy it because it is called Marshall Mathers Lp 2. It doesn’t matter what the album was going to be called, Em was going to sell regardless. The problem is that people are comparing it to the old one and that is stupid. Compare any Jay Z album to Reasonable Doubt and you will say that Jay Z failed to produce a great album. Nas won’t ever make another Illmatic yet nobody is getting criticized as much as Shady. It’s in the past, move on. Be glad Em is still making quality music. Yes, I know that some songs sucked but a lot of the songs were good. Most albums have some bad songs. Drake’s 305 to my city was one of the worst songs I have heard. I was confused why it made the album. Drake’s album was decent but some of the beats were something Justin Timberlake would sing on. Stop comparing Em to himself because he knows that he is his only competition.
Very dissapointed. Can’t tell a story like he use too.
Why dont rap genius work anymore anyone else know how to fix? it reloads the site every time I click for explanations wtf
Fire
EMINEM Killed This
Eminem brings back his old side while bringing a new side. He has changed in better ways and his lyrics are obviously on par with every track he’s got. The Monster, Legacy, Stronger Than I Was and Beautiful Pain are my favourites on the album because of the emotion and lyricism in each one of the songs is beyond anything that other artist besides Kendrick Lamar have recently put out. Eminem has reached a great level and this album just took him from “Rap King” to “Rap God”. Congrats Eminem on another successful project!
Masterpiece
it would have been better if there not so much pop artist in it….
a formula that would have made it special was if he made the follow up to Stan
wtf you smoking there is a sequel to Stan
I won’t be writing my own rhymes for awhile.. gonna be studying this shit
the most adept rap artist of the last two centuries
“the ugly kardashian”
classic
GIVE ME A CHANCE
Youtube is all about finding new artist, & though I been rapping for a while im still consider a new artist. I just want my music heard thats all, im not looking for no record deal, getting famous ‘r anything like that.! so please just spare a few sec. to check me out, & if you like what you heard please SUBSCRIBE so ill know you actually listen & support
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaSNK0pm4eY
sick album
Eminem is what every rapper wants to be.
I gotta say am borderline sick of these dudes who feel they know snd studied hip hop culture more than other. Fuck is wrong with u punks ? Stay up there with that bullshit.
Ok so an emcee has song writers in this days hip hop. One of the illest ever? Fuckin joke!
a true comeback album.
the first eminem music i’ve really liked since 8 mile
The review makes little to no sense at times but anyway the album turned out great even the deluxe tracks ..I’d say 4.5/5 ..people seem to forget this guy been doing this 15+ years and still making albums like this
TRASH
Straight up fire only 3 weak songs
Only 3…I’d say 5 and that’s being a Stan that I am Man
Killed it
wow super wack . he sounds like pee wee herman
This review has no credibility. I dont know what they were listening to but there was a concept for every song including bezerk and love game. Besides how can you rate it so low when you give Yeezus a 4.5? MMLP2 was more bold, better lyricism, better concepts with few flaws. This should have been the 4.5
this is more like 3.5 , but it just shows how much Yeezus was overrated.
Sorry but Yeezus was 10x bolder then this yakity yak and yodeling album. Black Skin Heads and New Slave are more powerful with depth then any song on this album GTFOH with that Stanley Jenkins
Trash album and I’m white lmao
I’m black and I think it’s wack too….Ebony and Ivory in perfect harmony LMAO
I WAS SKEPTICAL AT FIRST, but after listening to the MMLP2 over a half dozen times, I feel this may be Em’s best album since The Eminem Show.
I’m sure so-called “hip-hop heads” will rant about the POP hooks on tracks like “Survival” and “Monster” or the sentimentality of “Legacy” and “Stronger Than I Was,” but such complaints are NITPICKY at best.
Lyrically, Em’s never been more versatile (“Rap God”) or thoughtful (“Headlights”). And when Em does get sinister (“Groundhog Day,” “Evil Twin,” and “Brainless”) he never feels desperate to pick fights in order to sell records.
What we’re dealing with is a mature Eminem. One that no longer needs to resort to shock-rap or zany lead singles to get radio play. GREAT album.
actually the hook on legacy is great but the other 3 are shit
Stronger Than I Was is the worst track he ever did alongside with Fack
the worst track he ever did was that shit he did with Pink
fuck jayz and kanye west.jayz is a washed up rapper and has never been the greatestyall better listen to the lyrics and stop listenin to beats.if 2pac was here jayz punk ass wouldnt be doin shit cuz he is wack as fuck.lilwayne will merk jayz lyrically..just like eminem did on jayzs own song renegade.the only classic jayz ever made was the black album..wayne done made 4 classics what yall got to say about that???? shit cuz numbers dont lie.stop and listen to the lyrics and not just the beats yall dont deserve to listen to rap.
Actually numbers can be misleading. Numbers dont lie is the dumbest thing Jay Z ever said especially for a rapper who a man of business
Actually, numbers do lie, we just don’t want to admit that all our artists here at YMCMB go wood, or have wood for each other (cough cough, Drake, cough cough). Dentaldamboy here loves to join in at times, he loves Baby. As for me, well, I am here, bumping Illmatic, getting money from these frauds, and letting them die off slowly. I mean, as an accountant for YMCMB, I don’t have to do anything anyway. Actually, fuck it, I quit, too much of a sausagefest up in here.
Evolution
Roman Cooper (The guy who wrote the review) are you dumb or something??Because you are actually slamming the album but yet give it 4/5..Fucking dumbass..Worst review ever seen.
Fool check hip hop history! His flows are regurgitated flows from older artists. His legacy is only these
– first successful and credible rapper
– brought 50 cent to the mainstream
– created a classic in the form of Stan (ironically(
This is all ! This is the honest truth
Em’s flows are good, but he definitely bit Treach, amongst others, Yoke the Joker is a good example of the flow that Em bit. Em is dope, but I hate when people call him the GOAT, that is always gonna be Rakim as long emcees use internal rhyme
2 words “Fuck Hiphopdx” At least give a thorough review if you underrate an album so we can tell you exactly where you went wrong and why you need to get your shit together
wait you actually think they underrated it LOL
it’s 4.5/5
Keep hatin’
No it’s 2.5/5 get over it Stan the man
This album is worth an hoesnt 2 stars max!
Absolutely terrible review. I am seriously disappointed, DX. I was looking forward to your review.
MMLP2 recaptures one of hiphop’s legendary artists comeback to true form. Sure you can knock it for calling it a sequel, but the reviewer barely analyzed the album. It is VERY amateurish and barely glances over an album which will be considered one of the most important of the decade in some years as it will no doubt age well.
Eminem’s much-heralded skills and complex lyricism is displayed here in full glory, something the fans have been waiting for ten years. Sure the album has flaws, but the review was simply terrible.
cosign
well said..
shit, dentaldamboy could be writing better reviews than this turd and he’s clinically brain-dead
Personally i disagree with you like the review said he’s not really talking about shit. great wrdplay no depth. And the music sucks which these are songs this isn’t poetry this is music FIRST. Or just put out AN ALBUM WITHOUT TRACKS. Needed Dre didn’t have him. sometimes people need to be told whats missing in my opinion more depth less wordplay. examples stan, loose yourself. Fuck ya if you don’t like it
eminem praises all these rappers on rap god… u think they get a feature?? u think masta ace who he stole his whole style from gets a feature???? Nah nigga just rhianna
Sick of people trying to say he got his style from Masta Ace, they’re not the same. Their voices can sound similar at times, but their flow and content are totally different.
@Jack Em alluded to loving Masta Ace and mimicking him early in his career stop it Stanley Johnson
Better than I thought
HHDX is full of shit in 2010 they praised recovery now they call it a mess…smh. Rightfully speaking this is not the best album from Em, the album did have fillers, but aside from hell the sequel this is the best form we’ve seen Em in since his return…funny the reviewer mentioned bad guy, i dont think anyone expected that concept, rap god is lyrically one the most impressive songs of the year, brainless is the old Em that they so desperately want… shit even love game is dope and the only reason they hate on it is because they expected a renegade type of record but instead got a fun track which is lyrically dope as well. all in all MMLP2 is not the best we’ve seen from Em but is far from trash, still in my top 5 mainstream albums this year- this coming from a person who had lost all faith in Eminem
Co-sign.
I also like how you say Brainless is like the old EM everybody wanted, it is true. That track, including others like SO Much Better or Baby are definitely tracks that could have been pulled right off The Eminem Show..
Although this album did have it’s weak spots, it’s like you said Eminem’s best return to form ever since his comeback with Relapse. This album pretty much has everything, from tracks that is vintage EM that we all love to the more recent Eminem that we all know today.
The writer of this big piece of shit review should be fired ASAP!
This review barely looks at the songs? Doesn’t really use any evidence to prove what it is saying and only focuses on the fact that it is a sequel, not that its still its own album. How did HipHopDX let the trainer review the most important album of the year.
Co-sign.
This is one of the worst reviews i have ever read. “Naming it something else would have made it just another passable addition to EM’s night and day catalogue”…I mean, Reallllyy?? Yet you give it a 4/5..
On top of this review being a big piece of shit, it is contradicting itself.
Someone please fire the shitty excuse of a writer the guy who wrote this is..
Not a sequel but fckn great!
This album was his best since The Eminem Show.
I gave it 5/5 but i would have preferred to have given it a 4.5 had that been a choice… get your shit together DX.
MMLP>SSLP>TES>MMLP2>Relapse>Encore>Recovery
4.5??????? wooooooow… we didnt listen to the same album then, or you was high as f**k
I knew they’d give this wack album 4 stars, just like with Slaughterhouses terrible album
You are pathetic and you wouldn’t even know what a dope album is if it was shoved down your throat.
Well all non-stans know this album is horrid.
Best Album since Eminem Show
I love the album
How can you give it 4/5 stars when you spent the entire article crying over it ? You guys are pitiful. you gave it so much coverage, so people check your shitty website now its out you’re like “oh its shit” yet you suck the dicks of people like ross, YMCB and all these wack ass acts. you’re a bunch of faggots and you should kill yourselves.
agree! fuck they’re usually good at this stuff..
Hail to the Rap God
Co-sign.
This is one of the worst reviews i have ever read. “Naming it something else would have made it just another passable addition to EM’s night and day catalogue”…I mean, Reallllyy?? Yet you give it a 4/5..
On top of this review being a big piece of shit, it is contradicting itself.
Someone please fire the shitty excuse of a writer the guy who wrote this is.
Solid album.
You shat on the album for 90% of this review, then you give it a 4/5 and say “but there is some good here”. This stinks of lazy writing and a lack of cajones on the part of the author. If the album is wack, say so, and rate it as such. Don’t throw it under the bus and try to half ass praise it in order to save yourself. Have some balls, and call a spade a spade. I’ll check the album out eventually. Not really impressed by any of it that I’ve heard so far
on point, grown man speakin… not even worth checkin out, was a waste of time for me. still have nightmares of wackass beats and this shitty voice
Co-sign
The writer of this review should be fired asap. This is filled with contradictions.
On another note, you should really give the album a chance, it really is dope if you can put aside those shitty singles which were the worst songs off this LP. Get that deluxe version, it’s really worth the listen. Like a lot of people have said, it’s probably his best overall album since the eminem show.
Terrible Album.
Review got it right, minus the rating.
Nice to have u back Eminem!!!
Rap God is sick still!!!
Shout out to waka flacka still…
So fuck u racist c@@@@ whos says white folk don’t listen to waka u dig
Nice to have u back Eminem!!!
Rap God is sick still!!!
Shout out to waka flacka still…
So fuck u racist c@@@@ whos says white folk don’t listen to waka u dig
Moral of the story – EVERYONE is more interesting when they are drunk or high. Sobriety produces this. So fuck it, pass the blunt.
Maybe you need it cause you are a weak and boring as fuckk individual
good review… bad rating, nobody got the balls the give him a bad rating, scared of gettin dissed LOL. in my opinion max. a 3.5/5…. more a 3/5… to all you em-stans, you lyin to yourself if you think it’s a good lp, you’ll see, it won’t be relevant in a year
So HipHopDX have now decided that Recovery was shit.
well…
https://hiphopdx.com/index/album-reviews/id.1451/title.eminem-recovery
Here’s the album review they did when it came out giving it 4 stars, proving that the reviewers on the site are hipsters who just say what they believe others think.
At least keep your bullshit consistent.
Different reviewer though so each reviewer can have their own opinion
Annnnnnnnd, DX deletes the link to their own contradictory review of Recovery.
Well played DX, well played…
very good pop album nearly as good as Miley Cyrus’s Bangerz
id say this album just as good as Bangerz
That’s very bold, Bangerz is AOTY material.
I would not give this nay more than 2 stars. A very poor Em album. Some tracks were in such poor taste. Look at “So Far,” what a tasteless cover of a great song. Some of this album actually sounds like a Kid Rock album. And shame on you HIPHOPDX for dishin on the album the whole review and giving it 4 stars. SAME ON YOU HIPHOPDX. Like dude said below, grow some cajones and give the album the rating it deserves. You also HAVE to take into account that this is a sequel and must be judged as a sequel. Otherwise any MC can make a sequel of their best album and have it sound nothing like it and have reviewers like YOU still give it high praise.
-DISSAPOINTED
Very good album .
Poor Haters, no one gives a shit what you think.
The Marshall Mathers LP2
#1 United States
#1 United Kingdom
#1 Armenia
#1 Australia
#1 Austria
#1 Azerbaijan
#1 Bahrain
#1 Belarus
#1 Belgium
#1 Belize
#1 Bermuda
#1 Botswana
#1 Bulgaria
#1 Cayman Islands
#1 Canada
#1 Chile
#1 Cyprus
#1 Czech Republic
#1 Egypt
#1 Estonia
#1 Finland
#1 France
#1 Germany
#1 Ghana
#1 Greece
#1 Guatemala
#1 Honduras
#1 Hong Kong
#1 Hungary
#1 India
#1 Indonesia
#1 Ireland
#1 Israel
#1 Japan
#1 Jordan
#1 Kazakhstan
#1 Kenya
#1 Latvia
#1 Lebanon
#1 Lithuania
#1 Luxembourg
#1 Malaysia
#1 Malta
#1 Moldova
#1 Mongolia
#1 Mozambique
#1 Netherlands
#1 New Zealand
#1 Nigeria
#1 Norway
#1 Peru
#1 Philippines
#1 Poland
#1 Portugal
#1 Qatar
#1 Romania
#1 Russia
#1 Slovakia
#1 Slovenia
#1 South Africa
#1 Spain
#1 Sri Lanka
#1 Sweden
#1 Switzerland
#1 Trinidad and Tobago
#1 Turkey
#1 Uganda
#1 Ukraine
#1 United Arab Emirates
Not everyone that has a complaint is a hater. I agree sometimes he gets carried away with his lyrics and the music suffers. Not his best work sometimes these guys have too many people like yourself that are sheep and just blow him for whatever he does. Everyone needs honesty and he seems to just have guys telling him he’s amazing well some of this album sux some doesn’t. Trouth!
how does making him number 1 in countries make him good Elton john, Britney spears have done number 1ns in a lot of countries is he in his same category then?
what point are you making by listing these countries
i lmfao
Suck on it haters. Eminem has taken over once again.
Jealous african boys.
White boy wins again.
Eminem is the greatest ever! And this is continuation of his legacy.
Many other artists wish they had such a complex portfolio, and such a great amount of work with the success he did.
In 10 years we’ll look at MMLP2 as a classic, the same way we do to all his albums except relapse.
Many artist have had similar success but with far better albums, like Kanye, Ghost, Jay-Z, and Nas to name a few.
good good good
4th best album
best album since GKMC
Grimy Awards, Czarface, Legends Never Die, KILLmatic, No Poison No Paradise, Deltron 3030, 12 Reasons to Die, the Boston Project, Revolution Cocktail
Decent album you guys that are on dudes balls though need to get girlfriends. Or boyfriends because some of yall seem in love with this guy
Someone needs to fire the poor excuse of an editor for the crafting of this monstrosity of a botched review. He showers the album with praise by awarding it a 4/5, then launches into a tirade of a rant that disparages it. Are you serious, dude? I can’t remember the last time I was so enraged by reading something that was so contradictory at the same time it managed to be wholly false and ridiculously ill contrived.
You’re pure garbage. This is the best album of the year. Hip Hop fans have spent the past half decade lambasting artists like 2 Chainz and Waka Flocka for deadening the lyrical ability rap was known for, and editors alike tackled the issue head on, expressing their frustration with poorly thought out rhyme schemes and elementary lyrics. Then, along comes Eminem with an album that features perhaps some of the best lyrics and rhymes we’ve heard since 2005, and what do you do? You chastise him for precisely the opposite of what you have scolded other artists for? And to top it off, instead of logically reviewing the album for its own merits, you compare it to its predecessor and speak nothing of the illness emanating solely from this work? Fuck you.
Eminem’s beats on this album are pitted perfectly to provide the ideal backdrop for the lyrics he uses. I can’t even take you serious, as you have the audacity to assert that this album “tarnishes the original” while even going as far as saying titling it something else would have merely placed it into another of Eminem’s passable additions in his catalog. Are you fucking serious? I don’t know whether you’ve spent the last fourteen years under a rock or simply had your nose stuck so far high in the air that it was unable to smell anything, but Eminem doesn’t make “passable additions”. He’s the ONLY mainstream MC who still takes rap back to its roots. Even Kendrick Lamar hasn’t yet breached the territory Eminem has.
I’ve lost a great deal of respect for Hip Hop DX. It’s time you fill your staff with people who have capabilities beyond that of a pampered suburbanite whose conception was the result of an alcohol induced frolicking at a proletariat dinner.
how does Em’s dick juice taste buddy?
I lost a lot of respect for you jack the beats for the most part aren’t good. You probably liked relapse too, even em said that album was trash but i bet you ate it up.
I wanna be clear em is a beast but to act like this is a great album is crazy. I like Nas J em but sometimes they put out a average album this should count as one of those. To say this is pure hip hop is comedy.
jack take that 11inch dildo out from you’re ass and remove Eminem’s cock from you’re mouth
album of the year? are you serious or just provocative? better than freddie gibbs, run the jewels or mac miller? jack, are you eminem?
mac miller? shut the fuck up faggot
You lost all credibility after mentionning Mac Miller. Rofl.
GTFOH faggot. And all the rest of the haters above me who wouldn’t know what a dope album is even if it was shoved down there throats.
Someone needs to fire the poor excuse of an editor for the crafting of this monstrosity of a botched review. He showers the album with praise by awarding it a 4/5, then launches into a tirade of a rant that disparages it. Are you serious, dude? I can’t remember the last time I was so enraged by reading something that was so contradictory at the same time it managed to be wholly false and ridiculously ill contrived.
You’re pure garbage. This is the best album of the year. Hip Hop fans have spent the past half decade lambasting artists like 2 Chainz and Waka Flocka for deadening the lyrical ability rap was known for, and editors alike tackled the issue head on, expressing their frustration with poorly thought out rhyme schemes and elementary lyrics. Then, along comes Eminem with an album that features perhaps some of the best lyrics and rhymes we’ve heard since 2005, and what do you do? You chastise him for precisely the opposite of what you have scolded other artists for. And to top it off, instead of logically reviewing the album for its own merits, you compare it to its predecessor and speak nothing of the talent emanating solely from this work. Fuck you.
Eminem’s beats on this album are pitted perfectly to provide the ideal backdrop for the lyrics he uses. I can’t even take you serious, as you have the audacity to assert that this album “tarnishes the original” while even going as far as saying titling it something else would have merely placed it into another of Eminem’s passable additions into his catalog. Are you fucking serious? I don’t know whether you’ve spent the last fourteen years under a rock or simply had your nose stuck so far high in the air that it was unable to smell anything, but Eminem doesn’t make “passable additions”. He’s the ONLY mainstream MC who still takes rap back to its roots. Even Kendrick Lamar hasn’t yet breached the territory Eminem has.
I’ve lost a great deal of respect for Hip Hop DX. It’s time you fill your staff with people who have capabilities beyond that of a pampered suburbanite whose conception wasn’t the result of an alcohol induced frolicking at an aristocrat dinner.
if I could I would suck Eminem all day long. you guys are homophobic as fuck hip hop has no place for homophobic attitudes no more.
Dude shut the fuck up. Em is actual garbage now, lyrically he may be better than the 2 Chainz etc but he isn’t rapping about anything we haven’t heard before. This sounds like the same shit he has produced for the past 5 years. This isn’t Hip-Hop and never say it is. This is pop with rap in it and this is far from the best in years. You are a stereotypical kid who thinks rap died when it really hasn’t. There was a point where there was nothing but it picked up again and it’s fine, it will never be the Nas or Pac era because things change. Shut the fuck up and get things right before you post a huge paragraph because the only thing that should enrage you is your lack of knowledge for the genre.
drop the bomb on them jack!
Methanphetamine you stick too small paragraphs and pussy il stick to big paragraphs and big dicks smacking my little dick.
lolol very mature bud can tell you’re well below the legal age for sex anyone. Stick to your big paragraphs and pointless facts getting nowhere, whilst I stick to the truth and shut you little cunts down because you’s know nothing better.
i agree with the methanphetimine guy. and your opinion sucks
Eminem squashed the beef with Insane clown posse?….Nice
this album is 4/5
eminem keep losing
Losing how, this shit gonna sell mad copies. I guess you meant losing worthless internet respect maybe??
Oh so I guess Drake and Kanye are GOAT’s since they sell alot of records too even when they are experimenting based on your logic.
One of the best albums this year – and one of his best ever!
exactly… we 15year old kids love this album and eminem in general, so what??
Cant understand why everybody is hatin that much..
Just take Monster and stronger than i was out and
it is a solid Album,
I think every Artist / Mixer / Producer knows how much
work is behind the MMLP2…Only thing ive missed is a dre Banger.. but all in one i just love it 4,6 my rating
The author of this disgusting review should be taken out back and executed.
Terrible review. It reads like a 3/5 at best yet you give it a 4/5 just to keep all of the 14 year old Em stans on this site happy? At least have some integrity.
The album is a lot better than expected though.
The album is AMAZING! I just listened to it cover to cover with the lyrics,… rap god indeed! The music is awesome, the hooks are catchy, the lyrics are insane… SHADY is bezaaaaaaaaaack!
Excellent! Much better than I expected.
GOLD
Album is Crazzeee!!!!!
I’d give it a 3/5 some really good highlights like bad guy and legacy but overall Eminem really take away from what could be a very good album with too much screaming, doing stupid or annoying voices throughout like the yoda one on what otherwise is a really good rhyme or reason song, and also the chorus’s on the album are for the majority annoying. If he could just stop with the stupid gimmicks this album would be very well done.
to add to that thouh i do applaud him for coming somewhat back to form in whats his best album since the eminem show
to add to that thouh i do applaud him for coming somewhat back to form in whats his best album since the eminem show!!
Sadly I dont have enough money 2 buy this yet but iv been listening 2 it on this site & itunes radio nonstop & its a solid album. His best album since the eminem show and it better go diamond haha
Wow..thats brutally honest. No worries Em’s fanbase are usually over priveleged white kids. I’m sure someone can purchase a copy for you with the black Amex. It explains why he sales so much with horrible albums.
Em is 41 years old writing songs about how his daddy never loved him, FOH dude. Em has actually gotten more immature as he’s aged, at this point he’ll be 50 years old sitting around making fart sounds with his mouth, dude can rap but his content sucks and as a Grown man he’s an embarassment
“making fart sounds with his mouth”
So…Encore 2 in 10 years then?
i like to lil boys peepees. album nice tho
The Em record that his fans have longed for for the last dozen years. Like any album, it’s tempting to review it after only a few spins, But an album like this requires much more time to get familiar with, to catch its nuances and many nuggets of sheer brilliance. Often times, reviewers hold Eminem up to a completely different standard than other artists. Sadly, that’s the case here at Hip Hop DX where the editors have rated albums from Kanye, Black Milk, and The White Mandingos all significantly higher than Eminem’s latest. We’ll never know how many times MMLP2 was played before this review was written and rated, but if the over/under was 4 I’d confidently take the under.
Making excuses Stanley. All the albums that got a higher rating where just better then this. Stop whining and move along here nothing to see.
Best Rapper, Best Album
Would give a 0.5/5 but I have to give this a 1 Smh
BETTER THEN ANY ALBUM OUT HE IS THE GREASTEST RAPPER OF ALL TIME JUST LIKE HE SAYS IM IN THE TOP 4 DEAD OR ALIVE THAT INCLUDES PAC AND BIGGIE WITH MY EVIL TWIN WHO DO YOU THINK THOSE 3RD AND 4TH SPOTS FOR EITHER EVERYONE IN HERE IS RACIST AND HATES ON EM BECAUSE HE IS THE BEST AND WHITE OR THEY ONLY LISTEN TO BEATS AND SHOULDNT BE ON A HIP HOP SIDE TO BEGIN WITH IM SICK AND TIRED OF LISTENING TO YOU FLAMES RUN YOUR MOUTH LIKE JAY SAYS YOU WANT MY OLD SHIT BUY MY OLD ALBUMS YOU GROW UP YOU NEVER RAP ABOUT THE SAME SHIT GO FROM CD TO CD EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT THIS CD HE WANTED TO CLEARLY STATE THAT NO ONE IN THE GAME CAN EVER GO BAR FOR BAR WITH HIM LAST RECOVERY WAS SHOWING HIS JOURNEY AS A RECOVERING DRUG ADDICT RELAPSE IS BASICALLY LISTENING TO A HORROR STORY BUT HALF YOU LOSERS CANT OPEN UP YOUR EARS AND LISTEN TO THE AMAZING LYRICS AS HE PIECES IT ALL TOGETHER AND ARE LIKE THAT BEAT IS WACK GO BACK TO THE CLUB IF THATS WHAT YOU WANT I HEAR BRITTANY SPEARS IS MAKING A NEW ALBUM FOR YOU FLAMERS ENCORE HE WAS DRUGGED OUT AND IN HALF THE SONGS FUCKING AROUND AND TELLS YOU ABOUT IT AND ITS KINDA WEIRD YOU GUYS SAY HE IS WACK BUT HOW COME KENDRICK SAYS HE IS THE KING OF NY AND THE GAME WANTS TO RIP HIS HEAD OFF BUT EMINEM SAYS HE IS A RAP GOD WHY BE A KING WHEN YOU CAN BE A GOD AND SAYS A MILLION TIMES IN THIS ALBUM HE IS THE GREATEST AND NOT ONE RAPPER WANTS TO SAY A DAMN THING TO THE GUY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY WANT TO STILL HAVE A CAREER LIKE GAME SAYS “YOU DONT FUCK WITH THE WHITE BOY BECAUSE HE SHREDS DUDES” THEN THEY ASKED WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF HE CAME AFTER YOU HE SAID “RUN”
stanley is that you???
“The album would have been much better served by Em spending more time crafting song concepts than he did on his ber-complex rhyme schemes.”
Writer is fuckin right, but the Stans just dont get it.
what about the shitty pop productions and the feature popartists? Remember how Em used to dis artists like Britney and Nsynch but now doing songs with Pink and Rihanna.
So if you dislike a couple of pop artist yur obligated to hate all of them?? That makes no sense boo boo
This album sucks but I’m still hoping it sells well just to annoy the underground elitest douchebags who treat hating Eminem like its their full time job lol
i think it is far better than recovery ish but em should admit that this album can’t fuck wit gkmc
eminem shits on k.dot so shut the fuck up bich
2000-Em was better then K.Dot but this new pop star I doubt it
Anonymous:
2000-Em was better then K.Dot but this new pop star I doubt it
nope shady still has better bars flow and raw talent
Maybe but he doesn’t make better “Songs” as made obvious when putting GKMC vs MMLP2
no k dot should study him and he has a potential to be great like em
it is sad to say that em cannot takeover the game like old days
love the album but his old stuffs are untouchable and this album can’t beat them
Can’t wait until he sales just about what Drake sold and then all the Stans will make excuses for him.
relapse was the last real album that em made
agreed the whole concept for that album was crazy but hate the accent tho
Relapse was his worst album, dont nobody want to hear Eminem rap a whole album in a knockoff russian pedophile voice FOH
relapse haha wack
No Slim Shady LP was…
Relapse coulda been one of his best albums IF he didnt do this fuckery of the accents. Lyrically..that shit was on point!!!
and to the guy who said SSLP was his last good album, now you’re just trippin lmao.
Em rapped in the voice for a reason. Relapse is a beast and has an amazing concept that is stuck all the way thru.
this album is actually not bad. you cannot say it is wack.
wack is the word for 2 chainz gucci mane lil wayne drake rick ross
Its not wack but its not great either.
its solid only 5 wack tracks
album of the year…… he shits on your favourite rapper. to all black people = eminem runs the game so fuck ya’ll eat a dick a good night
marshall stay winning
Not better then Kanye or Drake right now. So it’s 50-50 since Drake is mixed LMAO
Keep in mind that the dude above making the comment is from England or something so he is completely oblivious to what hip hop means.
Which person above?
haha Drake or Ye?? Give me a break.
Anonymous:
Not better then Kanye or Drake right now. So it’s 50-50 since Drake is mixed LMAO
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
That was pretty good 1.5 for whites and 1.5 for blacks. Drake being the .5 on each side HA HA
To all real Hip Hop heads..Who would win In Your Opinion if Em and Redman battled? I think it would be for tha ges.
Sorry typo *for the ages
They both have their best years way behind them.
True but I still rank them as the two best battle rappers out of mainstream artist even today.
*for the ages
Cd is straight, one of the better “Rap” releases of the year for sure, but I dont know If I would consider it HipHop Though. Nothing against Em, dude got flow and bars, but callin him the GOAT is pure disrespect. And this BS has to stop, why do we keep allowing White Media to tell us who they think is theBest , or Hottest HipHop artist is, why did we even start caring about their opinions, Nas one of the greatest hands down No Grammys, but I bet my life Macklemore wins next year. Not a racist, at all, the truth is there.
White media has never determined who the best in Hip Hop is nor do record sales determine it. As much as I hate to give the Underground/Street credit, they often can weed out the non-sense from the media and determine who the best rappers are. Anyone who knows will say that Eminem gets tons of love in the street but rarely is he consider the best.
not a great album k dot’s good kid maad city is far better than this shit and the track ‘love game’ proves that who is the hottest right now
yep eminem
Tops MAYDAY and RA’s for album of the year.
stop dickriding k.dot that dude is good but still have a lot to prove
Good album, I love how he put his rhymes together now, his style is catchy.
Just decent album…
lyrically its good… productions is questionable. Pusha T’s album was dope.
yeezus and nwts is trash.
all that ‘dying blonde hair again / making a sequel to his best work’ hype was bullshit
this album is mediocre as fuck
em stay losing
Yeah, I’m sure his album sales next week will really be a huge loss
Have about 10,000 seats lil buddy
bet your black lol
Lol & what are you doing with your life as you typed that? FOH dude.
wait so you have to be black to not like Eminem? lol
Closet racist saying only blacks don’t like this album WTF is going on LMAO
HipHopDx listen to the album for a week or two, then write a review. Not right when it’s released you won’t hear it’s full potential. On a side note, i think too many people are hating on Eminem for the changes made to his rhyming. Honestly, it’s a fucking genius timeline that shows his evolution of what he was, became in his rise to fame, his fall with some albums. In my opinion MMLP2 is a great finale to what was, what has become, and what is now done. you can’t go on forever, Too many rap artists put after song after song. What’s it good for if it’s never new anymore, a proper discography does that justice. Just saying, overlooked because people had expectations. No expectations the album is quite the enigma of albums in the past 5-7 years.
mac miller’s watching movies… >>>>>>>>>>>>>> eminem’s mmlp2
Even on his worst day Em shits on that lil monotone fuck lol
I think it’s dope!
it is apart from 5 tracks
Fixed sentences: Too many rap artists put out song after song with not enough time inbetween and similarities to those songs. Because they were made so close together in time it can a amazing outcome or a bad one.
Just saying MMLP2 is overlooked with too many expectations of something it should’ve been, because people face the facts. Our satisfaction towards artists as they age can change greatly if you want a particular style or emoting portrayed. More Rap on MMLP2, some money talk, barely drug references. Seem’s authentic and unoriginally orignal as a album revisitation. NOT A SEQUEL! As state bye Eminem himself it’s a “revisitation” . Get it Yoo
Say what you want about Eminem,but his skill set puts him in a league of his own. Dude flows with more creative juice and technique than anyone else in the business. It’s not even close and this album is just another shining example of his domination.
apart from
parking lot bullshit skit
berzerk
rhyme or reason
so much better
so far
stronger than I was (so gay lol)
its a great album
5 outta 5 bitch
BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR. THERE IS NO COMPETION OR DEBATE. PERIOD. 5/5 FOR SURE.
GOOD ALBUM EM THE KING 4 LIFE FUCK ALL HATERS
listened to it bout 10 times(delux),rearranged the tracklist and cut it down to 15 songs….great piece of hiphop lyrical art,still only figuring out some of the punchlines at this point,they fly over your head. Listen people! that new epidemic albums the shit too.peace from ireland
fucking wack ass punchlines.
Meaning you didn’t get half of them??? This album Em used a lot of play on words like “your witnessing a massacre like a church gather and take place looking boy” and I can’t figure out if Em was dissing Canibus or Dizaster on rap god, maybe both… The line about him flipping through his old catalog just to keep up with his competition had me rolling for 20 min…
I see the stans are out in full force.
yall buggin man, this shit is 2/5 max
its mathew mitchell,stan’s dead
Lohen you are daym right! 2/5 max
Maybe for Em this is a 2/5, but for any other rapper minus like 3, this would be there classic.. Em like Tiger Woods has set the bar so high it’s hard for themselves to reach it.
Rap album of the year. Too many great songs……starts off kinda slow, but by the time you get to Rap God or Berserk u know its tight album. 5/5 for me.
This album will be another Grammy worthy epic hip hop album! Hail King Mathers!
fireeeee
Emienem killed all stupid swag faggots
Somebody explain to me how ‘Baby’ is not on the actual CD?
Best song he has done in 10 years.
In fact all the deluxe should have been on there and that buckshot joint.
Delete 4/5 garbage songs on the main album and you have a 4/5
the album is freakin dope but its a shame that em got murdered on his own shit by kendrick
DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Shit’s wack
Fuckin dope album
his best album since TES…now is is better than TES? No…however it is masterpiece sequel to a masterpiece…his lyricism is excellent, I love the beats and the production is amazing well…it is solid release from front to back
ya know what kills me? Being called a Stan for loving Em’s shit…Lohen why you have to be so simple minded with such a statement like that?
Relax Stanley…Is that better?
great lyricist, shitty music as always.
Exactly, Half the time he’s not that great lyrically. people give him to much credit.
No poppin Molly’s, sellin drugs, or twerkin….no blacks are gonna buy this
Like you know any black people
I know you’re black because of the horrible grammar…Was that an interrogative sentence?
I know that you’re white since you only talk tough on the internet #BOOM
I bet you had to look that word up. Haha nigs gotta use sound effects as a hashtag #You’re a loser
Terrible review of an incredible album! Start to finish its just an amazing listen. I cant decide after listening all morning to the deluxe album which is my early favorite? Em flexes his lyrical prowess with deep introspective bars like only he can. Stop hating, sit back and enjoy a fucking masterpiece bitches! I wasn’t expecting it to be this good actually after the leaks, which I think kills the album experience now a days. Im blown away by this album honestly!!! 6 stars ffs!
how you guys can listen to all that SINGING, TERRIBLE HOOKS…any other rapper you would be calling this POP
To Jeezy
do you know that Jeezy’s biggest record came when Akon (a pop singer) got on his hook??? Soul Survivor… Look it up..
My point is, they all use it. It’s what catches the ear of most people who listen to music.
SICK!
I hate the production the hooks/features too much singing
If any other rapper made songs with so much singing people would be calling this pop or trash but now Eminem makes it no problems????
Co-Signature
singing people… Dude go back to school!!! Em didn’t even get passed the 9th grade and can still use the English language better than you.
Singing is on less that a quarter of the album, but once again you must be a woman, cuz women only listen to the hook
At least that’s what Em and Jay z told me in the song syllables.
Awesome sequel
Ems bigger than just rap genre bonehead! Hes multiplatform and owns popular music. That’s why were here talking about him. Hes mainstream w the few radio songs he engineers to sell spins and albums but the resta the album hes says whatever he wants. he actually says that in the album if u listened to it. Its all quite genious really. Im blown away w the album. Fuck haters!
few Radio songs? Most of the albums has some pop shit singing
You mean records, albums mean more than 1 CD. Not true though either. Rihanna, Skyler, That guy from Fun, and one other I’m blanking on over 21 tracks… 4 outta 21 is less than a quarter of the CD. But I’m guessing your a woman, cuz like Em and Jay Z say in the song Syllables: “All women listen to is the hook”
Brilliant
Your not hearing it right I guess? if u don’t like it that’s ok too. Maybe its so well done it mostly sounds radio to u? I hear bits of old marshall all the way up to now..hes never fell off only gotten better really. Never changed. After a decade ppl still don’t realise hes been telling everyone fuck off and done what hes wanted the whole time w most ppl running to the stores or downloading off iTunes the day his shit drops. I especially love the rock samples on this! Classic..like in 10 years u will still enjoy listening to it! Well not u jeezy. and jeezy compared to em is like well…that’s too easy. maybe that’s why u aint feelin this joint? lol
biggie is great but just NO simply no im sick of the biggie and pac stans on their dicks because they died. go to listen to biggies fast ass monotone mono-syllable rhyming bullshit until those TWO albums finally, if ever get old to you lmao….
Nas, em, tech9, (old) jay z, AZ, RAKIM, k-rino, chino xl, big l, big pun, RA, krs1 JUST TO NAME A FEW ARE WAYY WAY BETTER RAPPERS AND LYRICISTS GET IT THRU YOUR FUCKING HEAD!!
You lie like a whore on her back
sorry all you eminem followers and generic clones. MM2 is weak as fuckk. weak beats and too many rock samples, too much singing. you cant deny that. dosnt even feel like a rap album. watered down pop music for fools that dont know real hip hop. new papoose hoodie season mixtape is crazy. real rap not corny pop music for brainwashed robot conformist pansies.
Only writing this so I can rate this album a 1. It’s a 2.5/5 in my book, but since so many people’s vision of hip hop is so convoluted, I’m rating it a 1 to balance out all of the 5’s. If you think this is a 5 you seriously need to hop off Em’s schlong.
Yes Em is good in comparison to other mainstream artists. But, mainstream hip hop is an absolute disgrace to the genre and it’s following is full of narrow minded people.
Where does Em come into this you ask? Well, Em is a mainstream artist who can’t escape the hole that is mainstream hip hop music. It’s easy to make. All Em has to do is write a couple decent verses and get some female figure head to sing a hook. Em lacks creativity. His music lacks diversity.
Em can rap. He can’t write songs.
In short, compared to what’s going on in mainstream music nowadays, this album may appear to be a 5 to you. But there are so many amazing artists who don’t get any attention (because they don’t care about fame) who can both outrap and outwrite Em everyday of the week.
not a great song writter, you are high.
Musical perception often amplifies when high. So your argument is pretty much null.
Not a song writer??? Really?? Isn’t this the same guy who wrote Stan, Loose Yourself, Kim, Toy soilder, and I know I’m forgetting some.. This album may not have his best song writing on it, but Headlights and Bad Guy are pretty introspective and good stories. Again, I don’t get what people are expecting from Em.
Damn!!!!! The hate is too much. Haters Vs Stans. The war continues……Lol
Agree, but Stan died, and he keeps winning the war… LOL how does that work???
To the haters: Chill out, if you don’t like it don’t listen. You probably don’t even know what your fighting about any more…
To Stans: Chill out, not everything is Em’s greatest ever. The album is really good, better than the past 2 or even 3, maybe it’s better than SSLP but no where close to MMLP1 or TES. Not that it has to be.
Does Stephen King wright the same scary book everytime, no it’s all just a little bit different.
Roman,
I can honestly say this is one of the only reviews I’ve read from you that I would say is just “off”.
It’s all opinion, and I went in to the album with the same mindset (especially after Bezerk being the single). But in a weird way, I think it actually fits well into the album.
The theme of the album is similar to Marshall Mathers LP ( as opposed to Slim Shady LP and Eminem Show). I don’t think he meant to carry on any of the stories or do sequels to the songs. I don’t really know how to explain it, but it just gives a similar feel (obviously not as good, but similar).
I do, however, agree with the notion of Eminem trying too hard sometimes to show off his technique. But, I wonder if this album is something that will be appreciated (and studied) maybe 5 or 10 years from now – probably the same way that Yeezus will be.
In all, I think you are a little too harsh on the review even though you do back up your points well. I think albums like this and Relapse are showing Eminem at his technical best. Not favorite, “top of his game,” or overall best. But mechanically speaking, nobody can really touch his ability.
Not a great album (so far after three listens). Not a classic. Not comparable to Marshall Mathers LP. But a very, very good album and will be getting plenty of spins.
4/5 stars
Dope Album. Sorry haters.
MMLP is till Slim Shadys best album. Hope Dre and 50 give us better.
Bad guy
Parking lot
Rhyme or reason
So much better
Survival – good for live shows.
Legacy
Berserk – good for live shows
Rap God
Brainless
Strong than I was – Em proving he can sing too…reminds me of halies song
Monster – commercial shit to market the album
So far
Love game
Headlights – most introspective.
Evil twin
Baby
Desperations – The hook reminds me of classic blues.
Beautifully pain – my fav. Soulful with deep, deep introspective lyrics
Wicked ways.
That’s how my playlist is like. That’s 19 tracks with at least 15 great – classic joints. Sometimes I wonder if the ones hating actually listened to the album or just skimmed through it. Solid job, Marshall ?
For all of those that need to be educated on the culture and the lifestyle that is hip hop, or for those that want a review from someone who is passionate about hip hop and its legacy.
This album is a 3.5/5 for me, can’t say its bad, but its not close to the album of the year (No Poison No Paradise, Twelve Reasons to Die (and Twelve Reasons to Die: The Brown Tape), Czarface, Abrasions, 360 Waves, York, 13, Legends Never Die, Albert Einstein, Run the Jewels, ESGN, The Kitchen, Highway Robbery, Old, Get Home Safely, Gods in the Spirit, The Nights Gambit, Yessir Whatever, Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent) but it definitely wasn’t bad.
That being said, I wouldn’t say that Eminem lived up to his standards, with his technical skill far outpacing his skill as a writer of compelling stories. Maybe he needs to write out his stories before writing his rhymes, I don’t know his process, but I am sure it would make for a more coherent song. I also don’t really dig the hooks, maybe he could go call and response or just let the beat play.
Speaking of which, his beat selection is not that great either, as it does seem a little disjointed and doesn’t bring out the range of emotions that some other albums I have listened to have. Obviously not everyone will agree with me on that, but in my mind, that seems to be the case. The fact that I give this a 3.5 really comes down to how well Eminem works with rhyme schemes, which is the one thing he is outstanding at (whereas he is somewhere between above average and good at everything else, and below average in beat selection), and it does show, especially on Rap God for example, where his sound really brings me back to some of the rhyme schemes Treach used on Yoke the Joker, which are incredible.
I mean, as a cultural icon, it makes sense that Eminem will try to pander to public opinion to an extent. That being said, he would be better served making a concept record, or an intellectually fueled record, allowing him to use his full range of talents (which are considerable but heavily overrated) instead of having to simplify his music. Overall, not bad, but Eminem really had to simplify his style, and that took a lot away from what he had to offer.
Also, before anyone brings it up, sales does not determine quality of an album, only popular appeal (hence pop music), I like Em, but the “his sales are the best” argument is retarded, if you want a good hip hop album or just want to hear good rapping, just find something you like, just because it is popular, doesn’t mean its good (this was a passable album, not even close to great however)
Didn’t you hear the last round meat head, pay attention you’re saying the same thing that Roman Cooper said.
you do have valid points on the beats, but I don’t get why you don’t think it’s a great album? You do realize that people saying it’s album of the year are meaning from what they’ve heard, nobody’s really heard of any of the albums you listed. They may be better than this, but if a tree falls in the woods and nobody’s around does it still make a noise???
I appreciate the time you took to write that all out but this is my way of saying I utterly disagree with you on this. From what most people think of when they say hip hop or rap (Drake, Wayne, Ross, ect) this passes all of them by miles. That in it self makes it great, it’s just not his (em’s) greatest stuff.
Don’t see what I said that was similar, I said that he should focus more on rapping. Also, hip hop is about the music, who cares about how much exposure an album gets. I agree that this is way better than most mainstream hip hop, but that isn’t saying much. As I said, its a passable, solid, even sometimes good, but you can’t just go and call every album great. That is a title that is reserved for only a handful, a notch below classic albums, and this is two or three notches below, maybe four on a bad day. That isn’t bad, but at the end of the day, this album isn’t nearly the work that Eminem is capable of. I think he is a great emcee, but he really doesn’t live up to his potential often enough/
Ok so its semantics than. To me Classic is the level I put certain albums on, Illmatic, The blueprint, all eyes on me, ready to die, MMLP1, ect.. Great to me just means it’s way better that what you hear out there. Those albums, I call decent or ok.
I actually ended up liking the album ALOT more than I initially thought I would.
It’s just a mix of cool sounds and sick flows. And I just realized after hearing Bad Guy like 3 times, it’s in the perspective of Mathew, Stan’s little brother who Em blew off years ago, coming back to get him. And the beat switches on So Far… Just bring nostalgia, this isn’t an exact sequel but it’s still awesome.
GREAT ALBUM EMINEM, FROM GROWING UP LISTENING TO YOUR ALBUMS SINCE I WAS 10 UNTIL NOW (BORN 1990), I CAN SAY I REALLY ENJOYED YOUR NEWEST ALBUM AND I CAN ALSO SAY ITS ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR. BRINGS BACK ALOT OF MEMORIES. THANK YOU.
KING MARSHALL!
Em didn’t want us to compare it to the last one; he said while in the studio the feel of the album gave off the same tone as MMLP1 so that’s where the name came from. Judge this for what it is and not what it is not. Told some good stories, called some people faggots, and put a couple of pump ups on this album what more can we want?
An album that was made for the sake of making dope hip hop, rather than an album that was made for sales (at some point, most albums are made for sales regardless…. i.e. Recovery, most pop rap, etc) Em is overrated as hell right now
Em’s overrated?? Says who??? You don’t hear any rapper or pop artist saying Em’s overrated, so I’m not sure why you think so. Or for that matter why you think you’re opinion is better than everybody else.
50, Dre, KRS 1, Rakim, Chuck D, Kool G, Game, Busta, Wayne, Luda, TI, Jay Z, Nikki M, B.O.B, all have said Em is one of the best to ever do it. you can find the videos on youtube.
i liked it.
I’m supposed to be the soldier, who never blows his composure
Even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders
I ain’t never supposed to show it, my crew ain’t supposed to know it
Even if it means going toe to toe with a Benzino
It don’t matter I’d never drag them in battles that I can handle
‘less I absolutely have to, I’m supposed to set an example
I need to be the leader, my crew looks for me to guide ’em
If some shit ever does pop off, I’m supposed to be beside ’em
That Ja shit, I tried to squash it, it was too late to stop it
There’s a certain line you just don’t cross and he crossed it
I heard him say Hailie’s name on a song and I just lost it
It was crazy, the shit went way beyond some Jay-Z and Nas shit
And even though the battle is won I feel like we lost it
I spent so much energy on it, honestly I’m exhausted
And I’m so caught in it, I almost feel I’m the one who caused it
This ain’t what I’m in hip hop for, it’s not why I got in it
That was never my object, for someone to get killed
Why would I want to destroy something I helped build?
It wasn’t my intentions, my intentions were good
I went through my whole career without ever mentioning *Suge*
And that was just outta respect, for not running my mouth
And talking about something that I knew nothing about
Plus Dre told me stay out, this just wasn’t my beef
So I did, I just fell back, watched and gritted my teeth
While he’s all over TV, down talking the man
Who literally saved my life, like fuck it I understand
This is business, and this shit just isn’t none of my business
I’m still knowing this shit could pop off at any minute, because
Lyrics are from Like Toy Soldiers not Soldier.
My Name Is Soldier. Dumbass
Soldier and Toy Soldier were both songs that weren’t on either MMLP, so you sir, are the dumbass.
uptil I looked at the receipt which said $9310, I have faith that my mom in-law was truly taking home money parttime from their computer.. there neighbour has been doing this 4 only about twentey months and resently paid for the morgage on their appartment and purchased themselves a Lotus Elan. look at these guys WWW FB39 COm
There used to be a time when, you could just say a rhyme and
Wouldn’t have to worry about one of your people dying
But now it’s elevated, cause once you put someone’s kids in it
The shit gets escalated, it ain’t just words no more is it?
It’s a different ball game, you call names and you ain’t just rapping
We actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happening
Me and Dre had sat with him, kicked it and had a chat with him
And asked him not to start it, he wasn’t going to go after him
Until Ja started yapping in magazines how he stabbed him
Fuck it, 50 smash him, mash him and let him have it
Meanwhile my attention’s pulled in another direction
Some receptionist at the Source who answers phones at his desk
Has an erection for me and thinks that I’ll be his resurrection
Tries to blow the dust off his mic and make a new record
But now he’s fucked the game up, cause one of the ways I came up
Was through that publication, the same one that made me famous
Now the owner of it has got a grudge against me for nothing?
Well fuck it, that mothafucka could get it too, fuck him then
But I’m so busy being pissed off, I don’t stop to think
That we just inherited 50’s beef with Murder Inc
And he’s inherited mine, which is fine, ain’t like either of us mind
We still have soldiers that’s on the front line
That’s willing to die for us as soon as we give the orders
Never to extort us, strictly to show they support us
And maybe shout ’em out in a rap or up in the chorus
To show ’em we love ’em back and let them know how important it is
To have Runyon Avenue soldiers up in our corners
Their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is
But I ain’t tryna have none of people hurt or murdered
It ain’t worth it, I can’t think of a perfecter way to word it
Than to just say that I love y’all too much to see the verdict
I’ll walk away from it all ‘fore I let it go any further
But don’t get it twisted, it’s not a plea that I’m copping
I’m just willing to be the bigger man if y’all can quit popping
Off at your jaws well then I can, cause frankly I’m sick of talking
I’m not going to let someone else’s coffin rest on my conscience cause
Damn, I expected so much more.
so good
I would give it a 4.5, but since we cant do that on a here, a 5’ll do fine. I could have done without ‘Asshole’ Rihanna on the Monster and maybe less generic hook singers, but otherwise a solid album.
New Eminem album, same internet reactions:
Eminem fans obsessed with him making it out to be better then it is
Underground doucheballs and Racists making it out to be worse then it is
And so it goes, Blah Blah Blah, same song and dance on the interwebs for the last 14 years
I’d give it a 3.5/5, not great but not bad either, a few memorable moments, some horrid moments as well
agreed…
I’m a huge Em fan, but I kinda agree. It’s not his best work ever, but there’s not a lot wrong with the album either. Beats are a bit weird, but lyrics as always are on point. If you like word play and rhyme schemes you’ll love this, if you’re looking for stadium anthems you get one or two, if your looking for shock value it’s all over the place, but if you’re looking for deep thought and messages, you won’t find it here.
My opinion: Em Show, MMLP 1, SSLP, MMLP2, Recovery, Relapse and Encore, though I though Bad Meets Evil was better that everything on my list after MMLP2
fuck the free world its 313
The review sucked.
This album is for the fans and whether you hate it or love it you gotta respect what this album represents. Every song is not a gem (particularly the singles with the exception of Rap God”) so please dont think I’m a “Stan”. The album has flaws but as a body of work it’s great and I’m personally satisfied…as a fan. We have watched this mans journey from jump street and its no doubt he holds a special place in the hearts of hip-hop heads so to hear MMLP2 is more than just comparing a 41 year old Em to a hungry 28 year old version of himself. Its about witnessing a journey coming to it’s end, and he is fully aware of that end.
I love that he’s speaking on his own contradictions and faults. Thinking about his karma for every insult and how his words have affected people in neg/pos. ways. He is aware of himself not only as a man but of our perception of him as an artist. Possibly the most self reflecting album we have ever heard from him. He comes full circle on this one. One lyric he says “I’m back before it fades into black and it’s all over. Behold the final chapter in the saga. Trying to recapture that lightning trapped in a bottle”.
This album is a revisit as well as a celebration of why we fell in love with him. I like it cuz no matter how it compares to the earlier work, I can tell he put his all into this and the thing is he didn’t have to. The feeling kind of reminds me of how I felt when Jay-Z said he was retiring and released the song “Encore”. That “For one last time I need yall to roar” line comes to mind. I also like how experimental it is lyrically and instrumentally. People complain about that but isn’t that why we liked him in the first place?
Anyway i say all that to say that this album although not the 1st MMLP still holds a very important place in his catalog and as a FAN i have to respect and appreciate what he has done with this project. Here’s to you Shady.
I’m white and eminen a caucus mountains hero we love to listen to his wack shut out here in the mountains lmao
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Best album since “The Eminem Show”. Just as if not better than MMLP 1.
loved the words “to let everyone know that, for the right
price, Rick Rubin will happily make a poor Beastie Boys
impression for you” Because this is obviously what has happened.
Rick Rubin called his Jewish uncles and asked for a favor.
Horrible review. Thanks for being scared to rate it more than 4. DX is trash.
True, the review was shit, I give the review a 1.5
His BEST albums: SlimShadyLP/MMLP1/EminemShow and the MMLP2.
Who?
4.5 stars man. cats automatically hate cuz they cant stand seeing the white boi have ridiculous fuckin skills nd unmatched wordplay and the most (and counting) rap sales of all time.also cuz he surprised with the title so niggas stuck in the past are gona get pissed and not give it a chance sorry haters but its still going and theres NOTHING you can do about it ahahahahaha.
Whoever reviewed this album is a complete idiot…here is proif he just said that on bad eminem was saying he is self aware he is making a moneygrab…HEY JACKASS! The whole song is from Stans little brothers point of view so he is saying it from a haters point of view…your review is invalid go listen to cheif keef or whatever whack music you like cause you obviously dont know wtf you are talking about
MMLP2 > MMLP
dude… jump off a cliff… MMLP2 ain’t got NOTHING no MMLP!!
Solid album, sure its different but that’s not bad…not what I expected but I enjoy listening to it
Best album since “The Eminem Show”, I expected so much more.
I swear muh’f******* are never satisfied. SMH. No his lyrically ability is too complicated? for real? cmon now…who ever reviewed this album clearly don’t like hiphop…his job is to find whatever he think is wrong and talk about it in a manner like he’s fucking sway or Charlemagne or somebody important…acting like this allhiphop.com or something respectable like that.
Co-Sign!!!
What is it that people expect from EM??? What would make you think this was the best ever? For him to talk about selling drugs? He never did that except for weed.
Talk about being ganster? He never was one, and says so all the time.
I just don’t get what people what from him or what there expecting. For example, MMLP1 was his best album, but why? What about it did you like that you’re not getting on this album? If I just heard the same thing all the time I’d get board with it quick!!!
I love this album but it is not in fact, perfect. I could do without The Monster, Love Game. But yeah it’s a 4.25.
It’s funny. At my college we have a Universal Break and there’s a Dj who messes around. Someone recently played Eminem MMLP2 songs and you could tell people were just not into it. But as soon as he played “My Fault” from SSLP, everyone starting laughing and getting into it. From first glance, you could tell he just sounds worn out and boring.
I feel like theres nothing I wanna hear from him anymore. Subject matter wise, he’s washed out. His lyrics seem out of touch with todays youth. Even on “Rap God”, there’s no melody and passion in his rapid flow. He can’t make a good song anymore. All he wants to prove is that he’s the best, by flowing as fast as he can and saying stupid shit. People will swallow his garbage and go “Eminem is real hip-hop”. Eminem has never been “real” hip-hop till SSEP. He’s a mainstream pop rapper. He’s never had Jay or Nas ability to achieve mainstream success, while blowing up in the streets. Remember? Hip-hop the voice of the streets as KRS-ONE used to say?
And Enough with the screaming shit. It doesn’t convey emotion at all.
You just proved yourself a college moron that doesn’t know shit about hip hop. KRS One would tell you the album is incredible and laugh at you
What??????
“People will swallow his garbage and go “Eminem is real hip-hop”. Eminem has never been “real” hip-hop till SSEP”
Till Slim Shady EP?? That was his first real record. So If I read that right your saying Em wasn’t real Hip hop till is first CD… OK Good point.. I guess.
There’s a video of KRS 1 on youtube saying how Em’s 3 am song was so technically perfect it was increadable. Then gave props to Em for staying true to the craft. So I’m not sure what this guy is trying to say..
Oh There’s also videos from Redman, Game, 50, Jay Z, Chuck D, Kool G rap, all saying Em is the shit, and one of the best to ever do it… So I guess they don’t know what they’re talking about huh????
i was really bored so i went back and reviewed every track on em’s albums and got an average score. I thought MMLP2 would rank somewhere around recover/ relapse.
However, it went SSLP – MMLP – TES – MMLP2 – Encore – Relapse – Recovery – Hell: The Sequel.
Which really surprised me i thought Hell was a good album definitely better than recovery, must be the tracks i disliked weighing down the score with only 11 tracks total. Anyway, just thought i’d share maybe really go back and look at his last albums track by track you may be surprised.
This album changed my view of Eminem, he was my favorite rapper before but now he is the god of hip hop in my eyes cuz of this album, he rhyming on this is a combination of all the albums he has done into this one rap beast that no one can even touch, Eminem is a rap god
Album of the year nobody fuckin w em lyrically
Drake and Kendrick outrap Em.
drake is not a rapper, he has not put out a full rap album!
LOL Drake a rapper!!! LOL That’s funny!!!! Drakes rhymes are more of the kindergarten variety. His songs are about as complicated as the 3 blind mice nursery rhyme.
It’s currently his 2nd highest rated album on Metacritic, only behind the original MMLP. Doesn’t get much better than that.
metacritic collectects views from all over, even this site, and averages out the score… so your right, its the best example of how great this album is. i looked it up this is true.
Nope that would be Yeezus
Not talking about Yeezus. No ones talking about Yeezus. I’m referring to Eminems own albums, you know… the highest selling hiphop artist of all time. I hope someone disses him just so we can hear him make another diss track lol. Rip Mariah Carey
Drake has released the best mainstream album thus far this year.
chill. Definitely J.Cole
Nope its def. Czarface
Czarface isn’t even mainstream.
Your opinion I guess, but if there was a betting line in vegas about who’d win album of the year Drake or Em I’d bet my 401K on Em and truth be told, you would too!!!
Great album! Though it’s not as good as the first MMLP. But definitely best album of the year candidate!
AOTY???? With what songs?
Um
No rhyme or reason, Wicked ways, Desperation, Bad guy, Evil Twin, Legacy, Asshole, rap god, So Far, and ground hog day… so that’s 10 amazing tracks. Monster while not the best song on the record will win best song of the year. Em was up for 10 Grammy’s with Recovery, I’m betting he’ll equal that and probably pass it with this album. First comment was right though it’s not MMLP1, but it’s close. PS this is the 40 yr old Em not the 28 yr old em when MMLP came out. He grew up and so did his music.
The album of the year is Black Milk’s No Poison No Paradise, followed by Czarface and Twelve Reasons to Die: The Brown Tape. MMLP2 is decent, but with its subpar production, Eminem’s solid (though rather empty, compared to a lot of other material) rhymes don’t have the backdrop they need to create a good album. This is a solid 3.5 in my book. I respect Em, but he has shown that he is way better than this.
To A Person:
You may be right on Black Milk, but I haven’t heard it and nobody who will be giving awards will hear it. That’s why you see all the comments from ppl saying Em’s the best. Its everything rolled all up into one artist. He may not be the best beat picker, best rapper ever, best story teller ever, but he’s top 5 in most cattigoies hence the best ever. Like in sports when you have points scored, passing yards, rushing yards, total yards, ect. all into 1 formula makes the best. Not just one thing or another.
I see the viewers rating is below the Game’s mixtape LMAO
Better albums: Drake, Mac Miller, Jay Z, Pusha T, K Dot, and yes even Kanye!
MMLP2 is here today gone tomorrow music. MMLP1 is STILL HOT!
this album is so good! Best album of the year
POUND CAKE by Drake and Jay Z shits on any song on this album.
GKMC is superior as well.
Mac Millers WATCHING MOVIES WITH THE SOUND OFF is way harder than this.
WOW.Kill yourself. You gotta be 12 years old to be this retarded
Hahahahaha. You tickle me troll. Jay Z fell of so hard that he hit his head and started thinking he could still rap.
Great album listening to it know Eminem is back to flowing the way he should be classic album
It is currently his 2nd highest rated album on Metacritic, only behind the original MMLP. Doesn’t get much better than that.
You guys seem to write harsh reviews on albums you rate highly and write gentle reviews on albums that are only so so
man this album makes me feel old. MMLP1 was poppin when I was in HS. And it was, and still is a dope classic. But maybe this new one should have been called Recovery 2. Cuz MMLP2 ain’t touching any of Em’s 1st 3 classics.
what are you on about, lyrically and conceptually this is probably eminem’s best album
nobody is going to care about lyrics if the wack ass delivery sucks and nobody is going to sit through a song if the beats suck.
Woman alert!!!!
Jay Z and Em from Syllables: “women only listen to the hook”
The lyrics are what makes the song, not the beat.
Lol
I give the album a 4.5, and the review a generous 1.5.
Eminem is still as dope as ever, it’s just that the novelty of a good white rapper has worn off.
I think it was pretty good. Nice to see someone be away for a while and still be able to come back and grab attention.
Horrible album
Yet you listen to the whole thing…. LOL Waste of space!!
This is another public service announcement: Slim Shady does not give a fuck what you think, if you don’t like it he will kill you… “any thing else???”” Yea “You’re Mother”
Awesome album.
Great album.
Album o The Year
This has to be the worst review I have ever read! For one thing the lyrics in Bad Guy are rapped as the brother of his insane fan Stan from MMLP! So that comment about he using this as a publicity stunt was a DUMB insinuation. Obviously you do not understand the concepts of each song. That song is brilliant as is most of the songs. yes there is some filler but EM does not need publicity to sell albums!!! He a Genius and a RAP GOD!
but Eminem wrote those lyrics…
@dang124
Dude listen to the song, Em says it as a joke. it does seem like the review missed the whole concept of the song. Mathew Mitchell… Stan Mitchells little brother… The one who got that autograph on that starter cap, in Denver!!!
Sorry, couldn’t help myself. Denver is where I live, had to put that in..
The album is an incredible piece of Hip Hop history. Figures people would hate on good rap. Half you faggots only bump the beats and choruses anyway. Too stupid to appreciate genius bars when you hear em.
Not like you even know what a BAR is anyway.
You sir, know exactly what you’re talking about. Most these niggas like that french montana bullshit lmao.
People saying the album sucks are just haters or really haven’t listened to the album….this shit is so solid and is like a summary of all his work, he put so much effort into it….the only thing that could’ve been better is some of the hooks…other than that solid…4.6/5
This album is a 3.5/5, solid, not great, beat selection is average to below average, hooks are below average, lyrics are above average but not great, and technical skill is very good, but just shy of great. Eminem is obviously a talented artist, but he just doesn’t put together complete tracks, and his storytelling ability is not as compelling as it could be if he put more time into crafting the story of the track, rather than his super complex but not as meaningful rhymes (they are impressive, but he tries to rhyme like that too often, he needs to find a narrative voice rather than just showing off his considerable technical skill.)
Your welcome Eminem
Funniest comment I’ve seen on this site all day!!!!
sdf
Yo, out of curiosity, how would you compare Eminem to Rakim? because last I checked, Rakim was the GOAT. Also, Em bit Treach’s flow, not that it’s bad, but it’s plainly obvious if you listen to say, Yoke the Joker.
I wouldn’t say Em bit Treach’s flow, but he was certainly influenced it. Em even said that Treach influenced him (and mentioned Yoke the Joker specifically) in Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap.
Taking influence from other artists is what up and coming artists do. You’re also acting as if he only has one flow.
It just sounds scary similar, that is all it really was, was trying to stir up some of his dickriding fans, lmao
The Rakim comment is an opinion. I wouldn’t put Rakim in my top 5, I think Big Daddy Kane is better. Kendrick was heavily influenced by Eminem and it’s obvious yet he’s killing almost everyone today.
It’s a tribute to Trech… Go watch the art of rap with Ice T, Em off the top of his head goes off singing a Trech song saying how it changed his life.
Also, Rakim has said if Em was black he’d be the bigger than he is now… saying he (em) is one of the best to ever do it. video can be found on youtube.
Great album must get its incredible.
This album was way above average but certain songs & some of the production choices keep it from getting to great with me. You can really sense the the urgency to make a radio hit with a couple of tracks on here like “Stronger Than I Was” & “The Monster”, which I consider the worst songs on the album (And honestly his whole catalog). Some songs on the album just didn’t sound right because of the instrumentals. Songs like “Berzerk” & “Love Game”(Which was my most anticipated song on the LP) took multiple listens to grow use to & songs like “Rap God” (Even though the lyricism is too dope) just takes away from it’s replay ability. Not to stay on the negatives, MMLP2 is at it’s highest when the lyrics are from how he feels & the beats aren’t too left field. “Bad Guy” possibly one of the biggest standouts is not only a lyrically tour de force but also a sequel to “Stan”, One of Em’s best songs. MMLP2 is possibly Em’s best album since his hiatus but it never really reaches Em’s early lyrically heights & certain production choices keep the album down. 3.5/5
I dont mean any offense but i bet most people who think this album is good are probably white or young. a lot of white people that i know love eminem regardless of what he drops. some of them dont even listen to hip hop at all, and will tell me that eminem is the best rapper. younger people or people in general who started listening to eminem late ( post outsiders, lyricist lounge 2, D12, slim shady LP ) have his weaker catalogue to compare his music to, so they dont really know better. the production on his albums get worse each release. If you like this, you are a dick rider and are delusional. Im the biggest wutang fan and did not like “iron flag” and thought “8 diagrams” was ok. it hurts because that is my favorite group, but im not a dick rider…
agreed, 3 years ago I was at a concert at comerica park that had eminem,jay-z and B.O.B. It was almost like everyone in my section either didn’t know who Jay-z is or didn’t know any of his songs
Age is no excuse, we have the internet. But anyway, I’ve been listening to Eminem since i was 6 and I’ve heard all his material even Soul Intent. I think this is a killer album. He’s not what he was 14 years ago but who is??? It’s fire. IMO
ever heard of main stream rap music?? notice how the majority of them suck to people that actually know music? lol Eminem is CLEARLY untalented but he makes so much much money because ALL of his fans are retarded and brainwashed by the mainstream media…he doesnt give a fuk about his fans lol… all the fans are doing is supplying his pocket with cash that he always raps and yaps about…
2pac on the other hand he never changed he was hungry when he sold over 80 mill and NEVER SOLD OUT!!
Dont get me wrong, its better than all of that drake rap, twerk music, 2 chainz stuff out there, but at the end of the day, its not good. im not a hater either because thats what people will say to rush to his defense because i actually like dude personally. but i think eminem got weaker because dr. dre got weaker and their chemistry isnt as good as it used to be. now you have eminem doing songs with more random producers, and the chemistry and quality still isnt there. A newer eminem song on “alchemist’s – chemical warfare” showcases him at his best when he has the right chemistry with the beat and producer
The Stans will be out in full force calling this album a classic, it’s not but it’s new so I like it better than recovery for now. 4/5
Wasn’t feeling the album at first, but I’m into it now and the deluxe tracks are fire.
best album out
Eminem put the best cd out not that garbage Drake,2 Chainz and Kanye and Lil wayne shit u kids don’t know real rap these days
Did the reviewer here completely miss the point of Bad Guy? It’s from the point of view of Matthew, Stan’s little brother. Nothing to do with his mother or father.
Stan:
“Remember when I met you in Denver”
“You could have signed an autograph for my little brother, Matthew”
“Here’s an autograph for your little brother, I wrote it on this starter cap”
Bad Guy:
“And here’s your Bronco hat, you can have that shit back cause they suck”
“Eminem killed by M&M, Matthew Mitchell, I’ve even got your initials”
“Big bro this is for you”
yeah the reviewer is clueless, I was expecting more from this site.
King Mathers
I mean God ^
Perfect
What a TERRIBLE review!! I’m not gonna even give my opinion of the album but the reviewer doesn’t seem to understand a lot of the concepts and references. Hearing little throwbacks added in to nearly every song was genius, having Stan’s little bro on the track, the ‘Criminal’ ending skit, the song about Kim, etc….the list goes on. Terrible review
the bonus tracks are a saving grace.
this album is stra fuckin fire from bad guy to wicked ways
only tracks that couldve been better are the radio tracks
besides that this is real hip hop lyrical domination nobody is fuckin wit em
not cuz hes white lol thats so ignorant but bcuz hes the fuckin most unique dope MC
mmlp2 4.7/5
you lot doing know rap
Rap album of the year
mad!
this album needed some Christopher Reeve references to be a sequal
This album is so sick! easy 4.5-5/5
Biggest disappointment of year
lol… hater
The album is dope, the bonus CD 2 with 5 tracks has more good songs than ur fav rapper can put on a whole album
Suck a dick faggot! If you didn’t buy the album shut your mouth leach! Go steal $12 from your mother purse to buy it then say something… I bought it and that shit is WACK! There were 2 songs I didn’t skip through! You lame ass niggas think all this corny ass Hip Pop is hot! SMFH!
#MCHG, Yeezus, and Czarface all shit on this album which says alot lol
Don’t Front on this shit
Bought the Deluxe edition today (yes, I still buy CDs) and I thought it was pretty good. It ain’t no Relapse but better than Recovery.
haha, 2.5/5 review but 4/5 score.
still don’t nothin move but the money
I still dont get how people review a album in a few days or even a week …. gtta really listen to it for a while to form an opinion on a whole project
true
i agree, play the shit over completely like three or four times then u can give it a good review.
”play the shit over completely like three or four times then u can give it a good review.”
so they couldn’t do this in a day or even a week -.-
if you dont think this is the best album of all time then you are just dumb. dont be dumb.
*if you think this is the best album of all time then you are just dumb. dont be dumb.
Don’t be a dickrider. The album is good but it’s not 5/5
Your a dick rider! This album is no where near as good as his 1st 3. Eminem Show was his best album.
nahh MMLP was the best
Really overrated album but its still solid. Bad guy, So Much Better, Legacy, Brainless, Rhyme Or Reason and Evil Twin are the only good songs. take out the pop bullshit and replace them with the deluxe edition tracks and then id give it a 4.5 or 4. Anyway its way better then Recovery or Relapse which were fucking terrible albums. Ems goin back in the right direction.
co-sign
but still Relapse>Encore>Recovery
Solid ass album. I dont know if I would call it classic yet, but there are a lot of great tracks on here. If he took out the hard rock sampled joints and 1 or 2 radio jams and jus replaced them with the bonus tracks Id prolly say it was a classic. No matter the beat or production Ems flow is highly sharpened on this album. His clever use of words, insane use of Iambic pentameter, and lyric superiority is unmatched at this moment in hiphop. I wont say I could listen to the whole album all the way through, but it definitely is a hit if you ask me. All he needed to do was slim it down and cut out some of the bs tracks.
4.3
touche
Co-sign.
Rick Rubin produced tracks are definitely the worst on this album IMO. So far and Love Game for example..But if you forget the 3 or 4 bad tracks and replace them with some bonus ones intstead, this album could really have been on another level. Unfourtunately, we still have to take the few bad songs into consideration when rating an album.
That being said, it personally tops his LAST 3 albums IMO. Best return to form since his comeback. We can find Eminem produced tracks like “Brainless” “So Much More” and “Baby” which could have been snatched right off The Eminem Show…
Basically we have some classic old Eminem we all know which we haven’t heard in a very long time. And we have some of the more current Eminem, all of this mixed together.
This album covers and reflects his whole body of work..It may not be a classic, but if we consider the bonus tracks included, this album diffinitely is his best work and his closest return to form which we haven’t heard in a very long time.
If you look at songs like “Baby”, i swear this could have been pulled right off The Eminem Show. It is nice to see EM back on the Chorus and produce some of his own material. Just wish it had more of those kind of tracks to replace the few garbage ones he included on this album..
I really didn’t think he still had it in him, although this album doesn’t seem to have a clear style or direction, we have different style of songs with some making us remember the old EM and others making us appreciate the new him.
Although it is pretty obvious that his flow or his storytelling and ideas aren’t what they were in his prime, if we rate this album as it is and we stop comparing it to his classic, it is a remarkable album.
I will give this album an 8.5/10 and put it as his 4th best album.
am i the only one who thinks Relapse was better than this?
close call , alot of people actually liked Relapse
Relapse had better beats but this had better lyrics, so i dunno….
yea he really needs to use Dre again…
dope….
GREAT it is not better than recovery tho
lol pop fan . Recovery is his worst album
Encore was his worst imo
Encore was bad but atleast it didn’t have those bullshit beats together with horrible hooks and him screaming at every track.
The beats on Encore were way worse aside from like 3 of them, the hooks were beyond terrible, and his druggy flow was way worse than Recovery.
Recovery – 7.6/10 (almost an 8 if you include deluxe tracks)
Encore – 2.5/10 (maybe a 3 if deluxe are included)
MMLP2 is better than both regardless.
Eminem is a fucking pussy now what the fuck happen to bass brothers dre fuck even kon artist mediocre beats maybe alchemist I mean these commercial bullshit jewy beats on MMLP2 blow fuck this cd and fuck you eminem from one of your earliest fans
Legacy gives me life. Best Em track i’ve heard since “Lose yourself”
Love ya Em!
Great album, not such a great review. It’s sad to see hip-hop album reviewers who cant even properly interpret an album’s lyrics or songs and then dismiss them by calling it “technical hubris”.
Mr. Cooper—“on Bad Guy, the albums intro track, Em rhymes, And hey, heres a sequel to my Mathers LP / Just to try to get people to buy / Hows this for publicity stunt? This should be fun / Last album now cause after this youll be officially done.” He then claims eminem is calling his own album a money-grab.
What eminem is acually doing here is talking in Mathew Mittchel’s voice(Stans little brother), he is in the process of attempting to murder eminem in revenge for his brother. He is mocking eminem, this is not eminem speaking, this is also why he says you’ll be officially done.
Don’t even waste your time, the guy who wrote this big piece of shit review has no clue and probably hasn’t even listened to the album.
this is better than recovery
Pretty solid album
Great album, love all the songs on it, including the bonus disc. I’ll have this in my car until that new lupe fiasco comes out! Classic songs though, better than the firsts mm lp for me. Peace.
“from a proclaim stan since 99″….after numerous listens since last week…not deluxe.
PROS
Wordplay/Flow——-syllables construction for the bars hes spit—outstanding
Mixing—-I appreciate the mixing involved….the blending/scratching/voice overs was dope…..especially on “so far…”
Everysong is saved with his 3rd verse..
Legacy—-best song on album (my opinion)
K-Dothad no problem staying with Em, concept and all
.deep exhale
CONS
Title itself——another name (i.e Middle-Aged Slim Shady 2013) would have been a better title. Im guessing many stans (myself included) expected to hear a where Mr. Mathers head/mind is at in 2013..been a millionaire/icon/celebrityoff drugsdeath of proof/other D12 membersowning a label.the rap game itself.etcin a more serious way..MMLP I heard a man, not the outrageous character, dealing with a suddenly crazy life.thisis.nota.sequel.of that same man..
(SMH) The bars——–no matter how you cut it—–hes saying a lot of corny shit in between those syllablesif it wasnt so frequent I could allow it
The production——-no one in the world can convince me that this album has a hip-hop sound..no Dre, Bass Brothers (WTF!!!..woulda took even a G-Unit producers)..I can not say I nodded my head to any beat in a week..more so than not it was his flow..too many guitars/not enough bassWAY TO MUCH SINGINGjust a huge let-down all around production wise
The songs——–every chorus was HORRIBLEI mean holy shit thats bad…eveyone of them..and while some songs to me felt like this should be on MMLP 2 bcuz of the bars (Legacy, Rap God, LoveGame, Evil Twin only ones to me that really do to me)..that only 4..the other 12 songs are pretty forgettable and I doubt anyone would list them in their top 20 songsbut he still salvages what he can in the 3rd verse of each one
SO
To the die-hard stans——–this is nowhere near as impressive as it should be considering the title.good or bad this man has set a bar for himselfand if he doesnt clear it, let it be knownif you think he has though.seriously compare the two MMLP..
To the haters——–keep hating..hes still legend whose nicer/doper/all around better then who you think can rapnot whose HOT BUT LIKE ACTUALLY RAP/SPIT/DROP KNOWLEDGE/DROP SCIENCE..
For meI just needed vent because of the way he’s change my listening music & BARS and cant compromise because hes still in my top 5 ……so 2.75/5 for me…..and his last 3 albums..BME>>>>Recovery(cuz of Relapse & Encore)>>>>MMLP 2
walk-out page think———–if only he was on party drugs again.not that medication shit, this could have been..ahh oh well.at least hes clean though
Too long didn’t read.
Now GTFOH faggot, no one csres about your shitty ass opinion you nobody.. The day you can release an album half as good as this maybe, just MAYBE you can start to hate.
^ wow, so unless someone’s in the same field of work they’re not allowed to criticize? I guess that means I can’t say anything about a movie a thought was horrible, or a dish made by professionals in a restaurant and I guess I shouldn’t say anything opposing politicians either.
Why don’t you GTFO? Obviously this guy’s not a hater, he’s offering constructive criticism highlighting what he thought the pros and cons of the album were. He even said he was a stan.
But you’re obviously a dick rider, without even reading this mans opinion you tell him to f off because you can’t stand to have anyone criticize Em even if they’re right.
I agree with the views of this dude. I think if Em got rid of the choruses it would be a whole load better.
He could’ve called it Encore 2 (it has a similar vibe production-wise) and I would’ve thought it was an improvement.
In summation it is nowhere near his first 2 albums, probably not as good as the eminem show and defo way better than anything since then. So not a bad job.
The Rick Rubin produced tracks are definitely the worst on this album IMO. So far and Love Game for example. But if you forget the 3 or 4 bad tracks and replace them with some bonus ones intstead, this album could really have been on another level. Unfourtunately, we still have to take the few bad songs into consideration when rating an album.
That being said, i consider a big part of this album to be his best return to form since his comeback. We can find Eminem produced tracks like “Brainless” “So Much More” and “Baby” which could have been snatched right off The Eminem Show. And we have many true gems which i won’t bother listing right now.
This album has some classic old EM and some of the more current Eminem, all of this mixed together.
Basically this LP covers and reflects his whole body of work..It may not be a classic, but if we consider the bonus tracks included, this album difinitely is his best work and his closest return to form in a very long time.
If you look at songs like “Baby”, i swear this could have been pulled right off The Eminem Show. It is nice to see Eminem back on the chorus and produce some of his own material. Just wish it had more of those kind of tracks to replace the few garbage ones he included on this album..
I really didn’t think he still had it in him, although this album doesn’t seem to have a clear style or direction, we have different styles of songs with some making us remember the old EM and others making us appreciate the new him.
It is pretty obvious that his flow or his storytelling and ideas aren’t what they were in his prime, but if we rate this album as it is and we stop comparing it to his classics, it is a remarkable album.
I will give this album an 8.5/10 and put it as his 4th best album.
Absolutely terrible review!! The dumb reviewer didn’t even understand the concepts!!
I quote from other comment:
“Did the reviewer here completely miss the point of Bad Guy? It’s from the point of view of Matthew, Stan’s little brother. Nothing to do with his mother or father.
Stan:
“Remember when I met you in Denver”
“You could have signed an autograph for my little brother, Matthew”
“Here’s an autograph for your little brother, I wrote it on this starter cap”
Bad Guy:
“And here’s your Bronco hat, you can have that shit back cause they suck”
“Eminem killed by M&M, Matthew Mitchell, I’ve even got your initials”
“Big bro this is for you””
HHDX seriously let this moronic Roman Cooper dude review one of the most anticipated albums of the year without even understanding the concept of the very first track??? “Bad Guy” is entirely from the perspective of “Stan”‘s younger brother. So half of this review’s points/observations are misguided. Dissing Rick Rubin too on a hip hop site SMH.. Album is decent, he’s held to a high standard but i still dig most of it. No amazing beats/production, and fuck deluxe versions, just put together the best 12-16 tracks and scrap the rest.
very surprised there was no PSA intro, lameeee
This album is wack as fuck.. he’s fell off after eminem show.. he can rhyme but his songs are corny annoying and bland
Great album was disappointed on first listen but album grew on me.
Co-sign. Listening to it all in one go really helped. I was listening to songs individually and wasn’t feeling it. After listening to the whole album at once, definitely better than my first impressions.
I like the album, I’ve been a fan since day one so I got what I expected. MMLP2 is dope to me, I’ve been reading reviews and everyone in entitled to their own opinion. Personally MMLP was never my favorite Eminem album… The Eminem Show is, but MMLP is a dope ass album and no this one isn’t better than the first one but its not that far from it, lyrically I think this album is better but overall song for song this album isn’t better than the first MMLP. I give it 4.5 out of 5
MMLP2 gets a solid 3.5 from me. I’m pretty neutral on Em, he’s a crazy good lyricist and has great flow, but I’m not the biggest fan of all his work. Still, this album would’ve gotten lower from me, but listening to it from beginning to end as one uniform work really helped my opinion of it. Started strong but ended a little weak, overall a good album though.
On a related note, HHDX needs a third rating other than User Rating and Editor’s Rating: User Rating of Editor. Because this clown who reviewed it would get a solid 1/5. Would be a great way for HHDX to know who to let go.
gotta give the white boy a 5 this shit is off the fuckin chain lyrics is in another league even more on those delux tracks
i always thought slim shady would be the last man standing as he has got unique character, untouchable skills and mad appeals to people
but now look at you slim, seems like your days are gone
Relapse was the only one album that I enjoyed to listen to since TES
Rap Radar (the site co-run by em’s manager) probably has a less bias review than this one, this site fell off a while ago though. Detrimental hyper lyricism? Really? So to paraphrase, eminem’s complex rhyme patterns were to much for this reviewer to keep up with so much like a pre school student trying to do high school work, i was confused and didn’t like it.
What the fuck is hyper lyricism anyway? That’s such a throw-away line. It doesn’t even mean shit. That’s like what a snob says to some shit that he doesn’t get to just feel superior or something.
rgfr
wack album full of outdated beats. He was a better lyricist when he was younger. Its missing punchlines and its schematics are wack.
Disappointing review…The Album is exactly what we wanted.
exactly. for those of us that have been fans of eminem for ages, were with him when he was at the top of his game, when he disappeared, when he came back confused with relapse, when he tried to ‘recover’ and finally grew up. this is perfect.
Co-sign.
Great album
I’ve heard the singles before but I’ve only given the album a quick once over as a whole.
I’m trying not to compare this to the first MMLP, Em said he was only trying to carry the vibe over but unfortunately this album felt nothing like the first and if you take that away there is very little connection between the two.
Filled with ups and downs; some beats were fairly good, others I hated. Lyrically he was great but I have to agree that he sacrificed too much in an attempt to keep his rhyme schemes going in too many places, a couple of songs had good beats but they didn’t match the atmosphere of the tracks, from memory I didn’t like around half the hooks and wasn’t too crazy about most of the features.
Compared to more recent efforts the production was more enjoyable than recovery but relapse still feels like it’s another step ahead.
Em tried too hard with a lot of rhymes and more often than not he ended up coming off as corny instead of cleaver.
Was expecting a lot more from this album and not just because it carries the name MMLP. I sound pretty negative here but there were enjoyable moments and Em still brings his skills to the table, I’d recommend checking it out if you have the time. 3/5
For real, Em shouldn’t have named this MMLP2, I would’ve probably warmed up to it better if it was just named something different. Good review though, you make some good points. Definitely not his best work, but it’s better than most LPs we’ve gotten recently.
So besides the singles, you listened to the album quickly once and you think you can give the album a review? Gtfo.
I Just can’t believe the number of people not even listening to the album entirely at least twice before giving a fuckin opinion about it.
Damn, Anonystan, and I bet Em ain’t even payin yo ass to say any of that. Touchin nerves with honest opinions I see.
I guess a record must really suck mad balls to get lower than 4.0 here. These rating are really ridiculous. And to think this has the same rating as Danny and Quelle this month…
Only liked the first two songs, they reminded me of old Slim. Everything else is just boring. Imo, Recovery was a way better record. At least it had a concept, whereas this one just doesn’t, even if it tries to.
And my god, would somebody please tell Rick Rubin to stop producing hip hop, it’s just horrible. I mean, the sound worked with Beastie Boys, but it’s totally passe now.
Rick Rubin at his worst on this for real. Beastie Boys were good, but he’s done some dope producing with other artists too. I just don’t think he has it in him anymore to do it, though. Time to toss in the towel, Rubin.
Naw, to get lower than 4.0 you just can’t be a big artist. You actually have to be good to get a 4.0 or higher if you’re not popular or unknown.
You haven’t listened to the album have you? Or maybe you gave it a quick listen and decided it was shit, am i right?
If you can’t put aside 3-4 garbage tracks to enjoy some true gems this album has, you are an idiot. This album has songs which are EM’s best comeback to form since the Eminem Show.
How can you even say this album has only 2 good songs in the whole 21 songs on this deluxe album? Even an Eminem hater would admit there is a lot more quality songs than that.
Retards like you shouldn’t even be allowed to rate or comment music on this website when you clearly can’t give an album a fair review.
Some people need to stop expecting a 2000 Eminem to comeback. It was already said that this was a REVISITATION and not a sequel. Yet, idiots like you come in here frustrated and give this album a terrible and exagerated bad review because you were too stupid and lazy to listen to the album for what it is.
You haven’t listened to the album have you? Or maybe you gave it a quick listen and decided it was shit, am i right?
If you can’t put aside 3-4 garbage tracks to enjoy some true gems this album has, you are an idiot. This album has songs which are EM’s best comeback to form since the Eminem Show.
How can you even say this album has only 2 good songs in the whole 21 songs on this deluxe album? Even an Eminem hater would admit there is a lot more quality songs than that.
Retards like you shouldn’t even be allowed to rate or comment music on this website when you clearly can’t give an album a fair review.
Some people need to stop expecting a 2000 Eminem to comeback. It was already said that this was a REVISITATION and not a sequel. Yet, idiots like you come in here frustrated and give this album a terrible and exagerated bad review because you were too stupid and lazy to listen to the album for what it is.
GTfo
Anonystan, you ain’t The Monster under the bed, you da fuckin Monster hidin in Em’s closet waitin for him to leave so you can sniff his drawers. Damn nigga.
Great album!!
yes apart from the tracks ive named
Ffff
apart from…:
apart from
parking lot bullshit skit
berzerk
rhyme or reason
so much better
so far
stronger than I was (so gay lol)
its a great album
On point. Co-sign till death.
Rhyme or reason is my best. So far is good for my kid. Berzerk will literally tear off the roof for live shows.
Ain’t gunna lie, I don’t like Berzerk all that much, but you probably right about that live show part. Could see fuckers gettin down to it when that shit comes on.
Anonymous:
Rhyme or reason is my best
how????? seriously its a shocking track pure thrash
fuck berzerk corny as fuck
Agree that berzerk and stronger then I was are weak but he killed So Far shit is funny as fuck come on listen to it beat changes few times flow changes quality rhymes
Go bezerk
Perfect follow up to mmlp. Great fucking album!
eminem show why he the top 5 rapper of all time
dope bars… weak hooks… ok beats.. 6/10
this is just amazing
Purposely pickin average beats so people can focus on skill instead of production. Not a classic but still better then all the other bs comin out. He must have put together like a million words all together on this album.
purposely picking wack beats????????/ you are a retard
Living legend
its an ok album i’d give it 3.5 out of 5 only because of the bonus tracks the bonus track were better than almost half the actual album tracks and having rihanna on another lp just felt like a repeat of some shit weve heard before for me the stand out tracks are rap god,groundhog day and asshole the worst is def stronger than i was what da hell was dat shit its a better album than recovery at least lol
so far
rhyme or reason
so much better
berzerk
all wack
its a 4.5/5 album. hes back for real
nah more like 3.5/5
Pretty solid album when all said and done
nicely done
Shady is back.
You know, this site is usually kind of a joke to me… promoting wack shit for a paycheck, clueless reviews, but… this one right here?
Nailed it.
I think the biggest detriment to this album is the name. I think because everyone expects this to be like MMLP they don’t just listen to the album and are understandably disappointed on a first listen. It took me three listens straight through to really assess fairly what was on the album and some of the crazy things he was doing. This comes in as my second best rap album of the year behind Born Sinner which was a little more complete in concept
As for MMLP2
Regular edition – 4 out of 5
Deluxe edition – 4.5 out of 5 (I would have moved some bonus tracks to the regular edition…..actually all of them save desperation…which I do like but wouldn’t fit)
And if were rating the technicality of this album 5+ out of 5 (he accomplishes things I can’t see any other artist matching in full
As for the hating on the Rubin production……I thought So Far was just one time too many…..Rhyme and Reason is really well put together, Berzerk is just a sh*t load of fun, and Love Game is a wildly underrated classic…..if So far was taken off the main version and replaced with wicked ways and love game swapped with so much better as far as order, it would have changed the entire tone of the tail end of the album
Yo this album was in point. So sad that it’s em’s last album. End of Bad Guy was depressing. It’s the end of an amazing saga of the most talented rapper ever. Sad to know that there’s nothing new of his to look forward to. Hopefully he’ll drop a freestyle or single or festoon something here and there.
*Yo this album was on point. So sad that it’s em’s last album. End of Bad Guy was depressing. It’s the end of an amazing saga of the most talented rapper ever. Sad to know that there’s nothing new of his to look forward to. Hopefully he’ll drop a freestyle or single or feature something here and there.
Retard, he said the same kind of thing in Recoveryand people thought he would retire. The end of the saga most likely means the end of the MMLP’s and Eminem’s passed self.. Now he’s ready to leave that behind and he feels that he has covered all he wanted on that and now want’s to move forward. Have you even thought about that instead of jumping the gun? He never said he was retiring you dumb cunt.
terrible honestly I’m not writing an essay stand will support regardless.
I bet anybody who really likes this album wont be listening to it in a year from now. I can still listen to the slim shady LP and it will still put a smile on my face. this “recovery 2” album wont stick just like jayz “magna carta” album. This is watered down eminem im sorry, and if you disagree, you just like everything he puts out like jayz fans. hip hop is dumbed down to the fullest, half the people dont notice (sheep) the other half never really liked the art of hip hop in the first place and just maybe like aspects of it. Like a person who watches hockey for just the fighting, nascar for crashes. sure you are watching it, might support it a little, might have an opinion based on the small sample size, but you only really like checking/fighting and crashes, not the sport. so when the sport changes for the worse the people who never really liked it in the first place either wont care/notice or will now start to like it because now the focus is only on that aspect and not the sport.
Retard.
You nailed it!
this album is great
I rate this album 9/10. It’s the best after MMLP2 and the eminem show, in my opinion.
I think this is his best album since The Eminem Show, the lyrics and production are great, Slim Shady is back !
ONE WORD…CLASSIC!!!
ONE NAME…STANLEY
24 hrs after I purchased the album and im still blown away! Love or hate it ppl its not gonna hurt the album sales. 21 tracks on the deluxe edition…chuck a few away u don’t like and u still got an incredible body of work! Em cant rap or produce? He cant write songs?? Hes not hiphop??? hahahaha saying any of those just shows how nave u are. Over a decade on top of the game and he still receives the same lame comments from haters. Keep hating because the rest of the WORLD will be enjoying this! 🙂
no hate bro. if you listen to his last album recovery, then listen to this right after, you will be able to tell that this is subpar. If you dont do that, you wont understand
Lyrics 5/5
Beats 3/5
Survival Bezerk Monster and Stronger than I was should of been replaced with dr.dre and alchemist produced tracks but I guess they for the radio plays.
Its a dope album especially if u got the deluxe one its 21 tracks and loads of them are over 5 minutes long easily worth the money
Flawed but Solid Best Commercial Hip-hop album of the year Eminem is back to top form
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Drake outraps EMINEM????????? OMFG cuz…no wonder u posted anonymous because that’s the most retarded comment I read on here!!!!!!!!!! And Im from Canada…Drake would tell u hes nowhere close to Em, he never will be..ever lol Hilarious. Kenny got skill but he’d tell u hes not even hovering around Marshalls orbit. Not everyones gonna agree but u cant argue w the best selling artist of the last decade faggots :)All your fav rappers would tell u Em is one of the best to ever spit period.
ya recovery is waay better!!
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After a few days with this album, this album is Great. NO LIE. I’m not sure why there is so much hate. With “Bad Guy”, “Rap God” “Brainless” “Love Game” “Evil Twin” “GroundHog Day” “Don’t Front” “Wicked Ways” and “GroundHog Day” (Yes, it’s listed twice because that track eviscerates all other competition), I don’t know what else your MFers are looking for.
There’s not that much hate since it leaked people just seemed to hate the singles at first but the albums getting plenty of love now
the ones who are disappointed of the album should listen closer! the lyrics are insane! don’t condemn the album after the 1st time listening! this album is fucking great!
If this is the standard for great, are all the releases that are better than this classics? Cause last I checked, there were better albums than this that were all around solid, if slightly unspectacular. This is a good album, but to say it is great is a huge stretch
This album is a solid 3.5 in my book, some utterly horrid tracks (3-4 of them), some great tracks (Rap God, Groundhog Day, Berzerk, Bad Guy). An album that is 20% throwaway tracks is automatically a 3.5 in my book, and I can’t call it a classic, because a classic should not have any throwaways. Good album, but as long as there are 4 or 5 throwaways, there is no way this is more than just a solid album release. (Yes, I like Em, No, I do not think he is the GOAT)
5 is the most popular rating. That really says it all. So far 273 out of 389 people gave this piece of shit a perfect 5? Are you fucking kidding me? Everyone and I mean EVERYFUCKINGONE knows damn well that this is not a 5 album. Shady/Aftermath are really doing everything in their power trying to sell this piece of garbage. I bet over half the 5 ratings posted on this site are from employees of Shady/Aftermath/Interscope.
Its the Stans skewing the rating we all know this is a 3/5 on average.
Yea but not 3 come on its a solid 4
I gave it a 4. I think a lot of people are basing the rating off personal enjoyment, not from a critical perspective, because as far as personal enjoyment goes its a 5 for me too.
decent album but not better then yeezus 3/5
Get off of Yeezus’s crown of thorns dick.
Get off of the whiteboys lil penis stanley hopkins
Eminem can rap.
I gave it a 5/5. Truth be told yeah there might of been like 2 songs out of album that were ok. But not to be giving this a 3 or calling this a shit album. I would love to know what most of you people saying this is a bad album listen to.
Right now, Illmatic, later, Paid in Full, Enter the Wu Tang, No Poison No Paradise, Revolutionary Vol 2, York, Gods in the Spirit, Twelve Reasons to Die, Czarface, ESGN, Be, Legends Never Die, The Kitchen, The Final Adventure, Gas Mask, Full Circle, Monumental, The Reset, Donuts, The Preface, Elmatic, The Leftovers Unmixed Tape, I have an endless list. MMLP2 isn’t bad, but there is no way in hell its a 5, its a solid 3.5 (good, but not very good)
5/5?
No. You’re puttin on the level of shit like Illmatic, or even The Eminem Show or Slim Shady LP. MMLP2 ain’t shitty, but it is not on that level.
taken from a commenter RMAC:
PROS
Wordplay/Flow——-syllables construction for the bars hes spit—outstanding
Mixing—-I appreciate the mixing involved….the blending/scratching/voice overs was dope…..especially on “so far…”
Everysong is saved with his 3rd verse..
Legacy—-best song on album (my opinion)
K-Dot had no problem staying with Em, concept and all
CONS
Title itself——another name (i.e Middle-Aged Slim Shady 2013) would have been a better title. Im guessing many stans (myself included) expected to hear a where Mr. Mathers head/mind is at in 2013..been a millionaire/icon/celebrityoff drugs…death of proof/other D12 members….owning a label….the rap game itself….etc…in a more serious way….MMLP I heard a man, not the outrageous character, dealing with a suddenly crazy life.this is not a sequel.of that same man..
(SMH) The bars——–no matter how you cut it—–hes saying a lot of corny shit in between those syllablesif it wasnt so frequent I could allow it
The production——-no one in the world can convince me that this album has a hip-hop sound..no Dre, Bass Brothers (WTF!!!..woulda took even a G-Unit producers)..I can not say I nodded my head to any beat in a week..more so than not it was his flow…too many guitars/not enough bass…WAY TO MUCH SINGING…just a huge let-down all around production wise
The songs——–every chorus was HORRIBLE mean holy shit thats bad…eveyone of them…….but he still salvages what he can in the 3rd verse of each one
(COSIGN TO ALMOST THE FULLEST, he gets a 3.5 because of the DOPE WORDPLAY and care it took to make those verses)
amazing
…..if it was a “revisitation” WHERE WAS THE; PAUL VOICEMAIL, STEVE FROM INTERSCOPE, TRACK 13 GIRL???…
albume khbi bud khosham umad
I give it a 5 just to annyoy you haters lol
i gave it a 1 just to urk the stans
*****
4.5 easy
Ok I get all the hate. But after listening to the whole thing including the deluxe cd a couple times, I call this a 4. Yes its not shady back like we all hoped because of the title of the album. But we will never have that em back. He’s off drugs, he’s not that angry anymore, he’s a new man, etc. The list goes on but it still holds up
The deluxe version pushes it to a 4.5 for me not sure why he didn’t just throw those songs in to the regular album there all sick but at the end of the day happy to see the good reviews cus people seemed shaky at first cus of the singles but he pulled it off
This album was pretty dope. I was listening to the whole mmlp album before I downloaded it just to remember the whole vibe and flows he used, and not goin lie with this album, I can see the connection. Easily by far best album of his recently. He’s got the whitty ass lyrics and rhymes just like the first one. Only problem he has is that there isn’t any songs you could really bump like bitch please and remember me. And the fact that berzerk was supposed to be his nutty fun song was such a let down. Its a good attempt at old school hiphop, but overall compared to real slim shady it aint shit
4 out of 5??????
So it’s only 1/2 a star worse then the slim shady lp or Marshall Mathers lp?
This album is 1 star away from being on level with illmatic, ready to die, doggystyle, 36 chambers, the chronic, life after death, the low end theory, criminal minded etc
Really?
1 star away from being one of the greatest albums ever?
Fuck outta here.
This is hip hop.
Not no fan boy shit.
Eminem Stan’s make hip hop corny.
Eminems a legend and one of the greats but telling him this hot when its not is not hip hop.
^^^^CO-SIGN 100%……..if SSLP MMLP EMS are a general 4-5 all around……no way can this be that close……
Well thank you, Anonymous for letting us know that we are not allowed to like this album. SMH
He never said you can’t like it but throwing around Classic is not one person’s opinion. So the Stan can pretend all they want, when 10 years from now this album will be forgotten about. This is nowhere near Illmatic, Ready to Die, or Reasonable Doubt.
How come the HipHopDX editor’s rating is 4 start when this review reads 3 star?? You know it’s a 3 star album, we all do. Angry white-boy rap is getting old and so is Eminem, this album shows it.
Huge return to form
Weak ass Album
Why all the fuss about this Album
It is just run of the Mill
Period. Same old recycled cliches, irritating voice and mediocre beats
You lames know they are better albums than this, better emcees than this cat but y’all are ostrich’s
Burying your heads in the sand,
Wake up u creeps
Better albums? Yes. I don’t think many people are walking around saying how this is the best album of all time…
Better MCs? No.
Solid album. Not the best Eminem album but good stuff. As an MC Eminem has still got it. Some of the beats are kinda eh. But he has some nice cuts on this.
Good album.
I thought it was dope! Lyrically nobody out right now can match it. Everyone has their own opinions when it comes to music. NOBODY is wrong or right. Tired of comment boards being flooded with fools arguing over what music is good and what ain’t. It’s called personal preferance.
It’s crazy how many small references there are to things he rapped about in the original MMLP
Was it not Slim Shady that you all have pleaded for? Was it not homophobic lines and violent utterance? Yet all was given to you ,spoiled cunts, and are still calling Eminem a pop artist and identifying him as a fallen rapper that has lost his skill, when in reality, it is you Stans that allows nostalgia to blind you from ever enjoying an Eminem album! This album was not a perfect five since it DID have some problems (as most albums have), but it does not deserve a mediocre 3.
My biggest problem with Eminem, his content sounds like it was written by an angry teenager, which was fine at first but c’mon dude your 41 years old. Pretty much every song this dude releases falls into 1 of 3 categories:
1. Angry rant about how much he hates women
2. Melo-dramatic BS about personal shit he already beat into the ground a decade ago
3. Just rhyning a bunch of non-sense together to show us “Hey look everybody, I can rhyme words together!!!”
But its the same way I feel about Korn honestly, the first 3-4 albums were great but teenage angst don’t look good on a 40 year old. He never grew up, he lives in a bubble so he has no new experiences to rap about. 10 years ago he’s screaming about killing his mother, now he’s apologizing on “Headlights”, but at the end of the day, he’s still rapping about the same topic he was 10 years ago and its boring now….. And does a middle aged man still need to dwell on not knowing his daddy??? Jesus Christ dude you got kids about to go to college and you still havent moved past your own daddy issues??? F……O…..H
His flaws as an artist to me go hand in hand with his flaws in personal character. He seems to be a whiny, Immature, middle aged crybaby and its reflected very heavily in his music. If I knew a person who acted like this in real life I’d do everything I was capable of to avoid him.
Em is the best technical rapper in the world. He is also by far the most boring rapper in the world.
My 2 Cents anyway. Last I’m gonna speak on it. If you dug the album more power to you
You’re all over the place with this. Where does bad guy, don’t front, evil twin, wicked days, legacy fit into your music for teenagers opinion? And then when he gets in a deeper level talking bout his mom dying its boring…..ok….what would you like him to rap about?
1st of all the album is really good, people just are stuck in a time warp from 2004 tho, yall gotta accept he grew up and changed. This album is lyrical and not his best imo, I liked recovery most! but I personally think yelawolf and b.o.b are gonna surpass him.
Haters i got a piece of advice for you, Jump off his dick lay off and stay off
Hands down one of the dopest Hip Hop albums ever .. There’s only a handful of those, but this is in there for sure .. Most of y’all won’t get it for a few years sadly while those that do will live in Hip Hop bliss
Stan I know its you stop trying to fool us….LOL
Bro your the same clown calling everyone who liked the album a Stan..fucking troll
No Stanley there are 100’s of us calling all you dick riders Stans.
Nope. It’s just you.
Not really different from his last two albums where he got real emotional, guest starring pop/”alternative”(Skylar Grey) songstresses that really don’t compliment his style as a hip hop artist. I just feel his appeal is to whiny outcast types that usually listen to Incubus, Sublime, P!NK, etc, tend to motorcross, do meth, where wallet chains… See where I’m going with this. I don’t see why he beefed with Juggalos he damn near appeals to the same people. Or maybe the ones that are too afraid to be juggalos. Juggalos-lite because they are drawn to the rampant emotionality strewn through his albums over the years. I understand the expectation of him to appeal to a broad pop audience, but he’d be better served as an artist to try yo display his lyricism more often that this contrived drek. The samples used were to recognizable and just weren’t flipped hard enough for my taste to not be as bland as they came off. I really don’t understand Skylar Grey’s presence. She doesn’t have a good enough voice even for here alt rock crowd that she is probably supposed to appeal to. Heard her music, it is a commercial facimile of whatever is supposed to pass for alternative in this day and age anyway. It may just be some of the expectations I had for MMLP2 to return to for but when I think about it, it was pop driven as well. The MMLP’s beats were that fresh in the first place and it was mostly controversy driven. I only see what he could’ve been as a rapper. What we got was a popstar.
As a pop star he’s rich, as a “Rapper” he’d be as broke as Copywrite and the rest of the backpackers from his era are. If those were my options I’d go the pop star route to, respect dont send your kids to college/
I agree with your opinion on his music…… I just dont blame him for making the choices he makes
this album is awful.the sequel effect makes it worse. grab action bronsons new “blue chips 2” if you want good new hip hop that dont sound like the rest, alot of rappers have grown up and arent half as corny as he is now, smh fucking idiots especially whoever wrote this, refer to pitchfork for a honest review of this worthless record
Pitchfork is for hipsters and over analyzes/nitpicks mainstream albums for every flaw they can squeeze out. I think they gave Encore a higher rating than the MMLP2 and that was infinitely worse lol.
Pitchfork has no clue about lyrical rap music period and they hate anything mainstream ..the only honest reviews they give are for indie bands and music no one has ever heard it so they can get credit for discovering them. They honestly should stick to rock music cus they don’t know shit about real hip hop flows, rhymes and so on
whether its a bad album or not..nobody messes with him..
Ever hear of Ghost or Nas?
Album grows on you. It’s a classic. A lot better than other junk coming out
I find it hard not to enjoy this album regardless of its flaws. Also, people who are hating on it seem to be the ones who are waaayy over-thinking and analysing every track instead of just chilling the fuck out and enjoying the music. At least Em is varying his voice again and actually sounds like he’s having fun on the record.
Honestly, I think a lot of the haters just don’t understand the lyrical complexity that is occurring on this album.. shit, I’m still trying to catch up with a lot of them myself.. I think Em’s just evolved as a writer /artist. This guy is obviously genius. When it comes to arrangement of words /syllables / triple meanings.. Fuck’n insane man. Call me a Stan if you wish, I’m 30, and Eminem dropped when I was in middle school / high school.. He shit on everybody then and still does when it comes to lyrics /technique. Sure there’s a lot of hungry young cats who probably listened to Em themselves, that you consider better than Em – just remember who came first. Flame on. -d3mz.
You want a cum soda with those nuts Stanley
Hey “ANONYMOUS” Fuck off troll.
Hey “ANONYMOUS” go listen to a Drake album on your iPod with your Beats by Dre while playing in traffic.
Hey “ANONYMOUS” Suck on my retired dick
Hey “ANON” your not a stan but they are drizzled in Em’s running diarrhea so don’t expect them to hear anything you post.
Almost a perfect album, some hooks are a bit weak tho.
also the production is subpar far from a classic
This Is Eminem We Talking About..You Can’t Expect Garbage..This Isn’t Em Of Old And Maybe It’s Bad He’s Trying To Be That But What We Get Is Something Not Better But Different..It’s Not Bad..Upside Is Skylar Grey Singing Didn’t Fuck Up The Song Asshole With Her Off Beat Singing..Oh Yeah And Rick Ruben Produced This So You Ain’t Getting No Dre Bass..Just Pure Drums..So All Together It’s A Good Album..Just Not By Marshell Mathers LP Comparision
Jake Miller’s new album > this
eminem came really strong on this album.
some of the production isn’t my thing. that’s the nature of hip hop production in general these days. it kinda lacks feeling IMO. eminem however, gives life to the tracks.
this isn’t 27 yr old eminem blazing through his prime. this is a more balanced eminem, acting like a fool and loving it. the raps on this album are consistently dope, technical, and entertaining. gone are the forced punchlines and whisper/scream flows. it’s back to the incredible patterns and tight knit rhyme schemes. the album is a grower.
song like “so far” isn’t getting much attention. it’s one of the standouts IMO. it paints a picture of early eminem growing up in detroit. sampling a song he probably heard around the house. the country rap flair mixed with rick rubin scratches and witty em. the hook is pretty strange. the song is dope. same with “love game”. it’s just a fun record. this album is more in line with early em in that it has a little bit of everything. some super personal shit, straight spitting shit, some comical moments.
i think it’s an album that will sound better the older it gets. eminem at 40 something still has a lot in the tank and at times here he shocks me with how sharp he sounds. evil twin. took me back to the time i heard “still don’t give a fuck” to close an album. good job em. hopefully he drops another album because he’s a lot sharper now than he was when he dropped his last 2 albums,
I was looking forward to the DX review for this album and am really disappointed. MMLP2 is a masterpiece that can’t be deciphered in a listen or two and has strong staying power. If MMLP2 was released as MMLP (back then) everyone would be claiming its the greatest album of all time. What were people expecting anyways with MMLP2? It met all mine.
Is that you Stan the man?
Couldn’t even get a copy of this album when I was out today 3 places all sold out have it downloaded and the shits dope apart from the pop tracks
So you only like half of the album then?
out of 21 tracks bout 5 or 6 are real pop I fucks with the rest dope album
1.5/5 but I’ll give it a 1 to balance out the Stans
please explain this crappy rating?
That beats are horrible IMO and I can’t stand some of the hooks. Also it feels very pop and it contradicts a lot of what Em stood for. So horrid beats, horrid hooks but good lyrics. If this was an acapella album it would be 4/5 but its not so I gave it a 1. Is that a clear explanation?
stronger than i was
If this wasn’t Eminem the ratings would be higher
Ha so fucking true if this album was made by some underground rapper nobody knew everyone would be riding this shit hard on this closed minded site . Still even with the trolls and haters its got a good rating
i disagree if this wasn’t Em it would go wood cuz it’s mediocre at best.
This album is straight “GARBAGE”; lyrics is wack and beats are weak. I give it 1-star for effort.
There’s some very good songs on this, but also some very, very bad ones. By Eminem expectation, this album wasn’t very good. But, compared to all the rap music coming out now, this is a masterpiece. Rap is dead.
1/5. I think Em hurt his brand naming this album part 2 of probably his best album. Name it “I Need A Pill and Drank Because Rehab Fucked Me Up Musically”. Nothing’s wrong with judging artist to the bar they set. Jay-Z can’t sound good on Big Sean’s level and that be acceptable. Same with Em, Tyler the Creator shouldn’t sound better than you. Em has to grow up musically and stop throwing his girlfriend in the trunk.
‘A’ for effort
‘C-‘ for execution
Really could’ve used a few Dre beats to fill in the gaps
One of his best albums if not the best!
How was this album more mature? He’s still on the same “my childhood sucked, I’m insane” formula. I expected a lot more from a 41 year old Em. Even lyrically Bad Guy was not on the same level as his older shit. With the bad production/hook aside, even his rhymes are not as coherent as it used to be. Just having a dope subject matter doesn’t make it a dope song. The execution of it matters too. Most of this album was a regurgitation of his older topics and it just sounded tired. I wish he’d try covering more grounds.
You’re dumb. Did you even listen to the album?
Kizman is right. A sequel to this album should have been done a bit earlier in his career. Most of the shit just sounds silly for someone 41 years old.
4/10
1/10
You all might enjoy this review http://blip.tv/rapcritic/rap-critic-reviews-the-marshall-mather-lps-one-and-two-6688118
(video)
It goes very in dept on why he likes or dislikes songs on the album
This is major
Not for lazy listeners this shit 1 through 21 only has 2 or 3 weak tracks ..end of the day I’d say what the fan vote is right now is actually about right ..4.25
I appreciated the conceptual links to the first MMLP so I think the reviewer totally missed the mark on that. Solid album overall, and one of the better releases of 2013. 4/5
No words.. Just awesome. FYI, I’m 30 and listened to Eminem in middle and high school. He’s evolved lyrically over time and I personally like it. This man is pure genius.
.Hating Lil Wayne is the cool thing to do.Eminem has non-stop dickriding stans that swarm wherever he’s mentioned because he has pop appeal.Not to mention 99% of them are racist and know shit about hip-hop.
Case in point -> When em says a wack line, he’s playing, but when Wayne says a wack line, it’s a voids all the good ones he’s said and he’s a complete garbage rapper.I don’t like Wayne, but he is not trash, maybe now, but he’s still okay.People just hate because he’s popular.
All of this is a lie.
A lie that you can’t refute apparently.
Yes, I can, stanley.
was listening to em from day 1… the first 2 lp’s (sslp, mmlp) were/are very good, after that he started putting out average lp’s with some standout tracks, now he arrived putting out shitty stuff, very disappointing…
and fact is, like other artists (jay-z, kanye, etc.) he could put out the worst lp of the year, it will sell… it’s not what they’re doing, it’s more about what they’ve have done. once you made it, you (almost) can’t do no wrong. these guys will always have kids supporting them and call their stuff classic or at least lp of the year, kinda funny and sad at the same time.
no way. Nas was way highly regarded, now no one gives a fuck. Eminem has made great music, hes just progressed and changed. You just dont like seeing that.
How has Em progressed? If anything resorting to making a sequel for MMLP is a sign of regression. Em can still spit but has nothing significant left to rap about. Nas at 19 on his first album sounds more mature than a 41 year old Em on MMLP2.
0.25/5 but DX forces me to give this a 1…SMH
Replace just a few of the tracks on the main disc with a couple of the bonus tracks and it would be a classic rap album.
the bonus tracks dont fit in well with the concept. Theyre dope dont get me wrong, but they wouldnt fit as well. Maybe, if you take out survivor, cuz that doesnt fit tho.
This is one of his best albums,and I know with the MMLP and SSLP… yeah everyone is better when they first come out, all the hype, it’s something new, etc. BUT if he came out with an album with wordplay and lyricism like this MMLP2 10 years ago, yall would be callin it a classic right now. THINK ABOUT THAT.
…damn. pretty good point
There are 2 OK tracks and the rest is pure awesomeness. Hands down best rap of the year.
DX, you’ve written a lazy and simple review, so let me direct you in the right direction:
MMLP2 might be the most focused, complexly detailed rap album in history. As a b-boy and supporter of hip-hop for over 30 years I didn’t develop this opinion haphazardly. From beginning to end, each song displays great lyricism, rhymes within rhymes, specific references that only a true hip hopper will catch. Even the sound effects on songs like Rap God and Groundhog Day are specific to the verse. He also touches on thoughts from MMLP in subtle ways that are overlooked by mainstream fans and media. Dare I suggest, this might even be better than its predecessor? MMLP, has more emotion adoration because of its impact and it’s incredibly for an artist to garner the same amount of attention. But think about this, Dr. Dre was in his prime and was an awesome spring board for MMLP, this time around it’s just Marshall. Every hip hop aficionado should relish and salute a masterpiece.
This album is by far the best hip hop album we’ve seen in years. I can’t say it’s better than the first mmlp but it’s close to it. Definitely one of eminem’s best albums
DX, you really suck at reviewing albums. MMLP2 is probably the best album in a long time.FUCK YOU HIPHOPDX.
Best album of the year
Just as good, if not better than the 1st MMLP and his last LP! Slim shows everyone, once again, how it’s done… no question!
Overrated=People like this artist and I don’t
Underrated=i like someone so they should be liked by everyone else.
goat=I relate to them a lot more than any other artist or theyre popular so theyre the better than everyone else.
Fallen Off-I dont see them anymore and Im not searching for them so theyre failures.
Lyricist=Yo they dope,but I dont know whats so dope about them,
CTRL+C + CTRL+V is some lazy shit.
seriously, he needs descent beats.
i don’t know who should produce, but at least it’s not rick rubin anyway.
I knew exactly what MMLP 2 was going to sound like the moment it was announced, and after listening to it I wasnt wrong; Eminem just sounds like this new trend in Hip-Hop nowadays where rappers rap super-fast just so they sound clever, or lyrical or something it just sounds irritating to me, and I cant listen to a whole Eminem song from start-to-finish anymore.
Half of this piece of work sounded like a mixtape. Eminem can rap but thats really half of the album to me. Just rapping…Some parts were good ,some were blah. Ive come to the conclusion that Eminem is one of those artists that need to develop a certain kind of chemistry when doing an album. This is dres fault. Recovery was more like an experiment album. It just didnt work musically. This album should have never bore the name marshal mathers lp. Damn dre get off your lazy ass and keep Em on point you rich bastard!!!!
“Hello,” “My Name Is” “Marshall Mathers”. “Remember Me?” “I’m Back”. “Cum on Everybody,” “If I Had” a “Guilty Conscience” it’s not because I’m a “Bad Guy”. It’s not “My Fault”, it must have been my “Evil Twin”. And if it was me then it wasn’t because “I Just Don’t Give a Fuck” about my fans, it’s only because that’s “The Way I Am” sometimes, plus I think I may either be “Brainless” or have some “Brain Damage”. It “Must Be the Ganja” I was previously “Under the Influence” of.
I’m not a “Bad Guy” though; it’s just “Business”, you understand. I still have talent, I didn’t “Just Lose It”. I’m not “So Bad”, I’m “So Much Better” now, guys, I’m “On Fire”. Look at my “Legacy”, “I’m Shady”, I’m a “Rap God”. I’m not at “Rock Bottom” I’m “Space Bound”.
I was “Going Through Changes” but “It’s O.K.”, this new album will be some “Deja Vu” for “Old Time’s Sake”. It’ll be the “Same Song & Dance” as it was 15 years ago. The money I get is “Never Enough” so “Say Goodbye Hollywood”, I’m “Cleanin Out My Closet” and returning to the “Underground” because that’s what my money-paying “Stan”s want. But I’m not just selling out to “White America” and Call of Duty players; I’m sure I can come up with a good “Rhyme or Reason” for doing it if you wanted me to.
The business executives “Love the Way [I] Lie” down and take it in the “Asshole” and how I’m “Not Afraid” to suck a few dicks in order to get ahead. My anus is “Infinite” and my mouth “Never 2 Far” from Dr. Dre’s “Big Weenie”. Dre loves to “Crack a Bottle” open and invite me over at “3AM”. He says I look “Beautiful” when his semen “Drips” off my chin. He sometimes either fucks my mouth “‘Till I Collapse” or until I “Puke”. Indeed, a “Cold Wind Blows” through the spot where my soul used to be.
#retirement #cleveralbumtitle
You Sir, are a gay.
@crip4life
Aint nobody reading your bullshit. Get the fuck off the internet faggot ass niggger
So Awesome!
What makes this album so incredibly amazing is that every single song is so polished and enjoyabke to listen that the album is a must-buy or a must-have cos who buys albums nowadays 😉
this album is an instant classic, it touched my heart deep inside. Slim’s sexy voice gives me an orgasm every time I’m with my boyfriend. I dont enjoy sex with him 🙁 but Em’s voice makes it better 🙂 I even image his abs, uhhh so sexy. back to topic. this album is a masterpiece. Eminem is the best
apparently the person who did this review doesnt understand so much about music in the first place
secondly he doesnt understand eminem’s verse on love game. maybe he doesnt even understand the whole love game song
Best Album of the year by far
I agree, Eminem is a genius 🙂
and he looks so fine 😛
although the review given is agreeable on some levels, the problem is that it seems too intent on comparing it to MMLP1, yes it is titled MMLP2, but i do not see this as a comparison more a going back to the topics being spoke about in the 1st LP, like his personal torments, each album Eminem has released has had its own theme. Shady LP – funny and dark, MMLP – personal demons with some humour, eminem show – his battle in the rap game, encore and relapse – unfortunately poor attempts. recovery – an album of redemption from the previous two, and now MMLP2 shows more personal demons with more humour in places, and it also shows a slight change in style which an artist as big and influential as Eminem is has every right to do, and this style can be taken as the listener desires it to be taken
Amazing. Unexpected but very lyrically rich.
5 Star album, classic feeling to it
and btw
everything sucks so damn hard compared to Eminem
Unbelievable album.
There is maybe 2 or 3 tracks on this album i could live without but all in all Eminem paints his lyrics with crazy flows hooks a continuum of originality, style , with singing on his own songs the art and mind set to create an album of this magnitude within this subservient cluttered garbage music industry has to offer I rate this album a 5 !
So 15% of the album you can do without but you still give it a 5? Someone please pick up Stanley from the missing child section!!!!
You Eminem dick riders need to listen to some real hip hop for once. Em can still put down some solid verses but him trying to sing on hooks and getting all exciting and hype and just making noises and shit is whack. Its def not the album of the year Legends Never Die by R.A The Rugged Man blows this turd out of the water. Go back to the basics Em and quit trying to sing.
This is HIS SECOND HIGHEST REVIEWED ALBUM OF ALL TIME. look on Metacritic. METACRITIC take reviews from all sources: NY Times…THIS WEBSITE, etc… It is tied with the Eminem Show. Only behind the original MMLP!!!!!!!! suck on that haters.
-Great lyrics
-Production on this album is horrendous!! Possibly Em’s worst yet. There’s only a few songs you can actually nod your head to.
-Hooks, awful! There’s waaay too much singing going on. Either cheesy chicks singing or Em crooning himself. It seems like no one wants to rap their own hooks anymore.
-Em’s technical ability somewhat saved this album.
3.25/5
The older you age the more cornier Eminem gets. This album is trash. I’ll be listening to Action Bronson for now on.
Agreed. Over this dude.
Eminem is a great lyricist. We all know this. But this album is straight trash. The production/beats and those god awful hooks are what makes this album suck. Why is he trying to do this whole pop thing doing songs with Rihanna. Making a video with Call Of Duty as the backdrop. He’s a commodity. A mainstream cash cow to lure all you young white folks. HE Just needs to release an album of him just rapping on hard beats. NO hooks. Just dopes heavy dark beats and him going crazy. EMinem doesnt need fame or money. He already has that. Just give the real hip hop fans what they want and not this pop plastic crap of an album.
Straight truth here! Em still spits heat, but lyrics alone do not make an album. But for whatever reason he gets a pass. He has one of the worst ears in the game right now. Plastic beats with zero soul or rhythm. Just like his work on Slaughterhouse’s last album. The Eminem Show is the last album he put out where the production matched his stellar technical ability from start to finish.
Relapse had incredible beats ppl forget how great that album was production wise cause of the accents
All you can be is critical of em because he set the standard so high with his first few albums, but just stop it! This is a great album! A couple of the hooks aren’t the greatest but still!!! Have you heard the radio? Bad guy, legacy, evil twin, rap god, rhyme or reason, brainless, survial, so far and love game are all amazing tracks! There are so many lines in this album that i love! Like “why am i so differently wired, am i a Martian?” 100% satisfied, this is truely a gem. Although there is one NEGATIVE thought that there’s no appearnce from slaughterhouse, yelawolf, d12 or even dre! would have been great to hear them all on this album!!
Actually his albums are usually lackluster his classic to horrid album ratios is about 50-50 so he really doesn’t have that high of a standard. If you mean just lyrics then you’re right if you mean overall project he’s not even a Top 25 rapper all-time. Sorry STANS
Hahaha typical HipHopDX users giving everything 5/5, even shit like this. The staff tend to massively overrate everything mainstream as well.
Really don’t want to have to hear the whole thing, from the tracks I’ve heard it’s 2/5 at best,
You haven’t heard it so your opinion is invalid. This is a solid 4.
DAMN RIGHT!
I heard the whole thing and giving it anything more then a 3/5 is str8 buffoonery
solid review
Pretty solid
This is HIS SECOND HIGHEST REVIEWED ALBUM OF ALL TIME. look on Metacritic. METACRITIC take reviews from all sources: NY Times…THIS WEBSITE, etc… It is tied with the Eminem Show. Only behind the original MMLP!!!!!!!! suck on that haters
This is HIS SECOND HIGHEST REVIEWED ALBUM OF ALL TIME. look on Metacritic. METACRITIC take reviews from all sources: NY Times…THIS WEBSITE, etc… It is tied with the Eminem Show. Only behind the original MMLP!!!!!!!! suck on that hater
This is HIS SECOND HIGHEST REVIEWED ALBUM OF ALL TIME. look on Metacritic. METACRITIC take reviews from all sources: NY Times…THIS WEBSITE, etc… It is tied with the Eminem Show. Only behind the original MMLP!!!!!!!! suck on that haters…
Ya can’t even lie cuz homeboy still proves that’s he a proven lyricist and track killer. His wordplay and insane technicality is proof of why he is respected by real legends of the art. Hate it or love it, this nigga gon kill the sales game regardless. More awards and plaques. Real recognize real, point blank. 4.25/5 overall. One of the best albums of the past couple years.
This is HIS SECOND HIGHEST REVIEWED ALBUM OF ALL TIME. look on Metacritic. METACRITIC take reviews from all sources: NY Times…THIS WEBSITE, etc… It is tied with the Eminem Show. Only behind the original MMLP!!!!!!!! suck on that haters
Not better then Yeezus
This is HIS SECOND HIGHEST REVIEWED ALBUM OF ALL TIME. look on Metacritic. METACRITIC take reviews from all sources: NY Times…THIS WEBSITE, etc… It is tied with the Eminem Show. Only behind the original MMLP!!!!!!! suck on that haters
Still not with better ratings then #Yeezus
This album was underestimated by far…I’m a huge Eminem fan and I thought because of how the singles sounded I wasn’t going to be to fond of this project, but it turned out pretty damn good. Yea, some of the beats and chorus are a little weak but lyrically this cd was amazing. Eminem still has it without a doubt and he crushes any skepticism with this album. Overall, nobody right now matches him lyrically on any aspect verse for verse…..
Nice@!@
Naaise!!
This is definitely one of his best albums…
You have to spend some time to fully understand the album. Great work, Marshall!
HOW DOES EMINEM’S ASS TASTE LIKE???
like chocolate m&m’s
What you meant to say was: ‘What does Eminem’s ass taste like?’ or How does Eminem’s ass taste?’ It’s simple language skills.
here is my top 10 based on lyrics but also song quality..
1. Groundhog Day
2. Don’t Front
3. Bad Guy
4. Evil Twin
5. Headlights
6. Legacy
7. Brainless
8. Beautiful Pain
9. Rap God
10. Wicked Ways
This is HIS SECOND HIGHEST REVIEWED ALBUM OF ALL TIME. look on Metacritic. METACRITIC take reviews from all sources: NY Times…THIS WEBSITE, etc… It is tied with the Eminem Show. Only behind the original MMLP!!!!!!!! suck on that haterssss
Still not higher then #Yeezus
Sounds better after a few listens couple horrible tracks but its a solid album compared to the other big name releases it shits on MCHG Yeezus and that bathtub faggot Drake
I really liked it at first but after listening to recovery again I have to drop this down to a 3 out of 5. Sorry em, you’re losing it
I dont think people understand the complexity of this album… A true eminem fan will give this a worthful rating of 5
Ok first off this is a good album. Not Em’s best by a long shot. I like recovery better than this but they’re on different levels. We’re never getting old em back. He’s a new man and a new artist. I give this a deserved 3. Theres a few throw away songs but with the deluxe cd it makes up for the crap. Em’s still got it. nuff said
there is too much lyrical content on this album to only rate it a 3. trust me, make sure you listen to what hes saying and you’ll understand. lyrically, it out does recovery.
this album is dope
Ermine continues to impress, rap god is accurate description of himself and his accomplishments
Eminem
this album is the shit… i wont even compare it to other albums that are out in hip hop these days coz theres no comparison… no money talk, no ballin talk… no im living beta than you or chics with big booties… its true and puts you in a state of mind where you escape capitalist reality and makes you think about all the fucked up things you try cover up by listenin to your lil waynes and drakes. em thank you for cumin back snappin us back to reality
You couldn’t have said it any better^^
the album is stra fiiiiiireeee!!!!!! he never said its a sequel eminem called it a revisitation its the best album of 2013 by an infinite amount of miles kid shit is just amazing he just won ” the global icon ” award and best hip hop plus he jus landed besides the fuckin beatles with 4 songs on the top 20 and thats from this new album and except rap god those are radio songs the other 16 songs are all lyrical as fuck he didnt even count bars for his verses he went off till he felt satisfied man bad guy, evil twin, wicked ways, asshole, rhyme or reason, love game, so much better, baby, groundhog day, headlights,beautiful pain, etc etc there all dope unique shit even stronger then i was n so far are dope lol
I feel u. I always say that I’m a fan of hip hop, but I’m a bigger fan of TALENT. People might say that Eminem isn’t talking about anything meaningful, but the talent is there. The multi-syllable schemes that he does, is talent, and many people can’t do that no matter how hard they tried. That’s true talent, doing things that other people can’t. I’d rather listen to a talented Em talk about nothing, then someone with AB, simple rhymes talking about something.
1.75/5 but I’ll give it a 2 since Em is a legend..Smh weak project every forgettable overall.
*very
dopest out
Rap God, nuff said.
Kendrick murdered Eminem on his own ish!!! Love game was the only track I did not skip through… He clearly isolated himself in his Detroit studio and spewed out this album from his rear-end without using toilet paper… #disappointed… This album will be ignored like jordan on the wizards… He would be lucky to get 2 stars because of Kendrick’s verse. 1/5
^^^^my exact thoughts…
As an eminem fan, I was extremely disappointed by the album, but it makes me want to believe em’ didn’t put as much effort into this like he usually does cuz HE WANTS TO QUIT!!(Listen to rap god)
As an eminem fan, I was extremely disappointed by the album, but it makes me want to believe em’ didn’t put as much effort into this like he usually does cuz HE WANTS TO QUIT!!(Listen to bad guy)
youre dumb.
Who would’ve seen it a day when the best rapper is white and the richest rapper in black. #WINNING
Nas isn’t white and P. Diddy (yes P. Diddy’s net worth is higher than Jay-Z’s) can hardly even be looked at as a rapper so therefore my good man, you are most indubitably wrong!
Eminem may be top 5 alive
1.Nas
2.Jay-Z
3.Andre 3k
4.Eminem
5.Kool G Rap
Thank you for your time Stanley
I co-sign Ray Allen but I put eminem at #3 unless 3 stacks puts out something good in the next year or so
This album is too complex for most to understand
album is good.even though its dark.darness sparks the truest art
If you say that this album is wack, you never understood eminem as an artist anyway. This LP is a sequel to his progression as slim shady and marshall mathers. He knows what’s right now and feels more responsible, but still slim shady is around the corner. I will never be the slim shady from the original mm lp, but this is a amazing lp compared to what’s going on in rap. Eminem is wiser, stronger and wants to put more positive into his music, get over it man!
Album of the year? Ya’ll must only listen to mainstream rap. There are plenty of albums that have been better in the realm of hip hop (there’s a big difference between hip hop & rap). What good is being “lyrical” if there is no purpose or meaning behind what you’re saying? He’s an extremely corny rapper most of the time. Not hating but this is my honest opinion on this album & Em in general, outro.
EM,S BEST ALBUM SINCE THE EMINEM SHOW . AT LEAST ALOT BETTER THAN RECOVERY
i guarantee if all you cock suckin ass haters would listen to just any song on the Album. Yall would find out why he is really The Rap God. Nobody is fuckin wit dude foreal.
Heard the whole album 5 plus times front to back and had to delete every song from my Itunes except Rap God
album of the year since recovery all of eminems albums are the best he is on another level than every rapper. He is the rap god the king of rap and drops nothing but classics
Stanley Farnsworth is that you????
I can’t say its straight trash there are some good songs on there Legacy being the best that song is crack, but i agree he needs to get away from all that pop bullshit I dont know what hes thinking with that, and he needs to get away from Reuben that dude and Em are a horrible mix. Bezerk makes me want to throw up. Em needs to get back to his roots and get some sick ass Dr Dre beats and just shred and shit on society like he used to. Thats what true Shady fans want and what we should get.
Life is good over this album any day
Dont agree with this review AT ALL.. Hyper-lyrcism?? What other record than
Rap God are you guys having trouble understanding?? Come on now..
Nobody said they had trouble understanding, its clear you don’t even understand what u read…
Are you kidding? 4? It feels like one person wrote the review and another person ranked it. I’d give it a perfect 5, this album was perfection. Better than anything else put out this year.
The production on the album is nowhere even close to perfect. Plus too many generic singing on lots of hooks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_TRuEeddjI detroit
The guy creates his own genre of rap and tells you the darkest stories fasst, and VIVID. You can close your eyes and see the story unfolding before you just by listening. Lyrics are unimagineably creative and complex. Hes back on his shit, plain and simple. Rick Reuben adds to Em’s identity with great production and detailed sound fx. Who puts emotion into wax like this? Who can rap in voices (yoda)? Only someone great.
And WHAT genre is that? Plz explain…
Perfect. #MMLP2
With desert drlines like ” they say I’m a robot, so call me rap-bot”… perfect is far from a descriptive word to fit this album… better than the last two albums.. yes, classic, ummmm, no 🙂
People that listen to the mainstream shit are too dumb to figure put what he’s saying. You guys are pathetic. There is a reason for almost everything he says. Humor, his life, and disses. If you don’t know much about Eminem you would probably say this is a terrible album. No meaning. Why would you diss your own mother? People probably ask themselves. Some people just don’t see some things, or they’re just dumb.
Some of us understand him fine and just are not impressed. The ol, yall don’t like itt cuz its over ur head bullshit. Being able to relate to a concept, doesn’t alone make it great. I could make a som g called “pussy feels good”.. that being a general fact amongst people who agree, won’t make it a great song, unless I write it correctly. Too much of the album is overly technical and underdeveloped conceptually. There’s good on the album, there’s also a lot of bad when it gets to the point, every rhyme is soundin the same, its a sign.
album was disappointing but this reviewer didnt even notice the 1st song (bad guy) was a continuation of stan and talks about it in the review as if its another song witout even mentioning the concept behind it. sup wit that dog
technically the album is a classic, but I’d rate it 4/5 because of the missteps and no classic beats
Didn’t ur latter statement, negate ur former one? Lol
#MMLP2
My two cents.
the best!
Overall, great wordplay and flow, technically he kills it, but the lyrics lack substance for the most part. Disappointed in the beats as well as hooks– too poppy. With that said, I do like the album, but I probably expected too much.
Lol u probably did… I’m just glad therea are no “I’m not afraid”.. afterschool special songs… Brainless and LEGACY are fuckin phenomenal
I’m not afraid would be the second best song on this mediocre album Stanley Mayweather
It will take a couple years before Eminem fans finally an album of his sucks, they loved Encore at first too
As an MC Em has still got it. I just don’t get this insistence of him continuing to cater to white teenage girls and soccer moms with this poppy sound rap album. Its like dude you have so much money and you don’t need to do that anymore.
It seems to much to ask to just make a straight hip hop album, these days.
Well said. Couldn’t agree more.
From a true hip-hop (and Eminem) fan’s perspective..
As the case has been since he came back; subpar, wack production that didn’t even complement his lyrical ability overall. I mean there were a couple of tracks that were reminiscent of the vintage slim shady (Evil Twin, Brainless, Asshole) with some good production…I mean Brainless was one of the best tracks on the album with a good beat, and it’s no coincidence that it was one of the few tracks that Em produced himself on the album. Legacy was good, a Headlights was an unexpected surprise that wasn’t as bad, considering it was a collabo with the fuckin lead singer from Fun…but the rest of the album was pretty much mediocre shit.
Technically Em still has it, and he always will..rapping is second nature to him, but he’s definitely losing his ability to connect with people since he has nothing of substance to rap about. He just makes up for it with crunched, but sick wordplay now.
3.5/5
There’s one thing for me to say; RAP_GOD he is. Best in the league.
Lol #ImagineThat
In my words. mmlp2 is as good as the original mmlp. Still inferior to “the eminem show”. coz eminem show was a real dope masterpiece. i know many of you will disagree, mmlp2 is so calssy. if we left the “monster” track and COD one,,, then mmlp 2 is easily one of eminem’s all time greatest work. so energetic nd filled with pride.
Faourite tracks – Rap god, headlights, Bad guy.
Solid, not his best. He did say that he has never made an album while not being on drugs before rehab and Recovery/Rehab was about his drug life so hes trying to go back to the old ways but without drugs. Headlightts is my favorite on this album. He raps about forgiving his mom and with Nate on the chorus it kills.
when i saw he featured on it i was like “da fuck?” and didn’t know how well it was gonna work but it went really really well, one of my favorite alternative singers (not cuz of Fun. i don’t like Fun. his old band The Format is waaay better) with my favorite artist ever and made a very personal song
I wonder why dre didn’t do any beats…. 😐
shit was garbage!
born sinner = aoty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As an accountant for YMCMB, I can confirm Hip Hop started in the streets and it will
forever be in the streets, the fact of the matter is. Nobody in the
streets is listening to kendrick, only kids from the burbs. I ain’t
feelin this album, i don’t care how lyrical he is, it’s fuckin wack in
the streets. Only people in the urban community (not suburban ) should
have say to what is dope hip hop and what isn’t, this is NOTHING
special. Kids from the suburbs tend to think just because a rapper is
“lyrical” that makes them great! 2Pac , Too Short, Eazy E, and many many
others weren’t the most complex rappers but they are more legends, why?
Because they kept it street. These underground, and lyrical cats can
rhyme as many words out of the dictionary that they want and it is still
wack in the streets why? Wack subject matter, wack hooks, wack beats,
nobody wants to listen to any of that. People wake up, street hip hop
(biggie, 2pac, big l , dmx, jeezy ) any rapper that reps the streets, YES even Meek will have more respect than these lyrical cats, because hip hop
IS the streets, and if the streets aren’t feelin it, than it doesn’t
matter how versatile you are, wack is wack no matter what!!!!
Stealing other trolls’ comments, huh? LOL Sad.
so he’s not street.. we all know that.. he’s more burbs and b-boy.. yet his lyrics STILL make him great
BEST ALBUM FROM THE LAST TWO YEARS!!! FUCK ANY NEY SAYERS
Stop it. That distinction lies with Kendrick Lamar and his stellar GKMC album. Conceptually it is far better than MMLP2. This is only my opinion though and in the grand scheme of things doesn’t mean shit because Em is still a fucking RAPGOD.
LIFE IS GOOD still ain’t been touched lol, u trippin..
now why MMLP2 and GKMC are my two favorite rap albums ever! (Wolf being right next to them) you can’t compare them, Kendrick’s has a lot of story to it and at the same time perfect if not that then near perfect feel and mix of songs. Eminem’s MMLP2 does have a lot of deep songs but it isn’t really based on a story really each song is it’s own story in a way, and they are two very different types of rappers, Kendrick: Cali influence, mostly up type of feel, some get drunk/high party songs, real deep storyteller. and Eminem is deep, personal, makes you kinda reflect. both however, can spit and go harder than any other rapper ever, and both call each other one of the best rappers ever. so why they are both the best, they are kinda hard to compare
a lot of the songs i feel should of been on a mixtape.
Truly a masterpiece.
MMLP2 is unlike any other “rap” album released this year. The first time I listened to it was on a friend’s shitty home stereo system. Felt it was just OK. A few days later, got under my SR325is and damn near shit a brick. It takes a few days to digest, and to be honest I’m still discovering things about it that I love, but I’m already convinced that it’s his best work to date. People that think he’s run out of ideas or that it’s too homophobic clearly have not paid much attention. There’s a couple tracks on here that I’d rather see replaced with “Baby” and “Groundhog Day” but that’s a very minor complaint.
If Em wasn’t such a polarizing figure, this album would’ve been reviewed and user rated a perfect “5”. Assuming you had your headphones on.
FIRE!! Was a pleasant surprise. Lyrics make this Ems best album despite the overall influence of commercialization.. 5 mics
EMINEM IS A NO THE RAP GOD!!!!! HES A GENIUS AND A HELL OF A PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EMINEM IS THE BEST RAPPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
album that gets better the more you listen to it.
eminem reinvented himself here. he’s got that witty asshole shit on lock again and he’s rhyming at incredible levels all over the record. he’s older and still holding on to what makes him eminem. that unpredictable character with personality that can string words together like no one else on weird beats he sounds at home over. maybe 2-3 tracks i wasn’t in love with but the album has so many flavors. straight b-boy mic boss shit like “evil twin”. personal heart spilling shit like “headlights” and “legacy”. “so much better” is the classic eminem we haven’t heard from in a long time. maniac on fire.
5/5 and will be revisited years from now with more appreciation. in the age of one click downloads and forgettable media eminem dropped an album that rewards multiple listens. great work.
“album that gets better the more you listen to it.”
I laugh when people say this and I see a lot of comments like this here. A lot of fans are forcing themselves to like the album cuz its Em. Whatever happened to an album being fire from the jump? None of this after a dozen listens the album has grown on me crap. There’s like 4 good beats on the album. And as far as Em being a “witty asshole”, isn’t he like 41 years old? What rapper at that age wants to be known as a witty asshole? He’s not in his twenties anymore.
Album of the year. Simple as that.
Weed plate of the year maybe ….
No, that’s anything from the Young Money/MMG camp.
Well those too
not even Mixtape worthy
one of the best rappers to ever do it. Album is dope as fuck and great for any hip-hop fan. 5 stars
i love ya Em
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Damn… Em Went HAM on this, finally! Thank God we have him back! 5/5
Em!
Check out this MMLP2 album review if you didn’t like this one (like me).
http://www.eminemalbum2014.com
Thats a site for Stans, so it’s a bias arse review…
Already deleted all of these songs out of my Itunes except for Rap God… Horrible album IMO 1/5
I swear, u will download those songs back. Trust me.
i find it way dumb that they made a big deal about it not being a real “sequel” Eminem himself said this wasn’t even really a real sequel. just called the album that, it doesn’t mean he is trying to sound like his greatest selling album, it’s called that cuz he’s trying to get a bit more into his Detroit rap roots and some Missouri ones too. who cares about the album name, don’t judge it off that, judge it by the music, which has to be the greatest music i’ve ever heard, best album, period.
Bad Guy alone makes this album worth a 5/5. Eminem has always been a lyrical beast and that’s what I hoped for. He’s 16 years older that MMLP and this album reflects this. Wish he had some better beat selections on some of the songs.
1 great song and bad beat selection throughout doesn’t make the album 5/5.
After countless listens, I can confirm, the album is sensational. Wow.
This review doesn’t even make sense…check this one out.
http://www.eminemalbum2014.com
No one can judge Eminem, he doesn’t care that his songs are not like the modern day shit, that’s the point he tries to make, he hates the way the game is, he’s a lyrical genius & he shows that with every song he’s ever written & any one who says different just doesn’t understand his music or lyrics, only real fans can realize how legendary every masterpiece he makes is. If you people understood lyrics, you would know the MMLP2 is phenomenal.
so fresh
eminem is too good
I agree peter
if yall really listen to rap god lyrics he show yall different styles in one song and the actually rhythm of the song show how he is who and what he say he is
but he says… nothing
Very good album. Some of the songs are too poppy and radio friendly for my taste, but its nonetheless solid. Not on the level of the first MMLP or SLLP. Eminem Show is better too. But it bumps and is better than his last few projects. Recovery was ok but Relapse was just horrible. I couldn’t get into it especially with those corny accents. But MMLP2 is what we could consider a modern day version of the first and that’s good enough.
Relapse was good in concept. The beats for the most part are great, and his lyrics/ flow are arguably the best in his career… all of these were overshadowed by the accent… but after I got past the accent I love it now! seriously giv it a full listen again… its one of my favorites now.
Yelawolf used Time of the Season on a song back in ’08. It’s cool to see how Eminem uses the Time of the Season on Rhyme or Reason compared to Yelas song. They are so different, yet both are so good. Am I the only person who made this connection? lol
I’ll add that Yela was virtually unknown at the time so the mixtape went generally unnoticed, but it is a great mixtape, its called Stereo, its a tribute to 80’s rock
Yelawolf used Time of the Season on a song back in ’08. It’s cool to see how Eminem uses the Time of the Season on Rhyme or Reason compared to Yelas song. They are so different, yet both are so good. Am I the only person who made this connection? lol I’ll add that Yela was virtually unknown at the time so the mixtape went generally unnoticed, but it is a great mixtape, its called Stereo, its a tribute to 80’s rock
EMINEM!
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in a Battle 2Pac>>>>> Eminem
in a street fight 2pac >>>> Em
Albums 7 day theory is his 2nd best album>>>>>>>>>>> any em album
Energy and passion on the mic 2pac>>>>>>. EM
His 1st verse on DEAR MAMA>>>> any Eminem verse
2pacs single >>>>>> ems singles
2pac impact on the game >>>>>>> Eminem impact
Co-signature..Well everything but the battle rap part. Since Em would murdered Pac in a battle IMO
You’re fucking stupid.
best album ever
Sarcasm?
My God, I had no clue Eminem fans were WORSE then lil Wayne fans. God ya’ll are sensetive little girls. I must have read 300 comments that said “if you rate it low you’re a hater”. That’s completle bullshit. Would you want to be called a hater if you didn’t like an album? Don’t think so!
Can’t listen to this album anymore…Lyrics are solid but beats and hooks are almost unlistenable. Em needs to just do an acapella album.
that would be great
Yelawolf used Time of the Season on a song back in ’08. It’s cool to see how Eminem uses the Time of the Season on Rhyme or Reason compared to Yelas song. They are so different, yet both are so good. Am I the only person who made this connection? lol I’ll add that Yela was virtually unknown at the time so the mixtape went generally unnoticed, but it is a great mixtape, its called Stereo, its a tribute to 80’s rock.
Is anyone still listening to this garbage?
Yes we are. Until you can recite Rap God verbatim, we will play.
This just sucks imo.Whats with all the rock samples???
Fucking gay.Missing Dre.
Relapse is more like The Slim Shady LP 2 than this is the Marshall Mathers LP 2. I don’t see the parallels. That said, album is solid, would be better with Survival, Asshole and Headlights being replaced with the bonus tracks Beautifal Pain, and Wicked Ways plus the sadly ommitted “Don’t Front.” FAIL on the sequencing as well (skit track 2?). I’d give it a 3.5 if we could do halves.
Yeah…seems like he just tried too hard with all these rock samples.
Reminds me of Dewey Cox after his acid trip when dude has like 85 people playing instruments on one track lol
I’m a huge Eminem fan. His lyrical skills imo are ridiculous. Nobody can touch him. Not Jay-Z, not Nas, and definitely not Lil’ Gayne. And he’s not even my favorite MC. This album unfortunately was a disappoint for me. It definitely had some great tracks that made me have to hit replay, but it also had some huge disappointing ones. Probably in the Relapse range. Too much white boy music going on and that lowers the quality of the album. MNIMN > MMLP2
Amazing, I don’t even know how many times I’ve listened to the album already.
I’ve listened to this so many times, amazing. Not old school Eminem, but still, better than Encore and all albums after that.
Berzerk wasn’t a “poor beastie boys impression”, it was on point, but an outdated style of rap and unlike anything eminem has done before. I think people should see it more as a tribute to the boys if anything.
Bunk
Stellar Album, his best album since The Eminem Show… 10/10
Jaw – Droppingly Amazing
This is Art, 5/5
Guess Who’s Back
I’m sorry… Kanye, Jay-z and Eminem….all three of them have had horrible albums this year …all though you may consider them as greatest (as do I) !! … But this year just wasn’t their year.. I’d have to give it to “James Blake” or “Imagine Dragons”.. But if where speaking hip-hop only… I’d have to give it to “Drake”, “J cole” or “Pusha T”…
masterpiece***
Listen to the lyrics. That’s all that needs to be done
RAP GOD
recycled themes, always talking about how “hes back”, tries to hard in my opinion, i think em needs to just make some sick tracks and stop trying to PROVE hes still got it
I’m sorry I don’t understand your argument. What exactly is a “sick track”? because I think artists try to “prove” themselves by making a good song. This album has conceptual songs (Bad Guy… great song) and just straight technical fire (Rap God). So I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. I swear everyone finds something to complain about or to compare to, instead of just evaluating it as a musical piece from an artist. People are way too ignorant.
Deleted this album last week and see no reason to revisit 1/5
VERY GOOD ALBUM..NOT HIS BEST BUT WAY BETTER THAN ANY RICK ROSS ALBUM OR PUSHA T OR MEEK MILL ALBUM..DUDE SELLS MILLIONS OUT THE BOX WILL THEM OTHER SELLS PENNIES..BARELY GOING GOLD…MAD LYRICIST…EM IS THE SHIT!!!
ALBUM NOT BETTER THAN MMLP 1 BUT WAY BETTER THAN THE B S RAPPERS THAT’S OUT THERE NOW!! NO ONE IN THE GAME CAN TOUCH HOMIE AND I LL PUT MY WHOLE WORK CHECK ON IT…PUT ANY OTHER MC OUT NOW THAT CAN LYRICALLY TOUCH HOMIE..PLZ LET ME KNOW….NOT J COLE NOT NAS NOT JAY Z..SURELY NOT RICK ROSS OR MEEK MILL OR DRAKE OR LIL WAYNE..MAAAAANNN PLZ..
Ill-ass album, was the number socre rated by one person and the review written by another? they seem to be contradictory
Shit couldn’t get any better!
Dope LP
This is a fantastic LP and if you listen to each song carefully, you can easily feel the nostalgic vibe that goes back to MMLP1. Bad Guy was a continuation of Stan, Evil Twin served the same purpose as Criminal did in MMLP1 and the beat in So Much Better was a modified version of the Criminal beat. His mindset is not going to be the same as it was when MMLP1 came out; he’s gone through so many things since then and has a far more mature outlook on things in general. Anyone claiming that he’s lost his step in rap truly need to reevaluate his/her taste in hip hop. Also, who cares about the number of rock samples he used? Golden age hip hop producers used many rock samples; Em was simply trying to experiment with old school production elements. That’s why Rick Rubin was hired as an executive producer alongside Dre, since Rubin was a prominent producer in the golden age of rap. Em=Shady and if you really can’t take in his more mature outlook, don’t even bother calling yourself a fan.
cara, voc disse tudo
Average, Technically pleasing, but really not a quality album at all.
so under rated
Under rated?? Seems like its getting plenty of love to me especially if u ignore some of the trolls on this site
fucking amazing!!!
With the songs from the deluxe edition, it was a solid album
maravilhoso uma obra consistente e eu no vou cansar de ouvir valeu a pena esperar.
Took about a month of daily listening, but this ranks at the top of Em’s catalog. Truly unbelievable.
Sean Price, Jarren Benton, Jay-Z (in his prime versus Em’s prime,
Jay was better in consistency), Freddie Gibbs, LL cool J (see the “ripper strikes back”, you don’t need complex rhymes to get point across), WC (only rapper I believe that can truly blow anyone out of the water except for last mention), Pharoahe Monch (Everyone loves him because his beats are dam good and lyrically Em has cited him as being better than him!). Rappers that can touch Em lyrically or even blow him out of the water, Not an easy task though.
evil twin the best song on the album, love game was a great song shit! them editors wrong with that
Recovery was his best work, idk why they say is has shity beats, almost famous, cold wind blows every song is great in the album except white trash party
The album is a 4.5 imo recovery a 5
This album is cleaner than a freshly bleached anus
Survival and baby where bad songs
bought the album ass soon as possible
only bad songs imo, survival, baby and parking lot
my dick does not go harder than this
the guy below me has a very hard dick, like platinum
B.o.B might catch up to eminem, yeah underground luxury sucked but if you look at his interview he says why he did that type of album. Wait for his new mixtape, it’s gonna be clean!!!!
Eminem= rap god, t.i= king of the south, nas= THE legendary mc, b.o.b= pop master
I like nas, eminem and t.i
Great album it’s like a 4.5/5
I loved it ,t was amazing
awesome.one of the best.great.
For me MMLP2. Is a nice album. Does not matter what this page says is the album and eminem is the RAP GOD nice job Em
I can’t listen all the way through in despite getting it for free and trying many different times. I feel embarrassed when a song from it plays randomly off my iTunes in front of other people.
You and those people are all fools
Esoteric would crush him in a battle, a beef or a brawl. Period.
Esoteric is a faggot and I’d shit down his throat if his mom wasn’t sitting on his face.
Seriously, one of the best and most underrated albums I’ve ever heard. 90% of the tracks are nothing less than amazing. I love this album and all it’s songs, the only downside though is the distribution of its singles. Bad Guy should’ve been the first single on the album. Overall, an easy 5/5.
Best Album
rap god’s back
Genius
The fad out of the first song is probably the best part. I can’t even figure why he would continue!
This got good reviews but if some underground MC no one knows was spitting as hard and complex as he was on this album people would’ve been all over this shit and DX would’ve gave it even higher rating either way Em still at 41 is rapping better then most
gay
vind ik echt nie kunne kk zeugien
eminem loves dick fag youtube.com/eminemisafaggot
Amazing album only seen some hate on this troll site ..metaphors and rhymes take awhile too take in after a month of listening its his best since eminem show
G.O.A.T enough said
dope mc
At first i felt it was 4/5 ..Gets even better with time deluxe tracks make it even better 4.5/5
this song I great definitely my favorite if not 2nd favorite
im llllllllllloooooooooooooovvvvvvveeeeeennnnnnn it
MMlp2 is good but not great. Some songs show flashes of Em’s greatness, his lyrics are always dope but the beats were no better than average. Rap God was genius but beat wad shit. Over all I was pleased n hope he continues to create music cuz lets face facts most mc’s cant touch his skills. Ppl will disagree w/my comments but idc. If you’re a Shady fan you’ll love it just lk all his records. MMLP2 is good but not great.
this last album sucked IMO
simply awesum !!
YEE
aazazaz
how in the fuck is this a 4 and oxymoron is a 3.5? this album was embarrassing for hiphop fans everywhere and ruined a classic album in MMLP.
I totally agree
Are you serious? I’m not a Stan, althoug I do consider Em top 3 all time. I just can’t believe idiots dont understand the difference between a revisit/ closing of a chapter and a sequel. The albums are connectd only in that Eminem is kissing his old grudges and beefs goodbye while still keeping a midde finger aimed at ignorant halfway anonymous crooks like you dopes.
Garbage
This album was great. Out of the 8 albums ( SSLP, MMLP, TES, Encore,Relapse, Recovery and this) This is Like maybe 3rd or 4th best. It is better than recovery, relapse and encore for sure. I’d proably even say better than infinite. Rap god alone destroys.
It’s amazing! My favorite album in 2013!
Greatness
This song should have been on the regular album.
6.5/10. Once again, Em’s lyrical abilities can’t make up for poor beat selection and cringworthy hooks.
Amazing lyricism and passion shown in his songs.
4/10 Obviously everyone knows Eminem will never make an Album better than The Marshall Mathers LP Its a perfect album.MMLP2 Has to many Female hooks and while the lyricism on MMLP2 Is more complex than the original Mathers LP But sometimes less is more.There are some good songs Legacy,Bad Guy,Headlights and Rap God are Amazing but the rest is mediocre Rhyme or reason is not bad but Survival and Monster brings the album down.So Far And Berzerk are solid. At least Slim ends his album on a high note with a great last verse on Evil Twin.Over all I am dissapointed this album tarnishes his old album.I just hope this is not Slims last album.
8/10 The most you listen it the most you love it!
The best album of the year
100/100 le meilleur album ! Il est magnifique comme tout le reste de la carrire d’Eminem.
Really amazing album with very good bonus tracks !
Eminem is unique
dope!
Absolute lyrical wreckage by Eminem. I would rank this above The SSLP as his 3rd best album. Way more positives than negatives.
Looooooooove Eminem
Rap god Eminem love ya
Eminem Rap God :*
Awesome Work!!!!!!!!!!!!
Relatively underrated classic.
the best
Eminem is the best
One of the best albums:)
He said all he had to say. #respect #legend
the Marshall mathers lp2 is just awwesome 🙂
Just awesome album, eminem is my god
Another classic
It’s way better than Recovery, I don’t really like the track Asshole and Monster, and the female chorus vocals are completely unnecessary. Also Baby, Groundhog Day and Desperation should have been on the original tracklist, they are among the best songs and they only made it on the bonus tracklist. Otherwise great album.
I love this album!! It got me hooked back on Eminem.
Survival is one of the best songs on that LP…Brainless is the best sing
best work since The Eminem Show
completely agree
agree..and its not even that good. just his best by default
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Eminem does not show creativity such as kanye West, he does not bring a new sound but the same thing over and over. You always know what to expect in an Eminem’s album.
Dope ass album added to my collection
True eminem shows no creativity
I think Macklemore is better than eminem cuz he has more creativity and they should make a song together
Eminem said dat Macklemore is dope so start listining to him
You already know the RAP GOD can’t be touched..
40 year old guy still rappin like hes 20 just sounds wrong. grow up make some fire shit people can bump. stop the nonsense
Genius
eminem ur asome
The review and the score look like they were given by different people. Give an album a 4 then say it ‘tarnishes legacy’ come on man.
agreed. had to scroll up again after reading the review. these reviews are getting pretty lazy. how many mainstream albums did they give a 4/5 this year?
lives upto mmlp
rapgod
‘This technical hubris is on full display on MMLP 2. It’s difficult to be too upset with “Rap God,” which will have fans hitting the rewind button, but “Berzerk” and “Love Game,” among other cuts have the distinction of having an absurd number of syllables mashed into a track that ends up saying absolutely nothing.’
HipHopDX is one of the most retarded sites when it comes to reviews. Your ratings are absurd. “Your 1 listen reviews are fucking up Hip Hop” – Cole.
If he has a more technical song, you invalids need to understand that it takes longer to take in and familiarise yourself with. Good art is NOT taken in on one exposure, jeez.
Saying “plenty of good here”, when talking about Bad Guy, is an absolute disgrace. That track is one of the most incredible pieces in Hip Hop over the last few years, transforming from Stan’s brother into an insightful Em. Man, I need to make a Hip Hop site and do it properly because giving ‘Ratings’ on albums is one of the stupidest things ever. You’re mad if you think you can quantify a rap album with a fucking star rating. I looked you up and it seems that you’re part of a bigger media company, so you gotta make that money, and you’ll make a ton of it if you’d as provocative as bugs bunny…
Dont like some beats, this nigga has a fucking flooooooooooow
RAP GOD muh’fucker
Masterpiece
The lyricism is classic but the beats and his flow are just mediocre.
Oh My God!
4 out of 5?!?
You must kidding me..
That was 9 out of 5!!!!
Might be the greatest lyrical album
Lit…
This is my favorite Em album, deserves a mention with the best albums of the decade.
All Rap
New levels of Rap