I got
Marshall Mathers LP 2 a week ago and like any Eminem fan I was excited
but with a healthy dose of skepticism. I was hoping maybe he'd go
COMPLETELY back to MM LP and back to the cleverness and gore that made
him. And did he succeed? Short answer: no.
It
seems Eminem's a bit more disappointed in himself these days more than
usual and decided to make an album in a last ditch effort to recapture
his magnum opus back from 2000, or 13 years ago if you can't count
backward very well.
Eh. Never thought I wouldn't be able to sit through an Eminem project, hell I sat through Relapse
just fine the first time (Stay Wide Awake still gives me nightmares
though) so why couldn't I get through this? One word: Production. It
absolutely PILEDRIVED this album into the ground. It wasn't a homage to
early 2000's Eminem it was more late 2010 Eminem. But the thing is
Recovery was GOOD, I particularly enjoyed it, but MM LP 2 feels more
like Recovery 2 than anything.
The beats just make you want to tuck yourself in. Outside of Rhyme or Reason, Bad Guy, and Brainless
There was absolutely no notably good production on the songs, and the
hooks sung by these various different women here and there, I don't know
what that was about. Even with the lyricism being Eminem standard
clever and fast the beats and hooks killed all excitement on pretty much
every track. It didn't feel like the MM LP Eminem that he reached for.
Honestly half the beats coulda gone to Macklemore.
If I had to Rate this album 3.5/5
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