The Rick-Rubin produced Berzerk has some old-school charm and Brainless and Evil Twin are some of the best rap performances Eminem has given in a long time.
There are high points to balance out these low points though. Skylar Grey or Rihanna don’t fare much better, their hooks are just distracting if anything. The vocalists on Survival and Legacy aren’t named on the tracklist and their performances are just as anonymous as that implies. Some of the tracks after this suffer from trying to shoehorn pop choruses into decent rap songs though. Rhyme or Reason is also a positive with a well-chosen Zombies sample. It is a bit gimmicky but it’s actually quite a good song. Opener Bad Guy is a sequel to stalker anthem Stan where Stan’s brother hunts down Eminem for revenge. The songs where he sticks to rapping are the most successful ones here. It might take some closer listening to catch everything he’s saying but on a surface level, it’s very impressive. Track after track here, he is firing out line after line packed with internal rhymes and wordplay. The first thing that strikes you on listening is the level of effort he has put into the technical side of his rapping. It is a bit all-over-the-place but it is by far the most interesting thing he has put out in years. As a result, there are some great moments here and also some pretty terrible ones. This album is an amalgamation of everything Eminem has done in his career so far. While he has been in a tailspin for quite a while, ‘MMLP2’ shows that there may be signs of life to Eminem yet. This was once the most controversial man in music, now resorting to terrible puns with Rihanna singing in the background. Love the Way You Lie is an OK song but it also contains the line “ Now you get to watch her leave out the window/ Guess that’s why they call it window pain”. When Renton points out that some of recently departed Lou Reed’s later work isn’t bad, Sick Boy gives a reply that could neatly sum up the last 10 years of Eminem’s career: “ No, it’s not bad… But it’s not great either, is it? And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds alright, it’s actually just… shite”.Īnyone who sat through the entirety of ‘Relapse’ and ‘Recovery ’, his last two efforts, would probably agree that Eminem had entered into this period of his career. He doesn't seem that set on retiring so we will have to wait and see where he takes things.Īn Infinite continuation of some sorts sound promising because of the recent documentary and remix.į- proof reading Papa Buff put some work into a thread rejoice.There is a scene in the film Trainspotting where heroin addict Sick Boy is describing his unifying theory of life to fellow junkie Renton, which is essentially: “ At one point you’ve got it… and then you lose it… and it’s gone forever”. So his next album if he continues this theory could either be a SSLP2 of some sort, (unlikely) or a project relating to Infinity, (possible) or he might make a brand new project that he will then have to mirror. Infinite also has no sequel and I think when Eminem makes a project with a name like "Full circle" or something else relating to Infinity it will be his final album since it will leave a final impression on his fanbase that he is everlasting and his legacy will live on forever. This is even more present on songs like Underground which directly continues Still Don't Give A f- but it might not be a continuation. Relapse is progressed by Recovery but if we look at the content and even some of the skits and songs it could be seen as a SSLP2. MMLP2 seems to in turn mirror MMLP obviously. H- The Sequel does mirror the song from the SSLP but I believe there'll be another Bad Meets Evil album to complete the mirror theory anyway. Refill and Curtain Call also add onto Relapse and Encore but they don't need to be included because they aren't new solo projects and just extras/collections.
There has even been 2 D12 albums and 2 label albums. The Eminem Show was mirrored by its Encore. Marshal Mathers LP was the Marshal side to him obviously and the Slim Shady LP was the alter ego side. Okay so basically every Eminem album seems 2 mirror another one of his albums.
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