Eminem has become the Yngwie Malmsteen of hip-hop: all shred with no songs, propping his commercial value up with guest choruses supplied by talented contemporary singers. On the albums since then, Em’s technical rapping skill has increased exponentially - have you ever seen him on BET’s Cypher? At the same time, his knack for inventive storytelling seems to have faded - this is how you get songs like “Rap God,” jaw-dropping displays of tongue-twisting skill with approximately no ability to impact listeners emotionally. At the same time, these subjects give his songs a grit and intensity that many other bestselling emcees lacked around the turn of the century. In retrospect, some of the controversy surrounding the artist may have been warranted - the man has a serious lyrical penchant for holding women captive, particularly in his trunk. That sense of realism is what makes Mathers’ music at that time even more disturbing. Dre playing the occasional comic relief) in a family drama that served as a metaphor for Mathers’ own self-examination. These women became a recurring cast of characters (with Dr. It’s fitting that one of the skits on The Slim Shady LP is called “Soap” - Em’s songs mythologized not only himself, but his mother, his ex-wife Kim, and even his daughter Hailie. His greatest strength was probably autobiography. At the height of his career - roughly between 19 - Mathers was all these things at once. Which Mathers would you like? There’s the crass, below-the-belt comedian, the homicidal misogynist psychopath, the talented battle-emcee, the spokesperson for Rust Belt America, and the sensitive rapper-storyteller. Mathers doesn’t easily lend himself to dissection - like all good pop-culture icons, he wears many masks but, unlike David Bowie or Prince, he passes between them in rapid succession.
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All of Em’s releases since have been marred in some way: Even its only worthy successor, The Eminem Show, strayed just a bit too far into pop sentimentality. It represents the definite creative apex of his career. Concordantly, the best thing about MMLPII (besides the technicality of “Rap God,” and the left hook of “Bad Guy) is that it prompted me to revisit the original Marshall Mathers LP.Ĭlearly Mathers himself has been looking back at that album, as well. The best thing about Prometheus was that it reminded me of how brilliant the original Alien is. Dina Rae) (released Januin U.At this point, I propose the music-loving community respectfully consider The Marshall Mathers LP II to be hip-hop’s version of the film Prometheus - both are decent efforts that, had they not been made by such esteemed artists (Eminem and Ridley Scott, respectively), and not been sequels to masterpieces, probably would have garnered more critical acclaim. The cassette also came with a poster and a t-shirt. On May 31, 2017, the cassette version of the album was reissued in honor of the 15th Anniversary of the album. The Eminem Show was Eminem's first album to be mainly self-produced. Eminem himself acknowledged during an interview with MTV that was recorded on May 25, 2002, that he felt that The Eminem Show was his "best record so far".
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The album received critical praise by most music critics and is often debated as Eminem's most personal and best work. In 2003, the album was ranked #317 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and was later ranked at #84 on the same magazine's best albums of the 2000s decade.
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The album has gone on to sell over ten million copies and on March 7, 2011, it was certified ten-times-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, making it Eminem's first album to receive a Diamond certification in the United States. The album topped the Billboard 200 for five consecutive weeks.
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The album sold 1,322,000 copies the following week, where it registered a full week of sales. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling approximately 284,000 units in its first week, which due to a premature release by retailers and street-date violations, counted only a day and a half of sales. At the Grammy Awards of 2003 it was nominated for Album of the Year and became Eminem's third LP in four years to win the award for Best Rap Album. It was the best-selling album of 2002 with sales of 7.6 million copies.
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The Eminem Show is the 3rd major label, the 4th overall LP and 5th overall album by Eminem, released on May 28, 2002.