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After centering himself with the confessional 2010 release Recovery, Eminem entered his forties while watching his beloved city of Detroit literally go bankrupt. The cover here displays this descent with an updated picture of the rapper's teenage home, first featured on the MM LP of 2000 but now boarded up, and yet this 8 Mile child cares much more about the present than the past, as this vicious, infectious, hilarious triumph is no nostalgia trip, just the 2013 version of Marshall the experienced maverick on a tear, dealing with the current state of events and kicking up dust with his trademark maniac attack while effortlessly juggling his over-40 wisdom with stuff you'd slap a teenager for saying. Key cut "Rap God" is the quintessential track as it blasts out homophobic cut-downs and other inexcusable lyrics, because Marshall's the "Dale Earnhardt of the trailer park," but "I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind," and suddenly his Stan Lee-like origin story begins to take shape. Marshall is a super villain so familiar with hate and depression, he's powered by all shades of anger. Be it pissing off the neighbors (rocking the house with a some Beastie Boys and Billy Squier samples on the Rick Rubin-produced party starter "Bezerk") or being threatened by critics (and his biggest ever, too, as "Bad Guy" revisits the MM LP character "Stan" via his revenge-obsessed brother Matthew), it all feeds into his super nova, and it’s a unique spectacle when it explodes. It does so gloriously on the stately arena rap anthem "Survival," which injects the listener with martial beats and a pre-game pep talk worth hearing. "Asshole" takes the decidedly low road to destruction, slapping girls "off the mechanical bull, at a tractor pull" while using controversy to make the front page, then offering the idea that he's "white America's mirror, so don't feel awkward or weird," because there's no sense in leaving the sewer if you don't crawl out enlightened. Love it or hate it, nourishing his same old murder fantasies is what drives Eminem to make the vital music found here, and yet there's room for polished and clever frivolity on the album. The grand "Love Game" with Kendrick Lamar whips a Wayne Fontana "Game of Love"-sample into a thrilling swagger cut, while "So Far…" re-edits Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good" so the Madden and MP3 generation can also understand the sweet irony of mansions filled with Kool-Aid-stained couches. Silly, manipulated voices and all, "The Monster" with Rihanna offers insight with its "I get along with the voices inside my head" attitude, then "Headlights" ups the game and offers mom an apology, referencing his earlier hit "Cleaning Out My Closet" and explaining it as an angry and irresponsible moment. Funny thing is, most of the best moments on MM LP2 are just as angry, and just as irresponsible, but like "Closet," this is the tortured soul and self-reliance ninja known as Eminem at his very best.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
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Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - L. Giordano, ComposerLyricist - N. Warwar, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, MainArtist - G. Reverberi, ComposerLyricist - M. Aiello, ComposerLyricist - M Landon, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Jaffe, ComposerLyricist - Stephen Hacker, ComposerLyricist - S1, Producer - L. Griffin Jr, ComposerLyricist - W Murphy, ComposerLyricist - V. Venditto, ComposerLyricist - STREETRUNNER, Producer
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - R. Argent, ComposerLyricist - Rick Rubin, Producer - Eminem, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Luis Resto, Producer, Additional Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Khalil Abdul-Rahman, ComposerLyricist - DJ Khalil, Producer - Liz Rodrigues, ComposerLyricist - Mike Strange, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, MainArtist - E. Alcock, ComposerLyricist - P. Injeti, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Emile Haynie, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, MainArtist - P. Goudieva, ComposerLyricist - D. Brook, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Luis Resto, ComposerLyricist - A. Grant, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, Producer, Additional Producer, MainArtist - Alex Da Kid, Producer - Skylar Grey, FeaturedArtist - H. Hafermann, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Arthur Neville, ComposerLyricist - C. Neville, ComposerLyricist - Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - a. criss, ComposerLyricist - Rick Rubin, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Adam Horowitz, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, MainArtist - K Gist, ComposerLyricist - William Squier, ComposerLyricist - a Yauch, ComposerLyricist - J Modeliste, ComposerLyricist - V Brown, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - D. Davis, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, MainArtist - D. Birks, ComposerLyricist - Juana Michelle Burns, ComposerLyricist - Ricky M.L. Walters, ComposerLyricist - Matthew Del Giorno, ComposerLyricist - Stephen Hacker, ComposerLyricist - DVLP, Producer - J Lee, ComposerLyricist - K. Nazel, ComposerLyricist - B. Zayas Jr, ComposerLyricist - F. Shaheed, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Luis Resto, Producer, Additional Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Luis Resto, Producer, Additional Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Rihanna, FeaturedArtist - Eminem, MainArtist - Robyn Rihanna Fenty, ComposerLyricist - Bryan Fryzel, ComposerLyricist - Bebe Rexha, ComposerLyricist - Frequency, Producer - Maki Athanasiou, ComposerLyricist - Aaron Kleinstub, ComposerLyricist - Jonathan Bellion, ComposerLyricist - Aalias, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Mike Elizondo, ComposerLyricist - Rick Rubin, Producer - Eminem, MainArtist - Joseph Fidler Walsh, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Weaver, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Rick Rubin, Producer - Christian Ballard, ComposerLyricist - K. Lamar, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, MainArtist - Kendrick Lamar, FeaturedArtist - J Grier, ComposerLyricist - P Tomlin, ComposerLyricist - C. Poe, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Luis Resto, ComposerLyricist - Emile Haynie, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, Producer, Additional Producer, MainArtist - Jeff Bhasker, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Nate Ruess, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Luis Resto, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, Producer, Additional Producer, MainArtist - J. Chavez, ComposerLyricist - T. Graham, ComposerLyricist - Sid Roams, Producer
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Luis Resto, Producer, Additional Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Strange, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - A. Grant, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, MainArtist - Alex Da Kid, Producer - Jamie N Commons, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Homer Steinweiss, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, Producer, Co-Producer, MainArtist - T. Brenneck, ComposerLyricist - Cardiak, Producer - D. Guy, ComposerLyricist - L. Michels, ComposerLyricist - C. McCormick, ComposerLyricist - J. Tankel, ComposerLyricist - Adam Feeney, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Marshall Mathers, ComposerLyricist - Luis Resto, ComposerLyricist - Emile Haynie, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eminem, Producer, Co-Producer, MainArtist - Sia Furler, ComposerLyricist - Sia, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Eminem, MainArtist
℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
Album review
After centering himself with the confessional 2010 release Recovery, Eminem entered his forties while watching his beloved city of Detroit literally go bankrupt. The cover here displays this descent with an updated picture of the rapper's teenage home, first featured on the MM LP of 2000 but now boarded up, and yet this 8 Mile child cares much more about the present than the past, as this vicious, infectious, hilarious triumph is no nostalgia trip, just the 2013 version of Marshall the experienced maverick on a tear, dealing with the current state of events and kicking up dust with his trademark maniac attack while effortlessly juggling his over-40 wisdom with stuff you'd slap a teenager for saying. Key cut "Rap God" is the quintessential track as it blasts out homophobic cut-downs and other inexcusable lyrics, because Marshall's the "Dale Earnhardt of the trailer park," but "I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind," and suddenly his Stan Lee-like origin story begins to take shape. Marshall is a super villain so familiar with hate and depression, he's powered by all shades of anger. Be it pissing off the neighbors (rocking the house with a some Beastie Boys and Billy Squier samples on the Rick Rubin-produced party starter "Bezerk") or being threatened by critics (and his biggest ever, too, as "Bad Guy" revisits the MM LP character "Stan" via his revenge-obsessed brother Matthew), it all feeds into his super nova, and it’s a unique spectacle when it explodes. It does so gloriously on the stately arena rap anthem "Survival," which injects the listener with martial beats and a pre-game pep talk worth hearing. "Asshole" takes the decidedly low road to destruction, slapping girls "off the mechanical bull, at a tractor pull" while using controversy to make the front page, then offering the idea that he's "white America's mirror, so don't feel awkward or weird," because there's no sense in leaving the sewer if you don't crawl out enlightened. Love it or hate it, nourishing his same old murder fantasies is what drives Eminem to make the vital music found here, and yet there's room for polished and clever frivolity on the album. The grand "Love Game" with Kendrick Lamar whips a Wayne Fontana "Game of Love"-sample into a thrilling swagger cut, while "So Far…" re-edits Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good" so the Madden and MP3 generation can also understand the sweet irony of mansions filled with Kool-Aid-stained couches. Silly, manipulated voices and all, "The Monster" with Rihanna offers insight with its "I get along with the voices inside my head" attitude, then "Headlights" ups the game and offers mom an apology, referencing his earlier hit "Cleaning Out My Closet" and explaining it as an angry and irresponsible moment. Funny thing is, most of the best moments on MM LP2 are just as angry, and just as irresponsible, but like "Closet," this is the tortured soul and self-reliance ninja known as Eminem at his very best.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:42:20
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Eminem
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Aftermath
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
© 2013 Aftermath Records ℗ 2013 Aftermath Records
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