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Eminem MMLP2 is actually great!

Started by Spatula, Feb 3, 2020, in Eminem Add to Reading List

  1. The Real Slim Shady
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    The Real Slim Shady

    Feb 4, 2020
    Bad Guy
    Rhyme or Reason
    So Much Better
    Berzerk
    Rap God
    Brainless
    Love Game
    Evil Twin
    Baby
    Groundhog Day
    Beautiful Pain
    Wicked Ways
    Don’t Front

    Every one of those songs is at least a 7 or above. Great album, mostly.
     
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  2. David26
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    When mmlp2 came out everybody loved it. And compared the album with TES. I have the feeling that this is exactly what is going to happen with MTBMB.
     
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  3. The Real Slim Shady
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    The Real Slim Shady

    Feb 4, 2020
    Funny you should say that lmao head over to o the MTBMB thread and you’ll see people comparing it to SSLP and TES
     
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  4. Oldboy
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    Feb 4, 2020
    While theres nothing wrong with it. Its extremely avg
     
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  5. The Mandalorian
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    The Mandalorian This is the way

    Feb 4, 2020
    Major missing:
    Baby
    Groundhog day
    Rap God
    Evil Twin
     
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  6. GawDEDEDE
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    GawDEDEDE

    Feb 4, 2020
    I always thought MMLP2 was and is a great album. The bonus tracks are some of the most inspired works from him in his career, especially when you include “Don’t Front.” Just listen to him on that ffs. They are especially incredible. The album in general shouldn’t have been named MMLP2, sonically it doesn’t fit, but canonically speaking it followed up A LOT from the first album. It was him aging the Slim Shady persona gracefully, with new lessons and the same old wit. His execution blew Recovery out of the f---ing water. Bad Guy, Evil Twin, Headlights, Brainless alone rival some of his best work. The singles were far better than Recovery, Relapse and Encore’s singles. Even sleeper tracks like Love Game, Rhyme or Reason, Legacy are examples of how comfortable and in his element he sounded. He actually took the s--- Rubin gave him and flexed on it. I seriously love this album, and I always will.

    Kudos to making this thread OP. It’s cool to s--- on MMLP2 now but pretty soon it’ll be referenced as “Ems last good album” the same way they’re doing right now with Relapse, retroactively.
     
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  7. GawDEDEDE
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    GawDEDEDE

    Feb 4, 2020
    God f---ing d--- it Rhyme Or Reason takes me right back to 2013. You are depriving yourself of a lot of joy if you go into this album wanting it to sound like MMLP1.



    I pray to God he rides a beat the way he did in that last verse again. I don’t know how people would even react if he did, but he f---ing slaughtered this. His ability here to switch cadences and make them all sync with the pace of the beat, without having to stuff words into bars, is what I would love to hear.
     
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  8. Spatula
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    Spatula Relapse is a masterpiece

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    Just couple of days ago I was one of those who shat on it. Really the album's only fault is its name. As a standalone work, it's got a lot going on. I am ready to say MMLP2 is better than MTBMB.
     
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  9. stzenit94
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    Aged quite poorly tbh. Very inconsistent. Would have been a good album had he put the deluxe songs in place of all the trash tracks.
     
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  10. Xmipod
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    Agreed, very underrated album. Not better than Kami/MTBMB/Recovery but its no where near bad
     
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  11. GawDEDEDE
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    Feb 5, 2020
    I’m glad you gave it another spin, but like I said the name being what it is works canonically. With “Parking Lot” skit, bar references to the first album, Stan II in Bad Guy (which lets be honest, a sequel for the song Stan by sober Marshall should have been f---ing horrible!- yet it’s one of the most enrapturing songs of his career).

    Currently I have MMLP2 and MTBMB as tied as his 5th best album, MMLP2 just has so f---ing much to it. It takes you into a “his” world from track 1, whereas u can kinda just breeze through MTBMB if you know what I mean. Both are strong projects - the latter of which needed to grow on me

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    3:10-3:51 ... holy s---. You cannot tell me he doesn’t sound EXACTLY like he did in 2000. Like literally down to the intensity in his voice. This entire song was MMLP 1 Em over Relapse production. Criminally underrated.
     
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    Tom Brady "I'm a pretty good winner."

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    Couple of gems but I always thought it was his worst album until Revivals came out.
     
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    Mmlp2 would have been accepted so much different if it had a different title.


    It had no place having the mmlp title.
     
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    Xmipod

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    I love the love MMLP2 is getting rn
     
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    I still stand by MMLP2 being his 4th best album
     
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    If only it were not called MMLP2.
     
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