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Eminem Best Posts: What do you think was the best Eminem era?

  1. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Jan 11, 2021
    Ranked:

    1. 2001-2003 - 'Spotlight era'
    2. 1998-2000 - 'Come Up era'
    3. 2018-2021 - 'Comeback era'
    4. 2008-2009 - 'Relapse era'
    5. 2004-2007 - 'Pill era'
    6. 2010-2013 - 'Pop era'
    7. 2014-2017 - 'Fall off era'

    kept it in 3/4 year periods for the most part - ended eras around major shifts in direction/quality
     
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  2. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

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    He made a handful of his best songs during TES/8 Mile, but I also think that was when he started to lose some of the edge that made his earlier stuff so great. It's a good album but I think SSEP thru Devil's Night was the absolute height of his powers.
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Jan 12, 2021
    it's a better record than devil's night or tes. both of those have some great songs/verses but relapse is a wholly original style; eminem at his best is very very funny and unpredictable and that's lost on not all, but most of tes. 8 mile soundtrack is obviously great but i don't ever need to listen to something like "rabbit run," which to me presages the plodding, robotic, pilled-out mid-2000s version of him
     
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  5. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

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    It's definitely not a bad album and I understand why people prefer it (and I mean, stuff like Say Goodbye Hollywood is in his top 5 best songs) but imo it's not better than SSLP or MMLP in any universe. It was def necessary for him to take a step forward in maturity considering he was about to enter his 30s but a lot of the songs come across as melodramatic to me the older I get. And songs like business and soldier just do nothing for me personally—and honestly, even Sing For The Moment doesn't do much for me either, which I know isn't a popular opinion but I'm not as into his stadium rock anthem stuff. I certainly wouldn't hold it against anyone for liking it, just not my thing.
     
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  6. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

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    1998-2001
     
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

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  8. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

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    I think if he'd made a full album of his 8 mile stuff that would have been better than Eminem Show—even some of the leaked encore songs I prefer over some TES stuff.
     
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  9. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Jan 12, 2021
    To double down on what I said above, it's incredible how skilled Eminem is on a song like Superman.

    Like it's so effortless, he doesn't have to use a million words to be witty or say what he means.

    He could never pull off lines like this now:
    "They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound
    I'm single now, got no ring on this finger now"

    it's so smooth it seems simple but there's actually stuff to unpack there - much more impressive than whatever punchlines he puts in his raps nowadays. He doesn't sacrifice the flow for storytelling on this song. He knows when to keep things simple and when to expand.

    There's a reason Drake of all people sampled the pre-hook; it's genuinely some of Eminem's best writing ever.

    But on another hand, is Superman like - good on the album? meh. It fits the story but it's not placed great and is somewhat contradictory. As a singular song it's a1 though. and he could have never put a song like that on any of his other albums.
     
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  10. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

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    oh yeah for some reason I was thinking SSEP was 98, I'd include 97 in that as well. 97-00 if I had to keep it four years—as good as some of the devil's night stuff is, SSEP era edges it out for me simply because it's solo and not D12 lol
     
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  11. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    sounds like someone made it in the computer lab before social studies
     
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

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    Yeah Ricky is amazing and hasn't left my rotation since it came out. I liked Imperial, Planet Shrooms/32 Zel (wasn't a huge fan of Taboo) but Zuu is the first album of his I genuinely love. I'm mostly just confused why Grimace is disappointed that I like him. :emoji_disappointed_relieved:
     
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    lil uzi vert stan

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    yeah many men is one of a few classics em had a hand in producing!!! unless @WPG knows something we dont i think it counts

    i was pleased savage mode 2 gave a nice tribute to it as well.
     
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  14. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    oh i thought we were having an interesting conversation. guess not!
     
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

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    Forgot to answer—tough to pick five favorites of course but gun to my head right now:

    Kanye West - Yeezus
    Mobb Deep - The Infamous
    Clipse - h--- Hath No Fury
    UGK - Super Tight...
    ATCQ - Midnight Marauders

    But I could pick from a pool of these too:
    Future - Monster
    Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
    Rich g--- - Tha Tour
    Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo (or Sun’s Tirade, which is prob the better album, but I have a lot of memories attached to Cilvia)
    Freddie Gibbs - Piñata
    Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
    Big Boi - Sir Lucious Leftfoot
    Kendrick Lamar - section.80
    Outkast - Southernplayalistic
    Lil Wayne - Tha Carter

    These are less than 5 yrs old but haven’t left my rotation and I think will go down as all-timers for me:
    YG - Still Brazy
    Playboi Carti - Die Lit
    Saba - CARE FOR ME
    Denzel Curry - Zuu
     
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    hargydon No investigation, no right to speak

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    Yeez Speak a little Chinese for 'Em Derek!

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    loyal to the game is one of the worst posthumous albums of all time
     
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    There was something about MMLP that's hard to put in words. I have only felt that in 2001, Devil's Night, again. If DN had been a solo album, it would have been his top 1 or 2 album... So 2000-2001 for me, no doubt.
     
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    98-03
     
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