Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah it's pretty good. Drips sucks tho

Album Rating: 5.0

Always dug that song. Especially obie's contribution.

Album Rating: 3.0

I've never liked it. Just seems like something from Encore.

Album Rating: 5.0

Drips is grim af haha xD

Album Rating: 5.0

Lol yeah Eminem show was great. MMLP2 sucked ass but wasn't nearly as bad as Encore

Album Rating: 4.5

the way i am >>> most other things

a bigger bitch slap to the face of the paparazzi than you could ever conjure up actually bitch slapping one of them

legit question: what makes eminem during his prime unique/special? It's something I've never understood. I'd give this like a 3 and it's my fav eminem album by far.

Album Rating: 5.0

Lyricism duh

It was a shitload of people's introduction to hip hop, and it gets some crazy nostalgia points. I don't know if that's necessarily the case on the site, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Album Rating: 4.5

what ford said

I mean if that's as specific as you're gonna get it that doesn't wow me. Lyrics on this album are pretty clever. That's not enough to afford it classic status.

Album Rating: 5.0

If pretty clever = fucking brilliant then yea

Album Rating: 4.5

if not lyricism, then just his overall songwriting ability and frankly his flow is fucking slick

I just don't see it. His flow is good. I like listening to some of the songs. The beats are nice. But to me it absolutely does measure up to the best rap albums of the era or in general.

Album Rating: 4.0

This has a good amount of filler, it would be a 5 if it had like 10 songs



idk a lot of rappers say stuff just to sound cool or use words that flow, but on this album, every word Eminem says has meaning, and it translates to my brain in a way that I don't even realize he's rapping and rhyming, I'm just processing the lyrics like if I was hearing a speech, idk if that makes sense but that's something that's always stood out to me about this album

That's what I was looking for jaq. interesting that our ratings are almost identical, though. Is it just an album that doesn't hold up as well 20 years after the fact?

Album Rating: 3.5

i listened to this so much in 8th grade but not even like the whole thing i just downloaded like 5 songs off youtube and ignored the rest of it lol

jac got it spot on

people forget how fast eminem blew up, it was almost literally overnight. he was a hero and a villain at the same time, and you could hear that he realized that. not saying this is a classic tho

Album Rating: 5.0

I know what Trebor is saying, and that's why this is a classic to me. To me, simply identifying it as "lyricism" suffices to explain what makes this a classic to me but it you want more then I can expand upon Treb's post.



Like Jac said, you can feel how angry he is and he calls out a lot of bullshit on the album. The themes and stories he raps about, he explains and expands upon brilliantly and it's so easy to just get lost in the story. But the more you listen to this, and the more you realize how many different things are rhyming and how many different layers of that he uses, it is fucking mind blowing

But like, the reason he succeeded was he took a pretty accessible genre and made it appealing to white people. sure the lyrics are clever and the flow is good, but you could say that about 50 rappers at the time. I truly believe he only stands out because he was white and his lyrics address that. he gave a lot of white people an entry point to the genre. That's not an indictment, but it's also not something I give him a lot of credit for.