Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Discussion Thread (Nov 5th)

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You know with respect due to anybody who really feels this album I've never heard an Eminem album that I didn't like at least a handful of songs on before. Until today. I think you have to be a seriously hardcore fan to feel any of this shit personally.

Should've never called this MMLP 2. It was more like Recovery Lite. Took the worst elements of his last album (shouting his verses, overtly sappy sing songy hooks samples and songs, extremely suspect & forced guest appearances, too many muted beats that don't suit or contrast Eminem's style well at all, random lyrics for the sake of being a rapping ass nigga and not enough well structured songwriting) amplified by 1000.

The Kendrick Lamar song made me feel embarrassed to be a rap fan when people in my crib came into my room wondering wtf that bullshit playing on the speakers was. It took 10 songs for me to feel anything on this album and by that point I was lost. That has never happened to me before with any artists and I've heard some seriously wack albums in my time across all genres. Guess I'll just go underground for a bit when it comes to rap cause between this and Jigga even the legends are coming up real short in the mainstream this year. I now kind of fear for Nas' next album.
 
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Em has always singed on some of his hooks.

Rarely until The Eminem Show. I think only on like "I'm Shady" and "Marshall Mathers", but I actually meant the singing on the choruses and the fact that he does so few himself now.
 
Before Eminem became one of music's highest-selling artists, Slim Shady was a fixture in hip-hop's underground, and no matter how many records he's sold, he always manages to pay homage to rap's underground kings.On "Don't Front," a Marshall Mathers LP 2 bonus track that's available to fans who purchase the"Call of Duty: Ghosts" video game, Em borrows from Black Moon's 1993 track"I Got Cha Opin" and even reached out to group's frontman, Buckshot,to add vocals to the revamped version.

It all began with a phone call to Drew "Dru Ha" Friedman, Buckshot's business partner in Duck Down Music, a longstanding independent hip-hop record label. "He called Dru and Dru called me on a Thursday and told me about it and said, Em did'I Got Cha Opin,' the original, off the album," Buck told MTV News on Tuesday.After he got the phone call, Buck flew to Detroit the next day to work with Em and lay down the hook for the track.Hip-hop history buffs will recall that there were two versions of Black Moon's "I Got Cha Opin." There was a bass-heavyalbum version and then there was the more melodic remix versionthat was serviced as a single to radio. Em chose the grittier of the two to re-create. "They're definitely two different vibes and that's a raw track, the original. So I was real happy that he took that," Buck admitted, though we can't imagine he'd be upset if Em decided on the remix instead.The veteran Brooklyn MC crafted hip-hop favorites like "Who Got the Props?" and "How Many MC's..." with his group Black Moon, and as one of the heads of Duck Down helped introduce acts like Smif-N-Wessun, O.G.C. Heltah Skeltah and Sean Price into the game. There were talks of bringing Eminem onto the Duck Down roster, but that was before Dr. Dre took notice of the rising star and signed him to put his The Slim Shady LP album out on Aftermath/Interscope in 1999. Marshall raps about it all on the new track."Almost forget, before I signed with the Doc/ I almost signed with Duck Down/ 'Cause Rawkus didn't make no offers and mother---- loud, they jerked me around/ So wassup now," he spits on "Don't Front," showing love to Dru and Buck and spewing a bit of venom at Loud and Rawkus Records, two powerful back-in-the-day rap labels that passed on signing Em."Yeah, we do have a history with Em and Eminem stated that in the second verse," Buck said before acknowledging that even though Marshall didn't ink with his company,things worked out for the best. "Dru Ha was supposed to sign Em, but I'm glad he didn't sign with Duck Down, I'm so glad he didn't 'cause everything happens for a reason."

 
After taking in the whole album, it's well out together and is easily top 3 in his catalog.

People over look his song writing heavily in this album. He isn't jabbering a bunch of nonsense, he's actually telling you some stories but you gotta be willing to hear it out. So much word play it's ridiculous.
 
VIBE;6461943 said:
After taking in the whole album, it's well out together and is easily top 3 in his catalog.

People over look his song writing heavily in this album. He isn't jabbering a bunch of nonsense, he's actually telling you some stories but you gotta be willing to hear it out. So much word play it's ridiculous.

Relapse and sslp shit on this album and that's not a bad thing good album tho

 
Someone really didn't like the album

Eminem's Childhood Home Damaged By Fire

The Detroit Fire Department reportedly responded to a fire in Eminem's childhood home yesterday (November 7), according to the Detroit Free Press.

The home, which appears on the cover of Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 and on one of the covers of 2000's The Marshall Mathers LP, had fire coming out of a window on its second floor, as per freep.com. Fire damaged portions of the home. No cause for the fire was provided.

The Detroit Free Press reports that Deborah Mathers, Eminem's mother, purchased the home in 1987. In 1994, Mathers reportedly signed the deed to the home over to Ann Investment.

The property has been owned by several entities since then. In 2009, it was purchased by EM & UU for $1. It was then abandoned, eventually being turned over to the Land Bank.

In September, real estate website Zillow estimated the house to be worth $33,000, though mlive said that that value is likely high because the property is surrounded by abandoned and blighted homes.

A video of the damaged home featured in the Detroit Free Press can be viewed below.

http://www.hiphopdx.com/m/index.php?s=news&id=26163
 

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