Ok so this album is both good and bad for me. I've been an Eminem fan forever so that's why it's up and down. First off I do not like that he called it the Marshall Mathers LP 2 because although Bad Guy relates to Stan, the rest of this album is nothing like The Marshall Mathers LP. That cd is filled with frustration, anger, and a new found struggle to maintain his increasingly public new life. The first one also had more heart in the form of lyrics in it. ....MMLP2 though is good because of his sheer rapping ability. The way he raps is literally unlike anything I've heard. Some of the words don't even seem to work on paper or in theory but somehow through slight pauses and a quick tongue, he makes them work...I believe that anyone who wants to hear someone with pure ability when it comes to rapping, then this is truly an album to study...Maybe not lyrical content but the form and ways he uses language to transform when it actually comes off of paper and forms sound.
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