Dec 16, 2014 Space Bound is my all-time favorite Eminem video. It fits the song perfectly. Couldn't have been done any better. Compare this to his recent videos like Headlights and GOF, holy s--- what a drop off.
Dec 16, 2014 I love how the MMLP2 dickriders hate on Recovery for how "poppy" and "soft" it is. Space Bound is light years darker than any song from MMLP2.
Dec 16, 2014 I agree with OP. Modern day Em is what he is, but at least on Recovery he embraced what he does well at this age, and that's pop rap. I enjoy a good handful of song on this album.
Dec 16, 2014 Anybody that picks Legacy should be banned instantly. Top 3 songs since his comeback: 3. GTC 2. Spacebound 1. Deja Vu Those 2 songs alone make Recovery the answer.
Dec 17, 2014 you should be banned instantly for not knowing what the word think means. legacy is a great song to a lot of people. also it's kinda silly to say he can only do pop rap or whatever, he's doing more underground s--- than ever before. I know saying the cypher isn't hiphop and the vs everybody series isn't hiphop is like the cool hipster thing to say right now because people are nervous em is so big again, but it's bs and everyone knows it
Dec 17, 2014 This is another aspect of Recovery that I love. Like you said Relapse and MMLP2 was basically him living in the past and trying to recapture that old magic. With Recovery he tried to adapt to the current climate of rap. He tried new things. It was like let's see what happens when we take the best rapper from the early 2000s, get him hungry and eager to prove himself for the first time in years, and have him make a modern album in the 2010s. And the results were fantastic. Recovery made Eminem relevant again in a new era with a new generation of fans.
Dec 17, 2014 My Top 10 since his comeback. Including features, not including leaks, D12, or BME. Drop The World Airplanes 2 Talkin To Myself Going Through Changes Not Afraid Seduction No Love Space Bound 25 To Life Where I'm At
Dec 17, 2014 aside from the songs he made in rehab, relapse was writing practice. and the mmlp2 title is simply a reference to the material being more tongue in cheek and/or passive aggressive. in other words, the marshall mathers character drop the world (on your f---in head) sounds like a great name for one of em's patented diss tracks airplanes verse is goat talkin 2 myself is very underrated because of gtc not afraid is still his most important first single gameboy no love also sounds like a great name for a diss track tbh spacebound is like ltwyl lite re dom violence but that video god i love her so much 25 to life is a masterpiece "and that sorta defines where I'm at and the way I feel now" nice list bro
Dec 17, 2014 Really don't get how people rate his last 4 albums nowadays tbh. Are people actually going to listen to them in full? Especially with Encore and Relapse, I can't sit through the s--- songs to get to the good ones, I already deleted most of them and I only play the ones I kept/like. Recovery and MMLP2 are easier, but I also don't want to hear WBD, Survival, STIW, Not Afraid etc. I guess I just rank them how many songs I still have from each. The rating system is used pretty r-----ed by some, because calling an album 'bad' and then rate it a 5 or a 6? That would mean average. Anway Recovery/MMLP2 - average Encore - little below average Relapse - pretty bad except for 4 songs
Dec 17, 2014 does it mean anything to any of you that all of these albums were nothing but the best he felt he could do to (usually successfully) please literally everyone everywhere ever? every last time? how many artists in 2014 can say that?
Dec 17, 2014 I think Recovery is pretty dreadful. So many terrible songs on it, no sense of cohesion or narrative to it. Seems like Eminem just went and tried to create what he thought everyone wanted rather than making some art. If I had to rank the comeback albums, it would probably go MMLP2 4/10 Relapse 4/10 Recovery 3.5/10 all pretty bad, but Recovery doesn't have the production values that saved Relapse from absolute disaster, and MMLP2 was at least more entertaining than Recovery (though it might be because it is newer. Bottom line- any album that has 25 to Life, You're Never Over, On Fire, Won't Back Down, WTP, and Cinderella Man on it can't be good, or even average. EDIT- but Spacebound and Going through Changes are pretty decent high points and No Love and Seduction are guilty pleasures. Would definitely rather listen to MMLP2 or Relapse while skipping a couple tracks than try to make it through the terrible stretches on Recovery just to get to the few gems
Dec 17, 2014 I'd pick MMLP2 although I don't like any of them. Relapse 4.5/10 Recovery 3/10 MMLP2 6/10 ^Those would probably be my current ratings, but not gonna go back and listen to any of them again any time soon.
Dec 17, 2014 Has anyone actually listened to these 3 albums recently? I'm talking about the whole thing, no skips.
Dec 17, 2014 The cycle continues..... Waiting for the day people start to say MMLP2 is underrated and a classic.
