Horsebot3K wrote:You don't actually seem to understand MMLP. The point of the album is not "fuck everything." Eminem does exhibit that attitude on the album, but that's because it was his worldview at the time. The album is focused on the life and thoughts of Marshall Mathers, thus making it the Marshall Mathers LP. MMLP 2 is focused is focused on the same thing, but Eminem has changed drastically in the past thirteen years so obviously the music and ideas will be different.
Actually I do understand MMLP, very well.
You can sum-up the concept of MMLP with one line - "I am whatever you say I am".
Eminem took in all of the criticisms surrounding him at the time and simply became what people thought of him - people thought he was homophobic, sexist, rude, obnixious, a loudmouth, a violence fantasist etc. - he took all of the critical hyperbole and became it all to the nth degree.
THAT is the MMLP concept; amongst ingenious political commentary, irony and mockery aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the very people making these criticisms and the hypocrisy of America and mainstream thinking / conformism; hitting people who think without thinking in the forehead with a satirical sledgehammer. That's MMLP.
And "Rap God" shows that Eminem understands that, hence "Oh he's too mainstream" (he is beginning to comment on common criticisms of him again) - however, I seriously doubt he therefore intended to become pop cheese like he did a 'homophobe' on mmlp1, if he did - it doesn't work, because the music suffers along with it. But I seriously doubt he's thinking that deep about it.
MMLP was not just about rapping about his life. He raps about his life on every fucking album. How the fuck is that unique to MMLP? MMLP is inhibiting criticism, countering it, hilarious social commentary (or not, but the style of thought at least... which is consistent with "Rap God"), and it's also a love letter to hip-hop. Stuffed with rap homages.
So far, the only thing which is about the same is the rap homages.