when was eminem at his best?

[MistaVijilantee]

Are you sure he didn't write while high?
I'm pretty sure a lot of his best material, wasn't written sober.
And I mean, even when he smoked weed or did X or whatever, that still counts as high, lol.

I think he said in his book that he wrote the whole SSLP entirely sober, and recorded it while he and Dre were high on X. I think he wrote the MMLP under the influence of drugs though.

Not sure though. DOn't know if anyone has said this yet.

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MMLP is his best album, that's why I believe that his drug use amplified his skill in terms of that.[/quote]

[Blu]

Drugs don't work like that. You don't just smoke a blunt and instantly develop this power to write sick rhymes. If this was true, Wiz Khalifa would be rapping circles around Eminem, but he's not.

Back in 1997-2001, the only things the drugs helped him with were probably developing new ideas and writing down lines he wouldn't usually feel comfortable with putting on paper.

In reality, he got all that skill from constantly practicing, day and night, as he was growing up.

I have no experience in football, and even if you pumped me full of steroids, I'd still probably be terrible.

[CrashBand]

^not sure about the use of "probably".

[Eedee]

We all are debating when was he at his best but the thing is he still beats the competition. He killed Drake, Lil Wayne, and Kanye on Forever, killed Wayne on No Love and Drop the World, killed Nicki on Roman's Revenge, killed that BET Cypher with Slaughterhouse and Yelawolf, the Bad Meets Evil album killed Watch The Throne, killed B.o.B in Airplanes Part 2, killed T.I. on That's All She Wrote, killed all of his verses on I Need A Doctor, killed Obie on Richard. God you guys act like Em still isn't killing.

his rap is still good but his artistic direction is questionable.

This is all true. His artistic direction is definitely questionable and he has suffered from writing unnecessarily complicated rhymes of recent that just drag on (and of course some really corny punchlines).

Other then these things I definately think he's still got it, this album should be interesting.

No way did BME kill "Watch the Throne" though.

Hell: the Sequel was so much better than WTT lol

[Man In The Mirror]

2000-2001 and 2009