MMLP2 General Discussion

[cityfan31]

It's like Em said on Evil Twin,

sometimes I listen
And revisit them old albums often as I can and skim through all them bitches
To make sure I keep up with my competition

He is his only competition in my book so why even compare him to anyone else?

For example, a 6/10 Sergio Aguero performance is still much better than a 10/10 performance from Danny Wellbeck.

I love the album. I think it's classic Shady and it's my favourite album since his comeback.

But you're telling me anything on there competes with Lose Yourself, Stan or Sing For The Moment?

[StanBase]

^so eminem is a Stan in a way.

Also, Giroud > Aguero

[Trimss]

^so eminem is a Stan in a way.

Also, Giroud > Aguero

No way

[StanBase]

^so eminem is a Stan in a way.

Also, Giroud > Aguero

Norway

Which do you disagree with? I'm prepared to accept defeat anyway.

[yoda you can call me]

Encore>>

Not lying at least encore felt like eminem

Other than about 5/6 tracks it felt frustrating to listen to the mature slim shady

Someone is stuck in a timewarp me thinks

[Elision]

It's like Em said on Evil Twin,

sometimes I listen
And revisit them old albums often as I can and skim through all them bitches
To make sure I keep up with my competition

He is his only competition in my book so why even compare him to anyone else?

But you're telling me anything on there competes with Lose Yourself, Stan or Sing For The Moment?

Yes.

[ganjakush56]

i've been awake for nearly 2
days...ugh fuck shit dammit
i dont consider mmlp2 classic
material; it doesn't have that cultural
relevance and impact as other
universally acclaimed hip-hop classics
- this is me right now, trying to
stay awake....

No impact?

As an album, GKMC >>>>>> MMLP2, GKMC is a classic

and i didn't say that mmlp2 had NO impact; i said that doesn't have th cultural impact of universally acclaimed classics like Illmatic, the Chronic, Ready to Die, MMLP, Me Against the World, GRODT, etc. Those albums influenced a generation of hip hop fans and artists for at least the decade following their release.

[Just Silver]

Encore>>

Not lying at least encore felt like eminem

Other than about 5/6 tracks it felt frustrating to listen to the mature slim shady

Someone is stuck in a timewarp me thinks

Maybe so but I enjoy it that way lol I like recovery and relapse though

[LilBuffDa[OG]]

MMLP2 just doesn't have as lasting of an impression on me than any of the previous records. I have overplayed basically every CD, The only one I lost interest quicker in was recovery and hell the sequel. Em show and relapse are the only ones I still bump, SSLP is for sprcial occasions. MMLP is wayyyy tooo edgy and angsty now that ive heard mmlp2... it sorta ruins it tbh.

[kkaniff]

@ganjakush
you want it to influence a new generation of hip hop fans barely 5 months after it's release?
MMLP2 is Eminem's best album, as usual it'll take some time for people to see it.

[Mr Change]

@ganjakush
you want it to influence a new generation of hip hop fans barely 5 months after it's release?
MMLP2 is Eminem's best album, as usual it'll take some time for people to see it.

MMLP2 is Eminem's best album

Woah, just take it easy man

[LilBuffDa[OG]]

MMLP2 is Eminem's best album.

Mqybe as far as using samples go, and possibly most lyrics on a CD...but it cannot compare to SSLP

[kkaniff]

I repeat, MMLP2 is Eminem's best album.
I'd like to hear why y'all think it isn't.

[ganjakush56]

@ganjakush
you want it to influence a new generation of hip hop fans barely 5 months after it's release?
MMLP2 is Eminem's best album, as usual it'll take some time for people to see it.

MMLP2 is not Eminem's best album. It is probably his best album since his comeback but of his entire career? No. Whatever cultural impact MMLP2 had is quickly fading as a new wave of hip-hop artist are dropping albums. I think it entirely fair to say that MMLP2 is not a classic and i think that the term "classic" is thrown around far to often in hip-hop.

Of course, MMLP2 may showcase, arguably, the highest level of rapping skill that Eminem has ever exhibited within his career but from an artistic standpoint, his ability to craft an engaging, fruitful, evolving song has fallen out of his first priority. I'd say that his greatest attempt at this post comeback was Bad Guy and this track is lacking when compared to Stan - Stan evolves throughout whereas Bad Guy is stagnant for the first two verses. Bad Guy begins to evolve conceptually from the 3rd verse till the end but Stan's conceptual evolution as a song is MUCH more fluid, gradual, and, imo, better crafted.

MMLP achieved classic status, one, because of how it successfuly challenged the conventional paradigm of middle America, two, because of how it brought lyrically dense 'hardcore' hip-hop to another audience on a massive scale, and three, because of the sheer level of song writing skill featured on the album.

Cultural impact plus genre influence equals classic material. MMLP2 just doesn't have enough of that, if any at all.
And it didn't take five months for people to realize that GKMC was classic materials - the moment i finished the album, I knew i had just heard something truly special.

[LilBuffDa[OG]]

I repeat, MMLP2 is Eminem's best album.
I'd like to hear why y'all think it isn't.

Its not timeless. It doesn't cover a broad experience like the eminem show did, it doesn't shake things up like MMLP did, its not as good as SSLP, its not as well put together as relapse was. Its good, but come on man.