Eminem - MMLP2 Discussion Thread

[Notorious THC]

its tough pickin 5 so many quality tracks


@sshole is one of my favs. dont understand why it gets hated on

I like how a$$hole ends, not the beginning so much though. Wish there was a different beat too.

 

[Notorious THC]

What he said...my order would be a bit different...both those are my fav. tracks at this point in time excluding the deluxe...baby is

Baby reminds me of TES so much

 

[darealvelle]

Shouldn't even be a question breh. Dre makes everything better. He made GKMC sound like Section 80 on steroids. I'm waiting for the album to arrive in the mail so I can see if he had any form of mixing or additional prod. credits on the tracks.

I thought ali mixed the cd not dre

 

[Kabnis]

My favorite tracks:
1. Bad Guy
2. Beautiful Pain/Legacy
3. Rap God
4. a$$hole (reminds me of 03 Em on Get Rich and Die Tryin and on Obie's cheers album)
5. Groundhog Day/Wicked Ways

 

[Notorious THC]

Just read this little interview Rick Rubin had about Eminem...

When he was talking about how excited he was to work with you, Em mentioned LL in particular. You’ve worked with so many great MCs, how does he compare to all the others? Does he remind you of anybody?

He doesn’t. And I would say that he is probably the most obsessive artist, maybe, that I have met in any genre. He is very, very dedicated to his craft. To the point to where it seems like there is nothing else in his life. It truly is a 24-7 thing for him. One of the reasons that many artists make good records when they’re young and then as they grow up, maybe they’re not doing their best work anymore, is because—especially if you’re successful—other things in life take over. Whether it’s family life or just other interests. It just happens.

When you make a record when you’re 19 and then you‘re making a record when you’re 40, usually when you’re 40 there are other things in your life that are more important than music by that time. When you’re 19 it might be the most important thing in your life. I would say Em’ is unusual in that he’s a grown-up who is as dedicated and focused on music as… I can’t imagine he was ever more so at any other time because it’s full-on all the time, 24 hours a day. Whether he’s working on a record, not working on a record, he’s writing all the time. Full time.

We were just talking about it the other day. He said, “I write constantly, to the point where while I’m writing in my books I know 95 percent of this stuff, 98 percent of it’s never gonna get used. But by writing all the time it’s like I’m sharpening my tools. And I’m more able to draw upon that skill-set when needed. And sometimes a reference that I wrote two years ago might come back and find it’s way into a record completely unrelated just because I was doing this homework and coming up with a new rhyme scheme or just hearing a word I liked and thinking about how that could rhyme. And there might not be any context for it. But then I might be working on a song years later and think, 'Oh, maybe that phrase could work in this context.'" And it’s like that always. There is no time off. And it’s really unusual. I’ve never met another rapper like that, who is so on. So on and so obsessed. It’s No. 1 in his life. Period. That’s it.

 

[ROFLOCO]

my top joints:

Don't Front
Headlights
Bad Guy
Legacy
Rhyme or Reason
Rap God
Brainless
Beautiful Pain
a$$hole

Basically, em delivered. This LP has classic potential.

 

[Shogun]

yo they just played stronger than i was goin into commercial on the knicks game

 

[ArchStanton]

I thought ali mixed the cd not dre

Dre mixed only a few songs. Off the top of my head I think it was just the singles besides Rap God. Go figure. I had him pegged for at least So Much Better, seemed like his style to me.

 

[tremonthustler1]

This shyt is hit or miss.

Headlights is amazing though. Em would have never been in a mental state to make a song like that 13 years ago.

The beats are downright crappy at times, but lyrically he's still on top of his game. The problem y'all have with Em is simply that he can't be trapped in 1999-2002 forever and y'all want him to be that so bad.

But this is The-Coli, where Relapse is praised and Recovery is considered trash meanwhile it's the exact opposite everywhere else

 

[Kabnis]

Meanwhile Dre's bytch ass just sitting back collecting them checks.

 

[dubsmith_nz]

I thought ali mixed the cd not dre

He mixed half the album, read the liner notes in the booklet.

 

[darealvelle]

He mixed half the album, read the liner notes in the booklet.

i cant i downloaded the album

 

[Ranger21]

anyone know when that rap god video drops?

 

[Prae]

anyone know when that rap god video drops?

I don't see anything definitive but this article was put out Nov 3, and said the video is expected within the next 2 weeks
http://www.vibe.com/article/watch-eminem-rap-god-video-filmed-live-2013-youtube-music-awards

 

[Ranger21]

^^ nice nice should be a good video

will be interesting to see what second week sales look like