Now I know you can't go by the opinion of the first few pages of threads like these. Once you got the Anti-Eminem brigade out of the way, you get real non-biased opinions on the album. What I'm seeing so far are opinions ranging from "It's OK," to "it's great." That's more than enough for me to buy it, and do it the old fashioned way. I'm getting the actual CD...which I will then rip to my computer and put on my phone.
No l agree there's a lot of haters but I am not one of them since I was an eminem fan and no this album even after more listening is still a mediocre album. What's happenig is either a lot of people tries to cover the subpar beats by saying lyrics or flows are greats which it isn't the case, or they are so overflow by mediocrity these past 5 years that they have lowered their standard, which is bad cause now considering that this album is good coming from a guy so talented as eminem is clearly not knowing shyt in hip hop. If you can't see the huge gap between his last three albums and the 99-02 trilogy then replace your ears asap.
Listen to a track like soldier, or 8 mile on the ost, eminem was better because he kept it SIMPLE, it was lyrically complex but not too technical, he let the beat breathe he was focused. I don't care if he rap fast, that don't make him a better rapper, busta ain't top 10 because even if he can rap his ass of too he's not clever enough to gave the envy to pay attention to what he is saying, being technical to the point you don't let the lyrics and your voice shine can't be at your benefit
Like I said some of the bonus track are a little bit better than some of the retail, but nothng is ashtonishing. If Eminem can convince you people that he did a great job on this, then don't expect him to finally deliver great, because he won't since he will realize that even when he do garbage he will sell plus have critical acclaim which he don't deserve. Listen to Boldy My first chemistry set and then come back and tell me this is good beats (one of you even said some of the beats resembles alc stuff, no wonder why eminem can keep selling garbage with fans like this
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