Classic song, classic album. Rock Bottom is probably my favorite song on the album but this one is right there with it.

Which one is better, this, MMLP, or TES

TES is probably the best one of the three, although MMLP could be it as well

I haven’t listened to any of them in full in a long time though.

Will someone please explain to my brain that I’ve just severed a main vein with a chainsaw and I’m in pain?

Ive said for over a decade at this point that the overdose f***ed his s*** up crazy. Mans relearned how to rap awfully.

His flow used to be so nice and he always had the line between the type of corny that wasnt super cringe and being actually serious while still having bars and Role Model was a perfect example of that.

The song is definitely a product of it’s time but for the most part still holds up today due to his technical ability. Em still has it and it shows from time to time but I don’t think he can consistently pop s*** like this for a whole album.

always loved how much effort Em put into clean versions of his songs in this era

Him and Biggie are the 2 gods of phonetically satisfying rap

I really don’t know what happened to him

Not only was his old flow amazing but he was easily one of the most charismatic rappers oat

Why he started screaming with that malfunctioning robot flow I’ll never know

Still has a few songs on each new project that shows flashes. But old Em untouchable. KTT been showing love to legends lately

Old head era is truly upon us

Without Me such a masterful mainstream single

Relapse is better than TES imo

Rock Bottom and If I Had are just something else man

Idk man

Epstein island kinda tainting all this

The Eminem Show is his best overall album. 2002 Eminem was him at the height of his powers.

DONT YOU WANNA GROW UP TO BE JUST LIKE ME?

also his flow was tainted yes by d**** but also he cares more about words and rhyme schemes than musicality he has said that before and it shows fr

Marshall Hendrix top 5

Top 2 em for me

Child me listening to the single version:

Then listening to the album version:

Sooooo good

Honestly, I see the overarching trait of his first three albums as him taking the piss out of his own perceived audience (White America largely represents the cozy suburbs, and Detroit is infamously known for its white flight starting in the 70s)

But they didn’t really get the joke and instead glorified what he was criticizing through that song

White America didn’t want to acknowledge that the things they asserted to minority groups (heavy d*** abuse, HIV, “immoral” hedonism, etc.) were actually within them as well but they are hypocrites and want to look away and push the burden

Maybe I’m reaching idk, but I’ve always seen Em’s early albums persona as a tongue-in-cheek criticism from a member of the lower-class white “trailer trash” community who saw solidarity with his black peers in hip-hop to the higher-class suburban middle class who violently rejected it as “degenerate” and not “real art”

Suspenseful with a pencil ever since Prince turned himself into a symbol

Smoking mad Newports cuz I’m due in court for an assault that I caught in Bridgeport, New York

And created an entire generation of angry white boy rappers rapping about ‘real life’ and overcoming strife over trash gentrified beats

We a different forum now fr