![]() ![]() His latest, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, is chock-full of complex rhymes, knocking beats, and vivid, at times gruesome, storytelling, not. "Evil Twin" is more or less a direct attack at Shady's persona in 2000, a different character than exists in his own mind now, and contains his most telling lines of the whole album: "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/Hoarder of beats, hoarder of rhymes/Borderline genius who's bored of his lines/And that sort of defines where I'm at and the way I feel now. There's a lot of work that goes into making an Eminem album. But for the most part, the way he addresses his own demons-particularly on "Bad Guy" and album closer "Evil Twin," both of which see him battling alter ego Slim Shady-see Em delving into his intense issue within himself, a dichotomy which only he can articulate with such an uncomfortable clarity. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (MMLP2) is easily the best Eminem albums since 2002s The Eminem Show.While Eminem has been directionless since that time, here he sounds inspired. There are still problems with some of his lyrical content: the overt homophobia is still there, even though it's addressed (albeit briefly) on album opener "Bad Guy," and at this point it feels pointless to take issue with the violent content in his words. The Marshall Mathers LP2, commonly abbreviated to MMLP2, is the eighth studio album by Eminem, released on November 5, 2013. ![]()
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