Eminem- Encore

4/10- one for each song that was good. Let me start by saying i am in no way a rap fan. BUT, I was a fan of Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP and The Marshall Mathers show. He did more than rap about drugs, sex, killing, sex and drugs. I mean, he did rap about that, but one or 2 songs on the album isnt bad since most rap songs are about being in a club, for ‘fucking some bitch’. But this time, His songs for the most part are lazily put together just muttering whatever rhymes with the “predominenty” stupid noises he made in almost all of his songs. His style of rapping is different in alot of his songs, but that is not my complaint. Its that he raps about stupid shit, drugs, sex, clubs, shooting. This may have been ok for his first album, but he has grown since then, and we see that in songs like “Mockingbird”, but even that he ruins with the ending. He makes no sense in his songs like “Big Weenie” and “Rain Man” saying things like “Munch a bunch of crunch a munch” and his rant about being gay (rain man). In MM LP he talked about being famous, being there for his daughter, getting blamed for stupid shit. “The way I am” is a great song where he tells it like it is. In “Stan” is another great that i think really reaches out to his fans who take him too seriously. The Marshall Mathers Show talks about going to jail, and everything with his trial and letting Haily down. But this album has no direction, not sense of feeling. There are a couple of songs-
“Mockingbird”, “Yellowbrick Road”, “Crazy in Love”, “Like Toy Soldiers” (minus those kids singing) that show he did think about the songs. But they are over powered by the stupidity of the rest of the songs, esp. rain main, big weenie, and ass like that. Even the last song, called “Encore” is a club song like “Just Lose It”. Over all, his rhymes make no sense, he focuses more on the beat than the message, and it seems like he didnt try. His tracks are made for club music. Its less personal, and in turn, not good. Later