The Marshall Mathers LP
by Eminem

"shortlisted for aoty 2000" gave me a nice laugh. In what world is this comparable to Kid A? Most overrated 'rapper' I ever heard. Most of the time he's not even rapping, but just shouting angrily. This album's ONLY saving grace is Dre's beats. And all these comments praising em's intellect are just as funny, lol, it just goes to show how stupid they are. His 'genius': "I think I was put here to annoy the world and destroy your little 4 year old boy or girl/ plus I was put here to put fear in faggots who spray faygo root beer and call themselves clowns cuz they look queer/ faggy 2 dope and silent gay, claiming detroit when y'all live 20 miles away."

Yeah, that's what comes to smart ppl's heads. Gay slurs in every other sentence pass through 90% of smart ppl's heads, didn't you know? When a smart person wants to rhyme and the last line ended with the word, "gay," they find some way to end the next line with "away," what a brilliant rhyme! If you think this guy's smart, I have really bad news for you. It's b/c you're a fucking idiot. Itelligence is relative, not subjective, your opinion's irrelevant. Tell me more about how you think eminem is smart, I want more to laugh about.

Maybe I'm cherry picking? Let's start with the first line of the first verse on the album, then:

"they say I can't rap about bein' broke no more/ they didn't say I can't rap about coke no more"

Ooh, he rhymed "no more" with "no more," how impressive. Who said he can't rap about being broke? I'm sure he's not allowed to rap about that, I'm sure he was told by plenty of ppl. Next line:

"slut, you think I won't choke no whore/ til the vocal cords won't work in her throat no more?"

Oh wow! He followed up that "no more" with "no whore," b/c of course the first thing he can think of that rhymes with "more" is "whore," he's so smart! And then what does he rhyme "no whore" with? Why, it's "NO MORE" again, of course! WOW! And did he really just randomly pivot to choking women in the 2nd line of the first verse? Is he that intellectually bankrupt? He's got nothing at all to say? Next line:

"these motherfuckers are thinkin I'm playin/ thinkin I'm sayin this shit cuz I'm thinkin it just to be sayin it"

You really think that's clever, do you? Know what I think? If you're just going to repeat the same simple phrases over and over again, it'd probably be a lot easier to at least have the same amount of syllables in each line, which he somehow manages to not come close to. It flows flawlessly though, doesn't it, you ignorant clown? Oh, and that's a whole lot of words to say, "I mean what I say." Next line:

"put your hands down bitch, I ain't gon' shoot you/ I'mma pull you to this bullet and put it through you"

Is he rhyming "you" with "you"? But it's okay b/c he's got 2 words that start with B and 3 words that start with P, so the alliteration makes up for it, right? Tell yourself that. Also, is he back to random violence against women after a 1 line respite? Next line:

"shut up, slut, you're causin' too much chaos/ just bend over and take it like a slut, okay ma?"

Look at yourself in the mirror when you lie to yourself about how brilliant that is. Sometimes, you liked something as a kid/teen, but it was dumb as shit. That's the case here, champ, time to face facts. Eminem's an idiot and you're an even bigger idiot for thinking he's not.

EDIT: Fuck it, why not continue the verse? I'm sure it gets better. He stops rapping in the next line to do an imitation of someone listening to it and HAVING THE AUDACITY to criticize it, "oh now he's raping his own mother, abusing a whore, snortin coke and we gave him the Rolling Stone cover?" What kind of complete PRUDE would have a problem with the fact that the opening lines of the first verse of the first song include the "rapper" raping his own mom? Clearly you're a pathetic softy if you don't want to listen to that garbage. More lines in this first verse, "texas chainsaw, left his brains all danglin' from his neck while his head barely hangs on." Okay, first of all it's random as fuck. Second, the image of someone with a mostly chainsawed off head shouldn't include brains dangling from the neck. Even if the brains would leak through the neck, which they wouldn't, it wouldn't be a dangling brain, it'd be oozing. What eminem is thinking here is the sort of cartoonish image a 4 year old might come up with if he tried to think of something gross. He's like a kid who draws a violent picture in elementary school for attention.

Another line in this first verse, "I invented violence, you vile venemous volatile vicious vain Vicodin VRRRRN VRRRN VRRRN," because this is the part of the verse where em just lists every word he knows that starts with V. Who is he calling "volatile," seriously? Did he THINK he learned that word when someone called HIM volatile? I'm pretty sure that's what happened here, he thinks it's a synonym for "vile." Is he calling Vicodin these things? It doesn't make any sense. It fucking sucks.

At least the verse ends brilliantly though. The last line of the first verse goes, "blood, guts, guns, cuts, knives, lives, wives, nuns, sluts." LMAO. I'm guessing his brain broke from all that hard work it did earlier in the verse. What a goddamn moron. (Edited)

Shortlisted for album of the year at the Grammys in 2001. The winner was Two Against nature by Steely Dan (Edited)

Album Rating: 71.36
(999/14)

23.05.2000

Eminem (US): The Marshall Mathers LP

1.Public Service Announcement 2000 n/a
2.Kill You 72
3.Stan (Feat. Dido) 95
4.Paul (Skit) n/a
5.Who Knew 68
6.Steve Berman (Skit) n/a
7.The Way I Am 84
8.The Real Slim Shady 79
9.Remember Me 57
10.I'm Back 73
11.Marshall Mathers 73
12.Ken Kaniff (Skit) n/a
13.Drug Ballad 73
14.Amityville 31
15.Bitch Please II 72
16.Kim 80
17.Under The Influence 67
18.Criminal 75 (Edited)

I can’t believe all of the people leaving comments here crying about the album being offensive xD fucking pathetic. Grow a pair. I think this is the best rap album ever made. The Dr.Dre production is top notch (Edited)

Only Stan is not bad ??‍♂️ (Edited)

La energía con la que Eminem impregna a cada verso, así como el estilo satírico y por momentos personal y desgarrador de las letras, hacen de "The Marshall Matjers LP" un gran álbum de Hip-Hop.

English review:
The energy with which Eminem imbues each verse, as well as the satirical and at times personal and heartbreaking style of the lyrics, make "The Marshall Matjers LP" a great Hip-Hop album.

Its really one of the most emblematic albums in the history of all popular music, and while the lyrics are wrong, I appreciate the passion behind the words more than their actual content. The main issue is not the lyrics, but the production. It definitely raw and minimalistic, but in a way that seem low effort compared to the raw, minimalistic but creative production of Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers. (Edited)

From pedro1976 02/03/2023 16:24 | #293540

ditch the skits, trim off about 15-20 mins and there's a great album in there (Edited)

I've got quite a high tolerance for vulgarity, but parts of this album were tough to listen to. Especially Kim which is just a horrible song all around that I found difficult to listen to. This dude has a big chip on his shoulder. Having said that, Stan is an incredible song - one of the best rap songs ever with a great story and some really clever rhymes. I also like Real Slim Shady, Bitch Please and Drug Ballad. Usually skits in rap albums are pointless but these are actually quite entertaining. But overall - massively overrated. Many highs but just as many lows. (Edited)

The album does have some great tracks that explore very important themes and are very intelligent. It also flows exceptionally well and some of the wordplay and lyric delivery is brilliant. However, there is a huge problem with this album and that is the uneducated comments and themes about certain topics. While the hate that is portrayed may not represent the artists actual views, it is made out to be a humorous topic or something to be taken lightly which it isn't. Eminem is also very influential and lyrics like this will definitely influence some people into thinking comments like this are okay and so the argument that the lyrics are just for shock factor doesn't run with me. Furthermore, I think the album is way too bloated and has too many filler tracks and not enough big hitters. The skits are pretty pointless in my opinion as well. Overall, the album has its moments where it is outstanding but the problems outweigh these moments for me.