I know a lot of you are going to shoot me down for saying this (Hell, the majority probably don't give one ounce of monkey piss about the guy), but I used to love this guy's work, but now he is unruly and fucking up his career and his former craft (In My View). What do you guys think?

is he even still recording?

Well, he was when he made "Encore" and in fact, still is on cuts of other people's albums as a producer and as a featuring rapper. Has anyone in here heard "Loyal 2 The Game"? That was only filled with nonsensical "Eminem/Marshall Mathers" indulgence.

i fully disapprove of the varieties of doritos he's been snacking on lately. other than that, i have nothing.

Lost my respect when he worked with those wankers 50 Cent and Akon
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Dewrede said:

Yeah, I gotta agree with you on that. That was when he started to act "GANGSTA"! I mean, that's alright if that's your thing, but it wasn't always like that with this kid. Come on, you mean the same guy who has a photo of him wearing a "Tye-Dyed Alf T-Shirt" at seventeen or eighteen years old can pull of changing his image and get away with it and be convincing? He also fucking sounds sophomoric and elementaric releasing shit like "Big Weenie", "Ass Like That", "FACK", "Just Lose It" and "My Dad's Gone Crazy". I am sorry, but I can be passionate about my hate and love for this guy's work. He was great when "The Slim Shady LP" and "The Marshall Mathers LP" albums were released, but now he is shit that hasn't been flushed down the toilet quite yet!

I liked Purple Hills , btw

Dewrede said:

What about "Purple Pills"?

I like his stuff. I have his first 3 albums. Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers LP, and The Eminem Show.

He's been talking shit out Mariah Carey again
He should just shut the fuck up and stop writing songs about other artists

He needs a new name so he can have a new album title.

Rinluv said:

It's a good thing you don't have "Encore" in your list because it is "THE" worst "ALBUM".....EVERRRRR!!!
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FarrahMoan said:

the eminem show was aiighhtt.he really coulda done some great thingd.but i guess he felt it was safer to stick with the marshall mathers lp formula. and encore i didnt even buy. lol

His work has spiralled down ever since Lose Yourself and The Eminem Show.

Christopher said:

Wait a minute, "The Marshall Mathers LP" is "WAY" better than "The Eminem Show". On the last track of the latter, he was trying too much to keep up with the "Slim Shady Persona" standards of humor and some sort of shock value that once had been his actual personality at one time (Call me crazy, but I think it was kind of thing that the guy who played in those "Ernest....{Insert Action Here}" films had. He often had gotten sucked up into his character. I even think that "Robbin Williams" had this problem.). Yeah, I might sound crazy but I don't think "HE" would ever deny such if the question had imposed upon the guy. But, oh "GOD" how the "Encore" stunk to high heaven. I don't think that guy from the "WWFuck-Ups" (Or whatever you call that wrestling organization that has been down in the dumps since I can rememeber for these past six years) could have anyone rap wacker. I felt sorry for "Em'" because, even the songs where/when he had gotten serious (Which was rare on that album) were just so below mediocre. "The Eminem Show" had kind of started off this thing and I have a pretty good theory on that.
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Hell, I'm from Detroit...I love the guy!

What's up with that "=DEAD!" shit in the title...so not cool!!

SexyBeautifulOne said:

Listen to "Encore" and if you like it, you're a "FANATIC". That album sucks harder than "Jewel DeNyle"....uh, but you ain't hear that from me.

SexyBeautifulOne said:

Yeah, I'm from Detroit, too , but technically *he* ain't really *from* Detroit. . .

NuPwr319 said:

Kid Rock can join him in obscurity and I'm from the Detroit area.

NuPwr319 said:

Technically...no! But baby, his skillz? He got them from 7 Mile and Runyon!! You better recognize!! EASTSIIIDE!!!

IstenSzek said:

That's what I was about to post.

Eminem is obviously hugely talented, but his formula just wore thin. He's spitting out words an in artful & intelligent way, but he's basically only saying three things "_____ is a bitch" "I'm so crazy/America can't handle me" and "I am just trying to raise my daughter."

If he could find something new to say and not hide behind those few ideas that he feels makes him "real" he might be able to revitalize himself.

FarrahMoan said:

ENCORE was a good album - it was just the weakest album in his discography (kinda like what "Nastradamus" is to Nas's discography). In terms of lyricism and wordplay, it still shits on most rap album nowadays.

Dewrede said:

I agree completely, I used to love him, too, but almost everything after The Marshall Mathers LP is shit. The Eminem Show was just mediocre, and now I find him almost unlistenable.

theVelvetRoper said:

My thoughts exactly. I don't even like "Like Toy Soldiers" for anything else except for the fact that he was the more mature person in the "Benzino/The SAUCE/Ja Rule/Murder Inc. Beef". That and "Yellow Brick Road" were mediocre at best. Sorry, no wait, no I'm not. Because.....IT'S TRUE....IT'S DAMN TRUE!!!!

He's had his run...looks to me that he's got nothing else to say, so he's calling it a career. You can't deny that he brought the goods when he was on point.

He's no more different now than he's always been which is boring stripped down midtempo shit hop with some "talking" over it.

vainandy said:

Hmmmmm, MEH!!! The guys beats' were especially on the "Alternative/New wave" side during his first commercially released album, "The Slim Shady LP"!!! What you might be thinking about that could have the more evident stripped-down, smooth yet hardcore "West-Coast" sound would probably be "The Marshall Mathers LP" (Although, I think that is actually his best album, as would most who actually "LISTEN" to the lyrics). Just listen to it ("The Slim Shady LP"), though. If anything, to most people who listen to "Regular Hip-Hop" (Or the status quo of "Shit-Hop" as you'd like to call it.), wouldn't even take a second listen to these "BEATS". They're (The "BEATS", that is) considered mediocre on "The Slim Shady LP" album, at best by most avid listeners to this genre of music in it's present state where/when "The Dirty-South" rules in beats, while I like them. So, take a second listen at "THAT" album ("The Slim Shady LP"), at least! Sorry for the structure and length of the post. I guess that's just how I role.
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