Is Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP a Classic?

[razassin]

Let's see what thecoli thinks about this album... The full record is on youtube for anyone who hasnt heard it and wants to put his 2 cents in...




Its a personal classic for me cuz I was like 12 when it dropped and was starting to rap myself so I felt inspired by eminems lyricism... I fukk with most songs on the album too...

Kill You, Stan, The Way I Am, I'm Back, Remember Me, Marshall Mathers, Under The Influence, and Criminal

I can see why a lotta people dont consider it great or classic but in my humble opinion its eminems best album (I've only listened to his first 3 albums in their entirety)

The album could do without the 4 skits... Kim its a crazy cinematographic song but it has no replay value, Who Knew and Drug Ballad I never cared for, and Amityville and bytch Please II are cool but they not the first songs I go to when I listen to the album...

I'll call it a classic cuz of nostalgia and bc some of the songs I can still play to this day and still be amazed by eminems rapping...

 

[Big Mel]

NO

 

[Amphibious]

It's a classic. A top 100 rap album all time as well. Dummy above me has more posts than daps; meaning, his posting career and opinion means nothing.

The ultra bytch boy @StackMoney negged me for my comment, must've hurt his lil' cac feelings

 

[IShotTheSheriff]

If you asked a much younger me yes.

There is no mood I can imagine where I would particularly wish to hear this album now though.

Its not timeless imo, to each their own

 

[WEKetchum]

I think so. Fourth-highest selling album of the decade, really established him as a force in hip-hop, he was arguably the best rapper out at the time, and it has his first real transcendent song and birthed a term still used in hip-hop more than a decade later ("Stan"). Speaking about the influence of it is tough because no one else would be able to duplicate what he was doing, but otherwise I think it's a classic

 

[edzyy]

Yes

 

[bossofallbosses]

borderline

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

yea

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

if ur a cac its probably illmatic/thriller status to u

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

I can't stand Em these days, but I'd say yes, his first 2 albums are classics to me..

that song about killing Kim, i'd never heard anything like that before

 

[IShotTheSheriff]

Just my personal opinion that the album doesn't resonate with me any longer. Would never deny Em's penmanship

 

[Anti-Anime]

Not even an em fan but i have to say yes.

 

[Dixon Cider]

ClAssic yea, timeless ? ...
It aged poorly just like marshall himself

 

[I love Latina women]

yes and it's his best album, bar none and hands down

em was a great writer and lyricist back then and he had great production backin' his voice as an emcee

that white muthafukka could write, spit and rhyme his ass off (pause)

 

[Mike Otherz]

how many albums about whining about fame are classic? lot of rappers do it though unfortunately. plus what insights into the nature of fame were truly original or resonant? beats were subpar. kinda cartoony. i suppose he structured his rhymes well but to me thats only one part of a much larger composite needed. plus getting mad at MTV darlings that were famous at the time has also dated the album.


stan is a impressive song from a technical, storytellin standpoint, but still, like chris rock said, who the hell still listents to stan. when i think of em, i think of him as a rap version of an american idol singer drunk on melissma. sure the tecnique is impressive the first few times, but ultimately doesnt matter as time passes