Pitchfork skewered MMLP2

[ThaRealness]

Pitchfork reviews matter in that they represent the college progressives/hipsters which are a subsection of consumers.

Not really. People take their opinions with a grain of salt

 

[Jeet]

but they really dont matter...a person who was interested in the MMLP2 isnt going to turn away because pitchfork (who has always hated em) dislikes the album

Ever been to ktt?

 

[Flav]

Im waiting on Needledrop review.He knows his music and listens to it real good before giving a review.

 

[Tony D'Amato]

Dude is an attention whore. He's baiting stans. Got to admit, I will pay attention to him for a day or 2. Stans will be relentless.

He didnt even memtion the bonus tracks.

 

[Miracle Violence]

If Em had come with a new pro-gay message like Macklemore, I guarantee Pitchfork would have given him at least an 8 no matter how tired and stale the music was.

Macklemore has never gotten a single mention on pitchfork. They don't acknowledge that he exists for whatever reason.

I wish we'd would do the same here, actually.

 

[Drew Wonder]

this part right here perfectly described the problem with Em's current flow

The only salvation for a lot of these songs is Eminem’s alchemical control of rhyme and diction, but even that can be a liability. Thirteen years after the original Marshall Mathers LP, the grating cadence-over-substance ethos of “The Way I Am”, once a stilted outlier on an album packed with otherwise limber wordplay, has now become the rule. “Legacy” pulls all manner of cockamamie pronunciation gymnastics just so Eminem can end every line with the same rhyming syllables, and the song’s decision to dispense with proper word accents and splay sentences haphazardly across the middle of lines makes for a flow that comes across overwrought and labored even as it plays Frankenstein with conventional word choice and rhyme patterns. Filler words frequently clutter lines just to make the rhymes look more dazzling, and in the process we end up with well-executed but empty lines like “I been driving around your side of this town like nine frickin’ hours and forty five minutes now” from “Bad Guy” and “The day you beat me pigs’ll fly out of my ass in a saucer full of Italian sausages” on “Legacy”. Play half of these songs alongside even the clunkiest Marshall Mathers LP cut, and the god of rap’s powers appear noticeably diminished.

 

[stealthbomber]

Not really pertaining to your thread, sort of.

Im sorry but wherever I go people act like they dont care about P4 yet they love to talk about them reviews.

a lot of the posters on this site (and most forums) work for blogs, music industry, music review sites, etc

nothing wrong with that and its good to hear all perspectives, but thats why its everywhere. most people don't really check pitchfork like that. a link gets posted to 100 forums and they get traffic.

thats why i dont post in some of yall threads. yall know who you are

 

[Zebruh]

Nobody gives a fukk about Pitchfork's reviews.

 

[No1]

Pitchfork's reviews vary depending on which writer they have review the album. Jayson Greene is the person who rated gkmc, had that been that Ian Cohen dude or one of those other weirdos it would get about a 6.5. Craig Jenkins who reviewed this album actually does a decent job reviewing rap albums. If you see anyone but those two guys reviewing a rap album on pitchfork, then toss that shyt into the bushes. The funny thing about Pitchfork is I'm pretty damn sure that half the time, when it's a MAJOR release (like a superstar superstar), they find someone who doesn't fukk with that person at all to review the album.

 

[swerve]

Nobody gives a fukk about Pitchfork. Only reason they are always brought up is for the simple reason they are attention whoring.

 

[Juanito]

Pitchfork reviews only matter here when its a majority favorite artist but Em is basically hated here so most ppl will dap and agree with the rating because of that

Spoiler

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

I haven't yet listened to MMLP2, but I've heard good things about it 3.7 or whatever seems appropriate for Recovery if that's what they gave it

But they only gave Relapse a 4.8 tho that album is dope as fukk even though I'm not even a big Em fan.

 

[jfkennedy]

Play half of these songs alongside even the clunkiest Marshall Mathers LP cut, and the god of rap’s powers appear noticeably diminished.

Well if this doesn't sum up the album I don't know what does.

And I dislike Pitchfork btw. Like Childish Gambino said, "Pitchfork only like rappers who crazy or hood, man."

 

[swerve]

Well if this doesn't sum up the album I don't know what does.

And I dislike Pitchfork btw. Like Childish Gambino said, "Pitchfork only like rappers who crazy or hood, man."

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug

 

[mrken12]

Was it because he spit that homophobic shyt?

Yeah and also the fact that it's a 40 year old saying those things along with other juvenile lyrics.

MMLP2>>>>>>>>Yeezus