Encore > MMLP2
Not even bullshytting. Not because it's just outright horrible but because the best songs on that are GREAT and the whole idea of making an album...about not wanting to make an album is at the very least intriguing.
Now if you had taken the bonus disc and replaced the handful of blatant pop cuts and stupid shyt like "a$$hole" MMLP2 could have panned out to be a decent album. No way in hell should a song like groundhog day be left off the main album for stupid shyt like "survival' especially when it fit his theme of kind of making an audio time capsule/scrapbook. And then "don't front" ends up a "bonus" cut
You honestly could have opened the album with that shyt.
Berzerk grew on me, Rap god, Brainless, monster got better with the video. Evil twin is
But overall some of the beats and hooks make it hard to listen to track for track.
Oh and unpopular opinion: Stronger Than I was is fukking dope. I actually wouldn't mind more songs like that from em if they were a little more toned down, shyt was smooth until he started screaming
Your insane lol. Encore has to be the worst album ever done by a good artist in any genre. If I was arguing with someone on why I have Eminem in my top 10.. and they pulled Encore out I can't say much
MMLP2 was dope though.
I disagree. (this is long, and i'm an admitted stan, but this is real shyt)
Encore is interesting (and better than MMLP2) because if you listen/pay attention to the albums theme, artwork included it's literally an album about not wanting to make an album.
The Eminem Show's concept was loosely based on the movie "The Truman Show"......if you've ever seen that movie, IMAGINE for a second that after finding out his whole life (the industry) had been fabricated and that he was being used purely as entertainment without regard for his actual life that he was made to continue on with the show...
Encore, is indeed an "encore" to TES where you have revelations about the price of fame an the feelings of burn out that em was having being interscopes golden goose.
How do we go from a song like "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" where he's expressing how he wants to step away from the lime light, spend time with his little girl and get right with his wife only to turn around an release another album so quickly?
Some of the lyrics, the cover art, and the obvious trolling on several songs (I just did a whole song and I didn't say shyt) imply that if he had his way he would have taken a hiatus, yet the "show must go on" because he's the only one making them money.
He starts the album opener of his "encore" with this line.
"Lord forgive me for what I do, for I know not what I have done."
And ends it with these lyrics.
"SOLD OUT"
He's basically admitting in the intro that this wasn't what he wanted to do, yet it still came out...."sold out" is the only conclusion.
He prays that 50 can become as big of a star to take the pressure off of him being the golden goose...not to mention this is the last official album before he tries to "kill" the alter ego that made him famous and ends up disappearing for like 5-6 years.
A decade later...and he's still carrying that load for the label...like I said, much more interesting of a listen than MMLP2 and Recovery for that matter.
Cool but is that your defense for the awful stuff on that album? Evil Deeds was a decent enough song but there is no defense for this
and that ain't even the worst song on the album.
The wack songs were wack.
Songs like Mosh, Toy Soldier, Yellow Brick road, we as Americans....all powerful tracks that are better in content and execution than the best shyt from MMLP2.
Then you got good songs like evil deeds (one of my favorite songs from em), never enough, spend some time, crazy in love, some middle of the road shyt and about 3 or 4 of his worst songs ever.
And again...we're talking about an album, largely about not wanting to make an album. He was literally on some "here's the album, now leave me alone" type shyt.
It's why you see him pointing the gun at the fans. I offer up my pain and personal life to you for your entertainment, tell you I need a break...and you say Encore?
None of that excuses the wack shyt, but listening to it from his perspective makes for an interesting experience.
Title was fine when you actually get the aim of the record. Wasn't supposed to match or be a sequel, it was more like treating the original album like a time capsule, setting his issues out on the table again to see how differently he views them now.
I actually think the concept played out well, just that some of the beats and hooks didn't match the quality of the idea.
Wow I couldn't disagree more. Mosh is a dope song but Yellow brick road, We as Americans (was a bonus track by the way) and toy soilders are boring. Not bad but boring. "Spend some time" seems decent but only because it comes on after Puke, My first single and the rest of that garbage. Anything halfway decent woulda sounded good at that point of the album. Seriously that album has like a 6 song streak of some of the worst stuff ever done by a dope artist. It is a disgrace of a album lol. It's funny Em always disses replapse when this album is the one he should be dissing. It sure sounds like your trying to defend this trash.
MMLP 2 on the other hand Bad Guy, Rhyme or reason, Rap god, Evil Twin, Baby, Wicked Ways
To even compare those tracks to the trash that was encore is insane.
