[Iceman]

Rolling Stone:
"MM LP 2 fits in well in the year of Yeezus and Magna Carta... Holy Grail, records by ageing geniuses trying to figure out what the hell to do with their dad-ass selves. (It's like hip-hop is the new Wilco or something.) Since Em has always been a mess, he'll probably still be able to give us pause when he's rhyming about retirement ventures through dentures and cleaning out the colostomy bag he wears up inside his saggy drawers. MM LP 3, 2026. Let's do this."

Rating: 4/5

USA Today:
"Eminem is at his best when he's at his worst: tasteless, immature, psychotic, incensed. Not the most attractive traits in a 41-year-old father, perhaps. But it works for pop music's antihero poet."

Rating: 3.5/4

Spin:
"This album will never top MM1 or even 1999's Slim Shady LP for the visceral thrill of watching a celebrity twist and distort his own identity like a comic strip transferred onto Silly Putty. But we get rhymes. So many rhymes. More rhymes than some rappers manage in a whole career. It was only 13 years ago when he was just rap's Great White Asshole. He's already been the lead actor. He deserves to play the stuntman for a while."

Rating: 8/10

NME:
"It's been three years since Eminem's last outing, in which time rap has seen a seismic shift towards trap rumbles, woozy echoes and, in the case of fashionistas A$AP Rocky and Kanye, rhymes about cat walks - a world apart from the Detroit emcee as we last saw him in 2010 around Recovery"

Rating: 6/10

New York Daily News:
"The album offers a resounding return to the gory comedy and free embrace of psychosis that first made Em the antihero of our age. It's his funniest album in years, as well as his fastest, verbally. The speed rap in 'Rap God' alone could make every other emcee tie their tongue in shame."

Rating: 4/5

Vice:
"No other rap album this year has managed to continually surprise in the way that the Marshall Mathers LP 2 does. I don't think my jaw closed for a high majority listening through this album, consistently finding myself laughing out loud, pleased, shocked, and at times, emotional."

Rating: Positive

Digital Spy:
"The Marshall Mathers LP 2 is just as offensive, funny, bleak as its forebear, but - aside from the questionable guest stars and those derogatory comments - Eminem is brooding, in form and the rest should start taking notes again."

Rating: 4/5

[Iceman]

You've made it clear again and again that you don't actually have a problem with gay people. So why, in 2013, use "******" on that song? Why use "gay-looking" as an insult?

I don't know how to say this without saying it how I've said it a million times. But that word, those kind of words, when I came up battle-rappin' or whatever, I never really equated those words . . .

To actually mean "homosexual"?

Yeah. It was more like calling someone a bitch or a punk or asshole. So that word was just thrown around so freely back then. It goes back to that battle, back and forth in my head, of wanting to feel free to say what I want to say, and then [worrying about] what may or may not affect people. And, not saying it's wrong or it's right, but at this point in my career – man, I say so much **** that's tongue-in-cheek. I poke fun at other people, myself. But the real me sitting here right now talking to you has no issues with gay, straight, transgender, at all. I'm glad we live in a time where it's really starting to feel like people can live their lives and express themselves. And I don't know how else to say this, I still look at myself the same way that I did when I was battling and broke.

I kind of thought you were doing it because when you're rapping as Slim Shady, part of your mission is to annoy people.

Well, look, I've been doing this **** for, what, 14 years now? And I think people know my personal stance on things and the personas that I create in my music. And if someone doesn't understand that by now, I don't think there's anything I can do to change their mind about it.

[Iceman]

Metacritic currently has it tied with MMLP1 haha. Not sure how that site works but I imagine itll drop a bit

[smeagol]

sellout title quite surprised really.. haven't heard it yet prefer encore myself anyway .

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Metacritic currently has it tied with MMLP1 haha. Not sure how that site works but I imagine itll drop a bit

Yeah it will, I remember Unapologetic went down by like 10 points once all the reviews came in

[Scarlett.]

Listening to this album for the first time, I'm really enjoying it, I did like Relapse and Recovery, but this is more akin to classic Eminem, which is fantastic.

[Iceman]

Just listened to the deluxe songs.... the Sia collab is great and destruction caught my eye too. Also a new song for the COD game later.

[michael21]

i like the song where he get a letter from a fan who drove of a bridges

[Iceman]

21 songs on the digital chart lol. Looks so weird

[Iceman]

I actually cant believe all the promo for this album. Youtube awards. Saturday night live. 4 videos ao far. Rolling stone interview. Shade45 interview. Complex magazine interview. Numerous other interviews. Hes gonna be on the french show journal next week. Possible EMA's. Jonathan Ross interview. He will be on Rap City tomorrow and doing a freestyle... oh and the COD promo.... for recovery we waited 5 months for a video lol.

[Iceman]

Oh and theres a q&a with fans tomorrow in which a Monster video is hinted at... havent got a reliable source or that though

[Scarlett.]

I love the Stan references in Bad Guy

[Iceman]

I really want a video for bad guy and headlights....loving this more with each listen. .. rhyme or reason is growing on me too

[Iceman]

Billboard Hot 100: #3(new) The Monster, @Eminem Feat. @rihanna. *Hot Shot Debut*
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: #1(new) The Monster, @Eminem Feat. @rihanna.
Billboard Rap Songs: #1(new) The Monster, @Eminem Feat. @rihanna.


Billboard Hot 100: #15(+10) Berzerk, @Eminem [10 weeks].
Billboard Hot 100: #16(+51) Survival, @Eminem [4 weeks].
Billboard Hot 100: #17(+4) Rap God, @Eminem [3 weeks]

Need a video for the YT plays...

[Shaun]

I watched SNL earlier, he was quite good. Still seems really grumpy though (with the curtain call they do at the end, he was basically staring at the screen, but he did hug a couple of people)

[Shaun]

also pitchfork gave him a 4.5 but i think they hate him anyway

[Iceman]

I tend to stick to rap or hip hop sites for reviews...like im quite happy with the boston globes one though haha. You should check out the Rap God performance from the YT Awards though.... GOAT Performance

[Shaun]

yeah, I gave them a miss because I thought they'd go hard on the whole Gangnam Style, Bieber, WHATEVER GOT A BILLION VIEWS GETS A MENTION front but it seemed quite decent in the end. Will do

[Vanessa]

I like Eminem. He's always amazing. Love 8Mile.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Iceman

I tend to stick to rap or hip hop sites for reviews...like im quite happy with the boston globes one though haha. You should check out the Rap God performance from the YT Awards though.... GOAT Performance

The fast rap bit was out of this world

I love the rythmn of 'Rhyme & Reason'

[Iceman]

And the fact he did it live and it sounded great...im happy now if I dont get anymore promo for this album. He's come back once again and fired shots at every rapper who released an album this year (kanye. Jayz. Drake. Lil wayne. Frank ocean. Now they need to respond...

Love the third verse in rhyme or reason where he saus 'slim' instead of marshall...

[Roy Mars III]

Rap God is the best rap song in the past two years.

That youtube perform was amazing

[King Gizzard]

Youtube video

[Iceman]

He's done a ****load of promo the past two days...ill do a roundup tomorrow

[Iceman]

Eminem has done something no artist has done in nearly 50 years.

He has scored four simultaneous hits in Billboard's Hot 100's Top 20 -- all as a lead artist. The last music act to have done that was the Beatles in 1964. Eminem's "Monster" is at No. 3, while "Berzerk," "Survival" and "Rap God" currently rank at 15, 16 and 17, respectively

Why be a king? When you can be a GOD!