[Brother Leon]

Monster was always going to sell the best lol. It's poor though.

[reece(:]

Monster is the best song on the album >

[Iceman]

Been playing this all day...have to say im really liking it a lot... an see it will have far more replay value and songs for the die hard stans who I believe he made the album for...the whole stan pt2 is amazing

[Stu]

Bad Guy is intense. I love it.

And yeah Monster sticks out like a sore needle.

[Iceman]

Headlights sticks out as a single to me....that second verse just being so open and raw....its the one that gives me goosebumps everytime...

Aw im just so happy its not recovery 2.0

If he calls it a day ill be sad but at least he'd go out on a high....

[Iceman]

Also thers been a lot of stuff to update but I just havent had the time... I will tomorrow... tours and interviews etc...

[Iceman]

Last post for the night. Nathan (Em's brother) has tweeted that this is Eminem's final album.

He has 1 more on his deal with Interscope....greatest hits???

[Iceman]

Oh nvm he's trolling. ... wanker

[Brother Leon]

Iceman be taking no **** in the Eminem thread

[Iceman]

Deluxe leaked.....havent got time to listen yet...but yeah judging from what ive read the 5 songs compliment the standard very well

[Iceman]

He's dominating the US itunes. Monster been #1 for 3 days and the other 3 are top 10...

#blondesdoitbetter

[Me. I Am Salman]

#rihannasimpact

[Iceman]

#no1curr #allaboutalbumsales #millfirstweek #unnecessaryhashtags #reallycantstop

[Iceman]

Im just ripping the piss by the way...I dont mind what he does to get sales...he provided enough on MMLP2 to keep me happy

[MeMyselfAndI]

Hes blocked 1D from getting #1 this week, 1D fans are hating on him

[Iceman]

We can all be happy for once then haha.

[Stu]

No better a figure to block them really, it's just perfect .

[Iceman]

Wouldnt have happened with his brown hair.... im telling you its the blonde. .. I really do rate this album highly....im so happy though... tis the little things in life....and the alcohol....im rambling now....goodnight ha

[Iceman]

Hes the music guest on SNL tonight

[Iceman]

SNL performances were good but he just performed Rap God live at the YT awards....****ing outstanding....never thought id hear that live....oh and he won something too but idk what it was

[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

[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

[smeagol]

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