He sings about the abuse he received from his mother and his anger at his father for abandoning him. It succeeds for the most part, but comes out as mean-spirited. "Cleanin' Out My Closet" is a personal reflection on Marshall's life of pain and suffering. He spits out what helped him through childhood, singing for the fans, making a difference in music. It's an epic, moving, emotional song that is his single most brilliant single to ever be recorded. "Sing for the Moment"? Oh my god, you HAVE to listen to Sing For The Moment. It's really intense and wicked stuff, I'm telling you. "These ideas are nightmares to white parents / Whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair and who likes earrings / Like whatever they say has no bearing, it's so scary in a house that allows no swearing / To see him walking around with his headphones blaring / Alone in his own zone, cold and he don't care / He's a problem child And what bothers him all comes out, when he talks about His ***in' dad walkin' out / Cause he just hates him so bad that he blocks him out If he ever saw him again he'd probably knock him out" The absolute lyrical fire in the songs are flowing and spat out. Eminem always was a gifted in terms of being a poet, and it's present in this album. On the downside, without the medicine the doctor gave it, it's not all perfect. On the upside, there's a lot of work put into this album, and it truly shows. Dre's talented control and make his own company, which soon became a blessing AND a curse. Mathers had become so undeniably popular and rich that he was able to move from Dr.
The album is the first released under Shady Records. Here's an interesting fact about this: it's almost entirely self-produced. But the absolute emotional stress and power that this album possesses is what makes it the most amazing album, most brilliant album the former rapper has made. In fact, Eminem's previous album, The Marshall Mathers LP, with songs like the disturbing"Kim", the lyrically breathtaking"Stan", and the now-brilliant, angry "The Way I Am", is still one of the best albums of all time, and one of the most well-written. Now, I won't BS that every single song on this album is the best. And for those who say Marshall's just a drugged-out, homophobic, misogynic freak, you're wrong in many ways. The Eminem Show shows a side of Mathers that not a whole lot of people can relate to: he may not look like it, but he's unhappy. It's Eminem's best album yet, and one of the single greatest recorded albums of all time. Try to even remotely VISUALIZE the slightest amount of torture that was Marshall Mathers' life.Īnd The Eminem Show just shows that Eminem has led an unhappy life. Abused by his mother, beaten by classmates, taunted by classmates, attempted suicide, he even lost his Uncle Ronnie all because of a damned shotgun. Outside of his out-of-reality, psychotic Slim Shady persona, he's had a really tough life. I'm not going to go BS'ing that it's the single greatest album alive, that he's the best vocalist of all time, or that he deserved EVERY Grammy that he got, but Eminem really does deserve the praise he's gotten. Mathers truly is would be more difficult than just saying it. Is the Best Selling Artists of the Decade #79 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time #82 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time Made two albums that were the fastest-selling of 20. He's won a total of thirteen Grammys, three of them on his albums. His third album, The Marshal Mathers LP, is the fastest selling solo album of all time. Let's see, let's go through what Eminem's done: Review Summary: If you thought The Marshall Mathers LP was good, wait'll you hear this.