“If y’all leave me alone, this wouldn’t be my M.O.,” he says on “My Dad’s Gone Crazy.” This time he’s rapping because the world has pissed him off, not the other way around. But Em isn’t saying things just to get you mad here. “Without Me” - like his “The Real Slim Shady,” the leadoff single from 2000’s The Marshall Mathers LP - is a fun-loving, barb-laden romp on which he flits from one topic to the next like a bumblebee with ADD. The Eminem Show has the self-assurance of an artist at the top of his game and the game, the understanding that the music world is hanging on his every word and the willingness to shock even the most jaded ears.Īppropriately enough for a man closing in on thirty, The Eminem Show finds Eminem more mature and focused, if not kinder and gentler. And that’s not only because he reworks Aerosmith’s “Dream On,” on “Sing for the Moment.” The Eminem Show is a hybrid theory of Jay-Z’s hyperconfident The Blueprint, Staind’s pained Dysfunction and Tupac’s anti-hero masterpiece All Eyez On Me. With The Eminem Show, Eminem just may have made the best rap-rock album in history.
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