6/7/2023 0 Comments The marshall mathers lp 2![]() Rolling Stone‘s Jon Dolan gave the album four out of five stars, but offered a critical response to the rapper who, he notes, “could use a publicity stunt.” In spite of controversy, however, the album is also about “reclaiming a certain freewheeling buoyance, about pissing off the world from a more open, less cynical place.” Eminem has touted hefty emotional baggage throughout his career, and Dolan jokes that “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.” But after more than a decade, “they have mutated from being his prey to now being his muse.” The rapper’s core themes – “revenge, resentment and heartbreak” – come out in force on the new album “as heavy-breathing voices which adhere to Em, fueling impassioned, and at times crudely comical, lyricism, which he spits at a rapid speed and through alternating tonality.” “Eminem’s demons are as present on The Marshall Mathers LP 2 as they were on its 2000 predecessor,” Billboard‘s Erika Ramirez writes. ![]() ![]() PHOTOS: ‘Born in the U.S.A.’: America’s Most Patriotic (and Un-Patriotic) Musical Offerings The Marshall Mathers LP 2 has garnered mostly favorable reviews, but the album continues to rouse controversy in this week’s What the Critics are Saying:
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