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Eminem
- Record Label: Shady Records / Interscope
- Release Date: Jan 17, 2020
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Jan 17, 2020Eminen’s 11th album offers over an hour of the world’s greatest rapper blasting away on all cylinders. It is the first great album of 2020, so lethally brilliant it should be a crime.
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Jan 21, 2020Music To Be Murdered By is far from the star-studded, commercially sustainable album Recovery was, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. On this album, despite its handful of flaws, Em shows strong signs of adapting to the times through modern musical choices and smarter songwriting.
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Jan 21, 2020As a whole, Music to Be Murdered By is as hit-and-miss as anything Eminem has released this side of the millennium. But remove the skits, the relationship songs, the family songs, the morose gun control song, and the quirky Ed Sheeran club goof and you still have 36 solid minutes of the daffy, one-of-a-kind rap genius that keeps captivating true-school heads and longtime fans. Or, if you’d like, keep it all and you still have the most solid work he’s done in a few years.
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Jan 30, 2020If they look hard enough, any artist could find criticism of their work online. That’s sort of the curse of the Information Age. But not everyone overreacts quite as much as Eminem does. But if his fears grow tiring, his lyrical ability can still give you something to admire, even if the album is somewhat uneven.
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Jan 21, 2020With this project he shows that age is just a number, defying any expectations that have been set by the rap scene.
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Jan 21, 2020If he’s figuring out from scratch how to be a compelling artist again, Eminem’s improved the caliber of his beats and guests, taking stands against the right day-to-day injustices, toning down the tasteless (with the exception of the already-infamous Ariana line, of course), and rapping with the manic precision of someone who just snorted a whole sandcastle of cocaine and Vyvanse. If only a single minute of it was as hilarious or bracing as Chris D’Elia’s impression of him.
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Jan 21, 2020While his talent for head-spinning flow and cutting barbs is still very much in effect, the album is a passable but ultimately forgettable meandering through popular hip-hop sounds of today.
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Positive: 4,259 out of 5097
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Mixed: 222 out of 5097
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Negative: 616 out of 5097
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Jan 17, 2020It's Eminem's best album since Recovery. Good music production & some banger tracks make this album great.
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Jan 17, 2020
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Jan 17, 2020Slim Shady is back!! Amazing features, not a lot of fillers straight to the point. Production is also on point.