"Ass Like That" - i'm actually feeling so much secondhand embarrassment from this song. It also lazily samples "Without Me" without any meaning or reason behind it. Also, this has maybe the fourth fart joke in a row on the record, what was Eminem's obsession with farting at this time? The hook has an annoying, sampled yell that gets worse to listen to as it goes on. parody of Michael Jackson? And this was one of the album's biggest single? Man, this. not that good? I don't care if I get flamed for this, but 1.5/5.Ĩ. The chorus might be one of the most painful things to listen to in Em's catalogue, it's just. For once, I feel like Eminem's actually trying too hard to be funny, featuring strange and childish lines like "is it gay to play putt-putt golf with a friend (Yeah) and watch his butt butt when he tees off (Yeah)". "Rain Man" - I just don't like this at all. "Puke" - Starts with a sample of vomiting. "Mosh" - An anti-Bush rap song with some of the sickest and most dramatic flow Eminem's ever brought to the table, complete with a booming beat and a hip-hop protest atmosphere that sounds good even to this very day. There's very few Eminem lines with as strong an opening line as "I’m supposed to be that soldier who never loses composure, even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders." An easy 5/5.ĥ. This is rap with effort, and the march-band sample of Martika's Toy Soldiers adds an epic vibe to the whole song. "Like Toy Soldiers" - Now this is the Eminem we've come to know and love. That being said, I think this song's a little too long. "Yellow Brick Road" - I like how weird and fidgety the beat of this song is, it feels like two old-school beats slapped together that manage to work together in harmony instead of clashing. It sounds like a really-good holdover from the Eminem Show. "Never Enough" - This is a breath of fresh air compared to "Evil Deeds", it's a short, quick song that flows well, has a cool, synthy beat, and Nate Dogg brings a cool, baritone harmony to the chorus that makes this song that much more enjoyable. One of the first times he's made a really weak song, 2.5/5.Ģ. weird, why does Eminem repeat himself so much on the first verse, why does he break into a nursery rhyme? He repeats "Satan's Spawn" twice on two different verse and it almost feels like he was running out of lyrical material mid-song. "Evil Deeds" - The flow and delivery of this song are just. It might be the very first time that the force of nature known as Eminem started to slip Encore showed us that, yes, even the legends have their off days.ġ. It's more of a comedy album than anything else, which is a fun little experiment I suppose, but disappointing when it comes to comparing it to his previous LPs (albums). Like, it's still better than anything that Migos has ever put out, and it's still got some really ill ***, but it's just not up to the same level of mind-boggling quality that the SSLP, MMLP, Eminem Show, and Infinite were. I guess it's understandable given how utterly amazing and trendsetting Eminem's first four albums were, but Encore is a kinda weak fifth album. Review Summary: My flow's untouchable, now you gotta face it- uh-oh, it gets worse when I go back to the basics!
0 kommentar(er)
