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Eminem
- Record Label: Shady Records / Interscope
- Release Date: Dec 18, 2020
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Dec 18, 2020When it comes to lyrical audacity and dramatic delivery, rap’s most maniacal motormouth still wipes the floor with all-comers, albeit this time he might pause to wipe the microphone first.
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Dec 31, 2020Side B is a 16-track expansion that delivers familiar territory with some pops of Em at his sharpest.
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Dec 21, 2020Over the three-song run of "Alfred's Theme" (which jacks Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," best known as the theme music to Alfred Hitchcock Presents, to delirious effect), "Tone Deaf," and "Book of Rhymes" (which climaxes with a flurry of DJ Premier scratches), Slim Shady stuffs more rewind-worthy punchlines and flow variations than most rappers will deliver in a whole career. ... Other attempts feel more forced. ... More compelling are the two tracks produced by D.A. Got That Dope.
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Dec 28, 2020Side B is not a total miss though, nor even a miss at all. Once Mathers stumbles through this opening salvo and the awkward bits of “Tone Deaf”, the album settles into a comfortable space, and even becomes enjoyable.
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Dec 18, 2020The album gets off to an inauspicious start with “Black Magic,” a dreary murder ballad with the requisite Skylar Grey hook and the same tired splatter-movie shock lines. Things perk up with “Alfred’s Theme,” which nods to the album’s Hitchcockian premise by sampling “Funeral March of a Marionette” and making a painfully predictable play on the name “Hitchcock,” and from there on out, the record seesaws between rapid-fire dirty puns and show-offy rhyme displays.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 482 out of 549
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Mixed: 29 out of 549
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Negative: 38 out of 549
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Dec 18, 2020
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Dec 18, 2020This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Dec 18, 2020Another great album
Eminem has been proving that he is one of the GOATs if not the GOAT