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  1. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album!!! One of my favorite Em's project, he is such an amazing artist and the best in the rap game.
    But when these haters saw the rating is amazing they started to give bad ratings and say that proudly. ****
  2. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Один из самых лучших альбомов, это как второй The Eminem show, мне понравилось, а на остальных пофиг Expand
  3. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Absolutely amazing by far the best one Eminem has released in a while enjoyed every bit of it
  4. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    You **** **** really think ya'll gon bring the score down? Foh. Kanye stans stay mad that both ye and JIS was **** ass. Dude went full Jesus freak on us.
  5. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I was waiting this quality since longtime between excellent production feat young MA, juice Wrld and a very good Ed sheran (surprisly) its a bomb !
  6. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    How awful Kanye West fans are doing. underestimating just because you don’t want the album rating to not get higher incorrectly. this is music and it needs to be evaluated honestly. and this music is good, I like everything. 10/10
  7. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's just it's soooo good and better than all rap song that are gust methh to me I'm really felling this album Expand
  8. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Masterpiece price of art, it deserves more than 10 and I'm so happy to hear Eminem on top against
  9. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Absolute top notch album! Couldn’t of asked for anything better from Shady. The masterpiece Darkness that hits home for everyone, the Alfred Hitchcock skits, perfect features including technical ability of Slaughterhouse. Can’t remember the last time i have loved so many tracks on one album!
  10. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Slim Shady is back! I love You Gon Lear e Godzillaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (first my favorite) Crazy Shady!
  11. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Anyone that gives this album less than a 8 and calls themselves true hip-hop fans is just a hater of Em and will trash anything he does. And that is just sad.
  12. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Eminem is the goat he’s the best rapper in the world best artist not my opinion it’s facts
  13. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Amazing album.. absolutely loved it. Nxnnznnznznnznznnznnznndnnxnnxnxbzbbxbbxb
  14. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    A reinvention of classic Em, comeback of infectious production and flows, an onslaught of bars and a 10/10 feature list. Even Ed Sheeran sounds great on the record despite the overtly cheesy hook.
  15. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. That’s a great album and an outstanding effort after the storm of Kamikaze. This album represents a return to form and assured Eminem another home run. On this release Shady does what he does best: selling truckloads of copies and making critics question its merit. The Juice WRLD collaboration “Godzilla” has held steady at No. 2 on the U.S. Spotify chart and No. 4 on the global chart, pointing to a strong debut on next week’s Hot 100. In the end Marshall Mathers’s latest effort has the numbers to debut atop the billboard hot 200 and granting Eminem his record 10th consecutive No.1 debut. Expand
  16. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. One of the best albums Em has released in recent memory, even though it is not a full return to old-school TES, SSLP, and MMLP Eminem, it is the closest thing. There aren't any songs on the album that I skip when listening to it, which is a great sign. Expand
  17. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    1996 Em dropped his first album, since that time Em gave us fantastic and tasteful music.
    after the great comeback "kamikaze" he dropped another great album after 20+ career in the game.
  18. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Perfection! 5 tracks are meh but the 15 great ones more than makeup for that. Just love this album!
  19. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    tem umas faixas meio bosta e umas fodas também, melhor que o revival e inferior ao kamikaze.
  20. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Do Brasil: álbum fantástico com letras geniais e batidas fantásticas. Música preferia You gon learn
  21. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Beast, what an Album. For him to be in the game this long and still being able to pull of something like this is incredible!
  22. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Goat without a doubt. All songs were great and would probably rate it his 4th best album
  23. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album is great. I haven’t stopped listening to it since it’s release. Eminem uses all of his talent on this one.
  24. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    4th favorite Eminem album, behind The Eminem Show, Marshall Mathers LP, and MMLP2
  25. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    A combination of all the good things in the goats career.
    Eminem claps back again and kills another album. Classic Eminem leaving people butthurt everywhere! What he was destined to do. The goat is back!
  26. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    One of his best album since 2009. lyrically very impressive, great production and sone nice features.
  27. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This is Em at his best since 2001 no doubt. Every track seems like something new and it doesn’t get boring! A definite must!
  28. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Dkejendidieuhe e eisieuwhwjwowiwevrbrkdisiwyhenene e dmxjduwuhwbebfjfidushenendkfiueuehebebenennekskeieue ejeueuehvebeneme.dm
  29. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I tried to type a review but my keyboard melted
  30. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Incredible work of art with a passionate return to his magnum opus. Eminem operates on a level far beyond that of any current artist in today’s industry.
  31. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Not the best of his but the best of this year. My favorites are Godzilla, Little Engine and Unaccommodating, and Darkness.
  32. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This album shows Eminem's ridiculously fast, multi-syllable rhyme schemes filled with lines that pierce your mind with his lyricism. It's his best work since Recovery. Expand
  33. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    One of his best projects in years, dark and moody befitting the title of the album. Too early to say but might be up there with his big 3 for me. Feels like a more well rounded project than kamikaze(which I loved) and certainly better than revival or MMLP2(a record I did like as well).
  34. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    "Now this will probably be the most illest **** that I've ever said
    God bless the dead and let Biggie possess the pencil lead"

    Hard as hell
  35. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Wow Amazing 10 out of 10 give it a full listen twice if you're hater try to understand the lyrics and you'll find he's a genius.
  36. Jan 23, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is just to annoy the people voting it down. Let’s make this thing the GOAT album loooooool Expand
  37. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Absolutly great. I love almost all off the songs and the Alfred Hitchcock Theme is amazing
  38. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This new Eminem album is so fire, haven’t stop playing it since it came out. Even the songs I wasn’t feelin a lot at the beginning are growing on me. Thank you Marshall Expand
  39. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Has some of his best songs and album consistency since the Eminem show. I love the intro, Eminem starts it by having the sounds of a woman dying and him burying her. This indicating shady was back in control. Then in the rest of the intro he talked about the struggle of trying to make the music he wants and how he can’t please everyone, including his haters all at once, so he is declaringHas some of his best songs and album consistency since the Eminem show. I love the intro, Eminem starts it by having the sounds of a woman dying and him burying her. This indicating shady was back in control. Then in the rest of the intro he talked about the struggle of trying to make the music he wants and how he can’t please everyone, including his haters all at once, so he is declaring that he’s just going to let loose on everyone who wants it. Throughout songs like you gon learn, Godzilla, yah yah, marsh, and I will; Em show cases his lyrically skill at its best. While on those kinda nights he reminisces back to his party days. He makes a banger with anderson.paak called Lock it up, which I took as Eminem saying that the haters almost got him but then he just locked it up before he could lose it. Expand
  40. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Has a modern feel and yet it sound like his older work. great .best songs are i will,stepdad,leaving heaven and godzilla
  41. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album haven’t stopped listening since it came out, really recommend you give it a listen
  42. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a Classic album “Music To Be Murdered By”. Eminem the legend the GOAT. Expand
  43. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album was peeeerfect Eminem. You are grrrrreat. I am so proud of yoooou
  44. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Incredible album, amazing production features flow theme, everything you could ask for.
  45. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    The Goat, best album of 2020, I Love It!!, Eminem is the King of Rap for sure.
  46. Jan 25, 2020
    10
    An amazing album, on repeat! Definitely quality. For me is the same level as MMLP2 and TES.
  47. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Best Album Of 2020! The beats/choruses everything Is Amazing In the album!!
  48. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    perfect album all around. It cannot get any better than what mans put out SHOUTOUT KTT
  49. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    amazing beats and lyrics. No need to give hate to this masterpiece. also discussed gun violence in america.RECOMMENDED
  50. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Loved it another winner from em!! Glad it wasn't full of skylar was getting boring lol
  51. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Honestly the Album is an 8.2/10 but giving it a 10 because of all the hate....
    Least Favorite: Farewell and Yah Yah
    Best Tracks: Unaccomodating, Lock it up, Godzilla, I will, You gon learn
  52. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Best album post revival..his flow on Godzilla is bonkers..and every song so good
  53. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Eminem made me strong when i wasn't!he is a
  54. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Better than revival, eminem has a posthumous juice wrld feature which means so much because juice was a lifetime eminem fan.
  55. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Everyone making fake accounts to bring down this rating is absolutely pitiful.
  56. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. balancing out the fake 0/10 reviews mumble rap lovers are posting, get mad loooooooool :) Expand
  57. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album, DC jgdbgdhgffdddddfhddydlududñuddyld7ñdudostso6e6pw6ps6psypdñys6dp7dñydlydpyso6s7pdpyso6
  58. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I don't know why people are hating this album so much its full of witty bars and meaning
  59. N2T
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Cant turn it off. Brilliant album and Eminems flow is on point as always. Says offensive lines which is nothing new.. people just snowflakes now days.
  60. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Best album in a while, easy to hit play and enjoy. Every song is fantastic with great beats!
  61. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Lyrics on another level. Every word is double or triple entendre. Good comeback Expand
  62. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    “I’m gonna rare this album a 0 to bring the score down from 9” - Some User

    shut the **** up idiot , it defeats the purpose of a vote. Besides, it’s individuals opinions anyway.
  63. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Best album hejrv f urgent ei fb: la belle-mère et on a des amis et on a un truc à moi Expand
  64. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Long time listener, alot of replayability with this album . Leaving heaven is my favorite so far just because of the emotion
  65. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This is a whole different vibe . Something new and epic as always . Legend . Legacy . Eminem
  66. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Fantastic Album, Best Eminem One since The Eminem Show. Godzilla is simply perfect
  67. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This will be classic em is legend, leaving heaven no regrets godzilla uncommodating are top tier
  68. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album has some of the best wordplay from Em and is in my personal top 3 just
  69. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. best sounding album Eminem did since MMLP2.Could be better if it was 5 songs shorter but i guess there is enough for everyone to enjoy Expand
  70. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great album and deserves to be the on top of everything that has dropped recently Expand
  71. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Melhor álbum desde "The Eminem Show". Incrível a capacidade do Eminem de fazer rimas muitissilábicas, duplo e triplo sentidos numa rima só. Além dos variados flows, ótimos Beats e participações. Masterpiece! Thanks Marshall. Expand
  72. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Top notch album, Eminem has been one of music’s hugest stars for more than two decades, yet over the years he’s increasingly taken on the tendencies of the cult artist — the deepening sense of embattled insularity, the hapless angst, the lack of interest in the genre he once transformed. On his 11th album, all the old enemies are present: the women who do him wrong, the family members who messed him up, the rappers you may or may not that now feels more like a cudgel than a gift, as if he’s leaning into the shredding-for-shredding’s-sake, Yngwie-Malmsteen-of-hip-hop accusations that have dogged his recent albums, particularly 2018’s confrontationally dreary Kamikaze. “Similes and idioms/Giddy up!” he demands on “Little Engine.” And they definitely do, at times to stunning effect, though the dervish humor and gremlin bounce that made his original Silly Putty-psycho shtick an American classic remain in relatively short supply.


    He does seem to have thrown a little more intellectual, thematic, and emotional elbow grease into this record. The title of Music to Be Murdered By alludes to a 1958 collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and film composer Jeffrey Alexander, and Hitchcock’s voice appears in segues throughout. Eminem piles on movie references, calling on everything from Reservoir Dogs to Rocky to 8 Mile. But no real concept, cinematic or otherwise, develops — unless **** me and **** you too” is a concept, in which case this is a veritable Tommy. “Such a wide range of emotions/Migraines, but why the **** am I takin’ these Motrins?/Ibuprofens, like a drop of rain in the ocean/And you’re my fix on the days when I’m broken/But the **** about to go sideways, I just know it,” he raps on the dispirited “Never Lose Again,” one of many examples of his still-unimpeachable genius for dazzlingly ornamented lyrical decadence: us. The Dr. Dre-produced album-opening “Premonition” lashes out at the critics who haven’t liked his last two albums: “Rolling Stone stars, I get two and a half outta five, and I’ll laugh out loud/’Cause that’s what they gave B.A.D. back in the day.” The 2.5-star review of LL Cool J’s 1987 album, Bigger And Deffer, that he’s evidently referencing comes from the 2004 print edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, which isn’t online. But when it comes to airing out his grudges, no amount of having to drive around Michigan looking for a Barnes & Noble will hold Eminem back. It’s the kind of monkish attention to detail that bespeaks a true craftsman.


    Musically, he gestures toward the current hip-hop world a little more intentionally than his hermetic-sounding albums have tended to in the recent past. The buoyant “Godzilla” features leftover verses from the recently departed emo-rap icon Juice WRLD, serviceably sutured into Eminem rhyme clusters delivered in a rapid-fire blur that’s almost microtonal. Anderson .Paak lends his light Cali-soul growl over Dr. Dre’s springy beat on “Lock It Up”; the brutally mean-spirited breakup song “Farewell” has a lithe, reggae-tinged beat from Southern rap producer Ricky Racks. The best production moment is “Yah Yah,” a frenetically grinding, Busta Rhymes-sampling posse cut with Black Thought of the Roots, Em’s Detroit buddies Royce da 5’9″ and Denaun of D12, and Q-Tip soulfully singing the hook.

    In a new lyrical wrinkle, Em steps into the role of political commentator and protest voice, with mixed results. On the grueling, six-minute “Darkness,” the album’s most ambitious performance, he attempts to inhabit the mind of the gunman responsible for the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival that took 58 lives. His impulses are in the right place (the song’s intense video ends by imploring “When will it end?” and then asks people to register to vote). But the song itself doesn’t stretch much outside Eminem’s lyrical comfort zone: “If I bet you I’ll be in tomorrow’s paper, who would the odds favor?” he raps, placing the person responsible for the worst mass murder in U.S. history within the same needy-lonely-white-guy emotional valence as “Stan.”

    The most egregious self-owning oversight on Music to Be Murdered By, especially in the context of “Darkness,” is “Unaccommodating,” featuring fire-breathing Brooklyn rapper Young M.A. Eminem undercuts an impressively manic spree of rhymes by tossing in a half-assed allusion to another concert tragedy: “I’m contemplating yelling ‘bombs away’ on the game/Like I’m outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting.” Within hours of its release, the song prompted a statement of condemnation from the mayor of Manchester. For Eminem, acknowledgements of our shared humanity may occasionally happen in the abstract, but specific instances in his music are still hard to come by.
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  73. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Its a Great Album and lil haters rate it down Because the Favourite Artist is under Eminem Expand
  74. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Just too gooood ☄️☄️☄️☄️
  75. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Good album. Emimem is still the best rapper. Listen to the GOAT. Hope for a European tour in 2020
  76. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El mejor álbum del 2020 Expand
  77. Te
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Really good album, I really enjoyed it, it was fire, literally every track.
  78. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    It is one of his better albums. I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of the old Em but also show how times are changing with him teaming up with younger artists.
  79. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    A combination of “The Eminem Show” and “Relapse”. A clear minded Eminem. Slim Shady at his best on this one. The pocket is INSANE
  80. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    The hook on I Will is straight old school hard hitting eminem. The bars following absolutely demolish the beat. All though his voice I find a little annoying- his flow is incredible. Yah yah, Godzilla, never love again, premonition, all hit hard and go for broke. I will forever miss “the re up” era Eminem, but this is a good replacement. Thanks shady!
  81. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album 10/10 would. Production is on point and the feature list is great too. This is the best Marshall has been in the past few years. Lots of great flows. Good mix of fun and serious songs.
  82. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This is amazing!! Eminem is always the GOAT!! Questo album è migliore rispetto le ultime uscite, beat da far paura, liriche eccellenti e feautures perfetti. Eminem si è superato
  83. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album is hella good i love everything about this album tbvh im feeling it em did a really great job
  84. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Classic album...easily his best since TES. The best tracks on the album IMO Godzilla, Marsh, You Gon Learn, Lock It Up, and Premonition...
  85. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing album great work em . It is an amazing and wonderful album . In my opinion the song with juice wrld is the best one in the album Expand
  86. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. MTBMB is a great Eminem album, his best since Relapse. Unlike revival especially, there are just 2 or 3 songs here that I don't like ("Those Kinda nights" and "Farewell" and possibly "Step Dad") Songs like "You Gon' Learn" and "I will" show how amazing Ems lyrical ability is, while "Godzilla" featuring Juice Wrld shows how well em can work with new gen talents (rip juice :()
    The song "Darkness" showcases the Stan like storytelling ability Shady still has. This album is brilliant, and shows that Em isn't done yet. Goat.
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  87. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Its so much to take from this, people have no taste in music anymore, eminem did wonders for all generations, its perfection
  88. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album. Best album of the year so far, all tracks are good, entertaining album.
  89. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Shady is back! Honestly his best album in many years and it's more than welcomed!
  90. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album, with a lot of replay value.

    it has great features, great production and most importantly eminem is killing it in this album.
  91. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album. At this point Eminem is just doing this for fun. His wordplay and rhymes are incredible as always
  92. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    My favorite Eminem album since “The Eminem Show” his Provocative yet intricate wordplay makes for a musical experience worth listening to from front-to-back. And you guessed it, Andre is back to producing for the hip-hop giant. Interestingly enough, some of the best tracks were produced by Royce Da 5’9” who was featured heavily on the album. Absolute classic, and a return to form forMy favorite Eminem album since “The Eminem Show” his Provocative yet intricate wordplay makes for a musical experience worth listening to from front-to-back. And you guessed it, Andre is back to producing for the hip-hop giant. Interestingly enough, some of the best tracks were produced by Royce Da 5’9” who was featured heavily on the album. Absolute classic, and a return to form for Eminem. Expand
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 17
  2. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Feb 11, 2020
    60
    He clearly cares about his output, but “Music To Be Murdered By” is, unfortunately, another mixed bag of tricks, propped up by lyrical acrobatics and underwhelming production.
  2. 70
    If 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.
  3. Jan 27, 2020
    55
    It is not, strictly speaking, a good record—Eminem hasn’t made one of those in a decade—but it boasts enough technical command and generates just enough arresting ideas to hold your attention.