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  1. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Kanyecilerin anasını sikeyim. BUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUMBUM
  2. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Sick flows and great beats. Easily Em's best album in years. Absolutely brilliant
  3. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The fact that people with give an em album bad reviews cuz they don’t want him up top
    NEWS FLASH he’s on top and nothing can change
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  4. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album is fire 100% the best work since 2013 (MMLP2) people just hate on Marshall sk much because he’s doing numbers
  5. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I'm a fan of his speed and storytelling. The shocking bars aren't really a problem, to me. The content was there and it also had great length. This is something I can play on repeat. He also had a lot of fun with it. I'm enjoying all the ad-libs.
  6. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Really his best work in my opinion, this is just amazing after a few days of intense listening this is just blazing hot
  7. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album with superb beats thanks to all the producers that helped on this album. Kanye stans want to lower the rating of this album, but the album will speak for itself
  8. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. i like what em did in this album enjoy the album every track make you feel his love for the hip hop Expand
  9. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    My eardrums were murdered during the process of listening to this fire album. I highly recommend it to anybody who is a passion for rap and pure hip hop.
  10. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Best album of Eminem after the Eminem Show, lyrics are amazing, wordplay are so sharp flow is crazy, this is consious crazyness, slim and Eminem combined
  11. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    this album is a masterpiece deserves a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!
  12. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    The album is straight fire. People still gonna be hating on EM cause he speak facts. Enjoy the greatness.
  13. c4s
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Very good music, eminem is such an complete artist, on this album you can find very good beats, word play, bars ... it's a 10 for me
  14. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Amazing album best he has done in a while. Deep as **** at times, emotional, hard. Covers it all.
  15. Jan 22, 2020
    0
    Eminem sigue haciendo el ridiculo, las canciones y las letras son dolorosas de la pena que dan
  16. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    He didn’t disappoint his lyrics are insane. Great album, been on replay since it dropped. I Stan..Always
  17. Jan 22, 2020
    3
    Honestly just another washed up em album. He still uses the same technical rhyme schemes that sounds bad. He trys so hard to have a good flow but the lyrical content is lacking and he still says offensive and corny lines too often.
  18. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Very fire it’s so goid Eminem is the goat should win album of the year Eminem is simply the goat no one can compare to him I’ve never ever seen a better rapper in my life and there will never be anyone better GOAT
  19. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great listen, very consistent and raw. Good production and overall has a nice sound. Em sounds inspired and fresh.
  20. Jan 21, 2020
    10
    One of the greatest album of all time. And the best album of 2020. Only Eminem can release a better album than this. Album is filled with masterpieces.
  21. Jan 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This album is pure garbage. He needs to quit the staccato flow nonsense. Expand
  22. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album bruvs. Stop hating for no reason lmao. Nicehhsjdjsjjsjjsjsjjsjsjjs
  23. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I don't understand the critics and hate on the album it is on point on a lot of aspects. I think people judge eminem person and not his music this is sad since the album is genuinely a future classic
  24. Jan 22, 2020
    5
    Shady brings forth... an attempt to fit in with the new age of rap with his trap beats and so forth. Maybe he should stick to what he was good at.
  25. Jan 22, 2020
    6
    Not bad but definitely not great, at least it's an improvement upon Kamikaze since that album was really bad... I don't have much to say because I'm not an expert but I didn't like some of the flows and the songs sometimes felt kinda boring...
  26. Jan 20, 2020
    10
    Listened to it for 4 days and loved it even more after every listen. **** great
  27. Jan 22, 2020
    0
    Eminem has a terrible nasally voice and this album sucks. Don’t like it and wouldn’t recommend
  28. Jan 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It’s just another **** Eminem album. It’s not original and too preachy. Expand
  29. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I adore this album! One of the best Em's albums for sure. MTMB doesn't have any skips, every song is a true banger.
  30. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Best album since MMLP2, a few fillers but Eminem seems like hes having fun and not taking himself seriously.
  31. Jan 22, 2020
    0
    No growth . No experimentation . No nothing . He’s just not there yet and this album proves it .
  32. Jan 22, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This album is so consistently great throughout that my favorite song on the album keeps changing fro 1 dong to the next as I listen. Eminem’s satirist nature comes through to tell his story of how he feels about violence and gun control. The production on the album is top notch, the beats are amazing and the flows are on point. This album gives us amazing feature artists and has a balanced mix of old school artistry with new styles of rap. I just can’t stop listening this album gets better with every play. Expand
  33. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I love the production! We have never gotten anything like that from Em before and I love it
  34. Jan 22, 2020
    1
    More uninventive drivel from the newly anointed king of uninventive drivel. This project really boils down to one sentence: Try not to cut yourself on this edge. I’m looking at you, skinny future marine. The entire track list works tirelessly to constantly one-up itself in angering the “woke” world that it fails to do anything genuinely interesting. On this album Marshall feels more likeMore uninventive drivel from the newly anointed king of uninventive drivel. This project really boils down to one sentence: Try not to cut yourself on this edge. I’m looking at you, skinny future marine. The entire track list works tirelessly to constantly one-up itself in angering the “woke” world that it fails to do anything genuinely interesting. On this album Marshall feels more like the nexus of a basement-dwelling redditor and an angry retired fireman than he does a rapper with any kind of platform worth sharing Expand
  35. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Best work in a while, definitely refreshing. Music to be murdered by has killed it.
  36. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    AN INcredible album. It hss no true bad tracks, and has an amazing array of features. Eminems tongue twisting flows and rhyme schemes, along with bars that make you wonder how he thinks of so many things! Few artists have ever been both this influential and this. damn. good. A huge step up from his last couple albums, and arguably his best since 2009s Relapse, or 2013s MMLP2.
  37. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. On of the best album. Lyrics are insane, flow is really awesome, features are great, just perfect. Expand
  38. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album, it gets better with every listen. Only 1 skip track is the one with Ed sheeran, the rest slaps.
  39. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Bar heavy , technical skills are off the charts , Em really flexes on this album , +20 years of experience are clear , he is claiming his thrown
  40. Jan 22, 2020
    0
    horrible , bad, not very good. he’s an old man he needs to act his age. Trying to revive his slim shady era, 20 years later. No growth, no versatility, corny lines for the sake of rhyme (a big sacrifice)
  41. Jan 22, 2020
    1
    Asqueroso monótono ya es momento que se retire de la musica, quien quiere escuchar 20 canciones de Eminem en 2020
  42. Jan 21, 2020
    10
    Slim Shady is back, I just can't stop listening to this great album. Thanks Marshall ❤️
  43. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    The album we all were waiting from Em. New sound with great production and awesome features. A few songs are straight fire. Love it.
  44. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Ggreaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat albummmmmmmmml mannnnnnnnnnnn no ddoubttttttttttttttt
  45. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Guess whos back...
    The goat with one of his bests in years.
    As funny as Relapse, as lovely as Recovery and as savage as MMLP.
    GIVE IT A LISTEN.
  46. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album is lit, a perfect balance of Eminem, Shady and Marshall Mathers.
  47. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is the best album since The Eminem Show, the beats, the Lyrics are flawless. You real fans of HipHop/Rap you don't know what you are missing. Expand
  48. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I dont get why people show so much hate to this album have u forgotten em donated 2 million dollars for manchester incident?
    Mtbmb is a combination of revival and kamikaze and to be honest it has some weak musics but some great bars too
    Open your eyes people!!!
  49. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Masterpiece! This album is one of his best, certainly in recent times! I’d strongly recommend this to any fan of Eminem’s music, he’s the greatest of all time and has produced another classic at the twilight of his career.
  50. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Shady!'s back. Great production, Relapse' ish Eminem hooks. The album just keeps getting better and better after each listen.
  51. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Album has been on repeat since its release! Do not listen to this only once. You can not catch all the bars in one sitting! Classic!
  52. Jan 22, 2020
    0
    This album is straight up garbage. Eminem tried so hard to be edgy but it wasn't funny or offensive just awkward
  53. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Another masterpiece.Em doin his own **** after a chaos that coming with the album REVİVAL.
  54. Jan 22, 2020
    1
    Eminem made a bad effort with the music. Everyone knows the man can rap but it gets monotonous constantly trying to prove it!
  55. Jan 22, 2020
    0
    "like a liar's pants, I'm on fire" is all you need to know, to know that you shouldn't bother listening to this
  56. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Better than any Kanye project ever released, blows MBDTF out of the water, and kanye fans rating this negatively are just salty and pathetic lol
  57. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It’s definitely rap gods best album in a while a step in the right direction and what a way to start another decade of dominance. Expand
  58. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This **** is hot. Have been listening to it on repeat for four days. My fav is Godzilla
  59. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This is surely among top 5 of Em's album. From lyrics to flow, Rhyming to bar everything is crazy. Love it. One of the best rap album of all time
  60. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I ranked after the eminem show and recovery its like i mean when listen to any eminem new project all i can say this man how he kept on the same level
  61. Jan 19, 2020
    10
    Eminem come back since Kamikaze but this time disses aside. He decide to make music fresh and enjoyable. It's Eminem ****
  62. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Best album of Eminem in a long time! I always have a few songs of each Eminem album after TES which I don't like. But with this album it's a different story, I haven't skipped any songs on this album. I genuinly like every songs in its own way.
  63. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Straight fire from Em again. With layers of every kind of emotion throughout the album
  64. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I've been checking out youtube videos about this album after listening for a couple of times and it is amazing. It's like playing a game about catching bars you missed in your last listen and musically, the album is phenomenal. I rate this to be on par with the Eminem Show and MMLP. Up there with Eminem's best for real. I've already purchased the album, CD, and I've been streaming sinceI've been checking out youtube videos about this album after listening for a couple of times and it is amazing. It's like playing a game about catching bars you missed in your last listen and musically, the album is phenomenal. I rate this to be on par with the Eminem Show and MMLP. Up there with Eminem's best for real. I've already purchased the album, CD, and I've been streaming since release. A+ Expand
  65. TJP
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great project. The beats are insane, so are ems bars. Might be his best record in a decade. The features are pretty dope, flows are
  66. Jan 22, 2020
    3
    The album doesnt stick to its theme. Its long, way too long. Beats are not great, suit the features more than Em himself. Another dull, at times unlistenable album by Em
  67. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    All around solid. Lengthy track list with no real bad tracks. Eminem is back with a list of great futures. The RAP god still controls the game.
  68. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Awesome album. Lock it up is a banger. Enjoyed every minute of this project.
  69. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    eminem still going strong,best production since eminem show and some really good features
  70. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I’m so glad that he made it. It is absolutely amazing. The lyrical structures, the imagery, the flow switches, everything is just amazing.
  71. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    On a level so far beyond, I would be amazed if more than just a handful can even decode the sheer genius.
  72. Jan 18, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This album is potentially a top 3 album. The best album he has made since Recovery. In this album he shows that he can still be one of the best rappers to this day. Expand
  73. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Awesome Album. Loved every song in its own way. Perfect blend of funny stupid songs to just laugh with and serious content to make you think. Another classic.
  74. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    this album gives me TES and Relapse vibes! I like all of the tracks! I love beats and lyrics af, I think there’s nothing I don’t like about this album.
  75. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    this man is the best rapper ever **** all u who say he isn’t, you don’t know hip hop
  76. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album is amazing and has a great variety of songs. Yet to find a song to skip.
  77. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    The most solid album since the marshall mathers lp 2. Also here to piss of the guys that are giving 0's to lower the score unfair-ly
  78. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This is to the person who gave this a 0. This album is legendary and you know it. So stfu and respect the legend.
  79. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    It's a very goog album, people need to see it.

    Never love again is a masterpice.
  80. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I strongly encourage watching the music video for "Darkness" to fully grasp, the concept of the song. If you can watch that and NOT feel any type of emotion, then you are not really listening. A lyrical masterpiece. There is something on this CD for the everyone. From the STANS to the casual listener, to the I haven't listened to Em since TES to brand new listeners.. Expand
  81. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I don't know why Kanhe fans are coming in here hating? Eminem has spoke to how much respect he has for Kanye - many times. Makes nose sense.
  82. Jan 22, 2020
    9
    Best album since Recovery easily. Em’s finally gotten back to sounding like he’s enjoying making music again and has found a good balance between elite lyricism and good music.
  83. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Awesome Album. Haters will always hate. Usually due to racism. Eminem selling more than there favorite or just a complex (Kanye fans)
  84. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    **** amazing album hard beats amazing lyrics, bars , features and story telling
  85. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Превосходный альбом. Наконец-то отборный рэп снова в чартах - как глоток свежего воздуха.
    Техническая часть ✅ Нэйминг ✅ Сложные рифмы и bars ✅ Песни на совершенно разное настроение и на разные темы ✅ Мясо ✅
    Хитовые припевы ✅ Shady ✅ Marshall Mathers ✅
    Превосходный альбом. Наконец-то отборный рэп снова в чартах - как глоток свежего воздуха.
    Техническая часть ✅ Нэйминг ✅ Сложные рифмы и bars ✅ Песни на совершенно разное настроение и на разные темы ✅ Мясо ✅
    Хитовые припевы ✅
    Shady ✅
    Marshall Mathers ✅
  86. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    The best eminem album since the eminem show. 8 amazing tracks. 4 decent tracks and 3 below average and 2 trash(farewell and in too deep). If you love eminems dark foul mouthed alter ego slim shady and have been missing him since his last appearance (2004) you’ll definitely love this album.
  87. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Literally the only song I don’t like is little Engine the rest ranges from good to masterpiece

    Favourite songs: Darkness, Leaving Heaven, premonition, Godzilla and No Regrets

    Least Favourite song: Little Engine
  88. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Stream brand new eyes by paramore it’s a very good album in my humble opinion rip x but frfr this a good album Eminem made a good one Expand
  89. Jan 18, 2020
    10
    This album is the best Eminem album since The Marshall Mathers Lp2. A quality concept, great flows from Eminem throughout the album especially on Godzilla feat. Juice WRLD. There are also great hooks n the album like Skylar Grey's hook on Leaving Heaven.
  90. Jan 22, 2020
    5
    It's really average. Fairly similar to Eminems recent works but really just "not as bad." Unfortunate evolution for him
  91. Jan 22, 2020
    1
    Absolute garbage flows, overflowed with cacophonous sounds of fast lyrics that nobody can interpret. Lyricism is washed Almost 50 year old Eminem rapping about kids dying in the Manchester attack. Stay well away from this album if you respect your ears.
  92. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Y'all Kanye stans got no **** life tryna bring a great album down smfh. You guys gotta respect artist's work no matter the age or race but acknowledge the talent and work put into it
  93. Jan 22, 2020
    9
    Shady’s in tip top form on Music To Be Murdered By. Beats and bars are on point, and everyone’s a suspect.
  94. Jan 22, 2020
    4
    Miles better than Revival. Still better than Kamikaze but a far cry away from a 10/10 record.
  95. Jan 22, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Don’t do what I did and waste an hour of your life. I wanted to like it, I really did. But, this thing sucks. Idk how it’s got a 9.0 user rating right now, but it sucks. I guess it just proves that his stans are insane and don’t understand the difference between rapping fast and rapping well, with substance, meaning, layers, etc. Don’t get it twisted either, I’m not an Em hater. I love MMLP, SSLP, TES, and recovery, relapse, and MMLP2 are decent-good releases as well. But this thing is a 20 pack of ass. I genuinely enjoyed 3/4 songs. I haven’t been this miserable listening through an album since Total Xanarchy (doesn’t mean it’s as bad, but it’s just so long and so boring). Most of the features did pretty well, or at least what you would expect from each of them. But I constantly found myself begging Em not to ruin the rest of the song. He just didn’t mesh well. The songs I saved were mostly saved for either the beat or the feature, with Em just being thrown in there. Without Darkness, which is wonderfully written and beautifully dark and ominous, this would be a 0. Do more of that, and less of trying to be funny with punchlines. The album title is corny, the lines are corny, the songs are corny. Em’s singing on stepdad made me want to crash my car. Horrible lyrics and punchlines for days. As time goes on I find myself hating this album more and more, much like with Revival and Kamikaze. For the record, I would sandwich this one between those two probably. He wants to be as funny as Lil Wayne and as woke as J. Cole but you can’t have it both ways. Some of the worst lyrics:

    “Call us Long John Silver's, cause we selfish."

    "I'm talking euthanasia, like kids in Taiwan."

    “I’m contemplating yelling bombs away on the game like I’m outside an Ariana Grande concert”

    “Only way that you're ahead of me is alphabetically
    'Cause if you diss me I'm coming after U like the letter V”

    “Stripper walk by, I'm like "Goddamn"
    She's like "That's harassment," I'm like "Yeah, and?" (Woo)”

    “That's the shortest thing for a dress since an addy”
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  96. Jan 22, 2020
    1
    Quite possibly Em’s worst project, I had to apologize to my ears, I couldn’t get through an entire song. Hard to see this man fall off
  97. Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Hands down some of the greatest work of Em and his team I’ve ever heard. From start to finish this album captures you and you do not want to put your headphones down. Very impressive. Eminem wanted us to know that he’s still the greatest and we got the message.
  98. Jan 22, 2020
    0
    terrible record, a grown man once again crying over the public’s opinion on his work.
    amazed at the high user score on this
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.