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. Encore is an album for the downloaders -afew great songs tacked onto an hour of dicking about.Review Summary: My flow's untouchable, now you gotta face it- uh-oh, it gets worse when I go back to the basics!
The woeful D-12 appear, Anthill Mob-like, at the end to pop a few caps, but by then it's too late. That's saying something on a track listing that includes "Big Weenie" and "Ass Like That" this is bottom feeder stuff. The lowpoints? There's too many to mention - although the desperate misogyny of "Spend Some Time" should probably be singled out. It's an appropriate metaphor for an album that degenerates into nothing more than an extended fart joke. To the sound of retching and a flushing toilet we're straight into "Puke". "Like Toy Soldiers" is a cutting indictment on the machismo world of the beef (against a giddily addictive Martika sample) and "Mosh" directs some well-aimed anger at the current US administration.īut, from that moment on, he bottles it. Sidestepping the soap opera of his personal life, this is Eminem at his most thrilling -holding his outsider status up to the light while untangling the bullshit world of corporate hip-hop. This is particularly frustrating when opener "Evil Deeds" suggests it could have been his In Utero - "The shows over, you can all go home now", he spits wearily, "but the curtain don't close for me". Actually, it's worse than that.Twothirdsof this record could be Weird Al Yankovic, such is its woefulness. Encore starts fantastically but ends abominably. Having cleared out the closet of his private life, what does the man whos given us five years of rants against his mother and his ex-wife (not to mention 8 Mile) have left to say about his favorite subject: himself? Kicking back in his big executive Shady Records chair, you've got to wonder if he's still got the stomach to become Eminem. 31-years-old, rich and successful -he's played the belligerent poor white trash outsider for five years now. Encore finds Marshall Mathers at something of a crossroads in his career.
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