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Eminem announces 'The Marshall Mathers LP 2'
by Tyler Munro
August 26, 2013
Eminem announced his new album last night and its title is raising some eyebrows. Naming the follow-up to 2010′s iffy Recovery after his landmark 2000 The Marshall Mathers LP is a risk. Tacking the number two onto the title is just lazy.
Eminem announced his new album last night and its title is raising some eyebrows. Naming the follow-up to 2010’s iffy Recovery after his landmark 2000 The Marshall Mathers LP is a risk. Tacking the number two onto the title is just lazy.
Announced during yesterday’s MTV Video Music Awards, Eminem says that The Marshall Mathers LP 2 will be released on November 5th and that its lead single, “Berzerk,” will be out August 27th. That’s a sample of it up top.
Royce da 5’9 has called Shady’s new material nightmare inducing, and word that Rick Rubin is involved means we’ll get a bunch of gimmicky, “dark” guitar noises. The two bits of music we’ve heard so far certainly stand by that. Here, an extended Beats commercial (Dr. Dre’s also a producer on the album) tells us that “Berzerk” is looped around a sample of Billy Squier’s “The Stroke,” which D-Sisive reminds us is also known as “the song Billy Madison is listening to when he’s parked in front of his old High School.”
Is there a more fitting metaphor for Slim Shady’s next album? He’s shouting off about real hip-hop and blabbering out at a quick pace, but there’s always two sides to what Eminem fans want. Are we getting the sullen or the silly side, or will The Marshall Mathers LP 2 be something different? At this point, all we can be sure of is the pressure. The original Marshall Mathers LP is one of the most acclaimed hip-hop albums of all time. With this one, Marshall Mathers is setting his own standards and they’re really, really high.
Below is “Survival,” the other first single first premiered in a trailer for the upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts video game, the latest in a long line of regurgitated multiplayer war games that this time seems to be marketed solely on its inclusion of a tactical dog (no seriously) and a fact that its digital fish react like real life fish (no, seriously!).
