13363210, Well said. Turns out Dre is in the production credits a lot on this album tho.
Posted by Brew, Wed Jan-22-20 09:39 AM
And Em is handling a lot of his own production.
>That's hard to hold onto with age, but I really think he
>could have a lot of fun if he just dialed the performative
>anger back 30%. I stumbled over this bit I wrote about him
>after MMLP2 and it really resonated with me:
>
>"For the rest of the LP, in attempting to return to the dark,
>sarcastic tone of Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem approaches it
>through the humorless affect of a 12-step addict who always
>found being an asshole the perfect escape from his own
>insecurities. In doing so, Eminem reveals once and for all
>that his success owes as much to timeliness as talent."
>
>Eminem without the Bass Brothers and Dre just feels like
>self-parody too often.
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