Eminem - Encore Link

Encore is a frustrating listen because it houses two completely different albums within its tracklist. There is the mature, technically brilliant album where Marshall Mathers grapples with fame and his demons, and there is the juvenile, chemically-addled album where he blows raspberries into the microphone for four minutes. It is a record defined by its own excess, capturing a superstar spiraling into a drug-induced haze while still managing to produce moments of undeniable genius.

Eminem hesitated, then began to pour his heart out to Dre. "I've been working on some new material, but it's just not coming together. I'm trying to prove something to myself, to the world, but it's not working." eminem - encore