Why Eminem’s ‘Marshall Mathers LP’ Is Still A Classic | Genius News
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2020
- In 2000, Eminem dropped 'The Marshall Mathers LP,' an introspective look at his career and personal life. At the time, Em was coming off the success of 'The Slim Shady LP,' but with tracks like the ever-popular “The Real Slim Shady” and the table-shaking “Stan,” Em walked right into another hit project. 20 years later, Genius News looked at the album's impact on hip-hop and the music industry at large.
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I feel bad for people who haven't listened to this masterpiece
Or get offended by it
@@exoticcar5482 😂😂😂😂
it is hella overrated tbh
@@hyunseoklee4027 No it's not
It’s such a good
album
When does a classic stop being a classic? Don't all classics just stay classics? This title confuses me
Thats what i was thinkin haha once a classic always a classic like mozart
Haha i just came to look for this comment😂
Next video: "Water is Still Wet" 🌊
Thats what I wanted to say but I didnt want to be "that guy" haha
They are planting seeds...
This album has aged so well with no skips required.
Kim is definitely a skip, not because it's bad, it's just horrifying
Love the album to death but Bitch Please 2 and Under The Influence are huge skips for me
@@ronstoppable5659
Why? Because there Posse Cuts? Bitch Please 2 is my personal favorite on the album.
@@ronstoppable5659 those are 2 personal favorites of mine
I wish he did more songs with artists I'd actually wanna see him with but hed rather keep collabin with Ed fuckin Sheeran
@@ChrisJohnson-ib5fp Same here
I found this album when I was 7. That's right I was jamming "Kim" at 7.
Dats tuff..
@@KraaaHKen S H A Q
Wow I bet you feel special
@@isaiaharmand8841 sm1 iz salty
No you weren’t.. you were eating dirt and watching cartoons, stop lying
Can't believe this dude is 47 years old
Fr he's still young
He doesn't age 😂
Yes you can
@@HShango bruh he looks way different to what he did back then.
@@mony9311 ok
One of the greatest rap albums ever made.
😂😂😂😂
Woah woah you got too much dip on ya chip now
You mean the not one of
Zachary Ruetz y’all are crazy, go listen back
No denying mate.
"Stan" is definitely one of the best songs of all time. Not only in Hip-Hop, but in all genres!
exactly!!
It’s sad most people haven’t heard Stan 2 “bad guy”
That last verse on Bad Guy...is probably the best verse based on poetry for its decade
Of course, In my humble opinion
@@streamvision145 he went bonkers bro, I feel it's better than the first
@@josegutierrez4265 Lyrically yeah definitely but stan had that catchy vibe plus the hook
I heard it it was a good successor I think the word is for something that picks up where the last one left off
Not really worth the listen anyway. It's nowhere near stan.
Imagine having 2 diamond albums, breaking records(and still is), making history, have numerous of awards, being one of the people that paved the way for future artist but you’re consider a “guest” in hip-hop LOL
He is a guest.I think there’s a misunderstanding.Black people get offended when they say Eminem’s the G.O.A.T because they are used to people stealing their culture and music and get no recognition.
It's imaginable. In fact, it's probably true
And half of that is only possible because he’s White. He said it himself, “if I was black I would’ve sold half”. Stop using pop arguments.
@@seltzerwater7933 Are you mad that blacks are a minority lmao
@@adityalahiri4529 Though, what does it mean to be a guest?
eminem probably stopped a lot of school shooters by just giving them something to relate to man
He created them
@@johnnylowry3554 No he didn't Em aint responsible for no one
@Assad Ali lol
@Assad Ali My experience can prove itself that he stops suicidal thoughts at some point.
severme head m.ua-cam.com/video/ss6hGMDxviU/v-deo.html
It's actually funny when people think he fell off yet he's still breaking records and ranking big numbers
what records has eminem broken recently?
@Samurai Music that's not even the fastest rap verse doe i believe that record is held twista,and didn't drake drop that mixtape with no teasers and went number 1
@@jamalwalker I don't think its the fattest but its definitely the fastest verse
John Lee Killshots audio broke records on UA-cam
@@zanewesley2225 didnt 6ix9ne break that record
This album changed music forever. When I heard it for the first time, it was like being punched in the gut or putting your hand on an electric fence. There was nothing like it at the time. It's an incredible nuanced and intelligent album that has depth, and violence that is somehow both gratuitous and poetic. Anyone who doesn't think this is a classic is biased or doesn't realise that no album this century has hit with as much shock and awe. This hit like a sledgehammer
😂😂😂😂😂😂. Its far from a hip hop album. Its pop. Thats why it's nothing like it.
@@steelliving8785 because no one ever made a pop album.
@@steelliving8785 It's got Dre all over it. Waddya mean?
@@ghostinahotel em did😂😂😂
@@simonbright2975 I beg to differ.
"Kim" scared me when I was younger and it still scares me lol
It's my favourite song but released before my birth
I just can't listen to that song, it's too much
@@ivancaceres5371 same
@@SUperDEvil137 its ur favourite out of the whole album?????
I love it when you realize he made it like a twisted love song.
Like wtf man 😅
Saw Marshal Mathers, clicked faster than speed of light.
I clicked faster than supersonic speed (JJ fad)
Stop talking
Black Shadowz this is so sad
MY MAN
@@collinleishman6654 LOOOOOL
The production on Kim and Em playing the part to perfection is just.. timeless.
When the levee breaks sample too 🔥
We throw around “for the culture” loosely in 2019 and 2020. But the MM LP shook not just black culture, but American culture. I can still see my black, white, Latin, and Asian classmates playing this album from the 1st track to the last, no skipping, and every skit was classic.
Can't believe this album was released 20 years ago..
Can’t believe this album was released 20 years ago..
Can’t believe this album was released 20 years ago..
Can’t believe this album was released 20 years ago..
Damn I’m old 😭
21 now
Marshall's best album 🔥🔥
The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show are the definition of masterpieces. Two classic albums.
Dont forget about SSLP, that album Is so classic.
SSLP > MMLP > Eminem Show
@@vb2388 i think is MMLP, then THE EMINEM SHOW and after SSLP. It doesnt matter., 3 classic in a roe. Encore solid album, that would have been classic if not were because of 5 songs leaked.
@@Sebastian-wh7fq encore is bad, has some classics but also the worst songs he ever released. Songs like: just lose it, rain man, big weenie, puke, my 1st single, ass like that, crazy in love, evil deeds are all bad (even if you think they're funny or some shit like that, they're still bad). There are like 5 good songs on there (excluding bonus tracks), but the only great ones are probably never enough, like toy soldiers and yellow brick road. It's a 4.5/10 at best, the only worse album he made us revival which, while having less low points, basically has no high points and is mostly boring with very few highlights.
@@nadavya2612 Too bad he had to rush that Album, if only he took it seriously it could've been 4 classics in a row. Encore had much potential with songs like Toy Soldiers, Mockingbird etc. But those silly and weird songs ruined it. Should've taken the album more seriously :P
But Evil Deeds bangs donno what u are on about on that one.
"Are you homophobic?"
Em: "Nah I'm, I'm whatever." 😂 that's my boy
_"I'm homophobic? Nah you just Heterophobic"_
- Eminem
Honestly back then he didn't know what that word meant!
@@samsenpai5599 lol
@@emyf9194 wdym? I think he knew what it meant. He's just saying, I'm a human being I'm not a label and if you approach me as a human being I will respect you
@@nicholasbiddle7893 uhm no.. He said himself some years later that at tht time he didn't know what homophobe meant.. Hence "I'm whatever" he says here.
I was 15 when this LP came out, me and my friends played the sh*t out of it! When I listen to it now it brings back all those fond memories, almost every song has one attached to it.
So was I, i knew it was an instant classic.
This album is crazy and shocking to this day, classic. Go listen back, it’s too good.
@@wm_9640 Amityville is one that I really like
*Marshall Mathers LP is SUPER SUPER CLASSIC !🔥🔥🐐*
God imagine if this album was released in 2020.
Lawsuits😂😂😂😂
@@rajnadkar7915 even more lawsuits.
Hell, people were pissed back then i don't even want to know what it would be like now holy shit.
God I remember back then when this was released. I was in the third grade. I remember parents flipping out hearing The lyrics of what their kids were listening to LMAO. I of course thought it was awesome and have been a fan ever since
Not much difference back then the FCC and Congress went after him fast forward the Secret Service went after him because of what he said about Trump (I wanna say kamikaze album)
8:48
Eminem: It's all about keeping it real
Feminem: OMG I'M A GIRLLLL!!!
lmao hahahahaha
"Sometimes I feel so alone, I just don't know, feels like I've been down this road before."
Deja Vu but wrong album man xd
"So lonely and cold, soon as I go home and close the door"
@@anthonykay1580 kind of feels like deja vu; I wanna get away from this place I do
My favourite Em song
You know you gotta watch it when it says Marshall Mathers
My second favourite Eminem album, after "The Eminem Show".
The Eminem Show was the album that redpilled me and the only album that I can rap all the lyrics to till this day. A masterpiece.
Same THE EMINEM SHOW is Peak Eminem , full of red pills
How did the Eminem show red pill you? Huge Eminem fan would love to know
TES is the only Eminem album I consider a classic and is arguably one of the greatest albums in Hip-Hop history.
It's my second favourite too but after Relapse
This year Recovery becomes 10 years old. I think its also a classic.
Recovery is Em's most underrated album. That album was very good
TheGrandChelem facts
Lol
Agreed. Almost all the songs were good. I can listen to the whole album and not realize I listened to the whole thing
Top 3 Em Album for me.
If you still acknowledge Eminem is the goat in 2020 you are my friend 🙂
He will always be the 🐐 man
When was he not a goat? Even people who hate em, know that em is the goat
@@notyourfriend3805 nah there are ppl actually don't think he is the goat tho. Most of em are young and some think he's not because he is white.
@HyperNova836 what ? 😂😂
@HyperNova836 my argument isn't that hes the greatest hes obviously one of them but there is no definite goat. I said what because you said its only because hes popular like thats not the case for almost everyone else
"Marshall Mathers" is my favourite Eminem song of all time :)
I listened to Em since I was 8 years old, mom always told me I wasn't allowed to swear unless it was along with the lyrics. Gradually, I was allowed to swear more often and listening to his music taught me a lot about rap music in general, it's an form of art and life doesn't always need to be so serious. I'm 24 years old now. 🖤
He's absolutely brilliant *-* " CUZ I'M JUST MARSHALL MATHERS...."
Damn, Eminem is still legendary to this day...🔥🙏
big facts
🐐
Legends never die even in death
Damn 10× times platinum
This is a masterpiece, I still listen to this album because it aged so well (it was built to be controversial and piss people off, and if this album was dropped today I'm 100% sure it'll be 10 times more controversial than it was back in 2000)
Ivan Caceres you know how many people would be offended if this dropped today 🤣
No question.
Coming up next: why cigarettes are still bad for your health
Every single song on the MMLP is top tier. Zero filler.
SSLP and MMLP is up there with other Hiphop classic albums....
What about Eminem Show?
Another great album.
@SWAG Dude Mostly but it was good and people trashes it
TES
In the burbs.
Bruh ... it sold over 30 Mill 🔥🔥
35 millions Worldwide
@Chokwe MMLP is the most selling rap album of all time so logicaly TES is behind
@@k-rams UPDATED SALES:
MMLP-36 mill ww
TES-34 mill ww
The story telling was just so vivid
Genius: Wait it's still a classic
Me: Always has been
Greatest album/LP of all time.
This title is stupid, once it’s a classic it’s always a classic
T T there questioning if it’s a classic still and I’m saying there is no question it’s still a classic.
Then name me a "classic" from 1257AD. Art falls out of style, out of relevance, out of memory all the time. This title is questioning, is this happening to this album, or does it still hold some relevance in 2020. 20 long years after its release.
No other rapper in the history of the genre has simultaneously reached the commercial and critically acclaimed heights that Eminem has reached. Being emotionally raw while reaching new levels of technical proficiency with the craft. There are many kings but none as unique and enigmatic as him.
kanye tho, third highest ever commercially, and way more critically acclaimed than em
Top 5 greatest hip-hop album of all time.
nah
1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (fuck it, it will be considered the best in like 10 years)
2. The Notorious B.I.G - Ready To Die
3. MF DOOM and Madlib - Madvilliany
4. Nas - Illmatic
5. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
@@hyunseoklee4027 1 Illmatic
2 MMLP
3 TPAB
4 Reasonable Doubt
5 All eyez on me
@@hyunseoklee4027 1.illmatic
2.mmlp
3.all eyez on me
4.the eminem show
5.tpab
@@22y3ijervisyongzhenjie8 yall really like All eyez on me so much ? Too much filler tracks in my opinion
Nytusova Hlava That album is a banger from top to bottom
First album I listened all the way through as a kid
Probably the best album ever made
😂😂😂😂😂 stop it
@@seankelly4594 😂😂😂Kelly😂😂😂
@@DisconnectedRoamer to pimp a butterfly is overrated garbage
@@DisconnectedRoamer no substance you kinda me bro?
Why are people tagging me?
"Kim" is the one song I still can't bear hearing out.
Tbh the track becomes funny when you realize he's doing Kim's voice
The first time I heard that song is scared the hell out of me. It still scares the crap out of me.
You guys are forgetting the "The" at the beginning of the album name before the rest of the words.
Why should we care?
@@anthonykay1580 Because we have to care about calling the album what it was named.
@@anthonykay1580 yeah exactly why bother. Might as well call Eminem, Taylor Swift
@@bruhhhhh2768 Eminem and Taylor Swift are actually my two favorite artists, not that anyone asked or anything
@@originalJoeKing It is not a big thing or mistake, really.
one of the best albums ever created 🥱🥱
The one thing no one seems to talk about is the old school rap references
The Way I Am references "As The Rhymes Goes on" by Eric B. & Rakim
I'm Back alone references "Bring the Noise" by Public Enemy, "My Melody" by Eric B. & Rakim and "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick
Em has nothing to proof anymore. An Oscar, Grammy, MTV awards etc. Name another rapper with this accolade. Will Smith respect.
Ludacris has all those.
@@renzelkamuro3815 welcome to the war of your life soldier
@@ChrisAssassin
Sorry to say that but why you're bitching around every fan of slim?
I mean dude, you don't like him, u don't have to watch something about him
@@renzelkamuro3815 L
Prove.....it’s a 5 letter word, cmon
The album that had a future Webster Dictionary entry. Not as much as 2000, but he still deals with the white vs black rapper stigma. Recently, referred to a "guest" in hip-hop. 😏
😷
@T T Me and the vast majority only know about him because he talk of EM.
Y'all are both 💯... My "guest" statement was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but you know, text... 😂 Unfortunately, LJ isn't the only one that has commented on this particular topic. It is definitely less than in the past, but the fact that it is still mentioned at all is mind blowing. 🤯 Thanks for the thoughtful replies rather than commenting just for the sake of starting shit.
*A GUEST HAVE THE KEYS?*
He is a guest. And he admitted it. Get over it.
@@seltzerwater7933 u right
Still!?? When was the time it wasn’t smh Genius
y’all are the one source i don’t want any bullshit from ightt
They say “still” because a lot of ppl are trying to discredit this album and SSLP cuz of the lyrics he used
@@ethan6402 yeah but that isn't anything new lol, still had all the backlash back then too
@@kenshin6804 It's amplified now though, back then the lyrical content was taboo, now it's completely unheard of by anyone even remotely popular.
@@TraverseRaps because they're all soft little beta bitches
I fully prefer him to rap like this
This album dropped when I was 16/17, can still remember the first time I heard Stan on the radio doing my homework...being that age when the album dropped just adds to its legend for me - the nostalgia listening to every track is something else. Still a huge fan and always will be
One of the best albums ever. People don’t realize how much this album did for Hip Hop. It not only took over pop music, but was some of the rawest shit out there. Em effortlessly rides every beat so perfectly, all the while shocking you and being personal. Brilliant
This album didn’t do much for hip hop. This was a gimmicky pop album with some dark twists. Kendrick’s TPAB did more for hip hop than Em’s album did in far less time.
I honestly don’t think any of his albums are true hip hop classics. Eminem does not have a single album in his discography that could stand next to TPAB, or Kanye’s The College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation, MBDTF, or Dre’s The Chronic, or Jay-Z’s The Blueprint, or Biggie’s Ready to Die, or Eric B and Rakim’s Paid in Full, or Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, I could go on and on.
There is no way any true hip hop fan is naming any of Eminem’s hip pop albums as classics. It’s unthinkable.
How could it "still be a classic" if it's a classic?🤔
The slim Shady lp, MMLP. And TES will always be classic.
Might thoughts EXACTLY when i first read the title
I have seen this dude live in concert and he sounds just as phenomenal as he does on the microphone.
25/10/2019. Abu Dhabi, Du Arena. I was there.
P.S: I have self-recorded videos of him performing, uploaded on my channel.
@Assad Ali Man, this guy doesn't fail to deliver, even when he is 47!
Live performances use microphones too
I love Genius for the fact u deliver lots of information about EM
Why is this even a video ? We all know it’s a classic no one with half a brain about rap has ever questioned that
Been long journey for slim shady since I was 13 Damn time passes.
The Columbine line has been censored in every officially released version of the song. The only time it's been officially said uncensored was in Rap God in a modified form.
This was an amazing piece👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
2 decades and still this dope.. unbelievable, but with eminem: all's possible.
If ur reading this:
though these are tough times keep your head up and focus on the positives +
Corona position????
Thank you 👽✨🧚♀️
Thank You you too
I was listening to The Real Slim Shady when this popped up
I was listening to Kim
But tbh who asked
@@leighbrownie there is a comment section for a reason
I was listening to parking lot skit from The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
I was listening to criminal
I started listening to it like 5 years ago and have re-listened to it countless times, it's a masterpiece for sure
this album is legendary. i come back to it every now and then
What would we do without Eminem?
Listen to other artists?(just joking)
Chiki chiki
breathing
Same thing? The rap game would be chilling
They’d have found another white man instead
I mean "once a classic always a classic" right?
THIS WAS SOME DOPE CONTENT ON THIS VIDEO. VERY ENTERTAINING
Because the songs have such a versatile variety within one disc from hardcore, horrorcore, love songs, comedy, sketches, drama, mystery, storytelling, And the note goes on
literally the goat
Next video: “why fire is still hot” 🗿
Coming up, a very serious man named Dark Man X will explain to us why Hell is hot...
😂😂 Best comment here
Why water is wet
I love your em videos !!!
This album is crazy! One of my favorite hip hop albums.
Bout to listen to the album rn
still sitting at the top of the whole industry number wise and talent wise..
@Tourettes guy L
The best album I ever heard in my whole life and I'm 33 and I still enjoy and going crazy everytime I listen to this massive album
THANKS for that, Tia. And thanks Em to every bloody single lyric.
I just finished listening to the parking lot skit from the second The Marshall Mathers LP.
I DESPERATELY miss this Eminem 😭😭😭
He started caring too much about what people think
@@DeeMulaah getting sober will do that
Nice tough adding the retro interviews
First album i ever bought when i was 6. 20 years later still a diehard fan. Time goes fast
I don’t know why people don’t talk about “ the way I am track” that track hard after Stan !
Slim Shady LP and Marshall Matthers LP are one of the greatest albums ever made
super video brings back great memories
Still rocking it everyday
Man 20 years and still going 🔥
marshall is one of the top two greatest rappers and he’s not even #2
maiseo q your music taste must suck!
He’s top5, a little to inconsistent to be goat
maiseo q Where are you ranking/comparing? Lyrically ability or musical wise?
@@maiseo8377 you sound like a hater, a toxic hater
There’s handful of rappers that are on Eminem’s level.
I remember the 1st time hearing this album when I was 11 & I was mind blown, Em best album hands down
I got this album about 16 years ago, i was about 11 or 12 (thanks again record shop owner) still to this day one of my favorite albums of all time alongside Devils Night from D12 which is EXTREMELY underrated.
Because Emiinem is the GOAT !
Faxx
The greatest hip hop album of all time
I remember having the Slim Shady album on cassette. Listening mouth wide open around 13 years old. Then the second album I was like wow. This is legendary, thats how much of a classic it was. People immediately acknowledged it. The Dre also came back with 2001. What a time that was.
Enjoyed the breakdown of the album.
This album is undoubtedly one of the best albums ever.
its hard to believe that this eminem and current eminem are 2 completely different people
Listened to the album again today and man, this fire🔥🔥🔥 20 years anniversary
Great video
Once a classic always a classic!