Product Description

This is the third album from US chart topping rapper Eminemand his second for major label Interscope. Produced once again by his mentor, Dr. Dre, Eminem uses his unique rapping style to deliver his witty and sometimes disturbing lyrics over Dre's slick hip hop beats. The album contains the hugely successful single 'Stan' and features guest appearances fromSnoop Dog, Xzibit, and Dr. Dre himself.

Track Listing

1. Public Service Announcement 2000
2. Kill You
3. Stan - Eminem, Dido
4. Paul - Paul "Bunyan" Rosenburg
5. Who Knew
6. Steve Berman - Eminem, Steve Berman
7. The Way I Am
8. The Real Slim Shady
9. Remember Me? - Eminem, RBX, Sticky Fingaz
10. I'm Back
11. Marshall Mathers
12. Ken Kaniff
13. Drug Ballad
14. Amityville - Eminem, Bizarre
15. *****Please 2 - Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner, Nate Dogg
16. Kim
17. Under The Influence - Eminem, D-12
18. Criminal
19. Kids

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1483 in Music
• Released on: 2000-09-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Running time: 77 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
His second album finds Eminem struggling to contain the pressures of success. And he's dealing it with it disgracefully. The Detroit rapper's multiple identities are more mixed up than ever, with Marshall Mathers fighting for prominence against his alter egos: Eminem, Slim Shady, Kenneth Kaniff and his public image. Don't be fooled by the album title: apart from the eponymous "Marshall Mathers" (which runs the lyrical gamut from maudlin to maniacal) you won't learn too much about "the real Slim Shady" here. As fiction bleeds into reality, Eminem aggravates the wound to increase the flow. The Dr Dre/Mel-Man productions on this record don't have the slap-happy bounce of those from the Slim Shady LP; all drums and bass, they're ghostly, minimised slabs of roto-funk. Except, of course for the gleefully self-referential single "The Real Slim Shady", for which Dre appropriately cuts in some of the picked-guitar from his own "Forgot About Dre". Eminem's own co-productions with F.B.T. veer from the bounce to the ounce of "Drug Ballad" to the full-metal jacket of "Kim", where you get to find out all the gruesome details of how Eminem's paramour ended up in the back of that trunk (from Slim Shady's "'97 Bonnie and Clyde"). And believe me, it ain't pretty. If anything there's a lesson to be learnt here: money, success, drugs, murderous intent, mental trauma and schizophrenia are all just as American as apple pie. --Chris Campion

Customer Reviews

Words from a rap genius...
I was in the States when this album came out and it was huge (of course). It's been several years since I listened to it but I have to say it's lost none of its power. Eminem is a warped genius who offends everyone but still manages to endear himselt to everyone at the same time. This was probably the high point of Eminem's career, although some of his later albums are pretty good.

LOVE HIS MUSIC
Okay my song owns all of Eminem Albums (even the 8Mile soundtrack, whenever we're in a car we always put this album on, my favourite songs on it is "The Kids", "Kill You", "The Real Slim Shady", "Under The Influence" and "The Way I Am". I must say that out of all of his albums this is a very comical one even though he admits he makes "Fight Music" but on such songs as "The Kids", eventhough it's ment to be a serious song about drugs but you can't help but laughing at the intro bit and the South Park characters and the kids in the song

Energising, Disturbing, Powerful!
The first album of Eminem's I heard, now that I own them all (apart from the Slim Shady EP, though trying to work on that) I realise that this is Eminem's most agressive personality and this album is the most feircely confrontational. Others may directly challenge the powers that be, the government, etc, but in these tracks you can imagine him with veins bulging, spitting and screaming down the mic with all the raw emotion he had. Now he's rich, popular, owns his own recording label and has artists working for him, he's a business man now. He no longer has to fight on the streets with everyone who doubts him, this is what fuelled the Eminem you all listen to today. The further back you go the more the words come from the heart. Now he just says it for the shock value and the press, but on this album he will kill you if you doubt him! An experience to listen to! Think about the way you feel when you've just finished listening to it, just don't kill nobody!