Eminem, with this CD that has the difficult task of succeeding the multiplatinum "Slim Shady LP", puts a lot of things right. When he could "exploit" the "Slim Shady", as everyone when a CD is selling very well for two or three years, the "Marshall Mathers" arrives in stores fifteen months later. While he could have just a botched follow-up, Eminem book an even better record. While he could have mitigated his remarks radicals, its "reputation" of this side is largely assured, Eminem returns even more aggressive and violent ... He not return alone, though, not having forgotten to put in his luggage his trump card, the producer Dr Dre, it confirms with this disc that is the best sorcerer studios the late twentieth century, across all musical genres ... Well, although "officially" Dr Dre produces only a third of the shares, the remainder was left to Bass Brothers or Eminem himself, nobody can be fooled, flat Dre shade on the entire project. Eminem, he plays on velvet, this time with the last of his schizophrenic twin, Marshall Mathers. Who is the real name of the blond of Detroit, and is supposed to be his most personal record. No different from the previous about however, Eminem does not have the habit of the lace, losing no opportunity to spit out his contempt and hatred of the whole Earth, and particularly taking into his ex-girlfriend Kim, in a final Cd dark, violent and tragic ... This CD is excellent from beginning to end, and despite a respectable length of more than 70 minutes, very few things actually sound filling or repetitive. First because of the inventiveness of production, often minimalist and very choppy, renewing on every title by the presence of clever gimmicks or bold. Eminem, and we often tend to forget because it does not has a beautiful voice, may nevertheless do everything with it, the pace is slow ("Marshall Mathers" is a slow, very rare exercise of style in rap ) or frantic, whether to engage in a comedy sketch doubtful or express anger or rage ... Some titles, however loose, "Stan" with its very long sample repeated a verse of the kind soul-poppeuse Dido, Eminem song which earned success in the charts well beyond the single circle rap " The way I am "," "The Real Slim Shady", "I'm back" and unstoppable syncopated rhythm, "Under the influence", full of rage over a beautiful melody, "Kim" terrifying soul ballad, very G-Funk "Bitch Please II" with (inevitably) Snoop, very black and almost trip-hop "Criminal" ... With this 'Marshall Mathers' Eminem did not address only personal business, it also implicitly posed a question in the middle of rap, defying competition ... Someone could he do better than this monument? Ten years later, the answer is known. No one has done better than "Marshall Mathers Lp." Not even Eminem himself later ...
