It is very daring to make a sequel to the best-selling album of your career. Especially when that record is also rightly known as your magnum opus from a qualitative point of view. A publicity stunt sounds too cheap and is actually unnecessary for a world star like Eminem. However you turn or turn it, a sequel to a timeless record like The Marshall Mathers LP always deserves a chance. At the start
… of part two, the listener is immediately confronted with Eminem's sense of drama and poetry with a track from the perspective of an old acquaintance, who, as an embodiment of karma, comes to settle an old account. Slim Shady also shows himself to be the eternal text virtuoso with the absolute climax Rap God, where the unleashed rapper shows that he is the greatest in his craft. However, the other material fluctuates enormously in level and too often feels like contemporary pop / rock. Partly because of this, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 feels too radio-friendly, too adapted, too apologetic for its title and is therefore more the antithesis of its predecessor. (GL)more
