although encore blew hard and heavy, he's still a legend. the man has had nothing but classics and near classics up until encore. his rhyming skills are incredible, the first time i heard The Slim Shady and the Marshall Mathers LP, every rhyme he did made me just say "DAMN!" i could go on and on about songs from him that truely blew me away, but i won't since i'm cool like that. go buy his albums if you don't have them right this second or die. peace

i'll just do this track by track

1. Curtains Up: eh... random skit of sound effects
2. evil deeds: craptastic rhymes with a meh beat
3. never enough: meh lyrics, nice vocals by nate dogg, crappy beat
4. yellow brick road: meh lyrics, alrite beat, stupid chorus
5. like toy soldiers: pretty good lyrics and nice beat
6. mosh: em lashes out at Bush, great beat
7. puke: just when this album was getting better, retarded and repedetive rhymes go perfectly with this horrible beat
8. my 1st single: what the hell? ok beat, but retarded lyrics about nothing
9. paul: meh
10. rain man: horribly boring beat with lyrics about nothing...
11. big weenie: a cliche song with a cliche beat
12. em calls paul: meh
13. just lose it: how stupid and cliche... dissing MJ, we've all seen it before, can't Em be original? crappy beat too
14. ass like that: 1 word: shit
15. spend some time: cool beat, but 50 cent with his played out lyrics and the douche from the durrty south Stat Quo, do a number on a song with potential
16. mockingbird: good song all around
17. crazy in love: eh...
18. one shot 2 shot: d12 are not gangsta and bizarre has horrible rhymes, the beat is pretty sub-par
19. final thought: ..
20. encore: great beat and decent lyrics, thumbs up
21. we as americans: same as #20
22. love you more: ^^
23. ricky ticky toc: meh... nothing special

overall, Eminem should have delivered better than this... much better

where do i start? hm... well for one thing everyone of you guys who like him and say he's tight, have you ever bothered listening to his lyrics? all he talks about is how he got shot 9 times, big deal, stuff like that happens all the time and it's horrible when it does, yet this punk glorifies it thinking it's a game and making the youth think that as well. well it's not, when people die it's a tragedy but he's rappin about how great it is. next, his lyrics... he has the vocabulary of a 4th grader, any moron can rhyme with his lyrical skills, but TRUE rappers like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Wu Tang Clan, etc. have real original rhymes unlike 50 who has rhymes like "rain and brain" wtf is that?

all in all, nothing close to a legend and whoever shot him should have aimed a little bit higher when he shot him in his jaw.

G-G-G-G-G-UNOT!

well like i said, this album is crap. boring lyrics, with no originality. all 50 talks about is how gangsta he is and all the different ways he will kill you... oh yeah and how he was shot. please, do the whole world a favor and stop buying crappy albums like this one people.