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" Eminem&amp;#039;s new album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 has been praised by critics.  The rapper&amp;#039;s eighth studio album, which is released worldwide this week, is described as a &amp;quot;return to [the] form&amp;quot; of his earlier work and a worthy successor to his 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP.  Below is a round-up of what the critics are saying:  Rolling Stone: &amp;quot;MM LP 2 fits in well in the year of Yeezus and Magna Carta...\u00E2\u20AC\u2030Holy Grail, records by ageing geniuses trying to figure out what the hell to do with their dad-ass selves. (It&amp;#039;s like hip-hop is the new Wilco or something.) Since Em has always been a mess, he&amp;#039;ll probably still be able to give us pause when he&amp;#039;s rhyming about retirement ventures through dentures and cleaning out the colostomy bag he wears up inside his saggy drawers. MM LP 3, 2026. Let&amp;#039;s do this.&amp;quot;  Rating: 4/5 USA Today: &amp;quot;Eminem is at his best when he&amp;#039;s at his worst: tasteless, immature, psychotic, incensed. Not the most attractive traits in a 41-year-old father, perhaps. But it works for pop music&amp;#039;s antihero poet.&amp;quot; Rating: 3.5/4      Spin: &amp;quot;This album will never top MM1 or even 1999&amp;#039;s Slim Shady LP for the visceral thrill of watching a celebrity twist and distort his own identity like a comic strip transferred onto Silly Putty. But we get rhymes. So many rhymes. More rhymes than some rappers manage in a whole career. It was only 13 years ago when he was just rap&amp;#039;s Great White Asshole. He&amp;#039;s already been the lead actor. He deserves to play the stuntman for a while.&amp;quot; Rating: 8/10 NME: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been three years since Eminem&amp;#039;s last outing, in which time rap has seen a seismic shift towards trap rumbles, woozy echoes and, in the case of fashionistas A$AP Rocky and Kanye, rhymes about cat walks - a world apart from the Detroit emcee as we last saw him in 2010 around Recovery&amp;quot; Rating: 6/10      New York Daily News: &amp;quot;The album offers a resounding return to the gory comedy and free embrace of psychosis that first made Em the antihero of our age. It&amp;#039;s his funniest album in years, as well as his fastest, verbally. The speed rap in &amp;#039;Rap God&amp;#039; alone could make every other emcee tie their tongue in shame.&amp;quot; Rating: 4/5 Vice: &amp;quot;No other rap album this year has managed to continually surprise in the way that the Marshall Mathers LP 2 does. I don&amp;#039;t think my jaw closed for a high majority listening through this album, consistently finding myself laughing out loud, pleased, shocked, and at times, emotional.&amp;quot; Rating: Positive      Digital Spy: &amp;quot;The Marshall Mathers LP 2 is just as offensive, funny, bleak as its forebear, but - aside from the questionable guest stars and those derogatory comments - Eminem is brooding, in form and the rest should start taking notes again.&amp;quot; Rating: 4/5 Eminem&amp;#039;s Marshall Mathers LP 2 is released worldwide tomorrow (November 5). "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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