Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP2 (Deluxe Edition) (2000/2013)

Chris Rock joked that the world was so crazy, “the best rapper is a white guy,” referring to Eminem. He’d been accused of corrupting the nation’s youth by fostering misogyny on his major-label debut, and to say he doubled down on playing with offensive ideas only exaggerates his joyful commitment to earning more denunciations. “The Real Slim Shady” and “Bitch Please II” vaulted Eminem from a shock rapper with a sense of humor to the voice of a generation. And in “Stan,” he created a verb and a meme to describe extreme fandom in our era.

The album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013) by American rapper Eminem is in a sense a continuation of his acclaimed album The Marshall Mathers LP from 2000. In the lyrics and in terms of music, the album can be heard as an ode to the music that Eminem made around the turn of the century, although the record cannot be fully characterized as a nostalgic finger exercise. The production of Eminem's eighth studio album includes Rick Rubin and Alex da Kid, while Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar are guest musicians. In the United States, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 debuts at number one on the Billboard 200.