Let’s all hope that this isn’t really the final curtain call for the multi-talented rapper Marshall Bruce Mathers III. Launched by Dr. Dre, Eminem has stamped his distinctive style all over the rap genre, winning nine Grammies and an Oscar for his innovative beats and flow, and of course his controversial lyrics have kept him in the spotlight one way or the other.

This is his fifth album, the first Greatest Hits compilation, and includes three new songs as well as most of his hit singles from “The Slim Shady LP”, “The Marshall Mathers LP”, “The Eminem Show”, “Encore” and the “8 Mile” soundtrack. It also includes the live version of “Stan” performed at the 2001 Grammy’s by Eminem and Elton John. The one omission that comes to mind is “Superman”, and also maybe “Encore”, but there are enough hits to make most people very happy.

The new tracks are “FACK”, a funny track that more than earns a PA warning, the infectious “Shake That” (featuring Nate Dogg), and one of the best new songs around - “When I’m Gone”. Lyrics from “When I’m Gone” strongly hint that Eminem may be taking a break to spend more time with his daughter and niece, and he also may be working on expanding his production portfolio.

“What happens when you become the main source of her pain
"Daddy look what I made"
Dad's got to go catch a plane
"Daddy, where's Mommy, I can't find Mommy where is she?"
I don't know, go play, Hailey baby, your daddy's busy”

This album represents the very best of Eminem, plus a couple of excellent new tracks. Highly recommended.


Amanda Richards, December 6, 2005

Curtain Call is a greatest hits collection from Eminem that shows why he is one of the biggest selling artists of the last few years. Eminem's albums have always been stuffed with some goofy filler, but this album distills down his best moments and shows his artistic greatness. "Stan" is one of the most haunting songs in the past twenty years and stands as his crowning achievement. "Lose Yourself" has anthem like qualities with it beat that pulsates to the breaking point and it won an unlikely, but well-deserved Academy Award for best song. "My Name Is" shows off the class clown persona that would become his trademark. The album has three new songs the best of which is "When I'm Gone" which is an exercise in the psychodrama that is his other trademark. Eminem has suggested that he is leaving the music business for good ("When I'm Gone" suggests this as well) and if he does, the music he left will definitely leave its mark on the musical landscape.

I hate to tell you people, but Eminem sucks. Royally. He is the most overrated MC to ever grab a microphone. All of his lyrics are childish, and when they aren't childish, he sounds like a ****ing emo. He tries to be funny, but he isn't. He has no flow whatsoever, and his annoying, prepubescant voice makes my ears bleed with discomfort. He's even worse at producing, since his beats are just like Dre's today; they ALL sound the same.

Eminem doesn't have one good song in his whole discography. Lose Yourself is the most overrated song in music history. The production is horrid, and the lyrics are overly simplistic. On most tracks, he attempts screaming into a microphone; VERY few people can pull off screaming into a microphone, and Eminem is most definitely not one of them.

Whoopie. He writes songs about how much he loves his daughter; do you think he's the only hip-hop artist to dedicate songs to his children? Hell, Ja Frickin' Rule did it on his very first album, and yet, everyone hates him. He writes songs about wanting to rape, and have incest with his own mother. He writes songs about killing his own wife.

He's influenced REAL PEOPLE to kill over stupid songs like Stan.

Eminem sucks. The only reason he ever got over in the hip-hop industry is because Dr. Dre was backing him, and he's a white rapper not named "Vanilla Ice." He completely ripped other rappers' styles, such as Esham and Cage, and then start beefs with them, and disses them because they speak the truth about him being a biter. He starts beefs with rappers that would absolutely kill him in a battle(Esham, Cage, Royce, Bis).

Eminem is garbage. Eminem is overrated. Eminem looks and sounds like a thirteen year old child, who is going through puberty.

Eminem sucks people. Get over it.

Ok, so the Vanilla Ice rip off artist has a greatest hits cd out. Who cares? How many cd's does he have out anyway? 2? 3? And he already has greatest hits? Um, ok. So, in those 2 or 3 prior cd's, after he b*tches and moans like a whiny schoolgirl nancyboy about his bothersome ex-wife, now he's back with her. He's worse than little girl. He needs to actually grow a pair, as well as backbone, realize he is talent-less, and do the world a favor, as well as his so-called daughter, and just stick a .45 in his mouth and put an end to it. Or, I guess to be rap enough, it'd be a "glock." Whatever, just do his civic duty and end it already. Out. Semper Fi.

There are only a few things that I HATE. War, violence toward women, alcohol, and EMINEM. And of all those things, I can avoid three of them, but I can't avoid Eminem. Why? Because he and his record distributors have completely brainwashed an entire generation into thinking this guy is GANGSTER-GOD!
--- FLASH! Eminem is the reason we are having so much trouble with our young teenagers. He sings about hate, and violence toward EVERYTHING. And the kids get their information from HIM about how to treat women and situations. They emulate it, just like they have from every rock star forever.
--- This isn't MUSIC, this is slam-poetry. -- I DEFY EMINEM TO STOP HIDING BEHIND THE BIG BEAT AND PUBLISH HIS BOOK OF THOUGHTS. He never will. He doesn't want you to read what he's REALLY saying, least you see his true colors.
----I wish I was allowed to say what I really think about Eminem because your ears would be burning.
---DO NOT BUY THIS OR ANY OTHER ALBUM BY EMINEM. DON'T GIVE HIM YOUR MONEY!! DON'T PAY FOR THIS MALICIOUS HATE !!!