Eminem
Every album we have reviewed, graded S to F.
- Albums graded
- 12
- Critic’s grade
- Highest grade
- Average grade
- Graded S
- 1
- Span
- 1996 to 2024
No. 7 on Top 10: Rap Discographies, graded B as a body of work.
Every album
12 albums, 1996 to 2024, each placed by its grade, then sorted onto the board.
The records
Newest first, each with the line its review opens on.
2024The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)A concept about killing off the character, argued with the character, at length, in circles.
2020Music to Be Murdered BySharper beats and a few real songs, buried under twenty tracks and the usual speed for its own sake.
2018KamikazeAngry, short and mostly aimed at people who were not thinking about him. Better than the album it apologises for.
2017RevivalPop rock choruses, groaning puns and political writing at the level of a bad open mic. The floor of the catalogue.
2013The Marshall Mathers LP 2A sequel that mostly justifies the title, dragged down by a length nobody asked for.
2010RecoveryIt sold more than anything else that year and aged worse than almost anything else in the catalogue.
2009RelapseThe best beats he ever rapped on, wasted on accents and body parts for seventy six minutes.
2004EncoreThe gag voices take over and the writing stops. Two good songs and a long stretch of nothing.
2002The Eminem ShowThe stadium version, with guitars and grievances, and a warmth the other big ones never had.
2000The Marshall Mathers LPThe most technically frightening rap album of its era, and one of the very few that earns its own scale.
1999The Slim Shady LPCartoon horror with real teeth, cut so lean it still moves faster than anything that copied it.
1996InfiniteA talented kid doing a passable impression of rappers he loved, on beats nobody would remember without him.