Best Records of the 00's - Eminem "The Marshall Mathers LP"

I think in the summer of 2000 there was a couple of records I had in rotation - but nothing ruled like that year's Eminem release. Every song seemed so crazy and angry, but at the same time clever, and I loved it.



At the time I worked for a really really small company, where I basically sat in a room with my boss and my one coworker. Me and my coworker Andy listened to this so much we knew pretty much all the words, all the background noises and sound effects and would recite them at times. Although it seems really dated now, with the references to the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and Carson Daly, at the time it fit as an angry piece of music countering the smiley pop music that dominated. The next record from Eminem "The Eminem Show" was also good, but not quite as great. The two after definitely slipped with "Encore" probably under the category of albums that blow. Here's some of my favorite tracks from Marshall Mathers LP: