I will have to agree it may not be Eminems best but each of his albums have had a different style. I have read many reviews and like many songs on Eminems albums i tend to lean toward the less popular ones. Encores "Spend Some Time" really hits home to anyone who as been played. Especially ems verse followed by 50 cent cant go wrong there. I'll admit that when i first open the cd and poped it in i was a little disappointed. But once i shuffled threw some of the fluff found some funny tracks as well as more mature songs. As he continues to produce and rap i hope to see a return to some of his older styles. other than that Great Job Em! Not his best but still classic EM.

The rapping has great texture you can understand where everything is coming from. True feelings!

Eminem Encore - This may not Eminem's best album, but it holds up to the hype. Eminem is most lyrical on tracks like "Like Toy Soldiers" where Em explains his part old hip-hop fueds with Benzino and Ja Rule & Murda INC, and "Yellow Brick Road" where he apologizes for his past racial freestyle. The album also has a lot of hot and hype tracks such as "Encore", "Evil Deeds", and "One Shot 2 Shot". If you were looking for classic, funny, and crazy Eminem, the album has a lot of it. On tracks "A** Like That" Em does an impression of Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog poking fun at the Olsen twins, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, etc. Em jokes on Benzino, Micheal Jackson, ex-wife Kim, and Christopher Reeves on other tracks. "Puke", "Rain Man", "Big Weenie", "Just Lose It", to say the else. The album hits it's lows on song like "My 1st Single", "Big Weenie", and "Crazy In Love". But all in the entire album is great but the best is yet to come.

Eminem, Encore - Without doubt the most compelling album Eminem has ever produced, Encore is also his most confusing and amusing. On first listen you cannot help but be shocked by the monotone beats and the rambling and at times pointless lyrics. But then, when you remember the artist has always proved himself smarter than his haters, you realise that this is precisely his intention.

This album is meant to showcase the new-found boredom which has engulfed his life, and the fact that he's run out of things to say and people to take shots at. Everyone loves him, and he is showing how it's destroying a career built on battles, both imaginery and real, both against himself and the outside world. Yet despite the lack of fire in his voice, the album still has truly great moments and proves this man doesn't have to threaten, insult and fight to make an entertaining record. For example, Toy Soldiers, which cleverly distinguishes his beef with Ja Rule by rising above it and not cussing his opponent, is the album's best song. It is quickly followed by Mosh, by far his most mature and politically aware lyric yet. Yellow Brick Road and Mockingbird, the album's other two brilliant tracks, remind us how difficult his past, and present, private life really has been.

This album is not very pleasing on the ears, but then this man's music rarely is. It's what he has to say that's important. And in not once threatening someone, and not once mentioning drugs, this is what makes it so new and so enthralling, and shows the artist has evolved.