B4sic

Absolutely some great moments, but too inconsistent for me to give it anything higher.

There’s a reason this is the one everybody likes. Simple, solid songwriting. Just some good old fashioned 90s alt rock. Plus Chris Martin’s voice is genuinely great and not nearly as grating here as it is on later projects.

A masterclass in how not to sample or interpolate. It’s copying the sexual nature that women in rap have had since the rise of Nikki Minaj, but instead of having personality, it just pushes the sexually explicit nature to 11. The poster child for so many of the baffling industry trends in rap, particularly with women.

Steven crowder core

How on earth has Eminem not figured out how to pick a decent beat for any of his songs. It’s kind of impressive how consistently terrible they are. The writing makes me think that em believes that just having shock value was what made his classic albums classics in the first place, rather than funny and clever lyricism and an interesting flow. He is wrong.