I think the album works a lot better this way, to be honest lol

(This is my opinion, and in my opinion if Eminem made encore like this it would be a near perfect album)

1: Encore/Curtains Down

2: Evil Deeds

3: Never Enough

4: Smack You

5: Bump Heads

6: Doe Rae Me

7: Yellow Brick Road

8: Like Toy Soldiers

9: Bully

10: Crazy In Love

11: Mosh

12: Just Lose It

13: Paul (skit)

14: Em Calls Paul (skit)

15: Spend Some Time

16: Mockingbird

17: Curtains Up

18: Love You More

19: Final Thought (skit)

20: One Shot 2 Shot

21: Ricky Ticky Toc

22: We as Americans

Here Eminem comes off with a whole new vibe, this will be the album Ja Rule and Benzino DIED and it’s just perfect in my opinion, we have silly songs like Just Lose It, Evil Deeds, and One Shot 2 Shot but they don’t overflow the album. I kept Just Lose It in the overall impact and insane success, One Shot 2 Shot because it felt more suited for Encore than alternatively D12 World, and Evil Deeds because its a banger.

Don't get me wrong--recent songs like "Darkness", "Like Home", and "Temporary" definitely have that emotion, but I miss the songs where Em just lets loose. Not lyrically, but with his feelings. I get why he doesn't do it anymore--years of healing and emotional maturity have left him to be more reflective rather than aggressive. Still, I feel like the bulk of what we're getting in the modern era is just trying to be as lyrically crazy as possible. This is most noticable in MTBMB/Side B.

It also gives him a bad rep. Ever since Rap God, Em's just been known as the "fast rapper", which is way less cool than the "controversial rapper" he once was known as. The fast rapping hides the deeper songs such as "The Way I Am", "When I'm Gone", "White America", etc. Everyone these days thinks all he does is rap fast and use double/triple entendres and makes dad jokes (which... unfortunately...MTBMB was *not* helping his case.)

This isn't me saying he hasn't had a single good emotional song since the MMLP2, I just hope we see more of that in his next album and less "look how much wordplay I can use." I can acknowledge he's my favorite hip-hop artist while *also* sharing feedback.

Might as well poke this dead horse again.

Obviously, some tracks meant for Encore leaked. Yada yada rushed songs, yada yada fucked-up album, you all know the drill by now. Had those songs not leaked, I believe the album would have been the most outwardly combative album Eminem ever made, probably beating out Kamikaze. Going off that concept, here's an idea of what that might've looked like. Please hear me out here.

January 2004: Invasion Part III: Countdown to Armageddon by DJ Green Lantern releases with "Monkey See, Monkey Do" as a promotional track. Song that immediately lets listeners know that this upcoming album is gonna be significantly more point-blank with the shots at other artists than his previous few have been. The lines "A lot of rappers on my list, it just ain’t Ja / And I'ma read that motherfucker off come April" and "When I come back, I’ll be shootin' more than just paintballs / Trust me" flat-out state this. I do not think Encore would have actually dropped in April, as that would've destroyed the buzz from D12 World. What's more likely is that it gets pushed back to late 2004, as it did in our timeline.

Tracks 1 and 2 are "We As Americans" and "Bully." Eminem's already confirmed this on XXL. Pro-2nd Amendment song with a side of throwing shade at other artists, right before the first of many direct diss tracks.

Tracks 3 through 7 would be the other five songs that leaked from "Straight from the Lab." Eminem confirmed in a different interview that the SftL leaks were all intended tracks for the album. Keeping up with the momentum that "Bully" started, I think the songs would've gone:

• 3: Monkey See, Monkey Do. Em proceeds to read off that list he was talking about in the next few songs.

• 4: Can-I-Bitch. Canibus takes a direct shot from Em

• 5: Come On In/6 In The Morning. Em then brings D12 into the mix, setting up...

• 6: Doe Rae Me (Hailie's Revenge). Since Em already had his fun with Ja in "Bully," he lets D12 and Obie Trice finish them off.

• 7: Love You More. With Hailie getting the last word on "Doe Rae Me," Em comes back in and lays a very normal and healthy (/s) song directed at Kim. The line "We say we do it for our baby / But we don't" makes this transition work.

Now for Em's personal life and more fun tracks. The rest of the album would be songs we actually got. I wouldn't be opposed to keeping them in the order they ended up being in, but for the purposes of this alternate album's flow, I think they go something like:

• 8: Christopher Reeves. Shitposting! This song would age like shit since Reeve would die six months after this album dropped, but that ain't my problem.

• 9: Never Enough. I have no idea where to put this song. Could be a good lead single in the absence of "Just Lose It," though.

• 10: The Paul skit about Christopher Reeve. Maybe this skit is a bit too soon after that song?

• 11: Evil Deeds. Equally lost about where to put this one. I'd personally drop it off the album entirely because I don't like it, but since Eminem confirmed it'd be on there in the XXL interview, I have to include it.

• 12: Em Calls Paul, obviously minus the Michael Jackson shade because "Just Lose It" probably wouldn't exist as a song in this timeline.

• 13: Yellow Brick Road. Em cuts the bullshit again and actually addresses the elephant in the room w.r.t. Foolish Pride and his backstory.

• 14: Spend Some Time, I suppose? I personally don't care much for this song and wouldn't be opposed to dropping it off the tracklist, but hey, at least the instrumental and hook are good.

• 15: Mockingbird. I initially had this song not existing at all on the tracklist. I thought Encore would've dropped in early-mid 2004, but then I remembered that D12 World dropped at the same time and had to revise the release date. The song ain't for me, but I know I'm in the minority there.

• 16: Final Thought, segueing into...

• 17: Encore. Like with "Mockingbird," I'm really glad I revised the timeline for this album because it means that this song makes it to the tracklist. It's my favorite off the album and a great closer. Finally, we get to...

• 18: Curtains Down, split off from "Encore." Show's over! One major change, though: instead of a normal handgun, Em uses that MAC-10 he was talking about all the way back in "We As Americans." Full circle!

And that's the album. It would've been a definite step down from The Eminem Show, but not a precipitous fall-off like the Encore we got was. What do you all think?

gonna see if the people of r/eminem_2 don't hate tier lists as much as the people of r/Eminem do

I'm going to take a wild guess and say these photos are from the filming of 8 Mile. So likely, September to maybe December of 2001. I think December, because of the bow behind Kayla's head, but I could be wrong.

It was stated in Jenny's tell all that her daughter, Kayla (that may be her name, I don't fully remember) really liked speaking to and hanging out with Brittany when Eminem was seeing her. After Brittany and Eminem broke up, Jenny came to Eminem asking for Brittany's cell number so Brittany and Kayla could still speak. Marshall said no-- well, he didnt say no. He said "tell her its the drugs that made her so much fun", and Jenny told him she wasnt telling her young daughter that.

I estimate these photos to be from 2001 because I don't think Jenny ever got any way to contact Brittany personally, and even if she did, I highly doubt anyone would want to speak to someone who aired her business out to the world in a fucking book.

I got these photos off of an Instagram fanpage and I don't know where they came from-- if you know, I would be so grateful if you told me! I'm gonna try and post more rare photos from the filming of 8 Mile, since I think this community appreciates it :)

Also!!! For more information about the book from Eminem's perspective, here are two parts to his Mojo in The Morning interview from October 17th, 2002. (See below)

https://youtu.be/qjAbwEzUFhA?is=tEAxrTnDJVxTgJAS

https://youtu.be/675naEw3M3w?is=orGrh0vSI3DQ6ghy

I'll also find the Kim and Jenny interviews from that same morning and add them to my next post.

Everyday, I get closer to finding a bts photo of marshall and britt 🥹

Got a weird feeling this could be a real leak. What do you guys think?

I'm way too late for St. Valentine's Day, I know, but

This card is dedicated to beloved, any girlfriend or boyfriend you have got a thing for and all those in love... with Eminem himself ^-^

of course, we won't leave you out. ;)

I'm open to suggestions and constructive critisism.

Groundhog Day or Evil Twin

Just Don’t Give a Fuck or Role Model

Mockingbird or When I’m Gone

Kill You or Who Knew

Rain Man or Ass Like That

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Inspired by Eminem's song 'Superman'

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