Eminem’s eighth album, Marshall Mathers LP 2, berzerks the charts, unveiling his wicked ways with guitar slinging, country sound and dark lyrics.

You can say he’s assuming his fate, cursing his words because “[his] life is garbage and [he’s] gonna take it out on you” in “Bad Guy”, the opening track on the album.

He stuns his audience by reintroducing Stan (from the first Marshall Mathers LP released in ‘99) and continues on the suicidal road. Towards the end of the song, there are sparks of remorse but ends with Eminem standing on the ground as he’s “trapped in his own drawings” emphasizing he still stumbles because of his own conscious.

A great addition to this masterpiece has to be “Desperation”, a track that strongly reminds me of Carrie Underwood’s “Cowboy Casanova”, maybe because he later mentions her in the song as well.

He raps about his admiration towards a woman’s features yet disses her at the end. The instruments used to make that country sound with the bashing drums and hook stands out from the whole album.

Jamie N Commons hook “this ain’t love, it’s desperation,” got to me as I was driving and singing the song a little too loud.

“Survival” is another catchy anthem that will get you doing air guitar while singing along. Charles Darwin’s survival of the fittest ironically contradicts his depression as he is “allergic to failure” and always achieves.

A heartwarming song that touched my heart was “Headlights” when he apologizes to his mother that he’s “always loved [her] from afar” for not being able to be their when her granddaughters were growing up.

Bringing in this extreme personal experience that he’s previously slammed with curse words and anger, laces the album perfectly because he’s proven that the time his absence did him good — but he’s still in a strange place.

Despite the continuous anger issues that people might depict from his lyrics, he’s still the Slim Shady we fell in love with years ago just stronger. Throughout the album a shadow seems to follow Eminem as he can’t escape the past.

The beautiful pain poured on this album has lead him to build onto his success and surpass the internal demons within himself.

Once again for the eighth time he’s demolished the charts, easing his fans that he remains as the best rapper alive.