“Cinderella Man”, “Love the Way You Lie”, “No Love”, “Not Afraid”, “Space Bound”, “Won’t Back Down”, “You’re Never Over”. “3 a.m.”, “Beautiful”, “Crack a Bottle”. I’m not going to go into every song here, because we have covered every Eminem album, but this is what has been included: Just want Slim Shady back.Īt nearly three hours in length, there’s a lot of Eminem on offer. Recent Eminem albums have displayed an obsession with making the most impressive raps, yet few of these “hits” register in the memory like his earlier material.įeel like s***. And that’s where the division lies amongst hip-hop heads – the wit and precise flow that made us fans has been replaced by robotic accents and rapid-fire word spaghetti. It’s actually difficult to see the style of songs on “Curtain Call 2” being successful if it wasn’t the most successful rapper in history performing them. Simply put, the music here isn’t as good, nor are the rhymes as memorable. 
A signature of his first run is an ability to make you react to a powerful story one moment, and laugh at his humor the next, all while marveling at the way he manipulated words. Compared to the first “Curtain Call”, what’s immediately apparent is just how much Eminem has shifted away from traditional songwriting toward lyrical acrobatics. Without stating the blinking obvious, Eminem has changed a lot since 2005. Worryingly, and perhaps most tellingly, with double the timeframe of the first compilation (1999-2005), it’s still an inferior selection of Eminem hits.
“Curtain Call 2” is the sequel to 2005’s “ Curtain Call: The Hits” in name, but delivers a very different selection of Eminem’s music from the latter part of his career (2009-2022).
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