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On This Day 26 Years Ago, Eminem Released ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’, a Classic Hip-Hop Album That Rubbed Some Critics the Wrong Way

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On this day 26 years ago, Eminem released The Marshall Mathers LP, an album that remains his magnum opus. It was dark, disturbing, and dexterous in how he rapped about the subject matter. It’s certainly uneasy to listen to records like “Kim”, a violent screaming match that just so happened to be a rap song. But it’s a singular vision that only the Detroit legend could’ve pulled off.

“Eminem could be the Axl Rose of hip-hop, a rage-filled, drug-addled, homicidal, charismatic talent and bona fide megastar. The Marshall Mathers LP is a car-crash record: loud, wild, dangerous, out of control, grotesque, and unsettling. It’s also impossible to pull your ears away from,” writer Touré wrote for Rolling Stone at the time.

Entertainment Weekly argued it’s equally........

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