You left out on the skit Em calls Paul that Eminem used the titles of Michael Jackson's hit songs to speak to Paul. That was the best part of the skit. Super creative way to do it.
That whole skit alone made the album great. From him shitting in the background to the voice modulator to the MJ song references. The bullet drop and the “goddamnit” to follow cracks me up too
" And they call the Slim Shady LP the greatest, the Marshall Mathers was a classic, The Eminem Show was fantastic but Encore didn't have the calibre to match it, I guess enough time just ain't passed yet, a couple of more years that shit'll be illmatic and 8 years later I'm still at it " Eminem - Be Careful What You Wish For - 2009
I love Encore. To me it feels like an artist at the peak of their career/celebrity and not knowing what to do. It’s all over the place with lots of darkness in there, more so than his other stuff. The blue album cover and title just fits so perfectly. I listened to the whole thing again recently and realized how high I rank the album. I love all the silly songs too. Big Weenie and Rain Man are some of my favorite Eminem songs
This album was SUCH a letdown it’s not even funny. I actually own a physical copy and when I heard it front to back the first time, I finally understood why people hate it so much.
@@bradlee3109I’m the opposite I still love the album. It has comedic value mixed with serious subjects & personal soul touching songs. Those qualities are on every Em album & some of the main reasons I fell inlove with Ems music in the first place besides the most obvious fact he’s an insanely talented lyricist. Mosh, Toy soldiers & mockingbird still give me chills & near tears every time I listen to them. Ass like that & just lose it are still funny & make you wonna dance silly n sing along. Its not a perfect album like TES before it but idk how any fans of his music could absolutely hate it tho everyone has their own preferences.
It's only not good by his own standards he set. He came out the gate like a bull, a phenomenon, these people are rare, Michael jackson, Elvis, Jordan, Tyson, they set the bar soooo high
Good video but there's a few errors: 1. Encore was not the peak of Em's drug addiction. 2007 was, when he overdosed on methadone pills. 2. 5 songs didn't leak, it was 7, with 4 of them being intended for the album. Evil Deeds never leaked. 3. When I'm Gone was written last-minute for Curtain Call in 2005. There's no source for the March 2004 claim and was added by an anonymous editor many years ago.
Yeah everything is true except number 1 even em said he was on drugs which technically was his peak of being on drugs 2007 it got worse due to proof passing away a year prior
Not even joking when I say Eminem has arguably two of the best Nate Dogg hooks of all time w/ “Never Enough” & “‘Till I Collapse” to me “Never Enough” is so underrated and I will say till this day first half of this album is amazing but when you get to track 7 is when it goes down a slippery slope this album is the definition of it has the HIGHEST of highs yet also has the LOWEST of lows.🐐🎯💯
@@deanbecenti9769 regulate, lay low, area codes > (the list goes on) sorry these are fire hooks its just that you should no confine the king of westcoast hooks to shady
Just want to point out, that the people in the audience on the album cover/inlay, aren't his "fans".. he said it himself, it's all his critics. If you closely at the people you can clearly see that they aren't fans
I was in 7th grade when this album dropped. I listened to the entire album for the first time on Wild 94.9 here in the Bay Area a day before the album dropped. This premiere was obviously heavily censored since it was premiered on radio, but I remember being a little let down with the long string of goofy songs on it. Still went and picked it up on day one. As a 7th grader, every song on the album (except Mosh, I skipped it every time) grew on me. Im also from the hood, and I can confirm, the hood kids at my school LOVED Just Lose It. The Pee Wee Herman sounds really had us dyin. The album artwork really spoke to me. The fact that he put “to my fans, im sorr.” Bro didn’t even completely say sorry to us 😂😂😂 I totally understood, this album is dam near career suicide, and especially judging by how he had a gun in his mouth on the CD tray insert. How surprised I was to see a gun behind his back the first time I opened the CD case. I can honestly say, Encore is the album that made me look deeper into album booklet artwork. The Encore booklet had such a message in it. A devastating message if you were as much of a fan as I was.
Funny you mentioning the radio being your first experience with the album. My parents cautiously got a 10 year old me encore censored after I got into my dad's "trifecta" copies. He doesn't really like rap and generally just purchased based on singles/music videos, so I assume he got SS and MM at the same time first after Stan and then got ES. I sneaked recordings of the cds with a tape recorder so I could listen to them whenever. Needless to say, I wasn't as enthused with the lazy censoring just breaking up the flow of everything and the goofy, explicit songs could just not be followed with all the cuts. I thought Encore was just okay. I was also kind of too young and disconnected to know about the news circus and the narrative of encore. 5 Years later listening to the uncensored version made me appreciate the album a lot more and songs like Never Enough clicked for me once you could actually listen to the entire song.
Born and raised in Tampa Bay. When this album dropped I was a freshman at Jefferson High School. U say you from the hood, if you don’t mind answering what middle school you were at during this time? Don’t matter anyways, I grew up in the era where everyone all races alike KNEW em was that guy. Very different from today with kids that wasn’t there. Encore was a classic any way u slice it. Em had a crazy run from the first album to this newest one 💯
Puke was a song I was singing before I could walk. When I finally walked away from my own mother for toxic behaviour. It helped me get through it as I struggled with the accepted of having to actually walk away from someone I stopped caring for as a person but still sew the good she did as a mother.
Which does make me wonder whether or not Death of Slim Shady will be his last. It does seem kinda sus that he announced it and has now dropped a single, whereas he seemed to have grown acustom to the whole surprise album thing.
@@aidanthomas2510 I'd say this might be the departure from the rap game he was trying to do back in the "King Mathers" days. He's had a great run, why not go out on a high note?
Bully and When I'm gone aren't on this album, unless you got some special CD version. Those songs replacing Puke and My 1st single would have taken the album up several notches
The only thing I disagree w/ this awesome Video, is that Evil Deeds sucked especially as an opener track. I love that song & actually was surprised w/ Evil Deeds bc it felt haunting the beat everything and that opener felt like a step higher than the Eminem Show vibe (in my opinion) but just that song, most of the rest of the album was like ok this is pop and 😂Eminem is goofy and will never make Encore better than TES obviously. Just talking about that track Evil Deeds as a step higher than before. Nevertheless, Eminem was waaay too high to handle Encore as a masterpiece like his previous 3 albums, he was out of it during that Era 😭😔
I agree When I'm Gone (one of Eminem's other classics) should have gone on there. Had it gone on there with Mockingbird and Like Toy Soldiers, it might have been enough to make fans forgive the rest of the tracks. Remember, Encore was released before the days of streaming. So unlike Revival, they would have heard all the tracks (yes I think Revival had some good, even great tracks on it. Castle and Arose being two). Also, I always thought Bully was meant for something else. You could tell way more effort had been put into the mix than the other disses. Man that's a shame, imagine that had been the Benzino and Ja diss on the album instead of Big Weenie. A very serious track where, not unlike Like Toy Soldiers, he's reflecting on everything and saying things could well get violent. Had those tracks not leaked, it could well have been a very different album and maybe we would never have got Em back. Great video.
Bully never ended up on a proper release like the rest of the initial songs that leaked early so it never received a proper mix whereas the others did. Bully woulda likely replaced “Big Weenie”
I loved Encore. It came at a time I was in the midst of pill popping (E) too. Still love it today even though I've been clean for years. Good times though 🤘
Even though I consider this one of Em’s weaker albums, the visual aesthetics and theming are fantastic. Simultaneously lighthearted, goofy, depressing, dark and sinister. Even the colors used in the artwork (primarily royal blue with some black and red) really embody how the album feels.
It hurts hearing em dump on Relapse cause Beautiful, even if the verses are slightly corny, is a really nice song. Pop a bottle is classic. Bagpipes from Baghdad and Insane are also crazy memorable once they grow on you.@@lemonspy9521
@@amityvillain bro…Relapse was a much more ‘ wittier ‘ Album than Recovery . Just bc he raps w/ a crazy voice on Relapse doesn’t mean Recovery did not sound Clumsy as well. See what I mean. 😢In Recovery it’s not understood why he sounds so angry, he OD’d and came back pissed & weird. Also🤘🏼We Made You was a good song and I thought was cooler than Just Loose it or Ass Like That. Closing tracks of Encore & Relapse feel similar too🤔🙂
I've literally had to make my own version of Encore with the leaked song's with the addition of when I'm gone and no apologies. Removed a bunch of the stupid tracks like my first single and ass like that. My Encore is pretty amazing😂
@@JohnAnthonyHD Curtains Up Evil Deeds Never Enough Yellow Brick Road Like Toy Soldiers Mosh We As Americans Paul (Skit) Love You More No Apologies Bully Monkey See, Monkey Do Em Calls Paul (Skit) Just Lose It Ricky Ticky Toc When I'm Gone Mockingbird Spend Some Time Crazy In Love One Shot 2 Shot Final Thought (Skit) Encore/Curtains Down
@@JohnAnthonyHD I didn't even finish your video when I posted that😂. When I'm Gone should have DEFINITELY been on the album. No Apologise also just because he basically wrote half of it in 2002 with the freestyle he did
@@arrjae404I would've kept rain man and got rid of just lose it, mosh and crazy in love. Your trippin for dropping rain man it was dumb but still dope
I only just got into Eminem (and rap in general) in early 2024. My partner showed me Music to be Murdered By and I liked it, so they had me borrow Curtain Call so I can get a taste of the Slim Shady era. After giving it a listen on the ride home, I went through his first four albums and loved them. For some reason, Encore stuck with me for the first few months. Rain Man, Big Weenie and Just Lose It were THE songs I had on repeat for a couple weeks. Something about the funny and unserious attitude of those songs stuck out to me. Looking back on the "Slim Shady Era", I think Marshall Mathers LP is the best one, with Way I Am being my favorite track. The way he has this tough-guy voice the entire song except at the end of the chorus really emphasizes how he's not what the media makes him out to be. It's a phenomenal song that needs more love.
Cool video man I liked the editing. It's too damn bad the songs leaked honestly because I really like this album's vibe. It would've been a good follow up to TES if 3 or 4 of the worse tracks were replaced by the leaks. Ultimately I still like the album better than some other in Em's catalogue and its shortcomings are way more understandable.
I was let down by Encore. 😞I bought it first day of its release in 10th grade, and a week later tried to sell the album to anyone in my class. Classmates were like, why? Is it bad or something. No just let down really. Later it grew a little on me, when I discovered the mixtapes from that era w/ Bully , songs w/ Nate Dogg, When I’m Gone etc and made my own version of Encore on iTunes…
Being from south africa, I had no idea about any of this! When just lose it was played on our radio stations was the first time hearing about Em again. I listened to the whole album and loved the journey. Thank you for all this insight into what was actually going on.🙏🏽🙏🏽
Idk why, but when you were talking about the album cover concept, and you said that Em was depicted as shooting up the crowd, you then spelled out the last part of what he wanted to do, on the screen. It was spelled, "Sh**ting himself", (shooting himself), but for a second, I thought that it meant to say, "Shitting himself", lol. It would totally still fit, if the two asterisks meant, "it", instead of, "oo", lol.
I feel like it’s a triple entendre with the message Em left on the cd. He’s saying sorry for what he’s about to do on stage, sorry for trolling everyone with the album, and for selling his soul. He “killed” himself and on My Darling on Relapse he raps in the devils voice and he says he always be with him. After Relapse it’s been a different Em. When I hear his old stuff it just feels and hits different. Almost like that really was Marshall speaking the truth, then the devil got him
The story of the leaks & drugged up replacement songs is one of my favorite chapters in Em’s lore & doesn’t have much recognition these days so great fuckin job! Also I feel like ‘When I’m Gone’ was left off because having it on the same record as “Mockingbird” was too redundant. I would put money on them being in a highly contested battle with eachother to make the final track list & Mockingbird took the slot. Feel like it DOES fit better with the concept/sound of the album that had an abundance of ‘old nursery rhyme’ references
I love Encore. This entire video, everything you talked about, *is* why I love Encore. I agree 100% that When I’m Gone should have been on Encore, or at least the bonus disc. I do skip songs like Puke, My 1st Single and Big Weenie but I already know every word lol, I’ve heard those songs probably thousands of times. Encore has been a big part of my life since it was released, I will always enjoy the album but I think that’s because I enjoy his sense of humor. I also love how hard he went with the whole Encore/ending the show concept with the album, even making that video at the beginning of this doc. The concept was absolutely brilliant. If only the record started as strong as it ended… but I DO love Evil Deeds even if he repeats himself in that first bit. You cannot deny that beat is insane. Listen to it in a car with a tricked out stereo system with a subwoofer, it goes HARD. I think Encore is iconic due to everything surrounding it, the aftermath, etc. He had beef with the PRESIDENT on this album, AND mentioned Suge… insane
Loved this man. Anything to do with Em has me interested. Been a huge fan since his first mainstream release. As a Scotsman we got this dude straight away and the humour in his dark shit. Im not a fan of every record but there are songs on every album i do love. Great work bro 👏
Honestly it’s a little mind blowing to me how many people dislike encore, that was my favorite eminem album growing up and still to this day is the most replayable for me (other than slim shady lp). Like i go back to songs from all albums but encore is probably my 2nd favorite em album in terms of highest percent of songs i go back to
Cuz he constantly mumbled and you could yell he was high af on opioids at that point. His flow and lyrics were far inferior to The Eminem Show. Encore was worse than the 2 albums that came before it. Of course people would be disappointed. Especially after waiting 2 years for an album.
Same I still the love album espec the heartfelt songs like toy soldiers, mosh, mockingbird & comedic songs like puke, ass like that, just lose it & crazy in love.
my first time hearing Eminem is when I was 14, Just Lose It just debut on mtv, and later when Encore dropped. I just love his goofiness in this album back then, digged in his previous albums and become a fan ever since. English is not my language so his music helped me alot in learning, and in growing up also. even tho it was not his favourite, Encore still holds a special place in my heart ❤
Didn’t knew all of this and personnally I like Ass Like That and all of his goofies songs in general, so I’m kind of grateful of that leak, because without it he may not have made it. Well explained video, I learned a bunch of stuff so thank you !
Im writing this at the beginning of the vid since I’ve seen mixed reactions in the comments over Encore. Now it’s not my favorite Em album sure, but Encore was dope af, and I think deserves more flowers then it got. I mean Toy Soldiers, Puke, ass like that, one shot 2 shot and my personal favorite Encore/Curtains down with Dre and 50 were classics IMO Plus Mockingbird has a special place in my heart due to my older brother loving that song before he passed away back in 05 (RIP Travis ❤️)but this is just my opinion
Eminem’s “bad albums” age way better than most bad albums - I don’t know it’s weird man .. like at the time I was like idk now I’m like encore wasn’t as horrible as originally thought. I never thought relapse was as horrible as some people thought
I was 17 when that album came out and it was certainly a different time. Because I grew up through middle and high school with Eminem and I was still young, I gave this album more attention than it probably deserved in retrospect. I was in my subwoofer bass phase and that album certainly had some nice low tracks.
And reading the lyric booklet over and over again on repeat. Kids today don't get that privilege we played these albums non stop and learnt them off by heart. I can remember every song word for word an they all slap
Absolutely beautiful discussion! I feel that so much of this was also relayed throughout relapse and recovery in a few ways. I've always wondered about more of those behind the scenes clips and the context of Em with the gun in the mirror. Another thing that came to mind after 13:00 was the track "Darkness" on Side A of Music to be Murdered By. I never gave it too much thought up until this point but the usage of the curtains throughout the song as well as the fear of stepping back on stage imagery brought that back to me. Excellent work once again my friend. 👏🏿
I saw a leg of this tour. And you could cleary tell from these videos. He was taking a step back. He literally had nothing else to prove and he had his family that he wanted ro be there for.
Great video for sure however in my opinion encore is very much one of his best albums despite leaks, critics, silly songs, etc. The entire concept of it was just so good
I liked the album. There were a few tracks that didn't hit, but overall, there's something great about it. Maybe it's when it came out. That's when I started really listening to em, so it definitely has nostalgia value for me. I wouldn't put it in my top 5 eminem albums but when I rate his albums, there's not much between them tbh. They all tell their own individual story. People love to say that eminems music has no content but when you look at his career, his entire catalogue of music is telling a story. He says TDOSS is a conceptual album but I think his entire catalogue when listened to in order does the same. He really is the GOAT imo.
I just play it as the first 6 songs then play We As Americans and Ricky Ticky Toc as 7,8 to help tone down the over silliness of the album, now with Brand New Dance out I can put that in for Big Weenie, play the rest as is then swap Crazy In Love out for Love You More then just play When I’m Gone as the bonus track, since it goes with the concept of how the album ends
It was not Truman Show but Man on the Moon. This is where Jim Carrey was playing Andy Kauffman who lived his life as a skit. Andy was always involved in bit, that was his personality. Thats how Eminem felt. Always performing, always held up to a standard
Great analysis, i hope you will do this for "The Death of Slim Shady" sometime around next year after sales and reception. Looking forward to your take..
Thank you for the video. I read that Eminem did not attend the Oscars due to restrictions from the Academy, which is why he was not present at the show. Additionally, due to his deal with Interscope, he was supposed to produce five albums, which explains why "Encore" was not his last album. "Curtain Call" served as the final album.
I was definitely one of those people at the time that didn’t know about the leaks, and I still like the album to this day. Maybe not the best album, and I don’t really care what people think anyway
AWESOME video, dude! I took my time with this all day, jumping back and forth from watching your video segments to listening to each track individually! Great research and delivery! 👊🏼 Btw, to answer your final question, I think Encore is far from being his worst. Relapse is my least favorite. Would love to watch your take on that album! 🙌🏼
People can say that it's bad but it is still a good album. Like you said, if not taken seriously and remembering about his drug addiction, you'll understand why it is like that.
Encore had extreme potential. Still to this day, it has a handful of tracks (“Mosh” and “Mockingbird” especially) that I think rank among his strongest ever songs. Even “Just Lose It” is a guilty pleasure for me because it’s still so much fun by leaning into its ridiculousness. If those first few tracks hadn’t leaked, I think the album would’ve at least been perfectly solid, and probably a lot better than most of his albums from the 2010s. So disappointing what could’ve been…
I actually LOVED encore and specifically the funny songs that it seems like everyone hated. Worth noting - I was 13 when that album dropped and the rain man tangent about football being gay was just peak comedy for me, and seeing as I was dealing with an older sister with a boy band obsession, puke felt like a great middle finger as it was lampooning those kinda of artists in a gross way. It felt like encore was loaded with these silly songs that had been the thing I liked most about Eminem as a kid. I think if you look at the album as a pure entertainment product and not the landmark ambitious show of storytelling and musicianship people expected it to be… Encore was alright
This comment sections is the perfect example that Stans will love anything Eminem puts out. Eminem can put out a song where he raps like he has Down syndrome and not saying any real words, just mumbling and grunts, and stans will still find a way to say it’s a genius song and he’s a goat
I was born in 2004. Encore is pretty much the first album that my dad put on my little baby ears, so i don't know if that brainwashed me or makes me overly nostalgic or whatever, but man i just *love* Encore. I didn't know the whole story about it being Eminem's supposed last album at the time, so that at least makes me understand a bit more why a good portion of the fanbase still to this day seems to hate this album, but man it's just really not as bad as people say it is, i mean it has 21 songs including the bonus 3 and there are maybe 5 songs in there that i don't listen to reguarly and i still like them. I especially struggle to understand how these same people hate on Encore but will praise Relapse which even Em has said himself that this album makes him cringe even more than Encore, or they'll praise Recovery which i could absolutely never get around to liking because it just doesn't sound as hip-hop and it was the beginning of this weird "pop rock" era for Em, but then these same people will criticize Revival for the exact same reason regarding the instrumentals. It's just all weird, i know an artist as huge as Eminem will always have extreme differences in opinions among the fanbase, but sometimes it all just sounds like a huge cognitive dissonance.
YOU GOTTA DO THIS FOR EVERY EM ALBUM PLEASE
Second this ❤
@@mariajoseurizar5093I’ll third this
Agreed 👍
Please please please
yes please
You left out on the skit Em calls Paul that Eminem used the titles of Michael Jackson's hit songs to speak to Paul. That was the best part of the skit. Super creative way to do it.
That whole skit alone made the album great. From him shitting in the background to the voice modulator to the MJ song references. The bullet drop and the “goddamnit” to follow cracks me up too
" And they call the Slim Shady LP the greatest, the Marshall Mathers was a classic, The Eminem Show was fantastic but Encore didn't have the calibre to match it, I guess enough time just ain't passed yet, a couple of more years that shit'll be illmatic and 8 years later I'm still at it "
Eminem - Be Careful What You Wish For - 2009
Encore is a sublime piece of work. So underrated
Divorced, remarried, a felon, a father, sleeping pill addict
@@maclendy we are not talking about Trump
@@firemedic2442 hahahhaha
It's just like a vibe you get, go ahead and bop to it, just watch what chu wish for cuz I got the shit
I love Encore. To me it feels like an artist at the peak of their career/celebrity and not knowing what to do. It’s all over the place with lots of darkness in there, more so than his other stuff. The blue album cover and title just fits so perfectly. I listened to the whole thing again recently and realized how high I rank the album. I love all the silly songs too. Big Weenie and Rain Man are some of my favorite Eminem songs
This album was SUCH a letdown it’s not even funny. I actually own a physical copy and when I heard it front to back the first time, I finally understood why people hate it so much.
@@bradlee3109I’m the opposite I still love the album. It has comedic value mixed with serious subjects & personal soul touching songs. Those qualities are on every Em album & some of the main reasons I fell inlove with Ems music in the first place besides the most obvious fact he’s an insanely talented lyricist. Mosh, Toy soldiers & mockingbird still give me chills & near tears every time I listen to them. Ass like that & just lose it are still funny & make you wonna dance silly n sing along. Its not a perfect album like TES before it but idk how any fans of his music could absolutely hate it tho everyone has their own preferences.
its got some hidden gems on there no doubt, but the album definitely feels like a chore to listen to.
Well said 👊
It's only not good by his own standards he set. He came out the gate like a bull, a phenomenon, these people are rare, Michael jackson, Elvis, Jordan, Tyson, they set the bar soooo high
Good video but there's a few errors:
1. Encore was not the peak of Em's drug addiction. 2007 was, when he overdosed on methadone pills.
2. 5 songs didn't leak, it was 7, with 4 of them being intended for the album. Evil Deeds never leaked.
3. When I'm Gone was written last-minute for Curtain Call in 2005. There's no source for the March 2004 claim and was added by an anonymous editor many years ago.
Yeah everything is true except number 1 even em said he was on drugs which technically was his peak of being on drugs 2007 it got worse due to proof passing away a year prior
I’d say 2004 was his peak you can tell he was on drugs bad and the next years his voice became more slower lower too
What were the songs being leaked? I only could find Bully, we as Americans and love you more.
@@szebilinho Straight from the Lab EP has them, they were mainly diss tracks
Encore is hip hop greatest album .💿
Absolutely amazing. You should keep doing deep dives on albums like this.
That'd be so dope
Not even joking when I say Eminem has arguably two of the best Nate Dogg hooks of all time w/ “Never Enough” & “‘Till I Collapse” to me “Never Enough” is so underrated and I will say till this day first half of this album is amazing but when you get to track 7 is when it goes down a slippery slope this album is the definition of it has the HIGHEST of highs yet also has the LOWEST of lows.🐐🎯💯
Relax, yes they are great hooks but they don’t compare to Regulate. Not even in the same ball park
21 questions>
till I collapse is better
@@deanbecenti9769 regulate, lay low, area codes > (the list goes on) sorry these are fire hooks its just that you should no confine the king of westcoast hooks to shady
YES! Completely agree, altho don't forget Bitch Please 2 too. Hard af
Just want to point out, that the people in the audience on the album cover/inlay, aren't his "fans".. he said it himself, it's all his critics. If you closely at the people you can clearly see that they aren't fans
I never knew that wow
This was VERY well made! I'd love a doc like this for each of Eminem's albums!
stay tuned
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yes please do this. I love this
I was in 7th grade when this album dropped. I listened to the entire album for the first time on Wild 94.9 here in the Bay Area a day before the album dropped. This premiere was obviously heavily censored since it was premiered on radio, but I remember being a little let down with the long string of goofy songs on it. Still went and picked it up on day one. As a 7th grader, every song on the album (except Mosh, I skipped it every time) grew on me. Im also from the hood, and I can confirm, the hood kids at my school LOVED Just Lose It. The Pee Wee Herman sounds really had us dyin. The album artwork really spoke to me. The fact that he put “to my fans, im sorr.” Bro didn’t even completely say sorry to us 😂😂😂 I totally understood, this album is dam near career suicide, and especially judging by how he had a gun in his mouth on the CD tray insert. How surprised I was to see a gun behind his back the first time I opened the CD case. I can honestly say, Encore is the album that made me look deeper into album booklet artwork. The Encore booklet had such a message in it. A devastating message if you were as much of a fan as I was.
Why skip the mosh though
Funny you mentioning the radio being your first experience with the album. My parents cautiously got a 10 year old me encore censored after I got into my dad's "trifecta" copies. He doesn't really like rap and generally just purchased based on singles/music videos, so I assume he got SS and MM at the same time first after Stan and then got ES. I sneaked recordings of the cds with a tape recorder so I could listen to them whenever. Needless to say, I wasn't as enthused with the lazy censoring just breaking up the flow of everything and the goofy, explicit songs could just not be followed with all the cuts. I thought Encore was just okay. I was also kind of too young and disconnected to know about the news circus and the narrative of encore. 5 Years later listening to the uncensored version made me appreciate the album a lot more and songs like Never Enough clicked for me once you could actually listen to the entire song.
Born and raised in Tampa Bay. When this album dropped I was a freshman at Jefferson High School. U say you from the hood, if you don’t mind answering what middle school you were at during this time? Don’t matter anyways, I grew up in the era where everyone all races alike KNEW em was that guy. Very different from today with kids that wasn’t there. Encore was a classic any way u slice it. Em had a crazy run from the first album to this newest one 💯
@gmoskee I'd love to hear why you don't like mosh I love that song
@@RolandGreen-dh2dz I was at Lavonya DeJean middle school. Im from the Bay Area in northern California.
Puke was a song I was singing before I could walk. When I finally walked away from my own mother for toxic behaviour. It helped me get through it as I struggled with the accepted of having to actually walk away from someone I stopped caring for as a person but still sew the good she did as a mother.
Eminem’s Encore is a okay album I like some of the songs can’t believe the album is 20 years old. Good video man
Underrated album
It really is a measuring stick, though, right?!? Eminem's "WORST" albums are better than a lot of musicians' BEST!
@@csmith63 Five - I Have: Nas "Your best success is my worst blunder"
Eminem - Killshot "My biggest flops are your greatest hits"
Shut up, please@@csmith63
@@csmith63🤥
@@csmith63agreed!
this album was the first death of slim shady
Died and rose again, nigga really is Rap God 😂
😂😊
Which does make me wonder whether or not Death of Slim Shady will be his last. It does seem kinda sus that he announced it and has now dropped a single, whereas he seemed to have grown acustom to the whole surprise album thing.
@@aidanthomas2510 I'd say this might be the departure from the rap game he was trying to do back in the "King Mathers" days. He's had a great run, why not go out on a high note?
This was my first Eminem album so I’m a little biased. I loved it.
This documentary is not getting enough views..... Absolutely phenomenal work🎉💯
We As Americans, Love You More, Bully, When I'm Gone, Like Toy Soldiers, Mockingbird, Never Enough, Yellow Brick Road, One Shot 2 Shot, Encore
Bully and When I'm gone aren't on this album, unless you got some special CD version. Those songs replacing Puke and My 1st single would have taken the album up several notches
@@ethan1937I dunno I actually like puke
Puke is a good song though@@ethan1937
Crazy in love is a good song off encore
Puke is brilliant! My 1st single is a fuckin banger! Whole album is solid.
Evil Deeds is so underrated though. The transition from the Curtains Up is just *chef's kiss*
Agreed 1000%
The only thing I disagree w/ this awesome Video, is that Evil Deeds sucked especially as an opener track. I love that song & actually was surprised w/ Evil Deeds bc it felt haunting the beat everything and that opener felt like a step higher than the Eminem Show vibe (in my opinion) but just that song, most of the rest of the album was like ok this is pop and 😂Eminem is goofy and will never make Encore better than TES obviously. Just talking about that track Evil Deeds as a step higher than before. Nevertheless, Eminem was waaay too high to handle Encore as a masterpiece like his previous 3 albums, he was out of it during that Era 😭😔
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I agree When I'm Gone (one of Eminem's other classics) should have gone on there. Had it gone on there with Mockingbird and Like Toy Soldiers, it might have been enough to make fans forgive the rest of the tracks. Remember, Encore was released before the days of streaming. So unlike Revival, they would have heard all the tracks (yes I think Revival had some good, even great tracks on it. Castle and Arose being two).
Also, I always thought Bully was meant for something else. You could tell way more effort had been put into the mix than the other disses. Man that's a shame, imagine that had been the Benzino and Ja diss on the album instead of Big Weenie. A very serious track where, not unlike Like Toy Soldiers, he's reflecting on everything and saying things could well get violent. Had those tracks not leaked, it could well have been a very different album and maybe we would never have got Em back.
Great video.
Bully never ended up on a proper release like the rest of the initial songs that leaked early so it never received a proper mix whereas the others did.
Bully woulda likely replaced “Big Weenie”
"Never got em back." That's a harrowing what if.
@@LeMicronautyou gonna cry ?
I loved Encore. It came at a time I was in the midst of pill popping (E) too. Still love it today even though I've been clean for years. Good times though 🤘
Even though I consider this one of Em’s weaker albums, the visual aesthetics and theming are fantastic. Simultaneously lighthearted, goofy, depressing, dark and sinister. Even the colors used in the artwork (primarily royal blue with some black and red) really embody how the album feels.
Bro great video we need a Relapse behind the scenes now!
Why? That’s the worst album he ever made! Clearly!
@@amityvillain Have you heard of an album called Revival?
@@amityvillainGO back on relapse and listen flows, prods and lyrics. One of his best lmao
It hurts hearing em dump on Relapse cause Beautiful, even if the verses are slightly corny, is a really nice song. Pop a bottle is classic. Bagpipes from Baghdad and Insane are also crazy memorable once they grow on you.@@lemonspy9521
@@amityvillain bro…Relapse was a much more ‘ wittier ‘ Album than Recovery . Just bc he raps w/ a crazy voice on Relapse doesn’t mean Recovery did not sound Clumsy as well. See what I mean. 😢In Recovery it’s not understood why he sounds so angry, he OD’d and came back pissed & weird. Also🤘🏼We Made You was a good song and I thought was cooler than Just Loose it or Ass Like That. Closing tracks of Encore & Relapse feel similar too🤔🙂
You did amazing on this video. Keep up all the hard work!! I know this stuff has gotta take so much time!
I've literally had to make my own version of Encore with the leaked song's with the addition of when I'm gone and no apologies. Removed a bunch of the stupid tracks like my first single and ass like that.
My Encore is pretty amazing😂
What's your tracklist?
@@JohnAnthonyHD
Curtains Up
Evil Deeds
Never Enough
Yellow Brick Road
Like Toy Soldiers
Mosh
We As Americans
Paul (Skit)
Love You More
No Apologies
Bully
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Em Calls Paul (Skit)
Just Lose It
Ricky Ticky Toc
When I'm Gone
Mockingbird
Spend Some Time
Crazy In Love
One Shot 2 Shot
Final Thought (Skit)
Encore/Curtains Down
@@JohnAnthonyHD I didn't even finish your video when I posted that😂. When I'm Gone should have DEFINITELY been on the album. No Apologise also just because he basically wrote half of it in 2002 with the freestyle he did
@@arrjae404I would've kept rain man and got rid of just lose it, mosh and crazy in love. Your trippin for dropping rain man it was dumb but still dope
@@brandonrhymez2961 Tbh I did wanna add that but didn't know the best place to put it
I only just got into Eminem (and rap in general) in early 2024. My partner showed me Music to be Murdered By and I liked it, so they had me borrow Curtain Call so I can get a taste of the Slim Shady era. After giving it a listen on the ride home, I went through his first four albums and loved them. For some reason, Encore stuck with me for the first few months. Rain Man, Big Weenie and Just Lose It were THE songs I had on repeat for a couple weeks. Something about the funny and unserious attitude of those songs stuck out to me.
Looking back on the "Slim Shady Era", I think Marshall Mathers LP is the best one, with Way I Am being my favorite track. The way he has this tough-guy voice the entire song except at the end of the chorus really emphasizes how he's not what the media makes him out to be. It's a phenomenal song that needs more love.
Love ur content bro! Keep it up this was dope 💯
Cool video man I liked the editing.
It's too damn bad the songs leaked honestly because I really like this album's vibe. It would've been a good follow up to TES if 3 or 4 of the worse tracks were replaced by the leaks.
Ultimately I still like the album better than some other in Em's catalogue and its shortcomings are way more understandable.
I was let down by Encore. 😞I bought it first day of its release in 10th grade, and a week later tried to sell the album to anyone in my class. Classmates were like, why? Is it bad or something. No just let down really. Later it grew a little on me, when I discovered the mixtapes from that era w/ Bully , songs w/ Nate Dogg, When I’m Gone etc and made my own version of Encore on iTunes…
Being from south africa, I had no idea about any of this! When just lose it was played on our radio stations was the first time hearing about Em again. I listened to the whole album and loved the journey. Thank you for all this insight into what was actually going on.🙏🏽🙏🏽
cant imagine the amount of time and effort it took to make this.. It is amazing, one like this for every eminem album omg, amazing video!!!
Well, artificial intelligence helps
Born on the same day as Eminem!
Also his biggest fan!!
His music will be for ever!
Thanks ‘Em 🙏🏼
Same 10:17
Idk why, but when you were talking about the album cover concept, and you said that Em was depicted as shooting up the crowd, you then spelled out the last part of what he wanted to do, on the screen. It was spelled, "Sh**ting himself", (shooting himself), but for a second, I thought that it meant to say, "Shitting himself", lol. It would totally still fit, if the two asterisks meant, "it", instead of, "oo", lol.
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I never felt this was a dud.
We as Americans 100% should’ve opened the album and when I’m gone should’ve closed it though.
When I'm gone is a few years later
Dope documentary about Eminem's Encore : Behind the Curtain
I feel like it’s a triple entendre with the message Em left on the cd. He’s saying sorry for what he’s about to do on stage, sorry for trolling everyone with the album, and for selling his soul. He “killed” himself and on My Darling on Relapse he raps in the devils voice and he says he always be with him. After Relapse it’s been a different Em. When I hear his old stuff it just feels and hits different. Almost like that really was Marshall speaking the truth, then the devil got him
Love You More is still one of my favorite em songs of all time. Definitely underrated
Hope he does this for every eminem album
The story of the leaks & drugged up replacement songs is one of my favorite chapters in Em’s lore & doesn’t have much recognition these days so great fuckin job!
Also I feel like ‘When I’m Gone’ was left off because having it on the same record as “Mockingbird” was too redundant. I would put money on them being in a highly contested battle with eachother to make the final track list & Mockingbird took the slot. Feel like it DOES fit better with the concept/sound of the album that had an abundance of ‘old nursery rhyme’ references
I really enjoyed the video man, great job!!! 👏
Great documentary. Add some sound during the transitions, the silence makes me think the video stopped when I'm just listening.
I love Encore. This entire video, everything you talked about, *is* why I love Encore. I agree 100% that When I’m Gone should have been on Encore, or at least the bonus disc. I do skip songs like Puke, My 1st Single and Big Weenie but I already know every word lol, I’ve heard those songs probably thousands of times. Encore has been a big part of my life since it was released, I will always enjoy the album but I think that’s because I enjoy his sense of humor. I also love how hard he went with the whole Encore/ending the show concept with the album, even making that video at the beginning of this doc. The concept was absolutely brilliant. If only the record started as strong as it ended… but I DO love Evil Deeds even if he repeats himself in that first bit. You cannot deny that beat is insane. Listen to it in a car with a tricked out stereo system with a subwoofer, it goes HARD. I think Encore is iconic due to everything surrounding it, the aftermath, etc. He had beef with the PRESIDENT on this album, AND mentioned Suge… insane
Loved this man. Anything to do with Em has me interested. Been a huge fan since his first mainstream release. As a Scotsman we got this dude straight away and the humour in his dark shit. Im not a fan of every record but there are songs on every album i do love. Great work bro 👏
Honestly it’s a little mind blowing to me how many people dislike encore, that was my favorite eminem album growing up and still to this day is the most replayable for me (other than slim shady lp). Like i go back to songs from all albums but encore is probably my 2nd favorite em album in terms of highest percent of songs i go back to
Cuz he constantly mumbled and you could yell he was high af on opioids at that point. His flow and lyrics were far inferior to The Eminem Show. Encore was worse than the 2 albums that came before it. Of course people would be disappointed. Especially after waiting 2 years for an album.
Same I still the love album espec the heartfelt songs like toy soldiers, mosh, mockingbird & comedic songs like puke, ass like that, just lose it & crazy in love.
my first time hearing Eminem is when I was 14, Just Lose It just debut on mtv, and later when Encore dropped. I just love his goofiness in this album back then, digged in his previous albums and become a fan ever since. English is not my language so his music helped me alot in learning, and in growing up also. even tho it was not his favourite, Encore still holds a special place in my heart ❤
Didn’t knew all of this and personnally I like Ass Like That and all of his goofies songs in general, so I’m kind of grateful of that leak, because without it he may not have made it.
Well explained video, I learned a bunch of stuff so thank you !
The hate for evil deeds is uncalled for lol I like that song. I think some of his flows on encore were his best
Spend some” was my favorite to this day, gave “love me” vibes and I loved that
Im writing this at the beginning of the vid since I’ve seen mixed reactions in the comments over Encore. Now it’s not my favorite Em album sure, but Encore was dope af, and I think deserves more flowers then it got. I mean Toy Soldiers, Puke, ass like that, one shot 2 shot and my personal favorite Encore/Curtains down with Dre and 50 were classics IMO Plus Mockingbird has a special place in my heart due to my older brother loving that song before he passed away back in 05 (RIP Travis ❤️)but this is just my opinion
Never enough, Toy soldiers, Mosh and Mockingbird gave Encore just enough balance not to make it a complete disaster.
Yellow Brick Road
Eminem’s “bad albums” age way better than most bad albums - I don’t know it’s weird man .. like at the time I was like idk now I’m like encore wasn’t as horrible as originally thought.
I never thought relapse was as horrible as some people thought
Evil Deeds is definitely a great intro wym
Great video! I really enjoyed this and learned a lot. I actually own Encore on vinyl. I need to dig that record out and give it another listen.
I do too!
I was thinking about buying one but they're sold out 😤
I was 17 when that album came out and it was certainly a different time. Because I grew up through middle and high school with Eminem and I was still young, I gave this album more attention than it probably deserved in retrospect. I was in my subwoofer bass phase and that album certainly had some nice low tracks.
this vid was great. good job
Wow I can’t believe I didn’t know most of this stuff. Thanks man great vid new sub keep um coming
I had this cd as a kid when it came out, I liked it and spent a lot of time listening to it. Great video 👍
AYYYYOOO John You snapped finding this footage my dude. I'm a new fan. Bet you already got a subscriber
Remember getting this cd when I was 7 lol still to this day one of my favorite albums I listen to all the time
And reading the lyric booklet over and over again on repeat. Kids today don't get that privilege we played these albums non stop and learnt them off by heart. I can remember every song word for word an they all slap
Absolutely beautiful discussion! I feel that so much of this was also relayed throughout relapse and recovery in a few ways. I've always wondered about more of those behind the scenes clips and the context of Em with the gun in the mirror.
Another thing that came to mind after 13:00 was the track "Darkness" on Side A of Music to be Murdered By. I never gave it too much thought up until this point but the usage of the curtains throughout the song as well as the fear of stepping back on stage imagery brought that back to me.
Excellent work once again my friend. 👏🏿
I saw a leg of this tour. And you could cleary tell from these videos. He was taking a step back. He literally had nothing else to prove and he had his family that he wanted ro be there for.
It’s crazy that Encore turns 20 in November
Bro that monking bird interview now in 2024 has got me cutting onions, so damn awesome
Amazing video!
Has your favorite rapper ever written a song as iconic as loose yourself 🔥🔥🔥
Great video for sure however in my opinion encore is very much one of his best albums despite leaks, critics, silly songs, etc. The entire concept of it was just so good
Please do this for at least the SSLP,MMLP and the Eminem show. These types of videos are great with a lot of care to them
I liked the album. There were a few tracks that didn't hit, but overall, there's something great about it. Maybe it's when it came out. That's when I started really listening to em, so it definitely has nostalgia value for me. I wouldn't put it in my top 5 eminem albums but when I rate his albums, there's not much between them tbh. They all tell their own individual story. People love to say that eminems music has no content but when you look at his career, his entire catalogue of music is telling a story. He says TDOSS is a conceptual album but I think his entire catalogue when listened to in order does the same. He really is the GOAT imo.
I love this whole documentary not explain the album but also learning why Em did these things. Now you can appreciate the album more.
I just play it as the first 6 songs then play We As Americans and Ricky Ticky Toc as 7,8 to help tone down the over silliness of the album, now with Brand New Dance out I can put that in for Big Weenie, play the rest as is then swap Crazy In Love out for Love You More then just play When I’m Gone as the bonus track, since it goes with the concept of how the album ends
It was not Truman Show but Man on the Moon. This is where Jim Carrey was playing Andy Kauffman who lived his life as a skit. Andy was always involved in bit, that was his personality. Thats how Eminem felt. Always performing, always held up to a standard
Ngl id love to see a vid like this for each and every one of em's albums
Amazing video! Had me hooked the entire time! You just earned a new sub ❤
Great analysis, i hope you will do this for "The Death of Slim Shady" sometime around next year after sales and reception. Looking forward to your take..
Keep grinding Anthony 🫡
Do more of his albums please. The older albums, up to recovery
If encore would’ve released with the original track list it would’ve been a classic
Agree - he had to pull half an album out his ass quickly - people forget that lol
I still remember the album dropping at target the night before release and I got the special edition CD and I loved the album.
BRO PLEASE DO RELAPSE NEXT DO THIS FOR EVERY EM ALBUM BUT RELAPSE NEXT PLEASE
KURUPT VS DMX NEXT ASAP
Great work man I’d love to see you adapt this into a series with more Eminem albums and definitely other hip hop albums
Evil Deeds is a great track.
Before kamikaze and Death of slim this was a top 5 album of his
Encore was the first album I bought, I can't fault it, it had different types of music.
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Thank you for the video. I read that Eminem did not attend the Oscars due to restrictions from the Academy, which is why he was not present at the show. Additionally, due to his deal with Interscope, he was supposed to produce five albums, which explains why "Encore" was not his last album. "Curtain Call" served as the final album.
I was definitely one of those people at the time that didn’t know about the leaks, and I still like the album to this day. Maybe not the best album, and I don’t really care what people think anyway
What an incredible video! Would love to see more videos of backstories of eminems album
Very good documentary!🔥 Keep up the good work!
This was brilliant, please do all the albums!!!!
Bro please make more about his albums🙏🏻
Real!
@@KingMathers relapse the Eminem show the marshal mathers lp the lsin shady lp will be good
We as Americans and love u more leaked early 04. Shit went so hard!
AWESOME video, dude! I took my time with this all day, jumping back and forth from watching your video segments to listening to each track individually!
Great research and delivery! 👊🏼
Btw, to answer your final question, I think Encore is far from being his worst. Relapse is my least favorite. Would love to watch your take on that album! 🙌🏼
Encore would’ve been a classic if it wasn’t for the leaks. Straight From The Lab EP has the tracks meant for it.
The album may have been received better with a more refined track list. The bonus tracks also should have been on it to begin with
People can say that it's bad but it is still a good album. Like you said, if not taken seriously and remembering about his drug addiction, you'll understand why it is like that.
Encore had extreme potential. Still to this day, it has a handful of tracks (“Mosh” and “Mockingbird” especially) that I think rank among his strongest ever songs. Even “Just Lose It” is a guilty pleasure for me because it’s still so much fun by leaning into its ridiculousness. If those first few tracks hadn’t leaked, I think the album would’ve at least been perfectly solid, and probably a lot better than most of his albums from the 2010s. So disappointing what could’ve been…
I actually LOVED encore and specifically the funny songs that it seems like everyone hated.
Worth noting - I was 13 when that album dropped and the rain man tangent about football being gay was just peak comedy for me, and seeing as I was dealing with an older sister with a boy band obsession, puke felt like a great middle finger as it was lampooning those kinda of artists in a gross way.
It felt like encore was loaded with these silly songs that had been the thing I liked most about Eminem as a kid.
I think if you look at the album as a pure entertainment product and not the landmark ambitious show of storytelling and musicianship people expected it to be… Encore was alright
Great analysis, enjoyed it a lot, thank you.
This comment sections is the perfect example that Stans will love anything Eminem puts out. Eminem can put out a song where he raps like he has Down syndrome and not saying any real words, just mumbling and grunts, and stans will still find a way to say it’s a genius song and he’s a goat
I was born in 2004. Encore is pretty much the first album that my dad put on my little baby ears, so i don't know if that brainwashed me or makes me overly nostalgic or whatever, but man i just *love* Encore.
I didn't know the whole story about it being Eminem's supposed last album at the time, so that at least makes me understand a bit more why a good portion of the fanbase still to this day seems to hate this album, but man it's just really not as bad as people say it is, i mean it has 21 songs including the bonus 3 and there are maybe 5 songs in there that i don't listen to reguarly and i still like them.
I especially struggle to understand how these same people hate on Encore but will praise Relapse which even Em has said himself that this album makes him cringe even more than Encore, or they'll praise Recovery which i could absolutely never get around to liking because it just doesn't sound as hip-hop and it was the beginning of this weird "pop rock" era for Em, but then these same people will criticize Revival for the exact same reason regarding the instrumentals.
It's just all weird, i know an artist as huge as Eminem will always have extreme differences in opinions among the fanbase, but sometimes it all just sounds like a huge cognitive dissonance.
I like Encore that album is a classic in my eyes, just imagine if bully, I love you more and we as Americans was on here