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7.4
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7.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
The Death of Slim Shady (Coupe De Grace) isn’t a blazing return to glory, but it is an intriguing album filled with some legitimately light-hearted and funny moments
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6.0
138261
6.0 |
The Guardian
The return of the rapper’s nihilistic alter ego makes his 12th album feel like a confused, conflicted attempt to recreate his 00s success – his flow is perfect as ever, but he can no longer provoke true outrage
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6.0
138263
6.0 |
The FT
The veteran provocateur’s 12th album has tight beats and wide-ranging targets
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6.0
138312
6.0 |
NME
The rapper returns with his most commercial-sounding record in years. A shame, then, about the time-warp lyrics and wasted concept
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5.0
138259
5.0 |
Clash
Far from a failure, ‘The Death Of Slim Shady’ finds its titular character ranting, but often out of step.
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4.8
138284
4.8 |
Pitchfork
A concept album about killing his alter ego can’t save the impishly clever Eminem from the same tired, dated, developmentally arrested material
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4.2
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4.2 |
Spin
Marshall too often uses his prodigious dexterity to defend himself from cancel culture rather than break new ground
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4.0
138291
4.0 |
Rolling Stone
It’s funny how his hyped comeback hit “Houdini” had a joke about participation trophies, since that’s what this album turned out to be. On The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace), he’s a legacy artist who’s turned into a professional collector of participation trophies, so he’s giving himself a new one for his display case
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4.0
138269
4.0 |
Slant Magazine
The album is the work of a rapper content with keeping his head firmly lodged up his own ass
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4.0
138262
4.0 |
The Independent
Rapper maintains his signature sharpness of diction throughout – it’s the content that’s at fault
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3.0
138321
3.0 |
musicOMH
Veteran rapper undoes years of progress, bursting a blood vessel to shock and receiving eye-rolls in respons
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