Eminem Album Preview

[Shawn]

Eminem has built his career rapping about his hard-knock life, displaying such hellacious humor and skills that even the leeriest of skeptics and top-flank MCs — from Nas to Jay-Z to 50 Cent — have had to pay homage. No MC has sold more records and a small few have reached his level of lyrical ingenuity and acuteness.

So now that he's caked up, saluted for his efforts on the mic, behind the boards (he just finished producing an album's worth of Tupac songs) and in the boardroom (Shady Records is moving units, G), Eminem is taking an Encore. But the question now is, Will all the praise catch up with him? Will he slip into the spot where so many have fallen before: the comfort zone?

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