it was good for a mixtape or somethin but after encore em gotta drop some heat. crack a bottle was cool but nothin spectacular. i wanna hear some marshall mathers lp/eminem show caliber material. those were both 5 mic albums encore was a 2. crack a bottle was a 2 1/2 or 3.
I feel you on some level but you gotta remember, Em will never come like he did on that Marshall Mathers LP...Eminem show was where he was startin' to fall off though. He had hunger then, now I just don't hear it in his rhymes.
I actually thought Crack A Bottle was pretty tight; best shit I heard from him in a while that didn't sound like some goofy ole bullshit like on Encore. Supposedly, Dre is producing most of the album, so in my opinion, this new album's gonna be knock, plain and simple.
But if you going to keep comparing all his new material to his first two albums, you'll continue to be disappointed.