Tracklist: 0:30 - Evil Deeds 2:45 - Never Enough ft. 50 Cent, Nate Dogg 3:58 - Yellow Brick Road 6:07 - Like Toy Soldiers 7:51 - Mosh 9:33 - Puke 10:35 - My 1st Single 11:55 - Rain Man 12:56 - Just Lose It 14:45 - Ass Like That 15:56 - Spend Some Time ft. Obie Trice, Stat Quo, 50 Cent 17:22 - Mockingbird 19:46 - Crazy In Love 21:09 - One Shot 2 Shot ft. D12 22:15 - Encore/Curtains Down (hidden Dr. Dre feature)

this album is so fucking sad because it really is a photograph into the depth of his addiction. recovery is my fav em album because you finally see him come out of it. maybe it's not his best work technically but the lyrics are heartwrenching and so raw. hope to hear you react to it at some point!

Would you believe that when this album came out, on Eminem message boards (obviously this was before Reddit, Twitter, even Facebook), there was a large contingent of people that thought that Em was trolling us, and that the REAL Encore album was gonna be released after this one, and this one was just to throw people off... sadly that wasn't the case, but it just shows how confused fans were back then when this dropped. Obviously now, with the hindsight of knowing Eminem was pretty deep into his drug addiction during the recording of this album, it's easier to understand how half of the album is so bad. Also some of the album leaked before release (Love You More, We As Americans), which made Em have to go back and record new songs to replace the leaked ones, which is where many of the sillier songs came from.

If the songs that ended up as bonus tracks didn’t get replaced it’s a solid album and a decent follow up to the Eminem show. Ricky Ticky Toc, We As Americans, and Love You More are all solid tracks.

it's crazy that a song like mockingbird is on this album of all things. I wonder what the timeline is for recording these songs and if it truly was a massive drop off at a certain point EDIT: lol I just got to that part of the video

You gotta listen to the deluxe version of Encore with We as Americans, a very powerful song. Also when you get to relapse please do Relpase:Refill the bonus songs are amazing and really make the albuim much better.

Eminem definitely is top tier when he genuinely wants to talk about something and not just trying to make a good song.

Some of the songs on this album got leaked (they actually appear on the deluxe edition as bonus tracks) … which led to a drug filled Eminem to quickly record new songs that were noticeably different and more goofy than the other songs on the album (rain man was one of the songs recorded after the leak)

Em said in a recent interview that a lot of the songs he had for this album were leaked before it dropped, so he had to go back and throw some songs in last minute.

This album sold 1,582,000 units in one week 🤣😂 and 710,000 in 3 days. Crazy how popular Eminem was in the 2000’s. He was doing popstar numbers as a rapper.

This album has some of my favorite songs from Em

I like this album, love Em's humour

“This song just sounds like drugs” 😅

If it goes on, finally I'll be able to get Jon's reaction on Cold Wind Blows off Recovery. That's my number 1 song at this moment...

Eminem is capable of writing/making some of the best songs ever written and is also capable of writing/making some of the worst rap songs to ever exist (sometimes both are on the same album). He has a strange discography. I remember reading that he was always on drugs when recording this album, but there was a leak that led to him scrapping many songs. The songs he replaced them with were horrendous (those songs are the worst songs on this album). Those leaked songs weren’t amazing or anything, but they were much better than the ones he replaced them with.

I love how Big Weenie was so bad that he just skipped it lol

One of your best reactions. Seeing you slowly go from kinda enjoying the album to being speechless at how bad it got was amazing.

Relapse will bring your hopes up again

Fun fact: Danny Brown said in an interview Rain Man is his favourite Eminem song

For someone who rushed out to buy this album when it first came out, if you look at it through todays scope yeah it’s not good but when this came out every single person I know was bumping this album

I could be wrong but if I remember correctly I think this album got leaked and it forced Em to have to finish the album quick and release it and probably lined up with him getting addicted to drugs. That’s why songs like Mockingbird and Like Toy Soldiers which are classics were probably recorded before the leak and before the addiction got bad and then when he had to just finish it to release he made such songs as Big Weenie, My 1st Single, etc while dealing with his addiction and you can hear it in his voice.

reaction to that middle section was hilarious. Curious to see your thoughts on the next 3 albums. I rate them, I know there’s many who don’t

I think Encore has my favorite Eminem beats and some of my favorite Em songs too are here. It does go downhill in the middle but even those songs can be fun to listen to if you’re in the mood to play around. I especially love Rain Man from the middle part.

He references how high he was and how he didn’t even know that he was doing the accents. Sad how he went to that low before he got well. ❤️❤️he wasn’t bored he was just exhausted and completely addicted to many drugs.

I cant wait for you to get to relapse because its not liked by most but go into it as a dark horrorcore rap album, and relapse refill, both elite.

If Im not wrong some of the album got leaked(not sure if it is straight from the vault), and about 5-6 songs were recorded and added into the album in a span of a week with him being completely drugged up. Let me know if this is true.

I think Rain Man is hilarious. I still laugh every time I hear it

I gained more respect for Encore recently, in an interview this year he confirmed the opposite to what you said about him being bored, he said that every line and beat he was laying down was like the best thing ever and he couldn't believe how good it was.. obviously it was the drugs mostly, but I do love this album still. I feel it's the last time we got that typical Eminem beat. I'd never heard the original 'Crazy on You' either so nice one on that!

Although one of his worst albums, this one is considerably more listenable and enjoyable than Revival which says a lot..

I actually liked Encore

This album is so frustrating because it really could’ve been his best had he not gotten so deep into his addiction while working on it. When you listen to some of the earliest songs recorded during the Encore sessions such as We As Americans, Love You More, and Bully, he was going in a really good and dark direction. Sadly those songs leaked and he replaced them with some of the more jokey songs on the record and it just completely threw off the vibe of the album. More songs like those leaked ones and this album would’ve been yet another classic for him.

Rain Man is a classic. Encore is actually quite good considering his pen was at 50%

Essentially it’s a pretty solid Eminem album except for the three songs he added out of spite of the leaks

Most people don’t know this, but he said recently on a podcast that most this album was leaked at the time. And they had to scramble for new songs last minute. It was said the original track list was much different and more serious. I believe this was him on the Paul Rosenberg podcast he said it.

sad you didn’t do the deluxe for this album. we as americans and love you more are 2 of my favourites on the album

If Em took out 'Puke', 'My 1st Single', 'Big Weenie', and replaced with 'We As Americans', 'Love You More', 'Ricky Ticky Toc', this this album would've been a classic!

Jon bopping his head at the begining of Ass Like That like "Mmm, this one might actually be kinda good" had me laughing so hard

One shot two shot is so underrated 💓💓💓

The highs on this album, which is over half of it, is still much better than anything he’s made in the last 15 years

this album is extremely unhinged because it has some of Ems best tracks (Like Toy Soldiers, Mosh, Mockingbird, Yellow Brick Road) and has some of his worst tracks (My 1st Single, Big Weenie, Just Lose It, Puke)

U had to do the deluxe tracks of this album they are the best ones out of these.

Your reaction to My 1st Single had me laughing hard 11:05 🤣

*The context of Yellow Brick Road & the whole controversy:* It's that when Em was a teenager he got his heart broken by a black chick and as any angry teenager he got pissed off and made a really awful song saying "black girls are bitches and they only want your money" obviously it's was stupid and when Benzino made that song public to attack Em's image, Eminem apologized, surprise people grow and learn from their mistakes.

This album is like: - wow thats Fire - damn thats bad - damn thats one the best song ever - wow what a unlistenable piece of garbage

It's interesting to hear another perspective on these songs that I enjoy, I like Puke, Just lose it and Ass like that, some of my favourite eminem songs because they make me laugh so hard. I think the important part is to determine which eminem you are listening to, Marshall Mathers or Slim Shady, if its slim treat everything as a joke, if its Marshal then it's time to get serious. This album encapsulates that, going from Ass Like That (slim) to Mockingbird (Marshall)

Excited for Relapse! That album is wild but it sounds so damn great

I can't believe u said rain man sounds like his music today... man I hope u go all the way into the discography u in for a mad surprise.

23:35 not really tho, Relapse is a horrorcore concept album that actually slaps and has AMAZING production, recovery is great, MMLP2 is super underrated and revival is... revival, amazing rapping and subject matter over terrible production ( imo ) they might not be as good as MMLP/TES but they are all great projects

I laughed at your reaction to “Just Lose It” for about 10 minutes

Dying at your Rain Man reaction😂😂😂😂

'No more blood for oil, we've got our own battles to fight on our soil' was always insane to me.

I wish Encore had never leaked it would have been so much better

I really enjoyed this album at the time but I had just got out of the service and was on drugs so that might be reason lol. I think you can tell which songs were before he really got controlled by drugs

Relapse is gonna be a great watch, despite the drug fuelled vibe of the album it’s a true horror-rap classic

I feel like people forget they enjoy Eminems more recent stuff as soon as they hear older songs (bc almost all reactors that listen to older albums comment on and compare new vs old Eminem and heavily criticize the new music.) Many, such as this channel, actually do enjoy f.e. MTBMB a lot. Dont mean to sound super stanish (and i also get many of the criticism) but to me its weird how people seemingly spin new stuff one time, enjoy it and then forgot about it. But you at least did put Things into perspective f.e. the age and rage Factor. To me its has always been high vs sober, not new vs old Eminem. Cant wait for your Revival Run, Castle is in my top Eminem Songs!

Mockingbird is my fave from him. I loved this album as a kid, I loved the anger and the humor. As an adult i don't revisit it at all lol

RELAPSE gon get soo much better

'Love you more' on the deluxe version is the best track on the album!!! Check that one out

He skipped big weenie 😭

You gotta do the deluxe with this album and relapse. The bonus tracks add so much to both of these albums

His subtle wtf reaction during Ass like that was hilarious

12:30 😂

Your actually entertaining to watch

This is one of the only albums where I actually really want a 20th anniversary version of. But I would want it to be basically the original track list before the leaks happened.

I would honestly take Encore over anything that he’s made in the 2010’s

aw man you shouldve done the bonus tracks, Love You More and We As Americans are amazing, A few songs leaked early from this album, so he replaced them with shit ones as a weird kind of revenge or whatever the word is lol

I know you haven’t done the bonus tracks so far but I urge you to for Relapse John. My Darling and Careful What You Wish For are amazing tracks.

The way Eminem's entire flow rides the snare on Like Toy Soldiers is insane, very underlooked, but it's pitch for pitch syllable for syllable on the drums.

I'd love to see you react to the Pink Season album by Pink Guy. Similar troll vibe to some songs on this

This was the first eminem album I ever bought so I am probably a little bias (Like 10 year old me ate the stupid and silly "rain man", Ass Like That, and Puke right up), but I honestly think Crazy in Love is one of the best song writing feats in his career

The reason this album it's bad down the line it's because Em was getting burned out from beefs, the 8 Mile movie & Soundtrack (which also please check that one too Jon, it's really good) and on top of that his addiction got worse. Cause yeah I was also like "How are incredible songs like Mockingbird, Mosh, Yellow Brick Road, Like Toy Soldiers from the same album with awful songs like My 1rst Single & Ass Like That? How?" Well whatever, I'm excited for the Relapse album, that one it's way better than Encore.

I recommend you listen to D12's album Devil's Night. That's the best album D12 has put out

I like this album idc

encore is my favorite Eminem album the best Eminem album Y'all hating I love every song on there The album brings me so much joy Mine when I was younger just have fun a joy in life encore gets 10 out of 10 the best

its crazy this album gets so much hate like you don't expect anything good from it but 50 percent of the songs are fire

Nice Album Review. 🎉

My first single is sick

i love watching people reacting to this album 😂

Spend some time is my shit. I love that song so much. Great beat

I had heard that many songs leaked so Em had added some other songs that were not initially intended for the album. If you just take the deluxe version and filtered out say the top 14 tracks only...people would still be saying this is one of the classics. Minus one or two corny type tracks, I still personally feel it remains a masterpiece just the same.

Yellow Brick Road is the best on the album for me.

Like toy soldiers is a top 5 all timer for me. Got goosebumps when that intro played

I see people often point to this as the worst Eminem album (and it is bad), but it still has some songs that I think go down in the Eminem hall of fame. However I can’t say the same for some of his newer stuff. Kamikaze isn’t egregiously bad but I wouldn’t put any of its songs in his hall of fame. MTBMB Side B, in my opinion, is his worst album. It’s just unremarkable. No matter how bad his albums have been before, I never found them boring or forgettable, but a lot of his newer stuff has fallen into that category for me. Hope Em has a King’s Disease level resurgence in him but I’m not sure anymore

The thing is. He set the bar so high so early so it’s difficult to keep that up every album. He’s completed everything early on so tried new avenues and even on encore and revival the actual “rapping” is still nuts

Cant wait for revival 😂

Wait until you get to recovery!!!! Great album!!!

Crazy good beats

My favorite songs were the most obnoxious ones. I’m a kid at heart so hearing somebody rap and throwing a fuckin fart sound just be funny as hell. Eminem prob the only guy that can pull it off and still be considered a goat lol.

The rest of this series is gonna be interesting lmao

loved this one of best cds i brought with the amount of play it got RAIN MAN is fire

Interesting that Proof got shot in the Toy Soldiers music video, then Proof died after it released. 🤔

It’s really just Rain man, My first single, for me that were misses. The rest of this album is classic. Perhaps it was like you said different times at recording processes. He does mention heavy drug use and almost death during this time.

You have to say those songs that he did make mostly for jokes still are good records but especially funny.

Good album, Spend some time and yellow brick road are really underated.

Don't mean to disappoint but I'm one the reasons why "ass like that" gets streamed so much. It is hilarious it is comedy at its finest. Along with "stay wide awake" it's the best way he's used the accents.

this album has some of eminem's highest highs, but also his lowest lows. listening to this album gives me whiplash

Finally you choose to react to a masterpiece. A lot of these rappers could learn a lot from this album, especially rainman, Big weenie, my 1st single and oh i almost forgot puke! What a lyrical masterpiece! Sad to see that new rappers arent doing this these days, just making mumble rap while Eminem has something to say.

Bully, we as Americans, and love you more were supposed to be on the album instead of first single, rain man, and big weenie

the first album where Eminem's performance does not meet Dre's production. Bro is talking straight bullshit and gibberish on top of Perfect Dre instrumentals

Relapse : Refill next please Jon !