How exactly do you appraise the career of Marshall Bruce Mathers III? Depending on your perspective, Eminem is either one of the finest MCs of all time, a white trash kid who defied all the odds to push rap and hip-hop into the suburban homes of mainstream America and shock it to its very core, or he’s a cartoonish, one-trick pony who has fallen off during his disappointing second act. You’d imagine that Mathers wouldn’t have it any other way than to inspire such extreme reactions; wherever you stand, he’s been a divisive, polarising, controversial and impossible to ignore figure for decades. Over twelve studio albums he has also created some of his chosen genre's most iconic songs. Here all those full-length records are, ranked from worst to best.
