The beats and music are fine, if maybe a little bit minimalist, but it's really just there to support the rapping which is really well executed. The lyrical themes span from juvenile, pervy, violent, suicidal and just plain dark. There is also a theme threaded through the album of recognizing that all of these lyrics are depicting terrible awful things and that people shouldn't be listening to them and that he's horrible for writing them. Mr. Mathers should probably consider therapy. I'm torn between 3 and 4 stars for this because I won't probably listen to this again (3 stars) but the self reflective lyrics are telling me that I shouldn't listen to it (4 stars).