He has a macabre imagination to rival Satan’s and an incredible ability to create new rhyme patterns. On The Marshall Mathers LP he hits you with the lyrical complexity and detailed narratives of Biggie, the hilarious, is-he-kidding-or-not button-pushing of Howard Stern, the disaffected angry-white-boy-ness of Fight Club and the fearless, kill-me-if-you-can energy of Tupac. This time out, he’s more funny and much more scary. It’s like something out of science fiction.Įminem’s 1999 triple-platinum major-label debut, The Slim Shady LP, was a shot in hip-hop’s arm, the grand entrance of a hurricane dressed as a Detroit kid with major-league skills and a potential mental disorder. Where a very blond, white-trash homeboy from Detroit named Marshall becomes the king of hip-hop.
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