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Y'know what, fuck it, if you haven't heard it, just go listen to that track. Where nearly everyone will interpret the music as being edgy as fuck and angry to the point of being over-the-top, if you peek further into the album, you get lesser known tracks like " Brain Damage", " If I Had", and the especially amazing " Rock Bottom" that show the reason behind the anger: Anger, drugs, and sex paints the character of Slim Shady perfectly, but with those songs, you get a look at Marshall Mathers: Physical abuse from his drug-addicted mother (who he even goes as far as to call a "cunt" on this album), depression, and poverty essentially defines him as an actual person past the morbid and hilarious threats of violence, and it's such a welcomed change from other tracks on the album in the way that it takes a moment to expose you to who he actually was behind the scenes: The underdog that was going to bite and tear its way to the top of the dogpile (heh), organs hanging out of its bloody mouth, if only to be able to finally financially provide for his daughter Hailie, who, might I add, gets a shining feature on this album in the form of " '97 Bonnie & Clyde" in which. Dre collaboration " Guilty Conscience", all that shit, but truth is, even if you know the biggest singles, you only know half of the story with what's really going on and being portrayed in this album. I wanna crush your skull 'til your brains leaks out of your veins, and bust open like broken water mains" sound like they're fucking joking to you?! Sure, I could go on about the songs the public already knows, like " My Name Is", the Dr. I'll hang you till you dangle and chain you with both ankles, and pull you apart from both angles. I mean, shit, do the lyrics " I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast, when your blood spilled it was still blue. Because it has a roll of quarters hidden in its fist, and a knife in the other hand. Dre beats, and some beats complimentary of the amazing Bass Bros, then you end up getting an album that can be hit-or-miss to even Eminem's fanbase, but God, if it hits you, it hits hard. There's something crazy about Eminem on this album: His lyrics are vivid, descriptive, and crazy as shit, but also have amazing rhyme schemes, as he manages to not just be able to say entertaining shit, but when you really break it down on paper to multi-rhymes, internal rhymes, and genuinely clever lyrics, Eminem MASSIVELY improved as an MC since his previous releases, and that's saying a lot because even on " Infinite" he sounded like a guy you wouldn't want to fuck with in a beef.
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There was a reason why my sister pulled me away from the TV back in 1999 when " My Name Is" came on MTV, and that's because this album is pretty fucking explicit in every sense of the word, but you already know that because you got this album when you were 11, and really, it's just as good as it was back then. One of my roommates even called me out by saying "I bet if Eminem walked in this room right now, you'd freak the fuck out" and it flabbergasted me: Who WOULDN'T freak out if Eminem suddenly walked into their dorm room? Like even if you weren't a fan of his music, there'd be something that'd click inside of your brain just like "WAIT A SEC, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON" and you'd realize that something truly fucking insane is happening, or better yet, feel fear because Eminem talks about some -really- fucked up shit on this album, from violence, drugs, and of course the many "I've got to shit on a celebrity" verses that are all throughout his discography, but dammit, this is some good shit and you KNOW it. A few years ago when I went and lived on campus at a trade school, I admit it, I was a bit of a Stan.