And no one proved to be safe from Eminem’s wrath either. When the album was finally completed, the Detroit native had an autobiographical and disturbing classic on his hands.Įxcept for the album’s first (and biggest) single The Real Slim Shady, the LP featured less of the comical shenanigans of Slim Shady, the vicious, violent alter ego Eminem introduced on the previous album, and more of a raw introspective account of his life. Coming off of the commercial success of his second album The Slim Shady LP in 1999, Eminem spent two months and long studio hours working on The Marshall Mathers LP. in its first week and became the fastest-selling studio album by any solo artist in American history (later broken by Adele’s 25 in 2015). Dre producing most of the tracks on the album and Eminem’s astonishing, no-holds barred lyrics, The Marshall Mathers LP sold nearly 1.8 million copies in the U.S. The album ruffled a lot of feathers and certainly stirred up a lot of controversy, but it was also named one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time by Rolling Stone, XXL, and Time magazines, and of course by many rap aficionados worldwide. Those are just a few words to describe The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem’s third studio album released in the spring of 2000 and titled after his birth name. Backstory: Shocking, harrowing, offensive, complex, emotional, captivating.
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