Brett Schewitz Brett Schewitz

#145 Eminem, 'The Marshall Mathers LP' (2000)

With ‘The Slim Shady LP’ at #352, I expressed that that album was a problem for me due to Eminem, or rather, his alte ego, Slim Shady’s lyrics. On this, his third album, he’s still at it. Although, it starts off with a message to the likes of me and others “Slim Shady does not give a fuck what you think.” Fair enough. On ‘Kill You’ he raps about raping his own mother before threatening to kill her “Bitch I'ma kill you! Like a murder weapon, I'ma conceal you.” There’s the lyrics about Christiana Aguilera “Shit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs/So I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst/And hear 'em argue over who she gave head to first.” There’s the lyrics about JLo “Longer than the rumor that I was stickin' it to Christina/‘Cause if I ever stuck it to any singer in showbiz/It'd be Jennifer Lopez and Puffy, you know this/I'm sorry, Puff, but I don't give a fuck/If this chick was my own mother, I'd still fuck her with no rubber/And cum inside her and have a son and a new brother.” Just doesn’t sit right, whether it’s Eminem rapping about it, or his fictional alter-ego.

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