Self-proclaimed character traits: homophobia misogyny violent anger issues psychopathic and sociopathic tendencies revenge fantasies and chronic victim mentality. Background: broken-home Michigan malcontent absent dad, argumentative mom history of drug, alcohol and solvent abuse troubled marriage and lawsuits against him from members of his own family. But the part that wasn’t Slim Shady had his own problems. Under the alias of his split-personality alter ego Slim Shady, he’d made on-record confessions of murder, rape, DUI and at least one deeply libellous statement about Christina Aguilera. Pinning his profile onto the evidence board, it looked pretty damning. When Eminem’s 1999 major label debut album The Slim Shady LP hit No 2 in the Billboard chart and sold 4 million copies, it sent shockwaves not only through the hip-hop community – here, after all, was a mouthy, blue-eyed white kid capitalising on black culture with a cartoonish horror-movie exaggeration of gangsta rap – but across America. And they were there to unleash their psychological neuroweapon on the world: The Marshall Mathers LP. It was conservative America’s worst nightmare, an invasion of trailer trash psychopaths come to stamp all moral values beneath their box-fresh sneakers and convert the nation’s impressionable youth to their war against decency.
There’s a million of us just like me,” rapped 2000’s public enemy number one as he led an army of clones in white T-shirts and peroxide crew cuts through the streets of New York and into Radio City Music Hall, there to hijack the 2000 VMA Awards.
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