Eminem’s mother, Debbie Nelson, has passed away from lung cancer. According to TMZ, Debbie died in St. Joseph, Missouri, at age 69.
Nelson was long a reference in Eminem’s music, highlighting the highs and lows of their relationships. In 2022, Nelson congratulated Slim Shady on his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. Their relationship was also highlighted in the song “Headlights.”
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24 years ago, Eminem brought his massive hit “The Real Slim Shady” to grace the MTV Video Music Awards. He and a whole host of doppelgängers took to the streets and then entered Radio City Music Hall, making their way to the main stage. It’s an iconic moment not just in VMAs history, but also when it comes to the Detroit legend’s performance repertoire. As such, it’s no surprise that his return to the ceremony’s stage (opening the show for the first time since 2010) chose to pay tribute to it. Furthermore, Em donned a blond wig and walked among the audience at the UBS Arena before joining his blond lookalikes and D12’s Mr. Porter onstage, performing “Houdini” and “Somebody Save Me” featuring Jelly Roll.
Of course, this also fits in pretty well with the themes of Eminem’s new album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce). On that LP (and its upcoming extended version), he tackles his alter ego and tries to find a balance between his real self and his exaggerated artistic expressions. This is nothing new for Marshall Mathers. But it definitely carries a more overtly and critically nostalgic context compared to something like The Marshall Mathers LP 2 or Music To Be Murdered By.
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Nevertheless, this VMAs performance and its homage to its 24-year-old predecessor was quite heartening to witness. Eminem actually reflected on the 2000 VMAs in his 2008 book The Way I Am. “‘The Real Slim Shady’ was my biggest hit then, and the 2000 VMAs were a real milestone,” he wrote. “I can’t front, I was nervous about that performance.
“When I saw all those lookalikes walking out of Radio City Music Hall, I was trying to be as cool as I could and keep my composure,” Eminem continued. “But for at least the first 30 seconds of the song I could not shake my nerves off. I watched a DVD of that night recently, and I can see how tense I was. That was one of those moments when I was thinking, ‘Hey, I think I’ve made it in rap. I’m a big-time rapper, rapping big-time!’”
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Eminem recently appeared on Complex’s YouTube channel to sit down with an AI-generated version of his alter ego, Slim Shady. The conversation comes just a few weeks after Eminem released The Death Of Slim Shady. The album is one that he also billed as a farewell to the character that helped launch him into superstardom. Eminem and Shady touch on a variety of topics, including Em’s post-Slim Shady career and recovery from addiction. They also deliver a number of barbs at the expense of MGK and Caitlyn Jenner. Here are five takeaways from Eminem and Slim Shady’s conversation.
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One might expect a man in his early 50s to not be as in tune with pop culture as he may have been two decades ago. That is not the case with Eminem. “Every other week on TikTok, Gen Z discovers you on Monday and cancels me on Tuesday,” he tells Slim Shady early in their conversation. Later in the video, Em and Shady reference the infamous Drake and LeBron James “am I letting you down?” conversation from The Shop after Pusha T released “The Story of Adidon.”
During a talk about fatphobia and body positivity, Em tells Shady that they “cured fatness” with a shot. He warns him that the shot “comes with a side of jealousy,” referring to a line Drake had for Rick Ross on his “Family Matters” diss track. Em also calls Shady “BBL Slizzy,” referring to Metro Boomin’s response to Drake. When the two of them come to a mutual understanding at the end, they do the “look at us, who’d have thought?” meme from Paul Rudd’s Hot Ones interview. Clearly, Em is still very in touch with what’s going on today, even if his new music doesn’t always suggest that.
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Still Mr. I don’t give a F*CK!!!
(mostly). Check out the full interview on @complex’s YouTube channel #accents https://t.co/OfBdA6BFaZ pic.twitter.com/5uUk1svx1y
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) July 31, 2024
Eminem and Slim Shady discuss the creative missteps Em took after his first three albums at length. They argue over “FACK,” which fans and Eminem alike agree is one of his worst songs ever. They blame each other for writing the song. Em then mentions that since it’s on his greatest hits album Curtain Call, the song technically went Diamond. From there, they dive into talking about Relapse, Eminem’s 2009 comeback effort. “I was in recovery. I had to relearn how to rap,” Em tells Shady After Shady makes fun of him for rapping in different accents across the album. “And for what it’s worth, there’s an entire generation of people who think that’s a f***ing classic.” Eminem previously disavowed Relapse and has often called it his worst release. It seems that some reappraisals of his first post-rehab work led to him softening his own stance on the album.
Eminem just 8 Mile’d himself about always punching down when getting into rap beefs
“Let’s talk about the people you dissed. F**king lyrical titans. Ja Rule, Moby, Frank Durst, who else? Christina Aguilera?” pic.twitter.com/qjd3NZhTRk
— King Wow (@wowthatshiphop) July 30, 2024
“Let’s talk about the people you dissed. Lyrical titans. Ja Rule, Moby, Fred Durst, who else? Christina Aguilera? Who’s really punching down?” Slim Shady asks Eminem about halfway through the conversation. Those few names are only a handful on a much larger list of people Em took shots at over the course of his career. He has the self-awareness to recognize that, in hindsight, many of those feuds were pointless. Most of those he attacked weren’t rappers, and the rappers he did go back and forth with were not comparable to him. He also addresses his one-sided feud with deceased actor Christopher Reeve, whose paralysis is something that Eminem has made fun of for decades. “Yeah, the guy fell off a horse. He’s dead! He’s been dead for twenty f***ing years! Leave him alone,” Em yells at Shady. The segment was not necessarily an apology for his past feuds. Rather, it was more of a backhanded admission that he could have picked better opponents to feud with.
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Eminem: I invented you cause my life was fucked up. My music was going nowhere & i was broke.
Slim Shady: EXACTLY!
You can’t beat Eminem unless you’re Slim Shady
pic.twitter.com/88QC6rxJsZ
— The Eminem Bible (@Shadyind) July 31, 2024
The conversation with Shady serves primarily as an opportunity for Eminem to reflect on his career, as well as the impact that the persona had on it. “If we’re being honest, the music that you’ve dropped since I bounced ain’t it,” Shady says near the beginning of the conversation. Em immediately points out that once he dropped the Slim Shady character, he released his most commercially successful singles ever. Later on, Em criticizes the fame he achieved as Slim Shady. “I invented you because my life was f***ed up […] But you didn’t fix anything, you actually made s**t worse. You’re the reason I had to self-medicate, and you’re the reason I almost lost my career, my family, and my life.” Of course, Shady responds by ignoring Eminem and opening a can of Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre’s new Gin & Juice drink, to which Em mentions that he’s 16 years sober. It is nice to see Eminem in a better mental space, one where he’s able to poke at various parts of his career.
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“No one understands how f***ing toxic it is to always be the bad guy,” Slim Shady laments near the end of the video. “Don’t be so hard on yourself, snowflake. We all know you mean well,” Em responds. Eminem has often said that Slim Shady is a character. Fans know that Em is not usually trying to harm people with his words, but that hasn’t stopped him from getting swipes in at everyone he can. By the end of the discussion, after working through everything with Shady, it’s clear that Eminem does not feel much regret at this point in his life. Because of his recovery, he is sober and his relationships with his children are stronger than ever. And, he has both publicly apologized to and forgiven his ex-wife and his mother, two extreme sources of anger for him in his early music and two people who suffered the most from the creation of Slim Shady in the first place. For Em, it seems that the past is the past. The Death Of Slim Shady, as well as this conversation, attempts to put his old persona behind him as well.
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Eminem’s still got jokes. The rapper dedicated a huge chunk of his new album, The Death of Slim Shady, to dealing with personal trauma. The recent AI interview that Em posted, however, is full on comedy. He decided to stage a mock interview in which he interviewed his demonic alter ego, Slim Shady, and results are predictably hilarious. The two trade insults back-and-forth, with Slim proving to be the winner when it comes to making the most out of pocket comments. One of the most notable involved MGK.
During the AI interview, Slim Shady tries to get under Eminem’s skin. He claims that MGK slept with Em’s mom, Debbie Nelson. “MGK f*cked your mother,” Slim yells out. Eminem doesn’t deny it, but instead flips it and notes that Nelson is also Slim’s mom. “He did,” the rapper said. “But she’s your mother too, so…” The exchange leads to Slim standing up and trying to physically confront his older self. Eminem tells him to calm down, and suggests that they both try to seek out help. “Damn,” Slim concluded. “I don’t even wanna f*cking admit it, but your b*tch a*s is right.”
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Eminem’s relationship with his mother has been well-documented over the years. Songs like “Who Knew” and “Cleanin’ Out My Closet” detail their familial dysfunction. He eventually apolgized to Nelson, however, on the 2013 song “Headlights.” Eminem’s decision to use MGK to insult himself suggests that that the rapper is as committed to moving on from the past as he claimed on The Death of Slim Shady album. On the track “Guilty Conscience 2,” the rapper announces his plans to squash the beefs he’s entertained over the last two decades.
MGK was at the top of the beef list. Eminem raps to Slim Shady that he’s done starting problems just to elicit a reaction from listeners. “God, you piece of sh*t, that does it (Uh-oh, wait),” he raps. “Yeah, b*tch, this is for him (What?). Christopher, MGK, Nick, and for Limp Bizkit and them.” As “Guilty Conscience 2” comes to a close, Eminem decides to kill the Slim Shady persona once and for all. Granted, the narrative doesn’t really mesh with the AI interview the rapper did for Complex, but the point stands. Eminem wants to move on, and he’s making light of the MGK beef as a result.
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Technology is weird. Thanks to AI, we can duplicate celebrities’ voices (even against their wishes), and those celebrities can even interact with each other — or themselves. Last month, The Weeknd used ChatGPT to have a conversation with his “10-year-old self,” and today, Eminem was able to interview his alter ego Slim Shady for Complex with the aid of the same sort of de-aging tech that brought back Luke Skywalker and had us all posting pictures of ourselves as babies on Snapchat a few years ago.
Unsurprisingly, Slim was less than nice to Em, roasting him repeatedly throughout the interview and even comparing him to modern-day star Taylor Swift. “We sold all that sh*t off my back, b*tch,” he railed. “Don’t get it twisted; wasn’t for me, you’d still be wearing that ‘same damn Nike Air hat.’ You’re not f*ckin’ Taylor Swift — you only had one era that mattered: mine.”
“You’re not f*ckin’ Taylor Swift. You only had 1 era that mattered”
— Slim Shady roasting Eminem on ‘The Face-Off’ by Complexpic.twitter.com/jZhH3Hc2K2
— NFR Podcast (@nfr_podcast) July 30, 2024
The premise of the interview is that Eminem has been brought forward from the past to berate and deride Em, who seemingly tries to defend his creative choices in light of a changed world and newfound maturity — although, it’s arguable that there’s an angry inner voice controlling the actions of the 51-year-old rapper. Still, you gotta give him props, almost no other rapper has ever committed so strongly to an album concept.
Eminem confronted his Slim Shady alter ego during a new interview for Complex’s The Face-Off series in promotion of his latest album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce). In one viral moment from the video, Shady trolls Eminem for making “lyrical miracle” raps and not focusing on producing entertaining songs.
“Everything that people think of when they think of Eminem is f*cking yours truly. From the blonde hair to the middle finger to the f*cking jokes — all of it, me. And if we’re being honest, the music that you’ve been dropping since I bounced ain’t it. Look man, nobody gives a f**k about your lyrical miracles you’re scaring the hoes. People wanna be entertained,” Shady tells Eminem at one point. Em retorts: “So you think it’s entertaining to just be a d*ckhead and piss people off?”
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He further fired back by explaining how Shady isn’t relevant in the current era: “Every other week on TikTok, Gen Z discovers you on Monday and cancels me on Tuesday. When’s the last time you took a shot at someone who wasn’t a pop star, a non-rapping celebrity, [or] f*cking marginalized communities? It’s f*cking 2024, man. Let people live their lives. This sh*t ain’t got nothing to do with you. It’s not that f*cking hard. Just respect whatever people want to be called and keep it moving.” Check out the full back-and-forth below.
Eminem dropped The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) back on July 12 as his twelfth studio album. Despite weeks having passed since its release, fans are still noticing new easter eggs. Be on the lookout for further updates on Eminem on HotNewHipHop.
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Eminem‘s latest album, The Death of Slim Shady, just got a new release. In a skit posted to his Instagram, he and Steve Berman argue about Berman not being on the new album. Em eventually gives in and says he’s on the album. In addition to a new skit with Berman, the new edition of the album comes with two new singles. The first is “Like My Sh*t” and the second is “Kyrie & Luka,” featuring 2 Chainz. The latter is Eminem and 2 Chainz’s first collaboration since the “Chloraseptic” remix in 2018, a track that received praise after Revival was poorly received.
Longtime Eminem fans will recognize Steve Berman’s name. Berman, the Vice Chairman of Interscope Records, first appeared on The Marshall Mathers LP in a skit named after him. From there, he appeared on The Eminem Show and Relapse. All of their skits together feature them arguing with each other, and the one on The Eminem Show ends with Em shooting Berman in the arm.
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Eminem fans have been loving his new album. The Detroit native has seldom let his primary audience down. Many of them feel appropriately satisfied with the conclusion of the Slim Shady character’s arc. However, some have been more reserved in their praise, noting that it’s not an album without its flaws. Notably, some of its themes being outdated and the cringeworthiness of things like talking about Gen Z trying to “cancel” him . Critic reaction has been more lukewarm. Pitchfork gave The Death of Slim Shady a score of 4.8/10. Popular music personality Anthony Fantano, known for his YouTube channel TheNeedleDrop, scored it a 5/10. The album’s Metacritic score is 49/100, indicating “mixed or average” reviews. That is the lowest mark of his career, which is especially surprising considering the reception of some of his previous releases, namely Encore and Revival. You can read HNHH’s review of the album here.
Regardless of how critics react to it, it will perform well commercially. Barring unforeseen circumstances, The Death of Slim Shady will be Eminem’s twelfth consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200, indicative of longevity and a loving fanbase. His fans will surely love the additional songs added to the album, which is available for purchase through Thursday night.
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Eminem is back in Slim Shady mode. There are lots of different ways to tell. For one, the rapper’s new album will be called The Death of Slim Shady. The music video for his lead single, “Houdini,” features the classic, bleach blond Slim in action. The most telling side effect of a Slim Shady sighting, however, is the lyrical insult. Eminem’s alter ego loves to take shots at his peers, his predecessors, and pretty much any other person he can think of. He targets multiple people in “Houdini,” but the most notable is far and away Megan Thee Stallion.
Eminem turned the zaniness up to ten on the new single. He tells Dr. Dre to “f*ck off,” and does to the same to his children (one of whom just got married). Both Dre and his family are been topics of scorn and adoration over the years, however. Megan Thee Stallion is someone new. The rapper flipped a line about scoring a guest verse from Megan into a double entendre about Tory Lanez shooting her in the foot. “If I was to ask for Megan Thee (What?) Stallion if she would collab with me,” he raps. “Would I really have a shot at a feat? (Haha). I don’t know, but I’m glad to be back like.”
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It’s a clever turn of phrase, but a topic that has not been received by the hip-hop community. Rappers who have poked fun at Megan Thee Stallion have either been scored by fans or Megan herself, in the form of a diss. Megan managed to win her battle with Nicki Minaj while dropping a number one single, “HISS,” in the process. The diss song, which dropped in January, is actually relevant to the current Em situation. Megan Thee Stallion made an oblique reference to Slim Shady on “HISS.” “I feel like Mariah Carey (Mariah Carey),” she rapped. “Got these n**has so obsessed (Damn).”
The line is meant to address Megan’s haters, but it’s also a reference to the 2008 Mariah Carey diss song “Obsessed.” The target of Mimi’s diss was, infamously, Eminem. The tension between the pop superstar and the rapper ran throughout the 2000s, and many feel like the former won out with a hit single. Eminem dissing Megan Thee Stallion over a subliminal actually makes a lot of sense. Eminem knows how to hold a grudge against rappers who slight him. He waited years to respond to MGK on record, and when he did, he demolished the pop-punk artist. It’ll be interesting to see if Megan Thee Stallion decides to respond.
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Eminem has a lot riding on this. The legendary rapper has been hyping up the release of his new album, The Death of Slim Shady. Like, a lot. He’s dropped fake obituaries, fake TV promos featuring 50 Cent, and he announced this new single, “Houdini,” with the help of magician David Blaine. Eminem is pulling out all the stops on this one, which only emphasizes the feeling that this is the end of the line. For Slim Shady, definitely, but perhaps even for Eminem. “Houdini” is definitely a throwback to the glory days.
The song was predicted by many to be a zany Eminem single in the vein of “The Real Slim Shady” or “Without Me,” and is it ever. “Houdini” recycles the chorus of the latter before jumping into the first verse. There’s even a cameo from Paul Rosenberg, who graced many an interlude during Eminem’s golden age. The beat is bouncy and playful and the rapper is very much in Shady mode. He takes aim at everybody in his life, including Dr. Dre, the aforementioned Paul, and even his own kids. “You can suck my d*ck, in fact,” he raps. “F*ck them, f*ck Dre, f*ck Jimmy, f*ck me, f*ck you, f*ck my own kids, they’re brats.”
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Eminem’s ability to rhyme is still unrivaled. Those who wanted the “real” Slim Shady have gotten him on this track, as this is the silliest he’s sounded since 2009’s Relapse. The thing is, the effort is audible. Em is very clearly trying to give fans the old him, and it doesn’t have the punch that it used to. “Houdini” is a song that sounds like a rapper trying to recapture his glory days, because it is. The music video even pits the current version of Em versus the bleach blond Shady. Those who live the rapper will like it, but this is not the kind of song that wins over new fans. This is nostalgia rap, for better or worse.
What are your thoughts on “Houdini” by Eminem? Is this the rapper truly back? Does he recapture the Slim Shady magic? Does this song make you more excited for the album? We would like to hear what you have to say, so be sure to leave your takes in the comments section. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Eminem. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on in the music world.
Quotable Lyrics:
My sh*t may not be age-appropriate
But I will hit an eight year old in the face with a participation trophy
‘Cause I have zero doubts, that this whole world’s ’bouts to turn into some girl scouts
That censorship bureau’s out to shut me down
So when I started this verse, it did start off lighthearted first
But it feels like I’m targeted, mind-bogglin’ how my profit has skyrocketed
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Eminem has an album on the way. Hitting Instagram, the legend released a joint post with magician David Blaine for the new single “Houdini.” The single will arrive on Friday.
You can see the announcement below, including Eminem’s trick of making “my career disappear.”
Eminem is ready to deliver a new album. Aiming for the summer, Eminem previously announced The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce).
The announcement comes via a true crime mock series that casts 50 Cent for a brief cameo. Also included is a detective setting the scene.
“Through his complex, tongue twisting and oft criticized rhymes, the blonde anti-hero known as Slim Shady has had no shortage of enemies,” the detective says. “The same rude lyrics and controversial antics might have ultimately led to his demise.”
You can see the announcement below.
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