Eminem Sucks, Part 2

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3.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Oh boy, it's time for Part 2 of What Would Happen If the T-Shirt Rack at Spencer's Gifts Started Rapping and a Bunch of Morons Decided It Was a Top 5 MC of All Time!

Just in case there are any, like, extra dumb people reading this, obviously you should make sure to listen to Part 1 of this series before listening to Part 2. But once that's taken care of, step right on up to learn more about the dark and mysterious music business machinations behind the scenes of Eminem's breakout years. Why would Dr. Dre get behind this clown? What was going on at Interscope Records that made them invest so heavily in giving Slim Shady a career? Exactly who were all those haters and imitators Eminem kept complaining about? These answers and more, today on Your Favorite Band Sucks!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the M&M sucks podcast.
0:13.3	That's what this show is now.
0:15.2	It's just gonna be a whole fucking podcast.
0:19.0	For a while, I mean, I think we're gonna have like a solid month of M&M.
0:25.0	You're welcome world.
0:27.0	Well if anyone had ever said this shit before then we wouldn't have to do this.
0:33.0	Everyone just took this artist and his story at face value
0:39.0	and it never really got checked in any way
0:42.0	and still hasn't.
0:43.7	If people were just honest about music in general, we wouldn't even have a job, now would we?
0:51.1	Where we left off was M&M decided to jump on the horror core trend after seeing how well it worked
0:57.9	out for his fellow Michiganders ICP and if you blacked out when we said that in the previous
1:06.9	episode and didn't hear anything else we said after that the way that
1:10.8	Eminem did that was by creating the Slim Shady character, which was also a very useful tool for him to mask the fact that Eminem was just another lyrical miracle style of rapper,
1:24.4	which did turn out to be enough to get him a spot on warped tour
1:29.6	where he could get lemons thrown at him every day.
1:34.0	Lemon boy.
1:35.1	And he was looking like a regular old one-hit wonder.
1:39.4	No way, Eminem couldn't be a one-hit wonder.
1:41.4	I was there and I remember it, everyone knew that the Slim Shady LP was a total
1:46.7	classic.
1:47.7	All right, how old were you when you knew that the Slim Shady LP was a total classic.
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