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DISGRACELAND

REWIND - Eminem: Taking His Shot, Pulling a Glock, and Facing the Real Slim Shady

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.613.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On a single Saturday in 2000, Marshall Mathers assaulted two separate men with a pistol and fought with his wife outside a nightclub, resulting in lawsuits and charges that hung over the completion of his original trilogy of albums. For that one day, the rap persona Slim Shady had escaped into the real world. How had Slim Shady come to be, and why had he gotten out? For a full list of contributors, visit disgracelandpod.com This episode was originally published on November 5, 2019. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram YouTube X (formerly Twitter) Facebook Fan Group TikTok To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Double Elvis.

0:08.0

Disgraceland is brought to you by Disgraceland All Access.

0:11.6

Visit Disgraceland pod.

0:13.2

com slash membership,

0:15.0

or just click on the link in the show notes for this episode.

0:18.0

Disgrace land is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about M& Eminem are insane.

0:34.8

He killed and then buried the corpse of his wife and his lyrics anyway.

0:39.3

Under the guise of a psychotic alter ego he created named Slim Shady, whose lyrics set off an avalanche. psychotic woman real or imagined and he took no shit not even from his own mom who eventually

0:55.0

sued him.

0:56.8

He was fueled by darkness and raised in the shadows of a once great symbol of American

1:01.4

hard work in Hustle, Detroit, Michigan.

1:04.8

He fought his way up, out of the city's hip-hop underground and fought off violent attackers

1:09.3

along the way.

1:11.5

Charged with beating down rival musicians, pistol whipping his wife's lover, and in general for lowering American standards of decency,

1:18.0

M&M made...

1:20.0

Hold up, for real, I don't like M&M's music. I've tried. It does nothing for me. I don't even feel nostalgic for it. But in a way, I do respect

1:29.8

M&M as an artist for risking it, for putting it all out there and I definitely respect his

1:34.8

hustle but at the end of the day his music it ain't my bag so I can't sit here and tell you

1:39.6

with a straight face that he made great music. He made

1:43.7

some of the most compelling music ever made.

1:47.2

Unlike that music I played you at the top of the show.

1:50.3

That wasn't compelling music.

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