History Music / TheMarshallMathersLP

** "Stan" received an ''infamous'' serving of this. Not only that, but there are TWO versions of the music videos for the song, with the most recent Fuse "version" of the song more censored than the last two. While MTV's short version of "Stan" is heavily censored (also removing scenes of a [[DrivenToSuicide murder/suicide]]), the long version, however, isn't much better. Though Dido (singer of "Thank You" who played Stan's pregnant girlfriend in the music video) admitted in the interview that [[PregnantHostage she was the one who was]] BoundAndGagged and [[PunkInTheTrunk struggling in the trunk of the car to get the gag out and to scream while trying to breathe]] in the third verse, only fewer versions of the video's long version showing some scenes with her tied up and struggling, as well as a scene with Stan (played by actor [[Film/FinalDestination Devon Sawa]]) drinking while driving, are shown. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks The rest of the versions show only one brief clip of her at the trunk while removing a scene of Stan drinking and censoring the words]] [[FrothyMugsOfWater "drank", "vodka",]] [[DrugsAreBad "downers",]] [[BigShutUp "Shut up,]] [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch",]] [[PunkInTheTrunk "screaming in the trunk",]] "slit", [[BoundAndGagged "tied her up",]] "suffocates" and [[NeverSayDie "die"]]. In the last verse, [[HideYourPregnancy the censors remove all mentions of the girlfriend in the trunk]], as well as the lyric, [[HideYourLesbians "And what's this shit about us meant to be together?"]]

No I won't sign you an autograph\\

-->All of a sudden I got 90-some cousins (Hey it's me!)\\

The only difference is I got the balls to say it in front of y'all\\
And I don't gotta be false or sugarcoat it at all\\

* FlippingTheBird: In most of the music videos. Also, in "The Way I Am", Eminem lampshades this:

* {{Mondegreen}}: At the climax of "Stan", the title character incorrectly refers to Music/PhilCollins' "In the Air Tonight" as "In the Air of the Night". However, he was drunk, so there is reasoning.

** "The Real Slim Shady" namedrops Creator/TomGreen and his song "Lonely Swedish"

** The song also references the song "The Bad Touch" by the Bloodhound Gang:

** The song also references the Discovery Channel:

They got the Discovery Channel, don't they?''

The album was released to even more critical and commercial success than ''SSLP'', with critics hailing it to this day as one of the greatest and most important albums of all time, let alone in the hip-hop genre. It gave Em his second consecutive UsefulNotes/GrammyAward win for Best Rap Album as well as a nomination for Album of the Year. It also sold more than 1.76 million copies in America in ''the opening week'', solidifying it as the fastest-selling studio album by any American solo artist in history. The album later went on to be certified Diamond in 2011 for selling 10 million copies in America, and it went on to sell a grand total of 32 million copies around the world (by 2012). It is ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s 145th [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime greatest album of all time]], and was included in Magazine/TimeMagazine's 2006 list of [[TimeAllTime100Albums 100 timeless and essential albums.]]

The album was released to even more critical and commercial success than ''SSLP'', with critics hailing it to this day as one of the greatest and most important albums of all time, let alone in the hip-hop genre. It gave Em his second consecutive UsefulNotes/GrammyAward win for Best Rap Album as well as a nomination for Album of the Year. It also sold more than 1.76 million copies in America in ''the opening week'', solidifying it as the fastest-selling studio album by any American solo artist in history. The album later went on to be certified Diamond in 2011 for selling 10 million copies in America, and it went on to sell a grand total of 32 million copies around the world (by 2012). It is ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s 244th [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime greatest album of all time]], and was included in Magazine/TimeMagazine's 2006 list of [[TimeAllTime100Albums 100 timeless and essential albums.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: "Kim" is perhaps Eminem's darkest song to date.

->''[[EstablishingCharacterMoment "They said I can't rap about being broke no more.]]\\
[[EstablishingCharacterMoment They ain't say I can't rap about coke no more!"]]''

** "The Real Slim Shady" became such a pop culture phenomenon that it was parodied by Music/EmilyEllis as "Will The Ral Slim Shady Please Shut Up?".

* LiteralAssKissing: The video for "The Real Slim Shady" among other things shows Eminem dressed up as a masked superhero with a large prosphetic ass who attacks unsuspecting citizens to force them to kiss his bum.

* CarefulWithThatAxe: Em doesn't as much rap "Kim" as he does ''scream'' it, and it reaches an ultimate peak by the very end, where he lets out one last "BLEEEEED!" that is inhumanly [[NightmareFuel terrifying]].

# "Bitch Please II" (feat. Dr. Dre, Music/SnoopDogg, Xzibit, and Nate Dogg) (4:48)

*** "Real Slim Shady" has a line mirroring the "and Dr. Dre said..." line from "My Name Is", only for Dre to not say anything and for Em to announce that Dre is dead and locked in his basement.

* FaceOnAMilkCarton: The music video to "The Real Slim Shady" shows Eminem's {{Mentor|s}} Dr. Dre on a milk carton (with a very beleaguered expression) just as the lyrics go ''And Dr. Dre said[[{{Beat}} ...]]/Nothing you idiots! Dr. Dre's dead/He's locked in my basement!''

** "Stan" received an ''infamous'' serving of this. Not only that, but there are TWO versions of the music videos for the song, with the most recent Fuse "version" of the song more censored than the last two. While MTV's short version of "Stan" is heavily censored (also removing scenes of a [[DrivenToSuicide murder/suicide]]), the long version, however, isn't much better. Though Dido (singer of "Thank You" who played Stan's pregnant girlfriend in the music video) admitted in the interview that [[PregnantHostage she was the one who was]] BoundAndGagged and [[PunkInTheTrunk struggling in the trunk of the car to get the gag out and to scream while trying to breathe]] in the third verse, only fewer versions of the video's long version showing some scenes with her tied up and struggling, as well as a scene with Stan (played by actor [[FinalDestination Devon Sawa]]) drinking while driving, are shown. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks The rest of the versions show only one brief clip of her at the trunk while removing a scene of Stan drinking and censoring the words]] [[FrothyMugsOfWater "drank", "vodka",]] [[DrugsAreBad "downers",]] [[BigShutUp "Shut up,]] [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch",]] [[PunkInTheTrunk "screaming in the trunk",]] "slit", [[BoundAndGagged "tied her up",]] "suffocates" and [[NeverSayDie "die"]]. In the last verse, [[HideYourPregnancy the censors remove all mentions of the girlfriend in the trunk]], as well as the lyric, [[HideYourLesbians "And what's this shit about us meant to be together?"]]

-->''But at least have the decency in you''
To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out
In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter
To not come and speak to me, I don't know you and no
-->''I don't owe you a mothafuckin' thing\\

->''[[EstablishingCharacterMoment "They said I can't rap about being broke no more.]]''\\
''[[EstablishingCharacterMoment They ain't say I can't rap about coke no more!"]]''

--> ''I invented violence, you vile venomous volatile bitches\\

--> ''I do not got the patience''
--> ''To deal with these cocky Caucasians''

--> ''Feminist women love Eminem''
--> ''Chicka-chicka Slim Shady, I'm sick of him''
--> ''Look at him, walking around, grabbing his you-know-what''
--> ''Flippin' the you-know-who''
--> ''Yeah, but he's so cute though''

--> ''I'm like a head trip to listen to\\

** A similar thing happened with "Marshall Mathers", off the same album. One line in particular was censored because, in the event you are being sued by your mother, insulting their lawyer is [[{{TooDumbToLive}} not a particularly clever idea.]]
--> ''So which is it, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]], Mrs. Briggs or Mrs. Mathers?''
--> ''It doesn't matter, [your attorney, Fred Gibson's a] faggot! ''
--> ''Talking about how I fabricated my past.''
--> ''He's just aggravated I won't ejaculate in his ass.''

--> ''Radio won't even play my jam''

--> ''Yo, you might see me jogging. You might see me walking. You might see me walking a dead rottweiler dog with it's head chopped off in the park with a spiked collar, hollering at him 'cause the son-of-a-bitch won't stop barking.''

--> ''I'm gonna name her Bonnie''
--> ''The song "Guilty Conscience" has gotten such rotten responses''

--> ''But at least have the decency in you''
--> ''To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out''
--> ''In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter''
--> ''To not come and speak to me, I don't know you and no''
--> ''I don't owe you a mothafuckin' thing''
--> ''I'm not Mr. [[Music/{{NSync}} N'Sync]], I'm not what your friends think''
--> ''I'm not Mr. Friendly, I can be a prick''
--> ''If you tempt me my tank is on empty''
--> ''No patience is in me and if you offend me''
--> ''I'm lifting you 10 feet in the air''
--> ''I don't care who was there and who saw me just jaw you''
--> ''Go call you a lawyer, file you a lawsuit''
--> ''I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe''
--> ''I'm tired of all you, I don't mean to be mean''
--> ''But that's all I can be is just me''
--> ''(...) And I'm thankful for every fan that I get''
--> ''But I can't take a shit in the bathroom without someone standing by it''
--> ''No I won't sign you an autograph''
--> ''You can call me an asshole''

--> ''Pinching nurse's asses when I'm jacking off with Jergens''
--> ''And I'm jerking but this whole bag of Viagra isn't working''

--> ''I sit back with this pack of Zig-Zags and this bag''
--> ''And this weed it gives me the shit needed to be''
--> ''The most meanest MC on this, on this Earth''

--> ''Sometimes I just feel like my father''
--> ''It hate to be bothered with all of this nonsense''

--> ''Since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse''
--> ''And just blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works''
--> ''And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve''
--> ''This tension dispensing these sentences''

--> ''He could be workin' at Burger King, spitting on your onion rings''

--> ''The only difference is I got the balls to say it''

--> ''And I just do not got the patience''
--> ''To deal with these cocky Caucasians who think''
--> ''I'm some wigger who just tries to be Black''
--> ''Cause I talk with an accent, and grab on my balls''
--> ''So they always keep asking the same fucking questions''
--> ''What school did I go to, what hood I grew up in?''
--> ''The why, the who, what, when, the where and the how''
--> '''til I'm grabbing my hair and I'm tearin' it out''
--> ''Cause they drivin' me crazy, I can't take it''

--> ''Jaws all on the floor, like Pam, like Tommy just burst in the door''
--> ''And started whoopin' her ass worse than before''
--> ''They first were divorced, throwin' her over furniture''

--> ''Sometimes, I wanna get on TV and just let loose, but can't''
--> ''But it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose''

--> ''Of course, they're gonna know what intercourse is by the time they hit fourth grade''
--> ''They got the Discovery Channel, don't they?''

--> ''I am not Mr. Music/{{NSYNC}}''
--> ''I am not Mr. Friendly''
--> ''I am not what your friends think''

--> ''If I wasn't then why would I say I am?''

--> ''A bloodstain is orange after you wash it 3 or 4 times in a tub\\

--> ''You don't... wanna fuck with Shady''
--> ''Cause Shady... will fucking kill you''
--> ''...''
--> ''[[EvilLaugh Haha!]]''

--> ''Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records''
--> ''Well, I do. So fuck him and fuck you too.''
--> ''(...) You think I give a damn about a Grammy?''
--> ''Half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me''
--> ''But Slim, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird?''
--> ''Why? So you guys could just lie to get me here?''
--> ''So you can sit me here, next to Britney Spears?''
--> ''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?''
--> ''I'm sick of you, little girl and boy groups all you do is annoy me''
--> ''So, I have been sent here to destroy you''

* UnreliableNarrator: Eminem often twists fact and fantasy in his songs, explaining why so many real-life people felt the need to sue him for slander. He lampshades this himself in the song "Criminal" from ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP''.
--> ''A lot of people ask me.. stupid fucking questions''
--> ''A lot of people think that.. what I say on records''
--> ''or what I talk about on a record, that I actually do in real life''
--> ''or that I believe in it''
--> ''Or if I say that, I wanna kill somebody, that..''
--> ''I'm actually gonna do it''
--> ''or that I believe in it''
--> ''Well, shit.. if you believe that''
--> ''then I'll kill you''

* {{Yandere}}: A rare male example in "Kim." Although Eminem repeatedly states his extreme hatred for his ex-wife in the song, it is also pretty clearly implied that he remains obsessed with her and that at least part of his anger is out of jealousy that she left him for another man:
--> "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO LOVE ''ME!!!''"

* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** On the original cover Eminem was sitting on the porch of the house where he lived during teenagehood.
** "Drug Ballad" is about his drug use. "Stan", "I'm Back" and "Marshall Matters" are about his struggles with superstardom, while "Remember Me" and "Bitch Please II" are about his return and effect on the music industry.
** "The Way I Am" and "Criminal" address Eminem's feelings about the media controversy over his lyrics and the accusation that he is just "some wigger who tries to be black." He also references the [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} pupils who shot other pupils in the Columbine High School in Colorado in the spring of 1999]].
--> ''When a dude's getting bullied and shoots up his school''
--> ''And they blame it on Marilyn and the heroin''
--> ''Where were the parents at and look where it's at''
--> ''Middle America, now it's a tragedy''
--> ''Now it's so sad to see, an upper-class city''
--> ''Havin' this happening''
** "Kim" expresses Eminem's hate for his then-wife. In the song he imagines killing her and dumping her body in a car from a bridge.

** Arguably the whole album after "Ken Kaniff" skit falls into this trope. From farily upbeat sounding "Drug Ballad" it goes to very dark and violent on "Amityville" then back to "Bitch Please II" which sounds more like something from "2001". From that point the album reaches it's most notoriously violent song with "Kim", which in turn is followed by "Under the Influence" starting with Eminem literally mocking listeners for taking anything he asys seriously. "Criminal" has similar theme, but with a darker approach to it.

* LyricalColdOpen: "Kill You" and "Who Knew?".

* {{Mondegreen}}: At the climax of "Stan", the title character incorrectly refers to Music/PaulCollins' "In the Air Tonight" as "In the Air of the Night". However, he was drunk, so there is reasoning.

* ParentalIncest: "The Way I Am" and "Kill You" both have lines where Eminem rapes his own mother.