“Doing too much rush had my face flushed like red blush “Just Don’t Give a Fuck” ( The Slim Shady LP, 1999) Snatched it off and beat him over the fucking head with the peg”Īs we’ve proven as a society to be largely unconcerned with the well-being of sex workers, the first couplet may not draw much ire, but it’s hard to imagine Eminem getting away with humor at the expense of a physically and mentally disabled child, in 1999 or today. “Met a retarded kid named Greg, with a wooden leg How would they react to an Eminem hit with lyrics about shooting cops and bystanders? Police unions turned to political action to protest Beyoncé’s “Formation” performance at the Super Bowl. The shit is in my hands, here’s your lifespan”
“Left the keys in the van, with a gat in each hand “Murder, Murder” ( The Slim Shady EP, 1997)
Just your run-of-the-mill murder and necrophilia, with a dash of “support of domestic violence.” But the most unnerving line may be the one about Margot Kidder, who had a nervous breakdown in her late 40s and was found hiding in a bush. Smoke a blunt while I’m titty-fucking Bette Midler”īeat your bitch’s ass while your kids stare in silence” Used to let the babysitter suck my dick when I was littler “Bitch getter, hid in the bush like Margot Kidder “Low Down, Dirty” ( The Slim Shady EP, 1997) Here are eight songs by the legendary rapper that, despite their technical brilliance, give us cultural indigestion: What do you think? Comment below and let me know.But it all seems tame in comparison to his past. That aside, Stan is a great storytelling song that shows how multifaceted Eminem can be as an artist and I would easily call his best song to date.Īnd that was my list of the best Eminem songs. Funny enough, this song would leave an impact on our culture for introducing the phrase stan, which describes someone who’s overly-obsessed with a celebrity figure and the people who called themselves stans completely missed the whole point of the term and are acting like Stan in this song. As you can see, this song is dark, from the subject matter to the bleak production that utilizes a Dido sample (who’s also featured on the track). Then he realizes that Stan killed himself and his girlfriend and he heard about it on the news. In the final verse, Eminem writes a response letter to Stan and thanking him for being a fan while trying to understand his psychosis.
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Over the course of the song, Stan becomes more obsessive and angrier when he doesn’t get an immediate response, so he kidnaps his pregnant girlfriend, puts her in the trunk of his car, and prepares to drive into the river while using a voice recorder to send a message to Eminem that he realize that he doesn’t know how to send out. Stan tells the story of a huge Eminem fan named Stan who’s writing letters to Eminem proclaiming his fandom and relating to his life story. It’s up there among some of the best storytelling not just in rap, but in music period. If there ever was a college course all about storytelling in rap, Stan has to be mentioned in the course.