#The slim shady lp cover art full#

The cover art depicts a man taking a break during an outing with his toddler daughter, the purpose of which is to dispose of her murdered motherвЂ™s decaying corpse (reference вЂњвЂ97 Bonnie & ClydeвЂќ). Setting that huge internal contradiction aside, this is a very good album. In EminemвЂ™s case, the class in question is the transracial American proletariat. But it is intelligent entertainment with a coherent critical worldview, albeit one marred by the Marxist propensity to interpret morality through the lens of class consciousness. вЂњThe Slim Shady LPвЂќ by Eminem (1999) Well, obviously this is not for the squeamish, the qualmish, the prudish, or the priggish. For all his not giving a fuck, he always wanted his music to be a dialectic. More importantly, itвЂ™d mean ignoring that he announces himself with a PSA followed by the immortal вЂњHi kidsвЂќ. I could just say itвЂ™s all in good fun and shouldnвЂ™t be taken seriously, but double guessing his sincerity is half the fun.

#The slim shady lp cover art full#

Eminem slapping Garth Brooks out of his limestone shirt, standing next to the Loch Ness monster at Kid RockвЂ™s next concert, as an extra-terrestrial running over pedestrians while theyвЂ™re screaming at him вЂњLetвЂ™s just be friendsвЂќ, wearing a bulletproof vest and shooting himself in the head, having full blown aids and a sore throat, activating his gadget dick, supporting abortion, putting his guinea pig in the microwave, dressing like Les Nessman, putting air in a bag and charging people to breathe, murdering the alphabet. And the images that stand out are the same ones that burnt into my brain when I was a teenager lying on my bed playing PokГ©mon Blue and spinning this on repeat. While it was still possible for him to be this detached, going to the far reaches of his imagination is as refreshing for me as it was cathartic for him. If вЂ™97 Bonnie and Clyde leaves room for growth and If I Had and Rock Bottom are the residue of previous attempts at gritty East Coast rap, that leaves My Name Is, Role Model, My Fault, Cum On Everybody, Just/Still DonвЂ™t Give a Fuck, As the World Turns, IвЂ™m Shady and Bad Meets Evil (plus a handful more) as the most outrageously cartoonish, wickedly funny and violently deranged version of Eminem weвЂ™d ever get. That came once he was a global cause celebre and had the genius to make the Public Eye the prism at the centre of his nakedly honest, frighteningly violent real-or-fantasy bizzare-o-world. вЂ™97 Bonnie & Clyde isnвЂ™t the weakest song here, but it does represent the main drawback: that Eminem hasnвЂ™t yet found his register for stories that exorcise his (and 50% of the worldвЂ™s) violent misogyny.