History Music / TheMarshallMathersLP

* HilariousInHindsight: The skit "Ken Kaniff" features Kaniff receiving an enthusiastic blowjob from two men who he identifies as "Violent J and Shaggy", the names of the two members of Music/InsaneClownPosse. 19 years later, ICP released ''[[Music/FearlessFredFury Flip the Rat]]'', containing a song called "Be Safe", where the ''actual'' Shaggy raps, "[[HoYay I might suck a dick]]--" followed by a RecordNeedleScratch, as Shaggy realizes what he just rapped, then raps, "--[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments uh, I would never suck a dick!]]"

* HilariousInHindsight: The skit "Ken Kaniff" features Kaniff receiving an enthusiastic blowjob from two men who he identifies as "Violent J and Shaggy", the names of the two members of Music/InsaneClownPosse. 19 years later, ICP released ''[[Music/FearlessFredFury Flip the Rat]]'', containing a song called "Be Safe", where the actual Shaggy raps, "[[HoYay I might suck a dick]]--" followed by a RecordNeedleScratch, as Shaggy realizes what he just rapped, then raps, "--[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments uh, I would never suck a dick!]]"

* AnAesop: "Stan" has the message that your idols are only human; mainstream-level creators like Eminem have fandoms in the millions and would not be able to keep up with fan interactions while still balancing their careers and personal lives, so them being late to answer fan-mail or appearing cold and distant in person doesn't mean they hate you. [[LoonyFan Being obsessed with a creator]] can also lead to tragic consequences, especially consequences involving your loved ones, if you don't stop and realize that there's more to your life than just that creator.

* BeYourself: "The Real Slim Shady" has this as AnAesop: as repressed and censorious as the MoralGuardians want our society to be, the fact remains that "every single person is a Slim Shady lurking," and instead of suppressing your rebellious or nonconformist side, you should embrace it -- "Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control."

* AxCrazy: Slim Shady and Stan on this album are both psycho's.

* BeamMeUpScotty: In-universe; see MondegreenGag below.

* FaceOnTheCover: There are two covers and Eminem is seen on both of them from a far distance.
* FanDisservice: The Ken Kaniff skit on this album is a rare audio example of this, considering it has one of the most disquieting-sounding oral sex scene ever heard in a song. And it's between Ken and some members of the Music/InsaneClownPosse, no less.

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

** "The Real Slim Shady" is one giant rant against the rappers who try to copy him and also targets Music/WillSmith, [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward the Grammy's]], Music/BritneySpears, Music/ChristinaAguilera, [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]], Carson Daly [[note]] a MTV veejay [[/note]] and boy and girl bands in general. The music video also has Creator/KathyGriffin appearing as a nurse.

(...) You think I give a damn about a Grammy?\\

"But Slim, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird?"\\

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''
** "Ken Kaniff" is a diss back to Music/InsaneClownPosse for writing an diss track aimed at Eminem. In this skit the band members engage in homosexual oral gratification.
** "Marshall Mathers" takes shots at unnamed rappers who copy Music/TupacShakur and Music/TheNotoriousBig, Music/BackstreetBoys, Music/RickyMartin, {{Music/NSYNC}}, Music/BritneySpears, Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock while parodying "Summer Girls" by {{Music/LFO}}, Music/VanillaIce, Insane Clown Posse, "the underground" for dissing him for collaborating with Music/MissyElliott, his mother's lawyer [[note]] Fred Gibson, whose name had to be censored to avoid a lawsuit[[/note]], [[LongList and]] ''XXL''.
** Depending on how you view it "Steve Berman" is either an attack on Interscope Records for having no faith in the album or SelfDeprecation on Eminem's part for releasing an uncommercial album full of raps about "homosexuals and Vicodin."

* WhamLine: From "Kill You" - "Just bend over and take it like a slut, [[spoiler:'''OKAY MA?''']]"

Naturally, this album took all of the insanity of its predecessor and cranked it up to eleven, while mixing it with a personal, introspective account of Em coping with his newfound fame. Darker Slim Shady fantasies, [[CreatorBreakdown more disturbing parts of his childhood]], and [[TakeThatCritics more venomous responses to critics]] were all implemented on the album.

* AnAesop: "Stan" has the message that your idols are only human; mainstream-level creators like Eminem have fandoms in the millions and would not be able to keep up with fan interactions while still balancing their careers and personal lives. Them being late to answer fan-mail or appearing cold and distant in person, doesn't mean they hate you. [[LoonyFan Being obsessed with a creator]] can lead to tragic consequences, especially consequences involving your loved ones, if you don't stop and realize that there's more to your life than just that creator.

*** 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. Dido (singer of "Thank You", which was used as the main sample of "Stan", who played Stan's pregnant girlfriend in the music video) has stated that what her character goes through in the song's third verse -- being BoundAndGagged, [[PunkInTheTrunk trapped in the trunk of Stan's car]], and screaming while struggling to remove her restraints -- was actually filmed, few versions of the video's long version show these scenes, as well as another scene with Stan (played by actor Creator/DevonSawa) drinking while driving. The rest of the versions show only one brief clip of Dido in the trunk while removing the 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, [[HideYourGays "And what's this shit about us meant to be together?"]]

--->But at least have the decency in you\\

If you tempt me my tank is on empty\\

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

* BlackComedy: The emphasis on this record is more one violence against women than his previous album.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: While ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' already had it rough, the clean version of this album is notorious for being completely intolerable, with practically every other lyric being muted. "Kim" didn't even make it onto the album, being replaced by the "The Kids", a song which is only on the clean and deluxe versions of the album.

*** 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 Creator/DevonSawa) 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, [[HideYourGays "And what's this shit about us meant to be together?"]]
*** In his performance of the song at [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward the Grammys]] with Music/EltonJohn, he changed "You're like his fucking idol" to "You're like his ''favorite'' idol."

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

!!Tracklist

* DreamTeam:
** Eminem and Dido on "Stan".
** Eminem and Music/MarilynManson on the remix of "The Way I Am". Manson also appears in the music video for it.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Referenced in "Real Slim Shady".
-->''Pinching nurse's asses when I'm jacking off with Jergens\\
And I'm jerking but this whole bag of Viagra isn't working''

Naturally, this album took all of the insanity of its predecessor and cranked it up to eleven, while mixing it with a personal, introspective account of Em coping with his newfound fame. Darker fantasies, more disturbing parts of his childhood, and more venomous responses to critics were all implemented on the album.

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).

At the time of the album's release, Em was already on top of the world. His previous release, ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'', made him an overnight sensation and got as much attention from the media as he did from MoralGuardians who were practically having heart attacks at the idea of this guy possibly controlling the innocent youth through his rhymes.

Naturally, this album took all of the insanity of its predecessor and cranked it up to eleven, while mishmashing it with a personal and introspective account of Em coping with his newfound fame. Darker fantasies, more disturbing parts of his childhood, and more venomous responses to critics were all implemented on the album.

** "Marshall Mathers" takes shots at unnamed rappers who copy Music/TupacShakur and Music/TheNotoriousBig, Music/BackstreetBoys, {{Music/NSYNC}}, Music/BritneySpears, Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock while parodying "Summer Girls" by {{Music/LFO}}, Music/VanillaIce, Insane Clown Posse, "the underground" for dissing him for collaborating with Music/MissyElliott, his mother's lawyer [[note]] Fred Gibson, whose name had to be censored to avoid a lawsuit[[/note]], [[LongList and]] ''XXL''.

-->''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.''

** 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 says seriously. "Criminal" has similar theme, but with a darker approach to it.