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Eminem: Hip Hop’s Trailer-Trash Wunderkind

Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 16 December 2000

FIRST CAME Elvis – America’s worst nightmare, the white-trash negro. Then came Mick Jagger and Marilyn Manson, Johnny Rotten and Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Doggy Dogg. America is always waiting for the next musical menace to society.

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