Eminem
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Eminem: The Slim Shady LP (Interscope)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 8 April 1999
This Week's big noise — Eminem ...
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 10 April 1999
20 Minute Party People ...
Eminem: The Slim Shady LP (Aftermath/Interscope)
Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 17 April 1999
MMM, LET'S TALK about sweeties! M&M's are the grey squirrels of the confectionery world, driving the indigenous British Smartie to the verge of extinction. A ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, June 1999
Dr Dre-sponsored whiteboy rapper behaves like a git and sells millions of US albums ...
Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, October 1999
THE ATMOSPHERE of ersatz serenity that is supposed to prevail in newly-refurbished West End hotel lobbies was never going to withstand the arrival of Eminem. ...
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 14 November 1999
Sloppy and unpopular. That's trailer trash for you ...
The Magic Cuss: Eminem: Academy, Manchster
Live Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 20 November 1999
"YOU ALL KNOW Dr Dre is one of the greatest MOTHERF—IN' producers in hip-hop, right?" asks the DJ warming up the crowd before the first ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, December 1999
Life is sweet for multi-platinum rap star Eminem, the doting dad who plays a murderous rapist from the white-trash dung hill. The world is his ...
Profile and Interview by David Bennun, Heat, 2000
"GOD SENT ME," Eminem once proclaimed, "to piss the world off." ...
Eminem: "Let's Get Raping You!"
Interview by Sylvia Patterson, New Musical Express, 22 April 2000
Yup, no need to worry about Eminem going "soft", he's as angry and fucked up as ever — threatening to rape NME, railing against boy/girl ...
Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath/Interscope) *****
Review by Dorian Lynskey, Select, August 2000
Liberal-baiting rap superstar returns with autobiographical outing, officially the second fastest-selling album ever. ...
Special Feature by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 12 August 2000
Y2K has been something of an annus horribilis for Eminem (discounting the ten million album sales, that is). Faced with a lawsuit from his mum, ...
Report by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 28 October 2000
What happens when America's two biggest antiheroes share the same stage? Join NME at Anger Management, the climactic enormodome showdown between Eminem and Limp Bizkit. ...
Dr. Dre: 10 Reasons Not To Forget About Dre
Comment by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 15 November 2000
THOUGHT DR DRE HAD SLIPPED OUR MINDS, DID YA? NOPE — US MUTHAF***AS WERE JUST ACTING LIKE WE HADN'T REMEMBERED THE HIP-HOP POWERHOUSE. HERE'S WHY ...
The Way They Are: Eminem and Friends
Review by Cleothus Hardcastle, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
HIP HOP, you don’t stop. Whatever it is that this hybrid of street poetics and processed beats represents for modern culture, it ain’t going away. ...
Eminem: Hip Hop’s Trailer-Trash Wunderkind
Profile by 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 ...
Eminem: Love, Hate And The Only Important Pop Star Left
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 9 February 2001
Eminem: Evening News Arena, Manchester ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 9 February 2001
EMINEM'S REPUTATION as world's number one bad boy rapper precedes him. Amid scenes reminiscent of the Sex Pistols, his records have been banned by student ...
Live Review by Mark Pringle, Rock's Backpages, 16 February 2001
Eminem: The London Arena, Docklands ...
Eminem: It's Rock 'N' Roll, Stupid!
Comment by David Dalton, Gadfly, 22 February 2001
I KNOW NOW I really have turned into my parents. Did I really spend three hours watching this dopey, homogenized, pre-packaged pap? Dear Lord, I ...
Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg/Eminem/Ice Cube: The Up In Smoke Tour (Eagle Vision)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, March 2001
IN WHICH THE meanest mf-ers in contemporary hip hop, now wallowing in a gargantuan trough of dollars, give themselves 10 times more than enough rope, ...
Eminem: The London Arena, Docklands
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001
FOR A FEW days there, between Internet babies and new genetic codes, Eminem's UK tour made him the leading media talking-point. ...
Trailer Made: Eminem B-Side Buyer's Guide
Guide by Dorian Lynskey, Mojo Collections, Summer 2001
Eminem was just another basement hip hop hopeful, then he had an exceedingly profitable trip to the loo. Dorian Lynskey plots a wax history. ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, May 2002
CAN IT BE mere coincidence that the fourth Eminem album hits the streets in the same week that the third series of Big Brother begins ...
Mean, Moody And Magnificent: Eminem
Profile by Charles Shaar Murray, The Observer, 12 May 2002
IT'S BEEN too damn quiet, Carruthers. With the upper echelons of the pop scene currently dominated by the industry's endless cavalcade of squeaky-clean teen puppets, ...
Eminem: The Eminem Show (Aftermath)
Review by Peter Murphy, Hot Press, 6 June 2002
WELCOME TO artimitateslife.com, a multi-streamed gush of live webcam feed where we get to see Mr Marshall Mathers as Truman trapped in some Gollywood remake ...
Interview by William Shaw, Blender, August 2002
Eminem may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. But there doesn't seem to be much else that's beyond the hip-hop ...
Marshall Mathers, Movie Star: Eminem in 8 Mile
Report by Edward Helmore, The Observer, November 2002
THREE YEARS AGO he was the foul-mouthed scourge of parents everywhere. A sulky, misogynistic, homophobic, mother-hating all-round bad influence. A white-trash Negro. A true punk ...
Comment by RJ Smith, The Village Voice, 5 November 2002
IN THE money scene of 8 Mile, the young white Detroit rapper Rabbit Smith (played by young white Detroit rapper Eminem) battles a series of ...
Comment by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 12 November 2002
TWO EVENTS of lasting significance occurred last week: the breakdown of the Democratic party and the breakthrough of Eminem. His debut film, 8 Mile, became the ...
Eminem At The Top Of His Underclass: 8 Mile
Review by Wayne Robins, waynerobins.blogspot.com, 26 November 2002
8 MILE, Eminem's big screen debut, is middling as far as boxing movies go: Not as searing as Budd Schulberg's The Harder They Fall, and ...
Eminem: The Most Hotly Anticipated Movie Of The Year!
Report by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 18 January 2003
…but is it any good? NME gives you the ultimate lowdown on Eminem's forthcoming blockbuster 8 Mile ...
Eminem: Taking Over Tinseltown
Report and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, February 2003
Is EMINEM the hip hop James Dean? ...
What's SO F***ing Great About Eminem?
Essay by Andy Gill, The Word, March 2003
The worst character traits imaginable assembled into violent, cautionary cartoons have produced the charismatic star of the moment, now further immortalised in an acclaimed movie. ...
Profile by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 20 June 2003
In the hood: Eminem is pulling out all the stops for his European tour ...
Live Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 23 June 2003
HE'S THE LEADING pop icon of his generation, the undisputed Elvis of his era, and for many of the 65,000 fans who attend his concert, ...
Guide by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 21 November 2003
EMINEM IS in trouble again, this time over lyrics he wrote a decade ago. The owners of the American hip-hop magazine The Source have outed ...
Can't Forget The Motor City: Detroit from Hitsville to 8 Mile
Book Excerpt by Nick Hasted, Omnibus Books, Summer 2003
The Dark Story of Eminem is the first book by Nick Hasted, whose work has previously appeared in The Independent, the Guardian and Uncut magazine. ...
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 13 May 2009
WHEN IT COMES TO Eminem, a lot of backstory probably isn't necessary. Especially in Detroit. But, really, that's pretty much true anywhere in the civilized ...
Eminem: Recovery (Aftermath Entertainment)
Review by Mike Diver, bbc.co.uk, June 2010
On his seventh album Eminem is more genuinely impassioned than he's sounded in years. ...
Eminem: Recovery (Aftermath/Interscope) ***
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 18 June 2010
PERHAPS Eminem's single most impressive achievement has been to shift hip-hop's focus from being primarily concerned with sociological issues, into the murkier realm of psychology. ...
Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 19 June 2010
AS DECLARATIONS OF INTENT go, there are few less stirring than Eminem's when asked last year why he had cut short his retirement with Relapse. ...
Eminem: Slim Shady's Rap-Sheet Of Relapse And Recovery
Profile by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 1 April 2011
Eminem soared from drug-filled poverty to adulation and notoriety, and then collapsed into gilded, narcotic, seclusion. But, after his latest comeback, his biographer Nick Hasted ...
Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Review by Mike Diver, Clash, 12 November 2013
RAP WOULD BE poorer without Eminem in it. His voice is a colourful, powerful, persuasive one – and his career achievements have undeniably brought a greater ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 15 December 2017
THE MAIN THING that sets Eminem apart from virtually all other rappers is the conflicted nature of his character. Where most wallow in wearyingly cliched ...
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