
Detroit and its makeshift battles: that is where Marshall Mathers forged Slim Shady, that peroxide-blond alter ego with the nasty laugh who would shake up rap as a whole! Spotted by Dr. Dre at the end of the 1990s, he released The Slim Shady LP in 1999, The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000 and then The Eminem Show in 2002, records where the darkest humor sits beside the rawest confessions. His technique remains his signature: a flow that speeds up to the point of breathlessness, internal rhymes stacked endlessly and a track like Stan that became a monument of the genre. Cinema got involved in 2002 with 8 Mile, where he plays Jimmy Smith Jr., known as B-Rabbit, with a mic as his only way out, and whose theme Lose Yourself became the first rap song to win an Oscar. The legacy can now be read on t-shirts, in the books that break down his lyrics and even in a POP figure that places the kid from Detroit right in the middle of the collections!
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