Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace)

Available in 2 Cover Variants                                                                                                       on 2xLPs (one red and one blue) Eminem's journey to the top would have been a different story without Slim Shady, the exaggerated persona he passed the mike to when it was time to fire off his most offensive and attention-grabbing lyrics. Crass and problematic but rarely serious, the Slim Shady character provided a needed foil to the often-tortured Marshall Mathers, and was the star of many of Eminem's earliest hits. He returns on concept album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), in which the two sides of the rapper's personality face off in a fight to the end. Returning from the early 2000s to 2024 with a lot of the same jokes, references, and tired points of view, Slim spends the front half of the album spewing as much seemingly random verbal menace as possible, aiming loosely at cancel culture, Gen Z, pronoun usage, and wokeism. Still an undeniably