On 8 June, he was charged for allegedly brandishing a gun at Douglas Dail, a member of rap group Insane Clown Posse, in Detroit. In recent weeks Eminem's supposedly satirical take on gangsta rap has begun to seem less of a joke.
Their mother wasn't raped, I ate her pussy while she was asleep' 'My little sister's birthday, she'll remember meįor a gift I had 10 of my boys take her virginity The LA Times gushed: 'Eminem is simply exercising his creative impulses - putting on disc all the forbidden thoughts and scandalous scenarios that accompany adolescence and just watching the fallout.' By flipping his razor-sharp lyrics on himself, Eminem subverts the smirking superiority that plagues mainstream rap, a wily underdog move that lets him get away with more than he could otherwise.' He picks on himself almost as much as he does the people on his enemies list. On the release of the new album, Newsweek explained away Eminem's misogyny by noting with approval: 'Eminem arguably the most compelling figure in all of pop music. Such sales seemed to vindicate the opinions of US rock critics who, for the most part, have been wildly enthusiastic about the rapper's work. The album - featuring tales of rape, shootings, drug overdoses and throat-slittings - shifted 1.7 million units in only seven days, making it the fastest-selling rap album ever. When the first week's sales figures were released, few could dispute the Detroit rapper's arrival as a major-league player. Two weeks ago, US rapper Eminem's second album, The Marshall Mathers LP, soared to the top of the US charts.