Having claimed in his breakthrough single ‘My Name Is’ that, “My mom smokes more dope than I do”, she sued him for $10m for slander, eventually winning just $1,600 in 2001. Reason for diss: It’s safe to say that Eminem and his mother had a ‘difficult’ relationship. Then: 45 year-old mother of an angry Marshall Mathers, estranged from her son. So, 16 years on from the record’s release, who ended up winning out of the all the people he started lyrical beefs with? We take a look at the ultimate victors. Canadian author Robert Everett-Green summed it up best when he said: “Being offensive is Eminem’s job description.”Īs soon as the record was released, people scoured the lyrics to see who he’d attacked this time, and they found plenty of material. However, success had not mellowed the famously combustible rapper - and if anything, he was angrier than ever, taking pot-shots at everything and anyone, including the nature of fame itself. It sold staggering numbers - more than 1.76m copies in the US in the first week alone - with the album holding the title of fastest-selling studio album by a solo artist in US chart history all the way up until very recently, when Adele’s 25 took the crown. Back on, Eminem released his third album, The Marshall Mathers LP, and the follow-up to his breakthrough Slim Shady LP, which had seen him become a huge - and controversial - international star.
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