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Eminem’s ‘The Real Slim Shady’ Surpasses 1 Billion Views on YouTube

Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" music video has passed a billion views on YouTube. Get the details.

Eminem ‘s iconic “The Real Slim Shady” music video has joined YouTube’s Billion Views Club, a full 14 years after it was uploaded to the site and nearly a quarter-decade after the 2000 smash first dropped. Beginning with Em in a hospital gown in a mental health facility with comedian Kathy Griffin as one of the nurses, the video proceeds to show him terrorizing pedestrians in a red-and-yellow superhero suit, rapping in the center of a group of bleach-blond doppelgängers and serving up onion rings at a fast-food restaurant. Dre’s dead, he’s locked in my basement,” viewers watch as Em drinks from a milk carton with a “Missing” poster for the Death Row Records founder on the side.

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