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Eminem’s Most Exhausting Death of Slim Shady Lines, Ranked
He’s probably the last person who still thinks R. Kelly’s sex crimes are funny.
His latest album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), purports to put the persona to rest, but in practice it feels like he’s just digging him up again for one more chance to incite and shock us with his depraved thoughts. Even if Slim Shady is “just a character,” the rape jokes, fat shaming, transphobia, and politically incorrect screeds don’t hit like they used to — and for many, they clearly never did — leaving Em looking less like an edgy provocateur and more like Steve Buscemi with a skateboard and a Music Band t-shirt. In perhaps the most shocking revelation in a career defined by them, he apparently thought releasing this wheelchair dance number — featuring a neighing horse for good measure — shortly after Reeve’s death would have been in poor taste.
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