Eminem From 1999 To 2000

ecorded from 1999 to 2000,[44] The Marshall Mathers LP was released in May 2000. It sold 1.
76
million copies in its first week, breaking US records held by Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle for fastest-
selling hip hop album and Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time for fastest-selling solo album.[45]
[46] The first single from the album, "The Real Slim Shady", was a success despite controversies
about Eminem's insults and dubious claims about celebrities (for example, that Christina Aguilera
had performed oral sex on Carson Daly and Fred Durst).[47] In his second single, "The Way I Am", he
reveals the pressure from his record company to top "My Name Is". Although Eminem parodied
shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the music video for "My Name Is", they are reportedly on good
terms; Manson is mentioned in "The Way I Am", appeared in its music video and has performed a
live remix of the song with Eminem.[48] In the third single, "Stan" (which samples Dido's "Thank
You"), Eminem tries to deal with his new fame, assuming the persona of a deranged fan who kills
himself and his pregnant girlfriend (mirroring "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" from The Slim Shady LP).[26] Q
called "Stan" the third-greatest rap song of all time,[49] and it was ranked tenth in a Top40-
Charts.com survey.[50] The song has since been ranked 296th on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest
Songs of All Time" list.[51] In July 2000, Eminem was the first white artist to appear on the cover of
The Source.[35] The Marshall Mathers LP was certified Diamond by the RIAA in March 2011 and sold
21 million copies worldwide.[52]
Eminem performed with Elton John at the 43rd Grammy Awards ceremony in 2001,[53] with the Gay
& Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD, an organization which considered Eminem's lyrics
homophobic) condemning John's decision to perform with Eminem.[54] Entertainment Weekly
placed the appearance on its end-of-decade "best-of" list: "It was the hug heard 'round the world.
Eminem, under fire for homophobic lyrics, shared the stage with a gay icon for a performance of
"Stan" that would have been memorable in any context."[55] On February 21, the day of the awards
ceremony, GLAAD held a protest outside the Staples Center (the ceremony's venue).[56] In 2001
Eminem appeared in the Up in Smoke Tour with rappers Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit and Ice
Cube[57] and the Family Values Tour with Limp Bizkit,[58] headlining the Anger Management Tour
with Papa Roach, Ludacris and Xzibit.
The Eminem Show was released in May 2002. It was another success, reaching number one on the
charts and selling over 1.332 million copies during its first full week.[39] The album's single, "Without
Me", denigrates boy bands, Limp Bizkit, Dick and Lynne Cheney, Moby and others. The Eminem
Show, certified Diamond by the RIAA, examines the effects of Eminem's rise to fame, his relationship
with his wife and daughter and his status in the hip hop community, addressing an assault charge
brought by a bouncer he saw kissing his wife in 2000. Although several tracks are clearly angry,
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic found The Eminem Show less inflammatory than The Marshall
Mathers LP.[59] L. Brent Bozell III, who had criticized The Marshall Mathers LP for misogynistic lyrics,
noted The Eminem Show's extensive use of obscenity and called Eminem "Eminef" for the
prevalence of the word "motherfucker" on the album.[60] The Eminem Show sold 27 million copies
worldwide[52] and was the best-selling album of 2002.
al hiatus
Eminem on the Anger Management Tour, 2003

In 2003, Eminem, a lifelong fan of Tupac,[61] provided production work for three tracks on the
Tupac Resurrection soundtrack.[62] He would follow this up the next year by producing 12 of the 16
tracks on Tupac's Loyal to the Game album.[62] On December 8, 2003, the United States Secret
Service said that it was "looking into" allegations that Eminem had threatened the President of the
United States.[63] The cause for concern was the lyrics of "We As Americans" ("Fuck money / I don't
rap for dead presidents / I'd rather see the president dead / It's never been said, but I set
precedents"), which was later released on a bonus CD with the deluxe edition of Encore.[64]
Encore, released in 2004, was another success. Its sales were partially driven by the first single, "Just
Lose It," which contained slurs directed toward Michael Jackson. On October 12, 2004, a week after
the release of "Just Lose It," Jackson phoned Steve Harvey's radio show to report his displeasure
with its video (which parodies Jackson's child molestation trial, plastic surgery and the 1984 incident
when Jackson's h

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