Eminem was also struggling with the fact that his abusive mother tried to sue him for $10m over his use of a fictionalised version of her as the Evil Matriarch of Slim Shady's Hilariously Abusive Childhood on The Slim Shady LP - he responded by accusing her lawyer of being " just aggrivated I won't ejaculate in his ass", with the namedrop censored out due to being a terrible idea. A lot of the rest of the album is disgust about the Teen Pop celebrities he was now shoulder-to-shoulder with, as beyond his Pretty Boy looks and his videos' domination of TRL, he was a Hardcore Hip Hop artist with nothing in common with them. Much of the content on the album is Take That, Critics! as a result (down to namedropping Billboard writer Timothy White and beefing with XXL magazine) "Stan", a song about a Loony Fan who kills himself and his girlfriend after not getting a response to his fanmail to Slim Shady, is a love-hate letter to his own Fan Dumb, and "The Way I Am" is an Artist Disillusionment song he wrote in response to being forced to write a hit single that could compete with his Black Sheep Hit "My Name Is". The Marshall Mathers LP was written after Eminem had just become famous, and discovered that people were blaming him for the Columbine massacre and believing he condoned all of the shock content in his lyrics, while his fans believed exactly the same things but worshipped him for it.
He came up with the idea that "Rock Bottom" would be his suicide note, ate a huge quantity of Tylenol 3s, and then - fortunately - spent the rest of the evening vomiting them all back up due to his poor tolerance. Eminem had lost his job, broken up with Kim, had been evicted from his house because the housemate he'd been paying rent to had just been taking the money, and was broke, with a new baby he couldn't afford to care for, and just before Christmas/her first birthday. The song "Rock Bottom" (which appears on The Slim Shady LP), which describes Slim Shady forced to start killing people due to his humiliating poverty, is especially notable because it was written during a suicide attempt.The majority of the new songs on LP are comedy, like "My Name Is", "Role Model", "I'm Shady" and "As The World Turns". Dre by that time and was feeling more optimistic about his future. The Slim Shady LP, while continuing with the Self-Deprecation of the Slim Shady character and retaining most of the songs from EP, is lighter in tone than its predecessor because Eminem had been scouted by Dr. At first Eminem reassured his friends that it was just kayfabe and a way to get attention, but he soon became Lost in Character as other members of the hip-hop community started to treat him like he was Shady, giving him recreational drugs (previously he didn't even drink) and encouraging the violent results of his Hair-Trigger Temper. After being recruited to the Horrorcore group D12 by his best friend Proof and being told he had to come up with an illing alter-ego, Eminem came up with his Slim Shady character, and began rapping lyrics that were so shocking and disgusting that Proof cornered him after hearing his new act and begged him to tone it down, worried about his friend's mental health. He was broke, had just had a new baby, his relationship with his wife Kim had turned into a Destructive Romance, his debut album had flopped (partly because it was derivative and boringly wholesome partly because nobody wanted to buy music from a white rapper) and his house was getting constantly burgled. Slim Shady EP is the result of Creator Breakdown, which occurred soon after the failure of his noticeably milder and more optimistic debut LP, Infinite.Some fans and critics hold that his happier periods tend to produce uninteresting songs compared to when he has something to be angry about - but his most critically abhorred periods also came as a result of breakdowns. Eminem claims he uses his raps as therapy, airing his worst feelings and indulging in Muse Abuse that often perpetuates the hurt. Most of Eminem's career was caused by Creator Breakdown - his signature Slim Shady alter ego was created as a way to vent his rage as his life and mental health got worse.
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