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The Eminem Show
Studio album by Eminem
Released June 4, 2002
Recorded 2001–2002
Detroit, Michigan
(Encore Studios)
(Marshall Mathers's House)
(54 Sound Studio)
Genre Midwest hip hop, hardcore hip hop
Length 77:26
Label Aftermath, Interscope, Goliath, Shady, Web
Producer Dr. Dre (exec.)
Eminem, Jeff Bass, Mr. Porter
Eminem chronology
The Marshall Mathers LP
(2000)		 The Eminem Show
(2002)		 Straight from the Lab
(2003)
Singles from The Eminem Show
  1. "Without Me"
    Released: May 12, 2002
  2. "Cleanin' Out My Closet"
    Released: September 17, 2002
  3. "Superman"
    Released: 2003 (U.S. only)
  4. "Sing for the Moment"
    Released: February 25, 2003
  5. "Business"
    Released: July 22, 2003

The Eminem Show is the fourth studio album by Eminem, released in 2002.

The Eminem Show was the best-selling album of 2002. At the Grammy Awards of 2003 it was nominated for Album of the Year and became Eminem's third LP in four years to win the award for Best Rap Album. It has been certified 8× Platinum by the RIAA, with over 8.7 million copies sold in the U.S. and over 19 million albums worldwide.[1] In 2003, the album was ranked number 317 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The Eminem Show was Eminem's first album to be mainly self-produced, and was the first Eminem album to be released under Shady Records.

Contents

Release

 Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
PopMatters (mixed) [2]
Pitchfork Media (9.1/10) [3]
NME 10/10 stars [4]
HipHopDX 4.5/5 stars [5]
Allmusic 4/5 stars [6]
Slant Magazine 4/5 stars [7]
Entertainment Weekly (B+) [8]
Robert Christgau (A-) [9]
RapReviews 8/10 stars [10]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars [11]

The Eminem Show was first scheduled for a June 2002 release; however pirated and bootleg copies appeared online on peer-to-peer networks and began surfacing on the streets. Interscope decided to release the album early on May 28 to combat bootlegging. However, many stores in the U.S. began selling it early on Sunday May 26. Despite the confusion over the exact release date, the album still managed to have a wildly successful debut on the charts. The album sold 1.32 million copies in its first full week of sales. The Eminem Show was Eminem's most successful album in terms of charting singles. It spawned two top-ten and four top fifteen singles with "Without Me", "Cleanin' Out My Closet", "Sing For The Moment" and "Superman", which managed to reach the top ten without a video counterpart. "Business" was also released as an airplay single but did not chart as high as the others. "White America" was also a single off the controversial album. "Hailie's Song" was also an airplay single just like "White America" the music video can be found on Youtube.[12]

Content

Subject matter

The Eminem Show is a reflective album, featuring a more personal and serious side of Eminem. This change gives the album a lighter tone, a departure from the hardcore and controversial nature of his previous albums. One of the most noticeable changes was the big and lighter change of lyrics in the album. For example, in his previous album, The Marshall Mathers LP, a song of hatred is called "Kill You", and there is another one called "Kim", which is aimed at his ex-girlfriend/wife.Over the course of the album, he touches on the issues of race in hip hop ("White America"), his childhood ("Cleanin' Out My Closet"), the United States Government, army, and terrorism ("Square Dance"), his 2000 assault on a nightclub bouncer and his following conviction ("Soldier"), him coming to terms with fate and how he sold his soul to money, fortune and fame, realizing that fame isn't worth it ("Say Goodbye Hollywood"), his status as both a hip hop and pop superstar ("Sing for the Moment"), and his relationship with his ex-wife Kim and daughter Hailie ("Hailie's Song"). Also, the song ("Say What You Say") featuring Dr. Dre is a diss towards Jermaine Dupri. Unlike The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show's release came off without significant complaints about misogyny or homophobia. Also, no tracks are explicitly offensive or misogynistic in the mold of "Kill You" or "Kim" from the previous album. Some shock-oriented and extremely explicit lyrics are still present (for example, "Drips" was so explicit that it was completely removed in the clean version of the album – though it is still listed in the track listing and is instead four seconds of silence, before "Without Me" starts), but they are for the most part toned down. "Hailie's Song" censors "abort her" when he says "God, I'm a daddy, I'm so glad that her mom didn't abort her." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-dhvVwRdMo).[13] Also, in "White America", in Eminem's speech the word "flag" is backmasked when he says "To burn the flag and replace it with a parental advisory sticker". Q Magazine's May, 2006 review of the album proposes "His two first albums aired dirty laundry, then the world's most celebrated rapper examined life in the hall of mirrors he'd built for himself."

Censored version

The clean version of The Eminem Show was significantly censored, compared to his previous albums, in which the words "goddamn", "bitch", and "ass" were allowed. This album allowed no profanities, and the profanities were "muted" or even "back masked" a few times. Following this, the censored version even took out entire sentences because they were too sexually charged. In fact, the entire song "Drips" is removed in the clean version, due to thinking there were so many profanities that editing the song would be pointless.

Production

The album also saw Eminem take a substantially more predominant production role; most of it was self-produced, with longtime collaborator Jeff Bass co-producing several tracks (mainly the eventual singles). Dr. Dre, in addition to being the album's executive producer, produced three individual tracks: "Business", "Say What You Say", and "My Dad's Gone Crazy".

Track listing

Track Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Curtains Up" (skit)   Eminem 0:30
2. "White America"   M. Mathers, J. Bass, L. Resto, Steve King Eminem, J. Bass 5:24
3. "Business"   M. Mathers, A. Young, R. Feemster, M. Elizondo Dr. Dre 4:11
4. "Cleanin' Out My Closet"   M. Mathers, J. Bass Eminem, J. Bass 4:58
5. "Square Dance"   M. Mathers, J. Bass, L. Resto Eminem 5:24
6. "The Kiss" (skit) M. Mathers, J. Bass Eminem 1:16
7. "Soldier"   M. Mathers, L. Resto Eminem 3:46
8. "Say Goodbye Hollywood"   M. Mathers, M. Elizondo, L. Resto Eminem 4:33
9. "Drips" (featuring Obie Trice) M. Mathers, O. Trice, D. Porter, J. Bass Eminem 4:45
10. "Without Me"   M. Mathers, K. Bell, J. Bass, M. McLaren, A. Dudley, T. Horn Eminem, J. Bass 4:53
11. "Paul Rosenberg" (skit)     0:23
12. "Sing for the Moment"   S. Tyler, M. Mathers, J. Bass, L. Resto, S. King Eminem, J. Bass 5:40
13. "Superman" (featuring Dina Rae) M. Mathers, J. Bass, S. King Eminem, J. Bass 5:50
14. "Hailie's Song"   M. Mathers, L. Resto Eminem 5:21
15. "Steve Berman" (skit)     0:33
16. "When the Music Stops" (featuring D12) M. Mathers, O. Moore, D. Porter, V. Carlisle, R. Johnson, R. Feemster Eminem, D. Porter 4:29
17. "Say What You Say" (featuring Dr. Dre) M. Mathers, A. Young, R. Feemster, M. Elizondo Dr. Dre 5:09
18. "'Till I Collapse" (featuring Nate Dogg) M. Mathers, N. Hale, L. Resto Eminem 4:57
19. "My Dad's Gone Crazy" (featuring Hailie Jade) M. Mathers, A. Young, R. Feemster, M. Elizondo Dr. Dre 4:28
20. "Curtains Close" (skit)   Eminem 1:00

Samples

Critical reception

Initial critical response to The Eminem Show was very positive, It was viewed by many critics and fans as a growth in Eminem as an artist. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 75, based on 20 reviews.[14] The record became Eminem's third to win the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and also swept the MTV Music Video Awards, winning four awards for Best Male Video, Video of the Year, Best Direction, and Best Rap Video.

Charts and certification

Chart Provider(s) Peak
position		 Certification Sales/
shipments
U.S. Billboard 200[15] Billboard/RIAA 1 8× Platinum[16] 8,000,000
European Albums Chart[17] IFPI 1 4× Platinum[18] 4 million+
Argentinian Albums Chart CAPIF N/A Gold[19] 20,000+
Australian Albums Chart ARIA 1 8× Platinum[20] 560,000+
Austrian Albums Chart Media Control Europe 1 2× Platinum[21] 60,000+
Brazilian Albums Chart ABPD N/A Gold[22] 170,000+
Canadian Albums Chart[15] Nielsen SoundScan 1 Diamond[23] 1,000,000+
Dutch Albums Chart NVPI/Megacharts 1 Platinum[24] 70,000+
Finnish Albums Chart GLF 1 2× Platinum[25] 62,212
French Albums Chart[26] SNEP/IFOP 2 2× Platinum[26] 600,000+[26]
German Albums Chart Media Control 1 2× Platinum[27] 600,000+
Mexican Albums Chart[28] AMPROFON 3 Gold[29] 75,000+
Mexican International Chart Position[28] 1
New Zealand Albums Chart[30] RIANZ 1 9× Platinum[30] 135,000+
Norwegian Albums Chart VG Nett 1 Platinum[31] 30,000+
Swedish Albums Chart GLF 1 2× Platinum[32] 120,000+
Swiss Albums Chart Media Control 1 3× Platinum[33] 120,000+
UK Albums Chart[34] BPI/The Official UK Charts Company 1 4× Platinum[35] 1.2 million+

Other chart certifications

  • Hungary Album Charts – 2× Platinum (12,000+)
  • Italian Album Charts — 3× Platinum (300,000+)
  • Japanese Album Charts — Platinum (405,000)
  • Portuguese Album Charts — 2× Platinum (40,000+)
  • Korean Album Charts — 2× Ducks (2)
  • Ukraine (confirmed by Ukrainian Music Association) — Platinum (50, 000+)

Singles chart positions

Year Song Chart positions
Billboard Hot 100 UK Top 40 Hot Rap Singles Rhythmic Top 40 Top 40 Mainstream Top 40 Tracks
2002 "Without Me" 2 1 5 1 1 1
"My Dad's Gone Crazy" 115 - - - - -
"Cleanin' Out My Closet" 4 4 5 2 7 5
"Hailie's Song" 113 9 - - - -
2003 "Business" - 6 - - - -
"Superman" 15 - 10 5 10 9
"Sing for the Moment" 14 6 10 18 5 5

Trivia

  • In the skit "The Kiss", the song "Everybody's Looking at Me" by Eminem is playing on the radio. "Everybody's Looking at Me" was done originally for the The Wash soundtrack but didn't make the final cut.
  • In the skit "Steve Berman" the song "Ain't Nuttin' But Music" by D12 from Devil's Night is playing in the background.
  • In the song "White America" at the very end of the song Eminem laughs and says, "I'm just playin' America you know I love you." which is a blatant reference the previous album Marshall Mathers LP song "Kill You" when he says the exact same phrase except substituting the word 'America' for 'ladies' in which he assures the audience that he was not serious. On 2009's Relapse he says, at the end of My Mom, "Sorry mom... I still love you though".
  • The song "Stimulate" was originally slated to appear on the album, but was replaced by "Say Goodbye Hollywood".[citation needed] "Stimulate" eventually appeared as the B-side to the "Cleanin' Out My Closet" single.
  • It was Dr. Dre who convinced Eminem to include "Hailie's Song" on The Eminem Show. Dre played the song to two of his female friends and when they cried he was convinced that it should be added to Eminem's album. Eminem had originally planned on just keeping the track in a safe for Hailie to listen to when she grows up. He was embarrassed to have it released at first.
  • Many parts of "Square Dance" were written on the set of Eminem's movie 8 Mile.
  • The title, The Eminem Show, was created when Paul Rosenberg (Eminem's manager) told Eminem that his life was "like the fucking Jerry Springer show."
  • "Hailie's Song" was supposed to contain an interpolation from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by George Harrison, but George's widow retracted George's permission. Eminem had to redo the entire song. He then admitted that it was a good thing he didn't do it, and that he didn't want to "ruin a good song" by his "favorite member of The Beatles".
  • Hailie came up with the hook to "My Dad's Gone Crazy" while Eminem was mixing "Soldier"; Hailie was there playing and said "Somebody please help me".
  • The song 'Till I Collapse was used by UFC fighter C.B. Dollaway as his entrance song when he fought at the finale of The Ultimate Fighter 7.
  • The song 'Till I Collapse was used as the entrance song for Martin Kampmann at UFC 88
  • The song 'Till I Collapse was used as the entrance song for UFC fighter Nate Diaz at UFC 94
  • The song 'Till I Collapse has been used in commercials for the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
  • The song 'Till I Collapse was used as the closing song for the Oscar De La Hoya vs Manny Pacquiao 24/7 mini series.
  • A limited edition of the album includes a bonus DVD with concert footage, a music video, an episode of the Slim Shady Show, and a trailer for 8 Mile.
  • It was named the 25th greatest album of 2000's by Complex Magazine .[36]

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Preceded by
We Invented The Remix Vol. 1 by Various Artists
Nellyville by Nelly		 Billboard 200 number-one album
June 2, 2002 – July 6, 2002
September 1, 2002 – September 7, 2002		 Succeeded by
Nellyville by Nelly
Home by Dixie Chicks
Preceded by
Destination by Ronan Keating		 UK number one album
June 1, 2002 – June 7, 2002		 Succeeded by
Heathen Chemistry by Oasis
Preceded by
18 by Moby		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
June 3 – July 14, 2002
September 23–29, 2002		 Succeeded by
By the Way by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Eminem
Discography · Production discography · Awards and nominations
Studio albums
Compilations
8 Mile · The Singles · Curtain Call: The Hits · Eminem Presents: The Re-Up
Extended plays
Video albums
Tours
Filmography
Da Hip Hop Witch · Up in Smoke Tour · The Slim Shady Show · The Wash · 8 Mile · 50 Cent: The New Breed · Crank Yankers · Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony · Funny People · Shady Talez · Have Gun - Will Travel
Related articles: Shady Records · Shade 45  · D12
Eminem singles discography
The Slim Shady LP
The Marshall Mathers LP
The Eminem Show
8 Mile
Encore
Curtain Call: The Hits
Eminem Presents: The Re-Up
Relapse
Relapse: Refill
Collaborations
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"'97 Bonnie & Clyde" · "Role Model" · "Kim" · "Mosh" · "Insane"



Till I Collapse is a song by the controversial American rapper, Eminem from his 2002 album, The Eminem Show. The song also features Nate Dogg. Many remixes of this song have been produced, including verses from 50 Cent and Tupac Shakur. The song contains an uncredited sample of the popular Queen song, "We Will Rock You".

This song is known for its inspirational lyrics of the struggles of these rappers. It is its versatile beat that has allowed so many remixes to be produced effectively based on the song. The production is quite similar to Eminem's biggest hit, "Lose Yourself".

The marching style chanting at beginning of the song can also be heard at the end of "Soldier" and "Mosh", two other tracks on the album.

In the track, Eminem names his favorite rappers as follows in the song: "It goes Reggie, Jay-Z, 2Pac and Biggie. André from OutKast, Jada, Kurupt, Nas and then me".

Though not a single, 'Till I Collapse still has received much praise for its strong lyrics and inspirational beats. The song has come to symbolize Eminem's undying determination to be the best, shown in Nate Doggs lines, "Till the roof comes off/Till the lights go out/Till my legs give out/Can't shut my mouth/Till the smoke clears out/Am I high? Perhaps/I'ma rip this shit till my bones collapse/Till the roof comes off/Till the lights go out/Till my legs give out/Can't shut my mouth/Till the smoke clears out/and my high burn out/I'ma rip this shit till my bones collapse."








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