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...lose millions of dollars to bootleggers, but his rant obscures the fact that as a performer, he's actually maturing. The Eminem Show has offensive and profane lyrics, but it's also a significant work of pop culture. If it comes up a bit short of being a great rap album, it leaves no doubt that Eminem is a great rapper...
...Mathers LP--stemmed from his now infamous lyrics threatening to kill his wife and his mother and expressing his rampant homophobia. Charged with being a bad human and a toxic influence, Eminem pleaded not guilty by reason of artistic integrity. He was a guy named Marshall Mathers with a rap alter ego named Eminem, and that alter ego happened to have a lunatic doppelganger of its own named Slim Shady. He was merely playing a role (or three...
...Eminem Show's first single, Without Me, is a Slim song that starts, "I've created a monster/ 'Cause nobody wants to see Marshall no more/ They want Shady/ I'm chopped liver." Once summoned, Shady delivers the funniest diatribe in recent rap history. Over an upbeat snare reminiscent of Billie Jean and a woolly sax torn from the Coasters' playbook, Shady sums up his appeal: "Little hellions/ Kids feeling rebellious/ Embarrassed their parents still listen to Elvis/ They start feeling like prisoners, helpless." He says this at top speed with the clarity of Henry Higgins, over music that makes...
Those who actually listen to rap know that it's rarely as nihilistic as the moral gatekeepers claim. On The Eminem Show, there's less offensive material than on his previous two albums, but Eminem still disrespects men by calling them "fags," and women are unfailingly "bitches." Of course, Eminem would argue that these are the thoughts of his characters and that he's entitled to his artistic point of view. The Eminem Show makes it a lot easier to believe...
Instead, The Hamptons (June 2 and 3, 9 p.m. E.T.) is a sweeping, empathetic picture of the people who crowd this getaway every summer. Yes, there's plenty of name-dropping: Alec Baldwin, Billy Joel, Kristin Davis, Christie Brinkley and rap mogul Russell Simmons. But there are also young professionals partying in 30-person share houses, immigrant waitresses and the cops, clammers and gas pumpers who live there year round...