BONUS EPISODE: The Dustbin #3 (clean version) - The Marshall Mathers LP

Join Jesse and special guest Holly Boson (@fireh9lly) for our Halloween mega-special, where we examine the scariest thing anyone could imagine in the year 2000: a 28-year-old white guy with a bad case of sassmouth! Is Eminem, despite still being one of the most popular musicians in the world, still essentially a Dustbin artist? Should The Marshall Mathers LP actually have been an LP? If you want to hear a rich white guy with a massive platform complaining about being cancelled, is this still technically the best possible way you can do that? Is Eminem, in his heart of hearts, a "fun dad Resistance lib"? Join us as we come to no particularly conclusive answers to any of this over a long, long period of time.  Content Warning: This is the clean version of the podcast — if Eminem has taught me anything, it's that that's the one you give away for free — so all cuss words have been replaced by audio elements from the Hanna-Barbara sound library, a bit I bitterly regretted committing to approximately two hours into the editing process. (Anyone who wants the uncensored version is welcome to venmo me $16.99 for a burned CD. Great for parties!) However, this is still The Marshall Mathers LP, so there will of course be discussions of violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, clown rap, homophobia, and miscellaneous other unpleasantries.  Critical/Commercial Stats: Then: • 2000 Album of the Year in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Face, Melody Maker, and Muzik • #3 in Spin, # 4 in the Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll, #5 in Uncut, #7 in NME, #8 in Select, #13 in Mojo • Grammy Nomination for Album of the Year, loses to Steely Dan's Two Against Nature. Wins Grammy for Best Rap Album, and Best Rap Solo Performance for "The Real Slim Shady" • #1 for eight weeks, ultimately sells 21 million copies worldwide Now: • Acclaimed Music has TMMLP at #3 for 2000 (Top 5: Kid A, Stankonia, TMMLP, Stories From The City, Since I Left You), #15 for the decade, and #192 all-time.  • It also has "Stan" as the #5 song of 2000, “The Real Slim Shady” at #12, “The Way I Am” at #34, and non-single “Kim” at #57.  • Eminem himself is the 104th ranked artist: rappers ahead of him are Outkast (#64), Public Enemy (#42), Jay-Z (#36), Kendrick Lamar (#32), and Kanye West (#13). • The biggest selling album act of the 00s, with sales of over 32 million. Has a current streak of nine consecutive albums debuting at #1. Footnote Links, in the order discussed in the show David Lee Roth's "Just a Gigolo" video https://youtu.be/lN-4lX0QyZc "Spite Marriage" from Mr. Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyiCXaTBE0 Paul Rosenberg's Blog http://bunyanchopshop.blogspot.com "In America; A Musical Betrayal" by Bob Herbert https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/29/opinion/in-america-a-musical-betrayal.html Ho! The Morally Questionable Cartoons of Ivan Brunetti (CW: everything) http://readallcomics.com/ho-the-morally-questionable-cartoons-of-ivan-brunetti-tpb/ "27 Styles of Rapping" by Mac Lethal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izgsppAKtjE Further Readings: "God Sent Me To Piss The World Off" - Ciara Moloney https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qH6CDy2Z4k3w34FzRMSwKaoy4OI7okH_pyUbNUQoqoc/edit "The Slim Shady Essay" - Robert Christgau, The Believer http://robertchristgau.com/xg/music/eminem-06.php "Eminem is Officially Boomer Rap" - Niloufar Haidari, Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxek89/eminem-is-officially-boomer-rap "The Sad and Lonely Life on an Eminem Fan in 2018" - Yannick LeJacq, The Outline https://bit.ly/3q95r3B