Author: Sasha Manitou
The hip-hop legend is preparing to release his twelfth album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce). Its release is scheduled for the summer. Fans are arguing whether the release will be the last in the musician’s career. We tell you why they decided this and why it might be true.
Previously, Dr. hinted at the upcoming release of the album in an interview with Jimmy Kimell. Dre is the rapper’s longtime collaborator and producer. “We have songs together on the record, and it’s just fire! But even I haven’t heard the whole album yet – Marshall keeps everything secret. He’s cooking something special.”said the billionaire producer.
The official release trailer was released today. The video was shot in the style of popular true crime investigations. According to the plot, detectives are trying to find out who killed Slim Shady, Eminem’s disgraced alter ego, on whose behalf the most important tracks in the rapper’s career were written. And this detail gives fans pause for thought.
Slim Shady is a pseudonym invented by Eminem in 1996 while working on the album of the same name, The Slim Shady LP, which eventually brought him worldwide fame. At that time, the rapper, his wife Kim and daughter Hayley lived in a poor area of Detroit; Marshall himself was deeply depressed after the failure of his first album and abused alcohol. It was the image of the angry, tough and sarcastic Slim Shady, who was not afraid to say provocative things on the edge, that just pulled him and his family out of this hole and made the artist popular.
And now, apparently, Eminem is planning to kill his alter ego. Some fans believe that this means that the upcoming album will be the last in the musician’s discography. However, another option is quite possible: the rapper recently boasted on social networks of a special coin issued to him in honor of 16 years of absolute sobriety. The artist did not touch alcohol or drugs for exactly that long. And since Slim Shady as a character was born at the height of his addiction, it is quite possible that Marshall Metters is closing the old gestalt in this way.
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