

(Most recently, he was on hand as his daughter Hailie won homecoming queen at her high school this year.) How she turned out to be even close to well-adjusted is unclear, growing up in a household where inter-bedroom death threats were the norm.

Key Lines: “Oh where’s mama? She’s taking a little nap in the trunk / Oh that smell? Da-da musta runned over a skunk”īy all reports, Eminem’s a good father. “’97 Bonnie and Clyde,” The Slim Shady LP, First Verse (1999) (Or, more pointedly, an American hero – he brazenly starts his song off by mocking Jim Brady, Ronald Reagan’s aide who was shot and paralyzed in a 1981 assassination attempt, thereby putting truth to the title.)ġ8. In another life, Eminem could’ve been a stand-up comedian, the kind that peers over the edge of the stage and makes fun of your shirt.

Key Lines: “You wacker than the motherfucker you bit your style from / You ain’t gonna sell two copies if you press a double album” “Just Don’t Give a Fuck,” The Slim Shady LP, First Verse (1997) This is Kill Bill–style wordplay, painting with blood spatter.ġ9.
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This guest appearance on Minaj’s debut album proves there’s no doubt Eminem knows how to hold a knife and swing a sword. Key Lines: “Twisted-ass mind, got a pretzel for a brain / An eraser for a head, fucking pencil for a frame” Eminem)” Pink Friday, Second Verse (2010) (Surprisingly, there are a few that end with inspirational messages, if you can believe it.) Here are his top 20 verses: the ones that shocked, the ones that awed, the ones that knocked us out and held us in the trunk.Ģ0. And yes, the man can tell a helluva story - though so many of them end the same way: murder. It’s fairly obvious why: On a technical level, the guy is a master of the dictionary and twists internal rhymes like a game of Tetris. At this very moment, all eight of Eminem’s albums, including his latest, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, are sitting on the Billboard 200 chart, leaving 192 slots for everyone else.
