Aaron Matthews doesn’t want to sit next to Carson Daly or Fred Durst. On his second go-around, Eminem wanted to get personal, balancing the Slim Shady persona with Marshall Mathers. Putting himself under the microscope, he weighs influence and impact, evaluating and manipulating his own image of the media. It established the template for the […]

Matthews On Mathers is a new feature where Aaron Matthews will reevaluate the Eminem discography within the context of Marshall’s current status as parent-approved pop star. We begin where it began for most people – Eminem’s first major label record. “My Name Is” hasn’t aged well, but it’s a good place to start. Eminem’s first […]

Simultaneously effective and everything I feared would happen, the first collaboration between the new Shady roster capitalizes on the crew’s strengths and exposes their weaknesses. First the good: these guys are good at rapping and their entire raison d’ etre is to let you know that they are GOOD AT RAPPING. Their worldviews were forged […]

I suppose I should have a Tumblr to post two sentence posts about arcane songs to flex how well I can dig. Google search is the new crate-digging. I learned that on Twitter. Today’s revelation is that “Low Down, Dirty,” from the Slim Shady EP is my favorite Eminem song ever. It’s not that obscure […]