The Eminem Show

The Eminem Show
Studio album by
Publication (s)	May 26, 2002
admission	2001-2002
Label (s)	Shady Records , Aftermath , Interscope
Format (s)	CD , LP , MC
Genre (s)	Hardcore rap
Title (number)	20th
running time	77:32
production	Dr. Dre ( Executive Producer ) Eminem Jeff Bass Denaun Porter
Studio (s)	Encore Studios 54 Sound Studio (Detroit) Eminem's House (Detroit) Sierra Sound Studio Larabee West Studio
chronology The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) The Eminem Show Encore (2004)
Single releases May 21, 2002 Without me September 17, 2002 Cleanin 'Out My Closet January 27, 2003 Superman February 25, 2003 Sing for the moment July 22, 2003 Business

The Eminem Show ( English for: " The Eminem Show ") is the fourth solo album by the American rapper Eminem . It was released on May 26, 2002 on the labels Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records and as the first own release on Eminem's label Shady Records . The album is regarded by many critics as one of the best rap albums of all time , alongside its predecessor The Marshall Mathers LP . For more than ten million copies sold, it was awarded a diamond record in the United States in 2011, making it one of the most commercially successful rap albums.

content

The main difference between the album and its predecessors is that the lyrics are no longer so aggressive. Although controversial topics such as races in hip-hop ( White America ), criticism of the US government and terrorism ( Square Dance ) and contempt for women ( Drips , Superman ) are dealt with, the move away from horrorcore rap and Eminems gives the album a boost serious and personal manner of presentation (the song Hailie's Song , for example, is dedicated to the love for his daughter) a slightly softer tone. There are also songs about Eminem's childhood and bad relationship with his mother ( Cleanin 'Out My Closet ), his status as a rap superstar ( Sing for the Moment , ' Till I Collapse ) and how he got his soul for money and fame had to sell ( Say Goodbye Hollywood ). The Track Soldier processes Eminem's attack on a bouncer in 2000 and his subsequent conviction. Without Me is a typical all-round blow to other celebrities (e.g. Moby , Elvis Presley , Limp Bizkit ), whereas Say What You Say specializes in Jermaine Dupri . The title Business describes the collaboration between Eminem and Dr. Dre and in When the Music Stops are criticized for failing to grasp the difference between music and real life when it comes to the role model role of rappers. The final song, My Dad's Gone Crazy, is full of irony and exaggeration.

Production and samples

The album is the first to be largely produced by Eminem himself. The beats for Square Dance , Soldier , Say Goodbye Hollywood , Drips , Superman , Hailie's Song and 'Till I Collapse are all his own. Dr. Dre was only responsible for the productions for the songs Business , Say What You Say and My Dad's Gone Crazy , although he acted as executive producer . Jeff Bass produced the beat for Cleanin 'Out My Closet with Eminem and co-produced Eminem on the songs White America , Without Me and Sing for the Moment . The D12 -member Denaun Porter assisted Eminem at the Beat to When The Music Stops .

Four songs contain elements from pieces by other artists. The song Without Me includes samples of Buffalo Gales by Malcolm McLaren , Its Gonna Be Such A Beautiful Day by The Moments and Rap Name by Obie Trice . In Sing for the Moment , the song Dream On is sampled by Aerosmith . Hailie's song features elements from While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles and 'Till I Collapse samples We Will Rock You by Queen .

Cover design

Cover of the album
Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

The album cover shows Eminem sitting on stage behind a half-open red curtain. In front of him is a microphone which is illuminated. The white lettering Eminem and The Eminem Show are in the upper part of the picture.

Guest Posts

Six songs on the album contain a guest contribution. Rapper Obie Trice , who was signed to Eminem's label Shady Records two years earlier , appears as a feature on Drips . The R&B singer Dina Rae , who was already featured on the rapper's first two solo albums on track 13, has a guest contribution here again in the same position ( Superman ). Eminem's rap crew D12 is involved in When the Music Stops . Eminem's mentor is also Dr. Dre represented on the Disstrack Say What You Say and rapper Nate Dogg contributed the refrain to 'Till I Collapse . The voice of Eminem's daughter Hailie Jade can be heard on the song My Dad's Gone Crazy . Eminem's friend Gary Kozlowski, his manager Paul Rosenberg and Steve Berman also play in various skits.

Track list

#	title	Guest Posts	producer	length
1	Curtains Up (intro)		Eminem	0:30
2	White America		Eminem and Jeff Bass (Co)	5:25
3	Business		Dr. Dre	4:12
4th	Cleanin 'Out My Closet		Eminem and Jeff Bass	4:58
5	Square dance		Eminem	5:24
6th	The Kiss (Skit)	Gary Kozlowski	Eminem	1:16
7th	Soldier		Eminem	3:46
8th	Say goodbye Hollywood		Eminem	4:33
9	Drips	Obie Trice	Eminem	4:46
10	Without me		Eminem and Jeff Bass (Co)	4:50
11	Paul Rosenberg (Skit)	Paul Rosenberg		0:23
12	Sing for the moment		Eminem and Jeff Bass (Co)	5:40
13	Superman	Dina Rae	Eminem	5:50
14th	Hailie's song		Eminem	5:21
15th	Steve Berman (Skit)	Steve Berman		0:33
16	When the music stops	D12	Eminem and Denaun Porter (Co)	4:29
17th	Say what you say	Dr. Dre	Dr. Dre	5:10
18th	'Till I Collapse	Nate Dogg	Eminem	4:58
19th	My Dad's Gone Crazy	Hailie Jade	Dr. Dre	4:27
20th	Curtains Close (Outro)			1:02

Individual songs

White America

→ Main article : White America

The track is very political and socially critical. Eminem raps about his influence on the youth of the United States and criticizes politicians who want to crack down on his music.

Business

→ Main article : Business

The piece focuses on the collaboration between Eminem and his mentor and frequent producer Dr. Dre .

Cleanin 'Out My Closet

→ Main article : Cleanin 'Out My Closet

The song is about Eminem's tough childhood, especially the bad relationship with his mother.

Without me

→ Main article : Without Me

The song is a - typical for Eminem - first single, on which he ridiculed many of his critics and exposed various celebrities in an ironic way.

Sing for the moment

→ Main article : Sing for the moment

This title is about, among other things, Eminem's status as a star and the controversy his music is causing.

Superman

→ Main article : Superman

In this track, Eminem scolds women who are only interested in his money and calls them sluts.

'Till I Collapse

→ Main article : 'Till I Collapse

The song is about Eminem's status as a rap superstar and his incentive to keep going and to go his own way, despite all the critics.

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Without me   DE 1 06/03/2002 (24 weeks)   AT 1 06/02/2002 (35 weeks)   CH 1 05/26/2002 (29 weeks)   UK 1 06/01/2002 (19 weeks)   US 2 06/29/2002 (20 weeks) Cleanin 'Out My Closet   DE 4th 07/10/2002 (16 weeks)   AT 5 10/06/2002 (22 weeks)   CH 5 10/06/2002 (25 weeks)   UK 4th 09/28/2002 (15 weeks)   US 4th 09/21/2002 (20 weeks) Superman   US 15th 03/15/2003 (16 weeks) Sing for the moment   DE 5 04/14/2003 (14 weeks)   AT 7th 04/13/2003 (18 weeks)   CH 8th 04/13/2003 (19 weeks)   UK 6th 03/15/2003 (11 weeks)   US 14th 05/10/2003 (18 weeks) Business   DE 15th 08/04/2003 (11 weeks)   AT 22nd 08/03/2003 (11 weeks)   UK 6th 07/19/2003 (13 weeks)

The album entered the German charts at number 1 in the 24th calendar week of 2002 and stayed there for two weeks before dropping to number 2. The Eminem Show then returned to the top position for a week and then took second and third place. Overall, the album stayed in the top 100 for 71 weeks, including 25 weeks in the top 10. Among other countries where The Eminem Show topped the charts, in addition to the USA, Austria, Switzerland and Great Britain, there are also Canada, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Italy, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. In France and Denmark, the album reached number 2. The album stayed in the US charts longest with 376 weeks, which, however, have 200 positions.

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	1 (71 weeks)	71
Austria (Ö3)	1 (68 weeks)	68
Switzerland (IFPI)	1 (74 weeks)	74
United Kingdom (OCC)	1 (77 weeks)	77
United States (Billboard)	1 (376 weeks)	376

Annual charts

Charts (2002)	placement
Annual charts (2002)
Germany (GfK)	6th
Austria (Ö3)	5
Switzerland (IFPI)	5
United Kingdom (OCC)	7th
United States (Billboard)	1
Worldwide	1

Charts (2003)	placement
Annual charts (2003)
Germany (GfK)	15th
Austria (Ö3)	21st
Switzerland (IFPI)	34
United Kingdom (OCC)	39
United States (Billboard)	14th

The five released singles were hardly less successful than the album itself. The first single Without Me was released a week before The Eminem Show was released. The song rose to number 3 in Germany and, after occupying the same place the following week, reached the top position in the charts for nine weeks. Overall, the song stayed in the top 100 for 24 weeks, 17 weeks of which in the top 10. Without Me received a platinum record in Germany for over 500,000 units sold , making it one of the rapper's most commercially successful singles. The two following singles Cleanin 'Out My Closet (DE # 4, 16 weeks) and Sing for the Moment (DE # 5, 14 weeks) also reached the top 10 of the German charts. The last single Business , which was released more than a year after the album, still reached number 15 and stayed in the German Top 100 for eleven weeks. The track Superman was only released as a single in the USA and was able to reach number 15 there as well stay in the top 100 for 16 weeks. An animated music video for the song White America was also released .

Sales figures and awards

The album sold 1,606,000 times in the United States in the first nine days. The Eminem Show is the artist's second most successful album after The Marshall Mathers LP , with sales of around 27 million units worldwide . Due to the high sales figures, the album received a. a triple platinum award in Germany for more than 900,000 sales . In the USA, The Eminem Show was awarded a diamond record in 2011 as the rapper's first album for over ten million copies sold .

At the 2003 Grammy Awards , The Eminem Show won the Rap Album of the Year award and was nominated in the main Album of the Year category. In addition, the music video for the single Without Me received the Grammy for best short music video . The music magazine Rolling Stone voted The Eminem Show at number 317 on its list of the " 500 best albums of all time " and at the end of 2009 at number 84 of the "best albums of the 21st century". In the charts for the last decade (2000–2009), The Eminem Show was ranked 31st in Germany and 3rd in the United States.

Overview:

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	platinum	40,000
Australia (ARIA)	10 × platinum	700,000
Belgium (BEA)	platinum	(30,000)
Brazil (PMB)	gold	50,000
Denmark (IFPI)	6 × platinum	(120,000)
Germany (BVMI)	3 × platinum	(900,000)
Europe (IFPI)	5 × platinum	5,000,000
Finland (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(62,212)
France (SNEP)	2 × platinum	(600,000)
Greece (IFPI)	platinum	(20,000)
Hong Kong (IFPI / HKRIA)	gold	7,500
Italy (FIMI)	gold	25,000
Canada (MC)	diamond	1,000,000
Mexico (AMPROFON)	gold	75,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	9 × platinum	135,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	platinum	(80,000)
Norway (IFPI)	platinum	(30,000)
Austria (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(40,000)
Poland (ZPAV)	gold	(50,000)
Portugal (AFP)	platinum	(20,000)
Sweden (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(80,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	3 × platinum	(120,000)
Spain (Promusicae)	platinum	(100,000)
Hungary (MAHASZ)	2 × platinum	(12,000)
United States (RIAA)	diamond	10,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	6 × platinum	(1,800,000)
All in all	5 × gold 59 × platinum 2 × diamond	17.007.500

Main article: Eminem / Music Sales Awards

Reviews

Professional reviews
Average rating
source	rating
Metacritic	75%
More reviews
source	rating
laut.de
plattentests.de
Rolling Stone
allmusic
RapReviews

The album received mostly positive reviews. The Metacritic site calculated an average of 75% from 20 reviews from English-language media.

• laut.de gave The Eminem Show four out of a possible five points. The record is described as completely successful with only a few weaker pieces:

“A performance that has a lot to offer. Fully loaded with twenty Eminem in all its facets: ironic, humorous, sarcastic, all-round dissenting, cursing, settling accounts with politics and one's own family past. The way is what you would expect from the bad boy: cheeky, bold, insulting, offensive and direct, Eminem in its purest form. [...] The album has a very large format in terms of production and versatility. Overall, the tracks are slow, with deep, booming, sometimes sluggish, hard hitting, almost threatening beats, which are hypnotic in places and provide a certain automatic nodding. "

- Excerpt from the review by laut.de.

• Die Zeit (issue 24/2002) describes the album as very provocative and describes Eminem as a verbal gunman:

“They are undoubtedly well done, these walks to the limit of pain. Evil is not as one-dimensional as it is with the recently often and often cited heavy metal band Slipknot, apart from baseball bats and horror masks, it knows suspense, refinement, know-how. When the curtain for the Eminem Show opens, children's laughter resounds like from the houses of a well-kept suburb, you know with the fearfulness of a cinema viewer that the idyll is about to be seriously disturbed. And when the staccato of the voices sets in, it has style as well as flow. In addition to the black traditions of rap, all processes of advanced text production can be demonstrated, from multi-perspective storytelling to the stream of consciousness. "

- Extract from the review by Zeit.de

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1. ↑ "The Eminem Show" on Shadyrecords.com
2. ↑ riaa.com: RIAA database
3. ↑ Explanations of "White America". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
4. ↑ Explanations of "Square Dance". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
5. ↑ Explanations of "Drips". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
6. ↑ Explanations to "Superman". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
7. ↑ Explanations for "Hailie's Song". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
8. ↑ Explanations for "Cleanin 'Out My Closet". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
9. ↑ Explanations for "Sing for the Moment". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
10. ↑ Explanations for "'Till I Collapse". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
11. ↑ Explanations for "Say Goodbye Hollywood". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
12. ↑ Explanations to "Soldier". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
13. ↑ Explanations for "Without Me". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
14. ↑ Explanations for "Say What You Say". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
15. ↑ Explanations of "Business". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
16. ↑ Explanations for "When the Music Stops". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
17. ↑ Explanations for "My Dad's Gone Crazy". On: genius.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012
18. ^ Lyrics in the booklet
19. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
20. ↑ Chart tracking The Eminem Show on officialcharts.de
21. ↑ international chart following The Eminem Show
22. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
23. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} 2002 annual charts: DE AT CH UK US WW
24. ↑ ^{a b c d e} annual charts 2003: DE AT CH UK US
25. ↑ Chart tracking Without Me at musicline.de ( memento of the original from December 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
26. ↑ ^{a b} IFPI : search result gold and platinum awards from Eminem
27. ↑ Singles from musicline.de ( Memento from June 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
28. ↑ Chart tracking Superman at billboard.com
29. ↑ US sales for the first two days
30. ↑ US sales for the first full week
31. ↑ Eminem album sales on statisticbrain.com, July 11, 2015, English. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
32. ↑ RIAA : Search Results Gold and Platinum Awards from Eminem
33. ^ Grammys 2003
34. ↑ 500 best albums of all time: # 317 The Eminem Show
35. ↑ 100 best albums 2000–2009: # 84 The Eminem Show
36. ↑ Charts of the decade DE # 31
37. ↑ Charts of the Decade US # 3
38. ↑ Rating: metacritic.com
39. ↑ Rating: laut.de
40. ↑ Evaluation: plattentests.de
41. ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone
42. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
43. ↑ Review: RapReviews.com
44. ↑ laut.de: Review of the sound carrier
45. ^ Zeit.de: Review of the sound carrier