Eminem first commanded the spotlight in 1999 with “My Name Is,” a track whose tongue-twisting irreverence still makes for the best introduction to the artist. If “My Name Is” established Eminem as the impish, unstable jester, the breakout single “Stan” brought a level of fame that threatened to overtake his persona, and his art. Few rappers had as much to say, and as many modes of talking, as Eminem and because his most compelling and challenging songs are album cuts, Curtain Call can’t completely reveal the breadth of the man’s career.
Nonetheless, this collection captures the essential qualities with which he carved his niche in the rap world and upturned the entire music industry. Eminem first commanded the spotlight in 1999 with “My Name Is,” a track whose tongue-twisting irreverence still makes for the best introduction to the artist. If “My Name Is” established Eminem as the impish, unstable jester, the breakout single “Stan” brought a level of fame that threatened to overtake his persona, and his art. Few rappers had as much to say, and as many modes of talking, as Eminem and because his most compelling and challenging songs are album cuts, Curtain Call can’t completely reveal the breadth of the man’s career. Nonetheless, this collection captures the essential qualities with which he carved his niche in the rap world and upturned the entire music industry. To call Eminem hip-hop's Elvis is correct to a degree, but it's largely inaccurate.
Certainly, Eminem was the first white rapper since the Beastie Boys to garner both sales and critical respect, but his impact exceeded this confining distinction. On sheer verbal skills, Eminem was one of the greatest MCs of his generation - rapid, fluid, dexterous, and unpredictable, as capable of pulling off long-form narrative as he was delivering a withering aside - and thanks to his mentor Dr. Dre, he had music to match: thick, muscular loops that evoked the terror and paranoia Em's music conjured. And, to be certain, a great deal of the controversy Eminem courted - and during the turn of the millennium, there was no greater pop cultural bogeyman than Marshall Mathers - came through in how his violent fantasias, often directed at his mother or his wife, intertwined with flights of absurdity that appealed to listeners too young to absorb the psychodramas Eminem explored on his hit albums, The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP. With hits 'My Name Is' and 'The Real Slim Shady,' he ruled the airwaves, but it wasn't long before some detractors acknowledged his depth, helped in part by singles like the mournful 'Stan,' written from the perspective of an obsessed fan. Eminem capitalized on this forward momentum by crossing over onto the big screen with 8 Mile, earning acclaim for his performance and an Oscar for the film's anthem 'Lose Yourself,' but a number of demons led him to shut down for the second half of the decade, an absence that proved life is indeed empty without Em, before he returned in 2009 with Relapse.
Born Marshall Mathers in the Kansas City suburb St. Joseph, Eminem spent his childhood between Missouri and Michigan, settling in Detroit by his teens. At the age of 14, he began rapping with a high-school friend, the two adopting the names 'Manix' and 'M&M,' which soon morphed into Eminem. Under this name, Mathers entered battle rapping, a struggle dramatized in the fictionalized 8 Mile. Initially, the predominantly African-American audience didn't embrace Eminem, but soon his skills gained him a reputation, and he was recruited to join several rap groups.
The first of these was the New Jacks, and after they disbanded, he joined Soul Intent, who released a single in 1995. This single also featured Proof, and the two rappers broke off on their own to form D-12, a six-member crew that functioned more as a Wu-Tang-styled collective than a regularly performing group. As he was struggling to establish his career, he and his girlfriend Kim had a daughter, Hailey, forcing him to spend less time rapping and more time providing for his family.
During this time, he assembled his first album, Infinite, which received some underground attention in 1996, not all of it positive. After its release, Eminem developed his Slim Shady alter ego, a persona that freed him to dig deep into his dark id, something he needed as he faced a number of personal upheavals, beginning with a bad split with Kim, which led him to move in with his mother and increase his use of drugs and alcohol, capped off with an unsuccessful suicide attempt. All this Sturm und Drang was channeled into The Slim Shady EP, which is where he first demonstrated many of the quirks that became his trademark, including his twitchy, nasal rhyming and disturbingly violent imagery. The Slim Shady EP opened many doors, the most notable of them being a contract with Interscope Records. After Eminem came in second at the 1997 Rap Olympics MC Battle in Los Angeles, Interscope head Jimmy Iovine sought out the rapper, giving the EP to Dr. Dre, who proved eager to work with Eminem.
They quickly cut Em's Interscope debut in the fall of 1998 - during which time Marshall reconciled with Kim and married her - and The Slim Shady LP appeared early in 1999, preceded by the single 'My Name Is.' Both were instant blockbusters and Eminem turned into a lightning rod for attention, earning praise and disdain for his violent, satirical fantasias. Eminem quickly followed The Slim Shady LP with The Marshall Mathers LP in the summer of 2000. By this point, there was little doubt that Eminem was one of the biggest stars in pop music: the album sold by the truckload, selling almost two million copies within the first two weeks of release, but Mathers felt compelled to tweak other celebrities, provoking pop stars in his lyrics, and Insane Clown Posse's entourage in person, providing endless fodder for tabloids.
This gossip blended with growing criticism about his violent and homophobic lyrics, and under this fire, he reunited his old crew, D-12, releasing an album in 2001, then touring with the group. During this furor, he had his biggest hit in the form of the moody ballad 'Stan.'
Performed at the Grammys as a duet with Elton John, thereby undercutting some accusations of homophobia, the song helped Eminem to cross over to a middlebrow audience, setting the stage for the ultimate crossover of 2001's 8 Mile. Directed by Curtis Hanson, best known as the Oscar-nominated director of L.A. Dex. Confidential, the gritty drama fictionalized Eminem's pre-fame Detroit days and earned considerable praise, culminating in one of his biggest hits with the theme 'Lose Yourself,' which won Mathers an Oscar. After all this, he retreated from the spotlight to record his third album, The Eminem Show. Preceded by the single 'Without Me,' the album turned into another huge hit, albeit not quite as strong as its predecessor, and there were some criticisms suggesting that Eminem wasn't expanding his horizons much. Encore, released late in 2004, did reach into more mature territory, notably on the anti-George W. Bush 'Mosh,' but most of the controversy generated by the album was for behind-the-scenes events: a bus crash followed by canceled dates and a stint in rehab.
Rumors of retirement flew, and the 2005 appearance of Curtain Call: The Hits did nothing to dampen them, nor did the turmoil of 2006, a year that saw Mathers re-marrying and divorcing Kim within a matter of four months, as well as the shooting death of Proof at a Detroit club. During all this, Em did some minor studio work, but soon he dropped off the radar completely, retreating to his Detroit home. He popped up here and there, most notably debuting the hip-hop channel Shade 45 for Sirius Satellite Radio in September 2008, but it wasn't until early 2009 that he mounted a comeback with Relapse, an album whose very title alluded to some of Mathers' struggles with prescription drugs, but it also announced that after an extended absence, Slim Shady was back. While not quite a blockbuster, the album went platinum, and Eminem followed it at the end of the year with an expanded version of Relapse (dubbed Relapse: Refill) that added outtakes and new recordings. Recovery, initially titled Relapse 2, was issued in June 2010. The album debuted on top of the Billboard 200 chart, where it remained for five consecutive weeks, while its leadoff single, 'Not Afraid,' debuted on top of the magazine's Hot 100 singles chart. The year 2010 also brought Eminem back together with Royce da 5'9' under the Bad Meets Evil moniker.
In turn, June 2011's Hell: The Sequel marked the release of their first EP as a duo and - barring the previous month's release of key EP track 'Fastlane' as a single - was their first batch of new material since a 1999 double A-side. After an intense period of recording, Eminem announced in August 2013 that his next solo album would be a nostalgically themed set of new material entitled The Marshall Mathers LP 2, which landed in early November. The album featured the singles 'Berzerk,' 'Rap God,' and 'Survival,' plus the chart-topping hit 'The Monster' with Rihanna.
In 2014, new tracks landed on the double-disc set Shady XV, which celebrated the Shady label's 15th birthday. The singles 'Phenomenal' and 'Kings Never Die' featuring Gwen Stefani arrived a year later, both taken from the Southpaw soundtrack. Eminem resurfaced in October 2017 with a freestyle anti-Trump rap. The track didn't appear on Revival, the December 2017 album that was filled with cameos, including appearances by Beyonce, Ed Sheeran, and P!nk. Stephen Thomas Erlewine.
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BORN October 17, 1972.
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Front sticker states: DELUXE EDITION W/BONUS 'STAN'S MIXTAPE' CD Feat. Collaborations with The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z and D12 Previously Unavailable on CD Album Features 3 New Tracks Including 'When I'm Gone' 844 Also with other sticker that states: Includes all the hits: Lose Yourself, Stan, My Name Is, Just Lose It, Without Me, The Real Slim Shady. And 3 exclusive new tracks including the new single When I'm Gone 9089084(11).
. ' Released: December 6, 2005. ' Released: January 3, 2006 Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating A− (7/10) (7/10) (8/10) Curtain Call: The Hits is the first by American rapper. It was released on December 6, 2005, under, and. The album collects Eminem's most popular, as well as four new songs, including a live version of ', featuring English singer and songwriter from the, plus new songs 'Fack', ' and ' featuring.
The album was certified seven times platinum in the and quadruple platinum in. It reached number one on several charts, including the UK and US Albums Chart.
Contents. Chart performance Curtain Call: The Hits debuted at number 1 on the and, after two sales days, in a similar fashion to Eminem's previous album. The album racked up first-week sales of nearly 441,000 and with close to 324,000 scans the second week for a two-week stay at number one.
It slipped from no. 4 in its third week but surged 33 percent to finish with sales close to 430,000.
The disc scored nearly 1.2 million scans in its first three weeks of release. It also gave Eminem his fifth straight number 1 album in the US and UK when including the. Curtain Call was certified triple-platinum by the in the United States.
As of November 2013, the record had sold 3,782,000 copies in the United States. The album's two singles, ' and ', peaked at numbers 8 and 6 respectively in the US. Only 'When I'm Gone' qualified for the charts in the UK, where it peaked at #4. In August 2017, the album was declared the longest-running rap LP in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. Clean version A clean version of the album is also available. It has 15 tracks with both 'Intro' and 'Fack' removed and ' put to track one.
The tracks appear exactly how they appeared on the clean versions of their respective albums except for the song ', which adds a chorus. Certain profanities remain on several tracks, as words including 'shit', 'bitch', and 'ass' were not censored on. However, on 'Just Lose It', the clean version leaves 'ass' uncensored, while on the album Encore, the word 'ass' was replaced with 'thing'.
Track listing Explicit version No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length 1. 'Intro (Curtain Call)' (skit, not included on censored version) (previously unreleased) 0:34 2. 'Fack' (not included on censored version) (previously unreleased), Steve King, Resto (add) 3:26 3. ' (from ) Mathers Eminem 4:50 4. ' (from ) Mathers, 4:27 5. ' (featuring ) (from The Marshall Mathers LP) Mathers, Paul Herman, Eminem (co) 6:46 6.
' (from ) Mathers, Resto Eminem, Bass (add) 5:26 7. ' (featuring ) (previously unreleased) Mathers, Resto, King, Eminem, Resto (add) 4:33 8. ' (from ), Mathers, Bass, Resto, King Eminem, Bass (co) 5:40 9. ' (from The Eminem Show) Mathers, Bass, Eminem, Bass (co), (add) 4:50 10. ' (from ) Mathers, Resto, Michael Jay Margules Eminem, Resto (add) 4:56 11.
' (from The Marshall Mathers LP) Mathers, Young, Dr. ' (from Encore) Mathers, Resto Eminem, Resto (add) 4:11 13.
' (featuring Dr. Dre) (from The Slim Shady LP) Mathers, Young Dr. Dre, Eminem 3:19 14. ' (from The Eminem Show) Mathers, Bass Eminem, Bass 4:57 15. ' (from Encore) Mathers, Young, Elizondo, Chris Pope Dr. Dre, Elizondo 4:09 16.
' (Outro) (previously unreleased) Eminem, Resto Eminem, Resto (add) 4:41 17. 'Stan (Live)' (featuring ) (previously unreleased version, bonus track) Mathers, Armstrong, Herman 6:20 Clean version No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length 1. 'My Name Is' Mathers Dr. 'The Way I Am' Mathers, Young Eminem 4:50 3. 'Stan' (featuring Dido) Mathers, Armstrong, Herman The 45 King, Eminem (co) 6:44 4. 'Lose Yourself' Mathers, Jeff Bass, Resto Eminem, Bass (add) 5:26 5.
'Shake That' (featuring Nate Dogg) (previously unreleased) Mathers, Resto, King, Hale Eminem, Resto (add) 4:33 6. 'Sing for the Moment' Tyler, Mathers, Bass, Resto, King Eminem, Bass (co) 5:40 7. 'Without Me' Mathers, Bell, Bass, McLaren, Dudley, Horn Eminem, Bass (co), DJ Head (add) 4:50 8. 'Like Toy Soldiers' Mathers, Resto, Dawson, Margules Eminem, Resto (add) 4:56 9.
'The Real Slim Shady' Mathers, Young, Elizondo, Coster Dr. 'Mockingbird' Mathers, Resto Eminem, Resto (add) 4:11 11. Release Dates. 'Guilty Conscience' (featuring Dr. Dre) Mathers, Young Dr.
Dre, Eminem 3:19 12. 'Cleanin' Out My Closet' Mathers, Bass Eminem, Bass 4:57 13. 'Just Lose It' Mathers, Young, Elizondo, Batson, Pope Dr. Dre, Elizondo 4:09 14. 'When I'm Gone' (Outro) (previously unreleased) Eminem, Resto Eminem, Resto (add) 4:41 15.
'Stan (Live)' (featuring Elton John) (previously unreleased version, bonus track) Mathers, Armstrong, Herman The Recording Academy 6:20 Stan's Mixtape: Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc No. Title Producer(s) Length 1. ' (remix)' ( featuring Eminem), & 4:59 2. Dre & Mel-Man 3:26 3. 'Kill You' Dr. Dre & Mel-Man 4:26 4. Eminem 5:29 5.
'Criminal' F.B.T & Eminem 5:14 6. 'Renegade' Eminem 5.07 7.
'Just Don’t Give a Fuck' Marky & Jeff Bass; add. Eminem 4:02 Personnel.
Jeff Bass – Bass, Guitar, Keyboards. Karin Catt – Photography. Larry Chatman – Project Coordinator.
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