On July 12, 2024, Detroit’s famous rapper, Eminem, released his 12th studio album directly following the hit singles “Houdini” and “Tobey.” This concept album named “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)” is about Eminem’s alter ego, known as Slim Shady, coming back from the past to attempt to get Eminem canceled.
Almost every song on the album is centered around Eminem and Slim Shady’s fights as the artist shows his dual personalities. In “Guilty Conscience 2,” Eminem finishes off Slim Shady for good after a heated fight they have during the song.
The first “guilty conscience,” which was made in 2000, featuring various situations of people about to do a bad thing and then Dr. Dre (the angel) encourages the morally right while Eminem (the devil) preaches towards evil thing. The most popular song on the whole album is “Fuel,” which has almost 10 million views on YouTube and has a feature from JID, who created the hit song “Surround Sound.” This song was shortly followed by “Somebody Save Me,” which features Jelly Roll and Eminem talks about his problems with drugs, and what could have happened to him if he never decided to get clean.
On Sept. 13, 2024, Eminem released the expanded version of his album with three new tracks and features from 2 Chainz, Westside Boogie, and Grip.
As an Eminem fan myself, I love the new album. I love all the fighting with Slim Shady and all of the features, especially from Jelly Roll and JID. My favorite song on the album is Fuel followed by “Brand New Dance,” which was originally recorded in 2004 for Eminem’s album “Encore,” but he took it off the album, as the whole song was making fun of Christopher Reeves and he died right before the release of the album.
There have been many mixed reviews about this most recent release and some are even enraged about his message. The whole idea of the album is Slim Shady coming back from the dead to try and cancel Eminem, so as you can imagine, there were many things in the song that a good amount of people found offensive.
Slim Shady was constantly making comments about short and disabled people and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
This is the first album since 2004 where Eminem fans finally get to hear the elaborate songs and feelings they missed from Slim Shady. Even though the album seems ridiculous and insensitive on the outside, it really shows how Eminem has changed as a person and all of his personal growth.
