The teen-pop backlash—as helmed by such (occasionally) charming nü-metal goons as Korn and Limp Bizkit4—stretched from the late ’90s into the early 2000s, but nobody straddled the 20th and 21st centuries with more contemptuous gusto than Eminem. The Slim Shady LP—which introduced the wider world to the feral Detroit rapper otherwise known as Marshall Mathers, with a then-crucial cosign from rap god Dr. Dre himself—blew up in 1999 and ensured that we’d be dealing with this guy for the whole next millennium, as indeed we did, we have, we are, we will.
