Chiming in late here. One piece of evidence I haven't seen anyone mention for the "play in reverse" or "Groundhog Day" interpretations is the digital album cover, which is animated. It shows Slim getting zipped up in a body bag, but then reverses and shows him getting unzipped from the body bag. Zip, unzip, zip, unzip. Point being, Marshall can kill Shady, but Shady will always come back.
However, because Eminem has layers, I think there's also a meta thing happening. I think the *real* message of the whole album is what you see 2/3 of the way through the Houdini video: Marshall and Slim Shady morphing into one person. If Slim is dead, it's only because the best parts of him have been incorporated into Marshall. Slim lives on as a part of the combined person.
Glen Whitman
2024-11-17 19:41:52 +0000 UTC
Knox hill Stevie knight and script work open my ears and eyes to rap music was always a country guy till I watch there channel and learn how to hear rap music
Gary Hislip
2024-07-21 21:13:19 +0000 UTC
On my millionth listen to this song and I just got the apple scheme at the start. Holy shit.
Jack JUMKA
2024-07-19 16:30:26 +0000 UTC
What shot is could be the times Marshall tried to kill Slim
Wesley
2024-07-19 15:54:22 +0000 UTC
at the end where he is appologising to all the people he has dissed he is doin it in marshalls voice and he sez this is my last hoorah this is the end. but it was slim that was dissing everyone so why would marshall say its his last hoorah? i bet that sslp2 is comin next year or a side b
Beef_Stu
2024-07-19 15:28:12 +0000 UTC
Ay Stevie, you should definitely put your bro on GC1 haha
Mahmic Dzenis
2024-07-19 13:47:49 +0000 UTC
There was so many good songs on the slim shady LP, and if we wouldn't have gotten the uproar that it got we wouldn't have gotten all the doubling down on the Marshall Mathers LP. I was a junior in high school when it came out and I had that bitch on repeat all the way through the summer because there was a lot of other albums that came out that year as well.
Jason Beaver
2024-07-19 13:41:04 +0000 UTC
this song needs a video for sure
Steven Murphy
2024-07-19 13:00:38 +0000 UTC
Eminem put a genius move if you ask me 😅 now people can't say they want to cancel him because then they would be proving him right. Instead, they say 'he's fighting with the wall, we don't care' which is even better because they've left the path clear for him to take off. He's free now
Nambitious
2024-07-19 06:17:55 +0000 UTC
maybe its 3rd time Em trying to kill Slim?
Gohar Zaqaryan
2024-07-19 05:02:21 +0000 UTC
Just ran across this article on fb, looks like you were mentioned!
https://southpawers.com/2024/07/16/eminem-the-death-of-slim-shady-rappers-reactions/
Pr0xy_5pid3r
2024-07-19 04:02:07 +0000 UTC
😈 It was all a dream 😴
GC 1 is flawless, but the 2 are not really comparable.
DGM
2024-07-19 02:03:02 +0000 UTC
Listen to the voice change at 12:50 on..
DGM
2024-07-19 01:58:19 +0000 UTC
Guys, where can I find the album reviews? Can't find them or maybe I do not how...
Agustín Reyes
2024-07-19 01:57:54 +0000 UTC
Gc1!!
alargetire
2024-07-19 01:53:54 +0000 UTC
In this song, it mentions having another dream, which means this is the 2nd dream and the 1st one is the brand new dance so I think it's not supposed to be in reverse.
Grapheen
2024-07-18 23:39:55 +0000 UTC
This one
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0-U7g64p4io
Grapheen
2024-07-18 23:19:38 +0000 UTC
I saw that freestyle years ago so I knew that bar immediately. It was just after he lost to juice I think and juice was in the booth next to him. Search it on YouTube it's hilarious. "But I'm more toward droppin an Acapella to chop a fella to mozzarella worse than a helicopter propeller"
Grapheen
2024-07-18 23:17:40 +0000 UTC
The backwards thing is one theory but think about this: if you play it on a loop, when it goes back to track one, em spits on shafts grave. Think about the trailer..slims hand came out of the grave. He’s living the events of the album on repeat. That’s why you hear him waking up to an alarm clock throughout and he told Paul he was waking up from his dream but felt like he was still stuck in the dream. It’s like groundhogs day and he keeps trying to kill shady but it keeps starting over and shady is back🤯
Jessee
2024-07-18 22:38:17 +0000 UTC
GC 1 goes hard as fuck lmao I completely forgot how crazy the original slim was
Articade
2024-07-18 22:15:21 +0000 UTC
Hell yeah, ¡ definitely caught that Greg with a wooden leg reference.. That was v¡ntage early sl¡m on a rad¡o stat¡on freestyle.
I bel¡eve ¡ f¡rst heard that bar off the The D¡ary of an Angry Blonde m¡xtape.
I love that sh¡t
Gen¡us Lee Evel
2024-07-18 22:04:54 +0000 UTC
“Which shot is this? 1st 2nd it’s your 3rd” I thought its reference to lose yourself, you only get 1 shot. 1st shot (opportunity) being the chance Dre gave him. 2nd opportunity (imo) is when he over dosed and survived now the 3rd shot with the death of slim shady and him trynna cancel himself. Might be a reach idk
Allmon Platon
2024-07-18 21:56:01 +0000 UTC
I feel like this is a bit of a ripoff of NF Intro 3. Who did it better? I prefer Intro 3.
harold harding
2024-07-18 21:45:34 +0000 UTC
I mean this one is definitely crazier but the new just sounds much better.
Sassano
2024-07-18 21:24:03 +0000 UTC
I don’t think you’re supposed to play backwards. I think it goes on a loop from beginning to end. In the beginning of the album Em spits on Slim Shady‘s grave, we see this in the teaser video right before the album dropped where Shady’s hand comes out of the grave at the last second. This also explains why we see Slim Shady, kill Eminem in the Tobey video because at that point in the album, he should be dead.
MikeBlaze
2024-07-18 20:55:08 +0000 UTC
I’m surprised Stevie didn’t mention Eminem squashing all the past beefs
Adonis Bahrami
2024-07-18 20:42:33 +0000 UTC
Peep the When I’m Gone beat at the end of the song 👀👀👀 (Eminem shot Slim Shady in the music video)
D D
2024-07-18 20:09:30 +0000 UTC
Slim shady was in hibernation until Hayley was grown and married so she didn’t have to face the aftermath of slims words Slim Shady writes the words Eminem just raps what Shady writes. If you’re a schizophrenic if you shoot Shady then Eminem dies. Like in Fight Club when Ed Norton played “”The Narrator” or Jack but Tyler Durden had to take control to create project mayhem because Jack was living a life of what Society says he’s should be not who he wanted to be. The “ toxic masculinity “of Tyler Durden, like Slim is more than just a charismatic leader - he represents the darker, more primal aspects of the main character's psyche and serves as a catalyst for his transformation. so basically fight club and Eminem was a catalyst for gender affirmation, toxic masculinity all the bullshit that you have going on right now and he’s trying to cancel it
Chris Sturgill
2024-07-18 20:04:11 +0000 UTC
It’s the same thing with Stan & Bad Guy. Bad Guy is a much more advanced and deeper song but Stan’s still the more popular & more iconic.
GC2 is Slim Vs Marshall and more serious and deeper song overall but GC is iconic.
Purav
2024-07-18 19:16:06 +0000 UTC
Hell yeah bro clean. Can’t wait for the reverse order breakdown. I have alot more proof now to back it up too. https://x.com/pecora_boy123/status/1813643279319318775?s=46&t=ECYDclXL1vLo8NY9nbgGHQ
Daniel
2024-07-18 19:05:46 +0000 UTC
I really hope he puts out a video for Guilty Conscience 2. Visuals would go crazy!
Kostia
2024-07-18 19:01:08 +0000 UTC
I definitely think 2 is better than 1 because there’s so much more substance to it and the schemes are a lot better. And the beat tbh, I just think it’s better. GC1 is great and a classic but it’s all for the sake of the character but GC2 is a deep dive into how we got here and why the character came about. Much more substance.
Jacob Weinreich
2024-07-18 18:56:51 +0000 UTC
Yes!!! I’m so glad you agree with me that the original is better 😂😂 ain’t no way ppl are really thinking 2 is better!!