Oct 31, 2024The long-awaited expanded Death of Slim that Eminem should have released is finally here, so you can all stop bugging me about it now. This is the definitive edition of the album and it replaces the original so if you don't like it that's too bad, because you are being forced to listen to it. And it goes without saying that if you disagree with any changes I've made, you're an idiot.
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This is my modified version of Eminem's latest album, retouched and rearranged to my personal taste. I have scrapped several songs and introduced many others, including only 1) songs I consider "modern Eminem" (2013–), 2) songs or parts of songs I like with no attempt at being "objective", and 3) songs that fit the theme and vibe of the album. I have modified almost every track, and retitled those which as a result have lost any relation or relevance to their original titles to better suit the content. "Head Honcho" without the Ez Mil hook, for example, is now "Dirty Laundry" since you might say Eminem airs out his dirty laundry at the start of the verse and later uses the phrase (which I have overlain with a sample from "s--- Can Happen" to give it more prominence). As much as possible I have tried to make the album still feel like an album, meaning a cohesive body of work and not just a playlist of my favorite songs. To this end I've modified and ordered certain tracks very deliberately, so that they seem to be referencing each other, some very obviously and others more subtly. Some tracks like "Villain" ("a------" retitled) pick up on and further develop an idea that gets raised in the previous track (towards the end of "Venom"). The basic "death of Slim Shady" narrative has survived but shouldn't be taken too literally since "Slim Shady" appears again in a skit even after his apparent death in "Guilty Conscience 2" (although I would have preferred for the skit to come earlier there is no way to do it without spoiling the album's flow). This apparent plot hole isn't new though since on the original album "Marshall Mathers" seems to live on after the murder-suicide. Thus it's not so much a narrative to be taken literally as a metaphor. This comes through clearly in my version as well in the tracks "Nightmare" ("Marshall is dead in the water") and "Guts" ("The legend of the angry blonde lives on through you when I'm gone").
Scrapped songs: Brand New Dance (reused the bridge), Road Rage (reused the interlude skit), Temporary, Tobey (reused the intro), Somebody Save Me
Added: Tone Deaf, Walkthrough (retitled "The Cross"), Fall, Doomsday Pt. 2 (retitled "Murders in the Em Morgue"), Murdergram, Venom, Baby, The Ringer, b---, Guns Blazing, Rainy Days (retitled "Nightmare"), Chloraseptic remix ("Bin Laden"), a------ (retitled "Villain"), Believe, Guts ("Guts Over Fear")
Renaissance
Habits
Trouble
Evil
All You Got (skit)
The Cross
Lucifer
Antichrist
Fuel
Fall
Baby
Murders in the Em Morgue
Murdergram
Houdini
Breaking News (skit)
Guilty Conscience 2
Steve Berman (skit)
b---
Dirty Laundry
Bad One
Guns Blazing
The Ringer
Nightmare
Bin Laden
Venom
Villain
Believe
Guts Over Fear
Curtains Close (skit)
Renaissance - • added the Tobey outro and • extended the song with most of the I Will verse (used the rest for Fall)
Habits - • added the bridge to the end, • replaced the background vocals "I'm sorry" and "what?" in the third verse with samples from "My Fault"
Trouble - • added the bridge from "Brand New Dance", • removed the last few lines and repurposed them in "Guilty Conscience 2"
Tone Deaf - • cut out the "ornana" line and • monotone flow in the third verse
Evil - • added the first half of "Evil Twin"'s second verse at the end of the third verse
The Cross [Walkthrough] - • cut out Grip, • added Kyrie & Luka "freestyle" at the end • added relevant snippet from the song "Devil's Night" to the start
Lucifer - • added parts of the Kyrie & Luka verse in the middle and at the end of the song, • removed Sly Pyper's hook, • removed fart noises from Eminem's pre-hook, • removed Candace Owens rant, • added sample from "These Drugs" to the beginning
Antichrist - • "Cassie" line uncut, • added "the devil came to Michigan" to all instances of the hook, • replaced MMLP2-era "Antichrist" snippet with one of the leaked '05 version snippets, • removed "get it?" after the Cosby line, • removed the "ew" in the second verse, • shortened the "brrt" in the first verse, • removed Bizarre's verse
Fuel - • added "Antichrist" intro/transition • added Eminem's verse from the remix and used the beat and intro from Westside Boogie's verse, • added relevant samples from the "Chloraseptic" remix and "Believe" • removed JID
Fall - • Tyler the Creator diss uncut, • added "I Will" snippet before the third verse ,• relevant 2001 interview snippet in the outro, • and "Kyrie & Luka" sample at the end of the song
Baby - • added album trailer as an intro, • cleaned up potty humor
Murders in the Em Morgue [Doomsday Pt. 2 - "Shady Edition" by MoreLuggen] - • added new "I Will" intro and added a sample from the clean version of Role Model to the end
Murdergram - • cut Eminem's last verse short
Houdini - • added relevant samples from "Under the Influence", "Without Me", and "3 a.m.", • amplified "Poof!" in the hook, • added 2000 Eminem's reaction to 2024 from the MV to the beginning
Guilty Conscience 2 - • extended with "Trouble" and samples from "My Darling" and the SSEP intro
b--- - • cut out Conway the Machine, • added new "Antichrist" intro, • added part of the leaked original verse, • shortened the beat switch part, • added sample from "Untouchable" at the end
Dirty Laundry [Head Honcho] - • cut out Ez Mil, • added "Untouchable" intro, • added sample from "s--- Can Happen", • removed background "ew", • put Eminem's vocals from the removed hook at the end of the song and • added new reversed intro sound ending
Bad One - • removed Candace Owens line, • replaced the staccato flow in the third verse with the Road Rage interlude skit, • replaced background "sorry" with the slurping sound from "The Real Slim Shady"
Guns Blazing - • added "From the D 2 the LBC" intro
The Ringer - • abridged by almost two minutes • removed the plane crash sound and repurposed it for "Bin Laden" and "Nightmare"
Nightmare [Rainy Days] - • cut out Westside Boogie, • added sfx from the SSEP intro • added plane crash sound at the end which bleeds a few seconds into the next track
Bin Laden [Chloraseptic remix] - • cut out Phresher • added new "Venom" ending
Venom - • hook only repeats at the end of the song
Villain [a------] - • first verse only, ending segues into next track
Curtains Close [Guess Who's Back] (skit) - • replaced the Tobey fadeout at the beginning with the first few seconds of the TES Ken Kaniff skit
Cover source:
https://www.inprnt.com/discover/image/illustrationalofficial/eminem-the-death-of-slim-shady-comic
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