Eminem invented Slim Shady alter ego as his music was ‘going nowhere’

Bang Showbiz | Los Angeles

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Eminem invented his Slim Shady alter ego as his music was “going nowhere”. The 51-year-old rapper – born Marshall Bruce Mathers III – soared to global fame with his 2000 hit ‘The Real Slim Shady’, and in a video titled ‘Slim Shady vs Marshall Mathers: The Face-Off’ to go with his cover story for Complex magazine, the musician reflected how his performing persona came about – before saying it pushed him into addiction.

He told a younger AI generated version of himself in the clip: “I invented you because my life was f***** up. My music was going nowhere and I was broke.” But he attacked his alter ego by declaring: “You didn’t fix anything. You made that s*** worse. “You’re the reason I had to self-medicate.

Because of you I almost lost my f****** career, my f****** family, my life. “Life’s been great since you’ve been gone.” Eminem, who has been clean and sober for years after his well-documented addiction battles, recently released his latest studio album ‘The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)’ and hours before it came out the rapper told fans on X: “Public service announcement: the ‘Death of Slim Shady’ is a conceptual album, therefore, if you listen to songs out of order they might not make s e n s e . Enjoy.”