As promised, Eminem has delivered an expanded edition of The Eminem Show to commemorate the Billboard juggernaut’s 20th anniversary. Slim Shady made the announcement via Twitter, using lyrics from the song “Till I Collapse” featuring the late King of Hooks Nate Dogg.
“‘Til I collapse I’m spillin’ these raps/long as you feel ’em’ 20 YEARS since #TheEminemShow!!!” the caption reads. “Expanded Edition out now.”
The project boasts 18 bonus tracks, including four previously unreleased cuts — “Stimulate,” “The Conspiracy Freestyle,” “Bump Heads” and “Jimmy, Brian and Mike” — as well as instrumentals of “Without Me,” “Sing for the Moment” and “Cleanin’ Out My Closet” and live versions of the Marshall Mathers LP tracks “The Way I Am” and “The Real Slim Shady.”
“Bump Heads,” in particular, served as a Ja Rule diss at the time with features from his famous foe 50 Cent and fellow G-Unit rappers Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks.
“But this motherfucker Ja must have lost his mind,” Eminem raps. “That X, got him thinkin’ he was DMX/Then he switched to Pac, now he’s tryna be him next/So which one are you? X, Luther, Pac or Michael?/Just keep singin’ the same song, recycled.”
Yayo adds, “Ja, you Stuart Little, shells’ll lift you/Every other week I’m buyin’ a new pistol/I clap at your ass with this chrome .38/And put six thru your hats, a seven and 3/8’s.”
The Eminem Show sold over 284,000 copies on its first day, instantly becoming the biggest selling album of 2002. Now with over 27 million sold, it’s one of the best-selling albums of all time and second best-selling album of the 21st century.
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At the 2003 Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Rap Album, while “Without Me” won Best Music Video. The album also remained at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for six consecutive weeks and sold 1.2 million copies in its second week.
Yayo went off on that Bump Heads joint. Sounds like a lot of heat on deluxe edition
Yayo is harder than 99.9 percent of all these new generation rappers.
You know and I know who took ya chain,
You got robbed two times so ya ass is lame!
That song is old, why did Eminem pick the version with the Dj on.
ITS A GREEN LANTERN EXCLUSIVE. SOUNDS GOOD AS IS TBH.
I know but there is version without the DJ screaming and destroying the song and better quality!
Them Ja Rule diss’s are corny. None of them no real street dudes. Diddy’s got beat up, knifed up, and turned informant. When the Game and G Unit beef them niggas took off running. Fiddy was scared to death of Supreme. And he tossing up his mama and dont know today who is father keep it real…
bump heads has been out anyone who hasn’t heard it wasn’t listening to rap in 2002-2003
I meant to say Fiddy got beat up, knifed up and turned informant. (Android changed that) Everybody seen the paperwork. But Hollywood full of weirdo’s and snitches anyway. Em been signed to Dre his whole career. You telling me he cant stand up and be his own man? Even Kendrick knew when it was time to step off and so his own thing. But he in his 50’s he ain’t that much longer. Got all them grey’s and keep dying his hair trying to look young.
Because hip hop heads and fans in general are gatekeeping racists so Em needs his co-sign to keep them losers somewhat silent. Em can’t take a step near the lines or he will get pushed out. He wanted to be engrained in hip hop for whatever reason and sticking with Dre helped that. If he didn’t love hip hop he would have gone out on his own and explored other creative outlets.
Plus if it ain’t broke…
No not racist, I think its just a Black Genre like Country music is a white Genre. Rock N Roll doesnt have a black person with a afro. Thats just how the game is. Em is just the token white boy in Hip Hop nothing more.
Rock and roll has Lenny Kravitz and he rocks a from there buddy
lol…
u’re ignorant… Do u know Chuck Berry or Jimmy Hendrix ?
lol… u’re ignorant… Do u know Chuck Berry or Jimmy Hendrix ?
Actually, Kendrick isn’t stepping off and doing his own thing. You’re just ignorant and don’t know the contracts. His contracts when he signed with aftermath, a decade plus ago, stated after 2 albums that were shared between TDE and Aftermath, he would become solely Aftermath. Meaning, he’s pretty much signed directly with Dre now.
Why does everyone think mmlp was better than this. People only fuck with that because it was so controversial. Eminem show mad growth and better lyricism and had the retrospect songs all over it. Til I collapse too nuf said
Because the growth in serious subject matter and how it was executed (Way I Am, Stan, Kim, Marshall Mathers etc) was extremely impressive. Dude flipped his whole style between his first 2 albums whereas the third was more an extension of MMLP but more political and less shocking.
Yea mmlp seems like it was that moment. As a younger Eminem fan (25) I wasn’t around for its release, but Mmlp just feels like Em is just shocking everybody with his lyrics, his skill and his subject matter. The Eminem Show is a bit more refined, and boasts lots of production from himself. It feels like the Eminem Show is kind of the victory lap to MMLP. But I may be inclined to agree, these albums are very very close.
I can still listen to Ja Rule’s timeless music to this day. I stopped listening and Eminem at the beginning of high school. lol
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I actually agree. Eminems classics run circles around Rule talent wise. But I’d rather hear a Ja Rule song than an eminem song 95% of the time.
They should’ve updated the jarule dis track with some fresh 2022 bars
Stimulate was released on two disc 8 Mile album edition
Yea but the editors only use Spotify -.-
Another scam so they can add to the total amount of sales for this mediocre record
The Eminem show has sold 27000000 worldwide since 2002. Did like almost 4 million in 2 weeks. New records will do like 100-250k first week in 2022. A re-release is not cracking 100k, probably more like 25k – 50k. You think that they are re-releasing this as a scheme to boost his record sales by 0.09%? That is a hot take indeed. Btw, it’s because it’s been 20 years since it’s release, it’s the second highest grossing album of this century, and it’s to sell merch you goof lol every artist does this most don’t have 20 year old classics to do it with.
Its a money grab. He re-releases all his albums for sales. Its not rocket science.
I remember when G-Unit tossed that junkie from Rick Ross’s label like a rag doll. Wack rapper probably still got whiplash from when the unit rolled him.
Those 4 “unreleased” tracks aren’t new. Does anyone running this site actually listen to rap or at least do a little research?
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Right? Plus also the one track that actually has new vocals recorded for it gets zero mention. I guess Eminem’s gotta get bigger to receive proper coverage -.-
Factsss!!! Ja Rule had the charts on lock. Nobody NEVERRR was bumping Eminem in the hood WE ALL KNOW THIS.
Eminem just white and had Dre so he’s favored more but ja was killing shit took d12 g unit like 30 guys fussing him at once against 1 only ja rule I take ja rule over ‘‘em any day
Eminem just white and had Dre so he’s favored more but ja was killing shit took d12 g unit like 30 guys fussing him at once against 1 only ja rule I take ja rule over ‘‘em any day
Ja rule vs 30 guys lol I pick ja any day