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• Eminem’s latest album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coupe de Grce), is the funeral rites for one of rap’s most popular and divisive characters.

  Slim Shady, the foul-mouthed alter-ego of Detroit’s most famous MC, was first seen by the masses in the video for “My Name Is,” the debut single from Em’s major label debut, The Slim Shady LP. With a slightly eerie but bemused grin, Slim Shady told kids to “stick nine-inch nails through one of my eyelids.” From there, the character went on to help Eminem, n Marshall Bruce Mathers III, sell millions of albums with an ingenious mix of up-to-the-minute cultural commentary, razor-sharp wit, and a fondness for boundary pushing.

  But as rap grew up, notes Billboard, Eminem has had to reckon with a changing listenershi