Alarmingly, it was a commercial triumph, charting as a UK Number 8 and greasing his transition into full-blown psychosis with follow-up single ‘Stan’. ‘The Way I Am’ destroys a diabolical beat with headfuck flows that tear up the media, the industry and even his fans in a scorched-earth frenzy. When Interscope begged Mathers for a fun, ‘My Name Is’-like track for ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’, they got something entirely more exciting. Particularly ferocious, the final verse reels off the traumas of his pockmarked childhood, culminating in hysterics as he yells that “I fucking hope you burn in hell for this shit”. After Mathers’ mum sued for his claim, on ‘My Name Is’, that “my mom does more dope than I do”, he penned this devastating account of growing up around her drug use.
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