Eminem releases My Name Is

23 February 1999: Number 40 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop musicIf hip-hop is the black CNN, then Eminem's debut single was the manifesto for the so-called "white trash" of middle America. Marshall Mathers introduced his alter ego, Slim Shady, rapping about impregnating the Spice Girls. It was the sound of a delinquent with the same issues as his audience, and even after multimillion dollar success, he remained, as Snoop Dogg once said, the great white hope ...

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