coup de grace or stroke of brilliance?

Eminem again… but with a title which suggests a new disappearance, the album which will be released in the summer of 2024 has the title The Death of Slim Shady, Coup de Grace.
Marshall Mathers aka Eminem ready to kill his evil alter ego Slim Shady. Kill the character or retire? That is the question…

HAS “coup de grace“Charline Roux would add”flash of brilliance“, and this is obviously not his first. For example with Rap God in 2013, or the art of stating 1560 words in a title of six minutes and four seconds. Eminem enters the Guinness Book of Records. During the last hard part, the performance is six words per second…

Another register, another feat, of writing this time. The kind of title that gives you the thrill every time, an anxiety-provoking correspondence between the artist and a fan, in 2000 Eminem reveals Stan.

Spoiler: the story doesn’t end well… I still remember the state of astonishment into which the clip plunged me at the time. A sample and the participation of the British Dido for Stan, the contraction of stalker and fan, the word entered the Oxford American Dictionary in 2017.

In 2002, Eminem starred in the film 8 Mile by Curtis Hanson, a semi-autobiographical feature film. He obviously signs the soundtrack, and Lose yourself earned him two Grammy Awards and an Oscar, the first awarded to a rap song.

“Hi! My name is what? My name is who? Slim Shady”

After presenting himself like this 25 years ago, with his first big success, Eminem seems determined to bury Slim Shady with his new album from which his new title is taken Houdinia piece with echoes of Without Me, beginning with a “Guess who’s back?” well known.

Houdini first extract from The Death of Slim Shady, Coup de Grace, Eminem’s new album which will be released in summer 2024.