вЂњRadio wonвЂ™t even play my jam,вЂќ Eminem bitched, at a moment when radio played little else. But a huge part of the albumвЂ™s success was EminemвЂ™s eagerness to play the underdog victim. This was the height of the CD era, the final boom time before internet piracy would plunge the record business into the dark ages, and everyone could tell that The Marshall Mathers LP was an immediate blockbuster. TheyвЂ™d probably sent him a bottle of champagne. Tower Records had definitely not told Steve Berman to shove the record up his ass. When IвЂ™d walked into Tower that morning, the store had a giant display of nothing but The Marshall Mathers LP - hundreds of copies of it. I had to sit with this thing on my Walkman. I couldnвЂ™t even walk around with the album. I donвЂ™t remember what else IвЂ™d planned to do that day, but once I heard вЂњStan,вЂќ all that was over. I had the day off work, so I took the subway to the Tower Records in Soho and bought the tape.

The Marshall Mathers LP had come out that day. вЂњSteve BermanвЂќ had showed up on The Marshall Mathers LP a few tracks after вЂњStan,вЂќ EminemвЂ™s breathless and riveting narrative about an obsessed and ultimately murderous fan. I was sitting on a bus-stop bench somewhere in Lower Manhattan, head spinning, trying to process everything IвЂ™d just heard. When I first heard that line about Tower Records, it didnвЂ™t quite take. Before long, The Marshall Mathers LP had become the best-selling rap album of all time, a title that it still holds today. Dre protege Snoop Dogg, rapвЂ™s previous first-week sales champ, had managed with 1993вЂ™s Doggystyle. The Marshall Mathers LP sold nearly 2 million copies in its first week - more than twice as much as the Marshall Mathers LP guest and previous Dr. To listen to it is to feel bad, even when youвЂ™re thrilled. The Marshall Mathers LP is 77 straight minutes of death threats, virulent homophobia, ainвЂ™t-I-a-stinker edgelord gags, language-drunk wordplay, and psycho-sexual rage-venting. Steve Berman, of course, did sell this shit. I canвЂ™t sell this shit!вЂќ (I donвЂ™t remember any lyrics about big-screen TVs or 40s on DreвЂ™s 2001, but nevermind.) YouвЂ™re rapping about homosexuals and Vicodin. вЂњHeвЂ™s rapping about big-screen TVs, blunts, 40s, and bitches. вЂњDo you know why DreвЂ™s record was so successful?,вЂќ Berman asks. In that skit, EminemвЂ™s visiting his labelвЂ™s corporate offices, and Berman is telling him everything thatвЂ™s wrong with the new album that heвЂ™s just delivered. Do you know how it feels to be told to shove a record up your ass?вЂќ ThatвЂ™s Steve Berman, real-life circa-2000 president of sales at Interscope, talking to Eminem on вЂњSteve Berman,вЂќ one of the skits from The Marshall Mathers LP. вЂњTower Records told me to shove this record up my ass.

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