"Will the real Slim Shady please stand up..." It's gone full circle now. Eminem is the protégé of Dre, who got his start in NWA selling gangsta rap to white suburban teenagers to the benefit of white music moguls. Now he's using a white rapper to sell the same foul-mouthed dystopia to the same audience, and pocketing the profits himself.

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