Recommended Listening
Eminem isn’t the first artist to adopt various personas or dare us to play dodge ball with fantasy and reality. And he’s not the first to face censure for being so provocative. Here are some of the trailblazers who went before him and made some great music along the way.

Get Album Info!		Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies (1973, Warner Bros.) Alice Cooper wasn’t really a bloodthirsty raper of corpses. He was a character, right? Ah, let’s just forget it and bask in the roaring glam metal of hits like “Elected.”
Get Album Info!		N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton (1988, Ruthless/Priority) Led by Madonna-be Gwen Stefani, the SoCal quartet topped the charts with “Don’t Speak” - an “Under the Bridge” it was okay for your little sister to listen to.
Get Album Info!		Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep (1995, V2) Four rhymers clever enough to know better - the Wu-Tang’s RZA and De La Soul producer Prince Paul among them - get out the machetes, dole out the gore, and create the quickly forgotten “horrorcore” genre.
Get Album Info!		Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar (1996, Nothing) Was the Church of Satan’s most famous member trying to subvert America or just expose its hypocrisy? Whatever it was, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor made it sound like hell was just around the corner.
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