oici le classement des meilleurs couplets d’Eminem effectué en 2014 (donc sans prendre en compte Kamikaze et Revival) par le magazine XXL.
50. “What’s The Difference” – Couplet 3
Album: The Chronic 2001 (1999)
Meilleure ligne: “So what’s the difference between us? We can start at the penis/Or we can stream, ‘I just don’t give a fuck,’ and see who means it?”
49. “Roman’s Revenge” – Couplet 2
Album: Pink Friday (2010)
Meilleure ligne: “Set up the camera and pissed twice on her/Look, two pees and a tripod!”
48. “Remember Me?” – Couplet 3
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “Sick, sick dreams of picnic scenes/Two kids, sixteen with M-16s and 10 clips each/And them shits reach through six kids each”
47. “Love The Way You Lie” – Couplet 3
Album: Recovery (2010)
Meilleure ligne: “Maybe that’s what happens when a tornado meets a volcano/All I know is I love you too much to walk away though”
46. “Sing For The Moment” – Couplet 3
Album: The Eminem Show (2002)
Meilleure ligne: “Music is reflective of self, we just explain it/And then we get checks in the mail, it’s fucked up, ain’t it?”
45. “Bitch Please II” – Couplet 4
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “Gimme the mic, let me recite ‘til Timothy White/Pickets outside the Interscope offices every night”
44. “Hard Act To Follow” – Couplet 5
Album: Outsidaz Unreleased Demo
Meilleure ligne: “It ain’t a riddle/After you flat line in the hospital/While I’m in the middle row at your funeral wake/Fucking your widow”
43. “Drug Ballad” – Couplet 1
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “You have the right to remain violent and start wilin’/Start a fight with the same guy that was smart eyein’ you/Get in your car, start it, and start drivin’/Over the island and cause a 42 car pile-up”
42. “White America” – Couplet 1
Album: The Eminem Show (2002)
Meilleure ligne: “Who woulda thought, standing in this mirror bleaching my hair/With some peroxide, reaching for a t-shirt to wear/That I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this?”
41. “American Psycho” – Couplet 1
Album: Devil’s Night (2001)
Meilleure ligne: “Each thought’s completely warped / I’m like a walking, talking Ouija board”
40. “Low Down, Dirty” – Couplet 1
Album: Slim Shady EP (1997)
Meilleure ligne: “Smoke a blunt while I’m titty fucking Bette Midler/Sniper, waiting on your roof like the Fiddler/Y’all thought I was gonna rhyme with Riddler, didn’t ya?”
39. “Superman” – Couplet 3
Album: The Eminem Show (2002)
Meilleure ligne: “Ooh yeah, girl run that game,(Hailie Jade, I love that name)/Love that tattoo, what’s that say? (‘Rot in Pieces,’ uh, that’s great)”
38. “Brain Damage” – Couplet 2
Album: The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Meilleure ligne: “Grabbed some sharp objects, brooms and foreign tools/This is for every time you took my orange juice.”
37. “We All Die One Day” – Couplet 3
Album: Cheers (2003)
Meilleure ligne: “We are not killers, my vato will have you shot, though/Dragged through the barrio and fucked like Kim Osorio’s/Little sorry ho ass, go ask B-Real/We burn Source covers like fucking Cypress Hill”
36. “Cold Wind Blows” – Couplet 3
Album: Recovery (2010)
Meilleure ligne: “But I swear, you try to diss me, I’ll slaughter you/I put that on everything, like everyone does with auto-tune.”
35. “Soldier” – Couplet 1
Album: The Eminem Show (2002)
Meilleure ligne: “When you’re me, people just want to see/If it’s true, if it’s you, what you say in your rap’s, what you do”
34. “When I’m Gone” – Couplet 3
Album: Curtain Call: The Hits (2005)
Meilleure ligne: “‘Now go up there and show ‘em that you love ‘em more than us’/That’s what they want, they want you Marshall/They keep screamin’ your name/It’s no wonder you can’t go to sleep, just take another pill/Yeah, I bet you you will”
33. “Bad Meets Evil” – Couplet 2
Album: The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Meilleure ligne: “I don’t speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet/I’m not a real person, I’m a ghost trapped in a beat/I translate when my voice is read through a seismograph”
32. “My Dad Gone Crazy” – Couplet 2
Album: The Eminem Show (2002)
Meilleure ligne: “I’d rather be a pussy-whipped bitch, eat pussy/And have pussy lips glued to my face with a clit ring/ In my nose then quit bringing my flows”
31. “Go To Sleep” – Couplet 1
Album: Cradle 2 The Grave Soundtrack (2003)
Meilleure ligne: “We never met, but best believe you gon’ know me/When I’m this close, to see you exposed as phony”
30. “Without Me” – Couplet 3
Album: The Eminem Show (2002)
Meilleure ligne: “I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley/To do black music so selfishly.”
29. “We Ain’t” – Couplet 2
Album: The Documentary (2005)
Meilleure ligne: “You’ll end up in the same situation, same shit / Different day, just with different gangstas in your face”
28. “Marshall Mathers” – Couplet 1
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “Double barrel 12-gauge bigger than Chris Wallace/Pissed off cause Biggie and Pac just missed all this/Watching all these cheap imitations get rich off them/And get dollars that should’ve been theirs like they switched wallets”
27. “Fight Music” – Couplet 6
Album: Devil’s Night (2001)
Meilleure ligne: “If I could capture the rage of today’s youth and bottle it/Crush the glass from my bare hands and swallow it”
26. “The Real Slim Shady” – Couplet 2
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “I’m sick of you little girl and boy groups, all you do is annoy me/So I have been sent here to destroy you”
25. “Rabbit Run”
Album: 8 Mile Soundtrack (2002)
Meilleure ligne: “If I gotta scream ‘til I have half a lung/If I had half a chance I’d grab it – Rabbit, run”
24. “Infinite” – Couplet 2
Album: Infinite (1996)
Meilleure ligne: “There’s never been a greater since the burial of Jesus / Fuck around and catch all the venereal diseases /
23. “Forever” – Couplet 4
Album: More Than A Game Soundtrack (2009)
Meilleure ligne: “I’m Hannibal Lecter, so just in case you’re thinking of saving face/You ain’t gonna have no face to save by the time I’m through with this place”
22. “Under The Influence” – Couplet 1
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “So when you find yourself wrapped up in the blinds, hurtin’/cause once you’re hung from the drapes, it’s curtains.”
21. “Dead Wrong” – Couplet 3
Album: Born Again (1999)
Meilleure ligne: “I got a lion in my pocket, I’m lying/I got a nine in my pocket, and baby I’m just dying to cok him/He’s ready for war, I’m ready for war/I got machetes and swords for any faggot that said he was raw”
20. “Purple Pills” – Couplet 1
Album: Devil’s Night (2001)
Meilleure ligne: “These shrooms make me hallucinate / Then I sweat until I start losing weight / Until I see dumb shit start happening / Dumber than Vanilla Ice trying to rap again”
19. “Guilty Conscience” – Couplet 2
Album: The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Meilleure ligne: “(Man, ain’t you ever seen that one movie Kids?)/ No but I seen the porno with Sun Doobiest!”
18. “Like Toy Soldiers” – Couplet 2
Album: Encore (2004)
Meilleure ligne: “But now it’s elevated, ’cause once you put someone’s kids in it / The shit gets escalated, it ain’t just words no more is it?”
17. “Criminal” – Couplet 2
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “Slim Shady, I’m as crazy as Eminem and Kim combined, “the maniac’s in”
16. “Role Model” – Couplet 1
Album: The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Meilleure ligne: “But I don’t get pissed/Y’all don’t even see through the mist/How the fuck can I be white?/I don’t even exist”
15. “Kim” – Couplet 3
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “I should’ve known better when you started to act weird/We coulda.. hey, where you going? Get back here”
14. “Cleaning Out My Closet” – Couplet 3
Album: The Eminem Show (2002)
Meilleure ligne: “My whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn’t/’Til I grew up, now I blew up, it makes you sick to ya stomach.”
13. “My Name Is” – Couplet 3
Album: The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Meilleure ligne: “Well, since age twelve I felt like I’m someone else/Cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt”
12. “Deja Vu”
Album: Relapse (2009)
Meilleure ligne: “Wouldn’t even be taking this shit if DeShaun didn’t die / Oh yeah, there’s an excuse, you lose Proof so you use”
11. “Who Knew” – Couplet 1
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “I don’t do black music, I don’t do White music/I make fight music, for high school kids”
10. “Rap God” – Couplet 3
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)
Meilleure ligne: “Never fading, and I know the haters are forever waiting/For the day that they can say I fell off, they’d be celebrating”
9. “Insane” – Couplet 1
Album: Relapse (2009)
Meilleure ligne: “I was born with a dick in my brain, yeah fucked in the head.”
8. “Rock Bottom” – Couplet 2
Album: The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Meilleure ligne: “My life is full of empty promises and broken dreams/I’m hopin’ things look up, but there ain’t no job openings.”
7. “Patiently Waiting” – Couplet 2
Album: Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ (2003)
Meilleure ligne: “Take some Big and some Pac and you mix em up in a pot/Sprinkle a little Big L on top, what the fuck do you got?/You got the realest and illest killers tied up in a knot/The juggernauts of this rap shit, like it or not”
6. “Forgot About Dre” – Couplet 2
Album: The Chronic 2001 (1999)
Meilleure ligne: “Slim Shady, hotter then a set of twin babies/In a Mercedes Benz with the windows up/When the temp goes up to the mid-80s”
5. “The Way I Am” – Couplet 2
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me/So I point one back at ‘em, but not the index or pinkie”
4. “Lose Yourself” – Couplet 1
Album: 8 Mile Soundtrack (2002)
Meilleure ligne: “His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy/There’s vomit on his sweater already: mom’s spaghetti”
3. “Just Don’t Give A Fuck” – Couplet 2
Album: The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Meilleure ligne: “I’m Nicer than Pete but I’m on a Serch to crush a Miilkbone/I’m Everlast-ing, I melt Vanilla Ice like silicone”
2. “Renegade” – Couplet 4
Album: The Blueprint
Meilleure ligne: “See I’m a poet to some, a regular modern-day Shakespeare/Jesus Christ, the King of these Latter-Day Saints here”
1. “Stan” – Couplet 4
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Meilleure ligne: “I hope you get to read this letter, I just hope it reaches you in time/Before you hurt yourself, I think that you’ll be doing just fine”