Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP (CD)

Dropped in May 2000, *The Marshall Mathers LP* arrived like a grenade thrown at the music industry, moving nearly two million copies in its first week and becoming one of the fastest-selling rap albums in history. Eminem's second major-label release found him sharpening his alter egos into something genuinely unsettling, blurring the line between provocation and confession in ways that made critics and censors equally uncomfortable.