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Eminem‘s iconic “The Real Slim Shady” music video has joined YouTube’s Billion Views Club, a full 14 years after it was uploaded to the site and nearly a quarter-century after the 2000 smash first dropped.
As the Detroit rapper’s visuals often do, “Real Slim Shady” takes viewers on a wild journey.
Released in 2000 as part of The Marshall Mathers LP, “The Real Slim Shady” reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The track isn’t the first to earn Eminem a billion plays on YouTube, as his videos for “Without Me,” “Mockingbird,” “Rap God” and “Lose Yourself” also all boast 10-digit view counts on the platform.
Nearly 25 years after the release of “The Real Slim Shady,” Eminem revisited his Y2K greatness on July’s Billboard 200-topper The Death of Slim Shady.
Lead single “Houdini” also found the hip-hop titan channeling his mid-20s self in a nostalgia-filled music video, for which Eminem used AI to resurrect his younger self.
HipHopDX. (n.d.). Eminem scores sixth music video with over 1 billion views on YouTube. https://hiphopdx.com/news/eminem-sixth-music-video-1-billion-views-youtube