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On May 23, 2000, Eminem released the last great album of the twentieth century. His previous two albums had proved him to be a clever and foulmouthed rapper, but "The Marshall Mathers LP" was his masterpiece, condensing a few years of American culture into seventy-two minutes of tasteless jokes about Bill Clinton and "South Park," Jennifer Lopez and Christopher Reeve, Gianni Versace's murder and the Columbine massacre. There was a series of jabs at Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Will Smith, and *NSYNC, which was Eminem's way of acknowledging that they all inhabited the exuberant universe of "Total Request Live," the MTV program that screened their music videos back ...