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The sped-up versions on TikTok add a cutesy, smoothing effect on the more crass material too, she says. “Most of my friends say that because he raps so fast they don’t even pay attention,” offers Mehima, 19.

Despite characterisations of today’s young people as pearl-clutching snowflakes, the misogyny and homophobia that centred Eminem in any number of early-2000s moral panics barely figure.

It’s hard to ascribe the waning interest to anything beyond the usual generational atrophy. Like, why are you asking me about this old man? (Or, perhaps, why are you asking me about this, old man?) Morgan, 11, says he has heard Eminem on Fortnite, but greets any follow-up questions with disarming bemusement. Karam, 17, recognises him as “one of the greatest rappers in history” but, he adds, a little less charitably: “I think he’s fallen off since 2016, and he’s just pretty old at this point.” He mentions a trend from a few years ago when boys his age would ape Emimen’s blond buzzcut – but, like cheap peroxide, it didn’t last long. “We know that he’s paved the way for artists and is a massive inspo,” says Harvey, 16, “but people don’t really listen to him like that” – as in, by choice – “any more.” While Eminem’s loquacious, sometimes corny, wise-cracking style may be out of step with the more melodic, anthemic gait of modern rap, those chart results suggest a rekindled interest: a new generation of listeners latching on to Mathers’ back catalogue, undeterred by how his outrageous lyrics hold up to contemporary sensibilities. Since it first hit shelves, the album has spent 552 weeks – more than 10 years – lodged in the Official Charts. It’s notched Top 40 spots in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 20, when it was originally released, and Top 100 placements in 2016, 20. While a spot in Dr Dre’s 2022 Super Bowl half-time show, various TikTok bumps, and a Fortnite collab (that other industry beeline to young ears) will have aided Eminem’s 2022 end-of-year standing, Curtain Call has long been a fixture of the annual tallies.

How to listen to drake views from the 6 album