![]() ![]() It’s still the best-selling rap record of all time. What I thought, instead, was: This guy is really fucking good at rapping.Īfter the release of The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem would shatter sales records with 1.7 million copies sold in the first week alone, 6.5 million in the first month, and eventually, over 35 million sold worldwide. As he stormed the theater with about a hundred carbon copies of himself, countless sociopolitical minefields were being set up around me. ![]() I was Eminem’s audience, a teen from Middle America, one of millions. Long before I ever started thinking critically about music, I sat watching Eminem’s VMA performance from my rural Wisconsin couch, a 10th grader with no social media, no cell phone. This was 18 years ago, two or three epochs in music-industry time, back when “Total Request Live” held sway while boy bands and newly crowned pop stars like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera filled the airwaves. ![]() He knew it before many: People like the stuff they recognize. As reality TV gained traction, Eminem’s dressing-down of celebrities endeared him to a generation who would soon find “drama” to be the coin of the entertainment realm. It was an echo-chamber of MTV-watchers, a real-time “Beavis and Butt-Head” for those who would be later be crowned millennials. Specifically, what was on television at that very moment. This workaround allowed them to be imported as a van, thus enjoying a significantly lower tax liability.”The Real Slim Shady” wasn’t rap about what was happening on the streets of Brooklyn or Compton or Atlanta or even Detroit. All of these parts were placed in the cargo area to be installed at the destination country. Like many of these tax-friendly 2-doors, there were no rear seats, no rear carpeting, and the rear windows sliding were blanked over. So, on January 11, 1994, the last two-door Range Rover rolled off the line at Solihull - chassis #KA647644. However, when the Range Rover was redeveloped with the airbag-equipped "soft dash" that debuted in 1994 for the 1995 North American model year, complete with a slightly-reworked bodyshell, it wasn't worth it to rework the 2-door as well. With the warm Mediterranean climate more sympathetic to steel than damp Britain, a good number of 1990s 2-door Rangies still roam Southern Europe. They were particularly popular in France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, where they were sold with lower-power diesel engines and manual transmissions, as well as a lower trim specification. However, it was a different story in other countries, where the 2-door remained successful due to import taxes. In fact, they had been discontinued in the United Kingdom in 1988, except for the 200-truck 1991 CSK edition, a tribute to the Range Rover's designer Charles Spencer "Spen" King. The truck was sold in Portugal, where many of the later 2-door Range Rovers went for tax reasons. ![]()
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