7. Sing For The Moment
The one where Eminem goes a bit RUN DMC. He earns kudos points for sampling Aerosmith while simultaneously enlisting the real Joe Perry to add guitar to the track. This isn't Eminem's first foray into rap-rock, but it's definitely his best. The song addresses deeper social concerns than some other areas of Slim Shady's catalogue, arguing that music is a reflection of self and not something that can incite kids to commit violence by imitating the tales that rappers spin-rather, that monster lurks within. While the Slim Shady persona did become reasonably two-dimensional, Marshall Bruce Mathers III is a deeper proposition, and his eloquent riposte to critics who were demonising at this time was a lot better thought out than the charges themselves.