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Eminem vs. The Music Media
Billboard editor in chief Timothy White laid into the Missouri-born rapper in a March 6, 1999 column, slamming his previous album as misogynistic and degrading. Eminem joyfully responds to such attacks on the new CD: ''Want me to tone it down? Suck my f---ing d--k....'' White declined to comment on the new album. Meanwhile, Eminem is also waging war against hip-hop magazine XXL, which printed a 1999 article accusing the white rapper of being a ''culture stealer.'' On his new album, Eminem says he bought a copy of XXL ''with a food stamp.''

Eminem vs. His Mom
An oldie but a goodie: In September of last year, Eminem's mother, Debbie Mathers-Briggs, filed a $10 million character defamation lawsuit against her son. In the complaint, she disputes statements Eminem has given to several magazines that characterize her as a moody drug user and the family as ''the epitome of white trash.'' Mathers-Briggs' attorney, Fred Gibson, says the artist made the statements to build a ''bad boy'' image and his client ''hasn't used drugs, other than prescription.'' Eminem's lawyer did not return calls.

Eminem vs. Pop Music
The rapper drops more names than Liz Smith, but has nary a kind word. We've reported on his distaste for Christina Aguilera. (Not only did he have her mock-lynched at his album release party, but he alleges in one song that she performed lewd acts on Carson Daly and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst; Aguilera called the lyrics ''disgusting'' and ''not true.'') Eminem also calls Britney Spears ''garbage,'' asks if she's ''retarded,'' voices his ''instincts to kill 'N Sync,'' and includes a parody of Detroit-area rivals Insane Clown Posse performing oral sex on a man. (No response from 'N Sync or the Posse; Spears' publicist says she's laughed off Eminem in the past.) But Em reserves special spite for early-'90s white rap sensation Vanilla Ice, who he feels gave a bad name to hip-hop Anglos. Ice raps a response to EW: ''Eminem, you need to be grateful to me and [Eminem's mentor and producer] Dre because we paved your way, fool/I'll eat Eminems like snacks for candy/and I'll send your ass home to Detroit in panties.'' Ouch.

Eminem vs. Women
''Offensiveness is not the issue — I think it's actually dangerous to girls and women,'' says Kim Gandy, executive VP of NOW, referring to songs in which Eminem raps about viciously murdering his lover (Sample lyric: ''Now bleed bitch, bleed.'') Gandy says the rapper's core following of teenage boys ''are at a very impressionable age.'' Eminem's response is in his lyrics: ''Ha ha ha, I'm just playin' ladies, you know I love you.'' That oughta make 'em feel a whole lot better.