Eminem has spent a good portion of this year and last celebrating the 20-year anniversaries of The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP, which came out in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Em has commemorated the albums by sharing remastered videos, releasing expanded editions, dropping new merch, and more. Eminem fans know that 2020 is also the anniversary of another seminal work from the rapper: A few days ago marked the tenth anniversary of Eminem’s 2020 album Recovery.
On June 18, the exact date of the album’s decade milestone, Em shared a 30-second teaser video that showed off famous highlights from the album (“Not Afraid,” “Love The Way You Lie,” etc.), but didn’t offer much info beyond noting, “more coming Monday!” Well, Monday has come and gone, and last night, Eminem revealed his plan: He has released a run of anniversary merch, which is only available for an extremely limited time.
#NotAfraid #Recovery10 Hit the store for limited 24-hr 10th anniversary merch – https://t.co/NXTYVvVM5a pic.twitter.com/HCICessshA
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) June 22, 2020
The merch went up for sale at 6 p.m. ET last night, and will only be available until 6 p.m. ET today. Available are two different long-sleeve t-shirts: A white one themed after “Not Afraid” and a black one with Recovery imagery, Both of them have Eminem’s name running the length of the right sleeve.
Read our recent look back at Recovery here.
Before this past weekend’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Trump administration boasted that they had received over one million tickets to attend the event. Yet only 6,200 people flocked into the BOK Center, which, for reference’s sake, singer Pink thinks she “sold that same place out in five minutes.” What happened? The K-pop stans happened. Music’s most passionate fanbase, as well as thousands of TikTok users, “claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Mr. Donald Trump’s campaign rally as a prank,” according to the New York Times. We thank you for service.
The prank was heralded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who tweeted, “You just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/ fake ticket reservations & tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID,” as well as Stephen Colbert. The Late Show host dedicated a portion of Monday’s episode to the rally (“Doesn’t say great things when there are fewer people in your crowd than have credibly accused you of sexual assault”), including a message for the BTS and Blackpink listeners out there. “I just want to say to K-pop fans, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart,” he said.
Watch the clip above.
Who would’ve thought a toilet could look that clean after months of scum buildup?
