This page exists because I'm obsessed with Ken Kaniff from The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP skits. Ken Kaniff is a part of the "Eminemverse"—Eminem's stolen OC that originally belongs to another white rapper called Aristotle. Kenneth Kaniff from Connecticut is a homophobic caricature of a bisexual and pedophilic man who is infatuated with Eminem, whom he harasses over phone calls and fantasizes about. There exists an album called The Ken Kaniff Show where Kaniff disses and sexually harasses Eminem with the shittiest bars—I couldn't get past 14 minutes because of how bad it is.
The "Eminemverse" is a fucked up concept overall because while Slim Shady's fictitiousness is heavily defended, Kim's inclusion in the Eminem canon (in the songs "'97 Bonnie and Clyde" and "Kim") is not. While Bruce the Third had Slim Shady to hide behind and his fans to parrot the same line about art comforting the disturbed, Kim was not given the grace of a fictitious character to keep herself safe from the viscious misogyny of the 2000s. I'm not going to debate who was abusive to who in this decades old shitty gossip tabloid story, and I don't care about what they're up to now, but the matter of fact is the "Eminemverse" teeters over the line of being Real Person Fiction (RPF) and not.
This matters because I have a negative preference for RPF. Arguably, fan fiction of the "Eminemverse" is technically still RPF even if it's just Eminem's (allegedly fictional) OCs. Yet I say, this is true only if you imagine Slim Shady as Bruce the Third the guy from real life. Well I've been imagining them as anime boys. I think I'm fine.
The video above is a Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (+18) sprite skit I made depicting Yugamu Omokage as Ken Kaniff and Eito Aotsuki as Eminem/Marshall/Slim whoever the fuck—the beginning of some kind of HNDR × Eminem parody.
I really can only imagine Ken Kaniff as Yugamu from now on...
The character Slim Shady was this scrawny nerdy kid with a disposable frontal lobe who got bullied school, faced lots of abuse and engaged with lots of violence growing up. Coupling that with the fact that "Slim Shady" is supposedly an alter ego, I decided this assignment to Eito was adequate enough to be funny (forget all other character misalignments such as rape and drug use). This is the second sprite video I made mainly to test out the effects in Kdenlive.
This is it (link). I'm happy that this is the world I live in.
Ken felt pleased with the almost Baroque-era imagery he'd created. Straight from a sculpture by Bernini himself, or one of Goya's "Black Paintings", an angel, defiled and limp on the rug.
How wonderful art is that I'm able to read about white rappers' OCs fucking. This choice of description for the sight of Slim Shady taking a load down his cracked eyesocket had me in tears. This is why you should always create art no matter how stupid or shitty it's going to be.
Get him Ken