C! True Hollywood Stories is the third studio album by the rapper Canibus

Canibus

Germaine Williams , better known by his stage name Canibus, is a Jamaican-born American rapper. He is a part of supergroup The HRSMN. Canibus rose to fame in the mid-nineties...

, released through Archives Music on November 6, 2001. The album is Canibus' first release on an independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 (his first two albums, Can-I-Bus and 2000 B.C.

2000 B.C. (album)

2000 B.C. is the second studio album by rapper Canibus, released on July 18, 2000 through Universal Records.Considered to have been a significant improvement over his debut album, Can-I-Bus, 2000 B.C. featured multiple record producers and greater differentiation...

, were released on Universal Records

Universal Records

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). The album was named after the television show E! True Hollywood Story

E! True Hollywood Story

E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and well-known public figures...

.

Beef with Eminem

Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...

The album has various skits referring to Stan, which at this time in Canibus' career, was beefing with Eminem. The track "Stan Lives!" is a skit that begins seconds before Stan drives off the bridge in Eminem's "Stan

Stan (song)

"Stan" is the third single from The Marshall Mathers LP, by rapper Eminem featuring Dido. It peaked at number one in the United Kingdom and Australia. It is also included on Curtain Call: The Hits, performed with Eminem and Dido as well track 17 on Curtain Call: The Hits as a live Performance from...

". "U Didn't Care" is a song from Stan's point of view.

Eminem's responses were somewhat subliminal on his next release, The Eminem Show

The Eminem Show

The Eminem Show is the fourth studio album by the American rapper Eminem, released in 2002. It was the best-selling album of 2002 in the United States, with sales of 7.6 million copies. At the Grammy Awards of 2003 it was nominated for Album of the Year and became Eminem's third LP in four years to...

. Near the end of "Square Dance", Eminem says

"Can-I-Bitch won't square dance with me."

Eminem also uses an altered "Round the Outside" rhyme on the "Without Me

Without Me

"Without Me" is a rap song by American rapper Eminem. It was released as the lead single from his fourth studio album titled The Eminem Show in 2002, and re-released on his greatest-hits compilation album Curtain Call: The Hits in 2005....

" :

"Two trailer park girls go 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside."

Canibus used a similar line on "Box Cutta' Blade Runna" :

"Canibus is coming for ya’ll 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside."

Eminem made a song and released a mixtape called Can-I-Bitch

In 2003, an unrelated internet mixtape entitled The 'E' True Hollywood Mixtape by Eminem, was released. It was an unofficial mixtape

Track listing

1. "Introduction"
2. "Stan Lives!" (skit)
3. "U Didn't Care"
4. "The Rip Off"
5. "C True Hollywood Stories"
6. "A Different Vibe in L.A."
7. "I Gotta Story 2 Tell"
8. "Stan 'n Can" (skit)
9. "Hate U 2" (featuring Pakman)
10. "Stop Smokin'"
11. "Lemmie Hear Sumthin' Else" (featuring Pakman)
12. "Hott Tonight"
13. "Gotta Get That Doe!" (featuring Pakman)
14. "R U Lyrically Fit?" (featuring Luminati)
15. "Ya Teef Iz Yellow" (featuring Pakman) (Skit)
16. "Luv U 2" (featuring Pakman)
17. "Box Cutta' Blade Runna"
18. "Draft Me!" (featuring C-4)
19. "One of My Favorites" (skit)
20. "C.T.H.S." (outro)
21. Bonus track

Charts

Charts	Peak position
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U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...	71