The lead single " My Name Is" contains a sample of Labi Siffre's "I Got The" and features psychedelic-style instrumentals and a funk bassline. Dre's albums and includes sampling of several different songs. Many of the beats has been compared to the G-funk style of Dr.
A lot of the songs on the album were from The Slim Shady EP including "I Just Don't Give a Fuck" and "'97' Bonnie & Clyde" (which is titled "Just the Two of Us" on the EP.) in the first week, " My Name Is" was written, recorded and was released as a single. Dre creating a beat and Eminem free-styling, sometimes Eminem would be under the influence of ecstasy during recording. I'm just a little white boy from Detroit. Dre, he said " I didn't want to be starstruck or kiss his ass too much. Recording for the album began in 1997, at first, Eminem felt nervous working with Dr. Eminem was signed to Aftermath and began working on this album. The rapper created the alter ego, Slim Shady, which was much angrier and violent, which he introduced on The Slim Shady EP.Įminem flew to Los Angeles to be apart of a rap competition named Rap Olympics in which he placed second, a staff of Interscope Records CEO Jimmy Lovine was in the audience and was given a copy of The Slim Shady EP and played it for Aftermath Entertainment founder Dr. Prior to Eminem signing to Aftermath Entertainment, the rapper released his debut album, Infinite, in 1996 to very poor sales. The Slim Shady LP is called a classic rap album around the world. The album won a Grammy for Best Rap Album and was ranked number 273 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album sold 283,000 copies in it's first week, debuted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200 and went on to be certified quadruple-platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The Slim Shady LP was a critical and commercial success, launching Eminem from a underground rapper into a high-profiled celebrity. The majority of the lyrical content on the album is written in the prospective of the rapper's alter ego Slim Shady and is noted for its over-the-top deceptions of violence and heavy use of profanity. Dre, The Bass Brothers, and Eminem himself and was recorded during 19 at Studio 8 in Ferndale, Michigan.
It was released on Februby Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album and the major-label debut by American rapper Eminem. Years later, as the shock has faded, it's those lyrical skills and the subtle mastery of the music that still resonate, and they're what make The Slim Shady LP one of the great debuts in both hip-hop and modern pop music.The cover for the special edition CD/DVD that was included with the special edition of the album. At a time when many rappers were stuck in the stultifying swamp of gangsta clichés, Eminem broke through the hardcore murk by abandoning the genre's familiar themes and flaunting a style with more verbal muscle and imagination than any of his contemporaries. As well they should be - there are few rappers as wildly gifted verbally as Eminem. Dre but also helmed in large doses by Marky and Jeff Bass, along with Marshall himself - mirrors his rhymes, with their spare, intricately layered arrangements enhancing his narratives, which are always at the forefront. Eminem's supreme gifts are an expansive vocabulary and vivid imagination, which he unleashes with wicked humor and unsparing anger in equal measure. There have been more violent songs in rap, but few more disturbing, and it's not because of what it describes, it's how he describes it - how the perfectly modulated phrasing enhances the horror and black humor of his words. Of course, nowhere is this more true than on "97 Bonnie and Clyde," a notorious track where he imagines killing his wife and then disposing of the body with his baby daughter in tow. This was unsettling in 1999, when nobody knew his back-story, and years later, when his personal turmoil is public knowledge, it still can be unsettling, because his words and delivery are that powerful. The Slim Shady LP bristles with this tension, since it's never always clear when Marshall Mathers is joking and when he's dead serious. Then, it wasn't clear to every listener that Eminem was, as they say, an unreliable narrator, somebody who slung satire, lies, uncomfortable truths, and lacerating insights with vigor and venom, blurring the line between reality and parody, all seemingly without effort. Given his subsequent superstardom, culminating in no less than an Academy Award, it may be easy to overlook exactly how demonized Eminem was once his mainstream debut album, The Slim Shady LP, grabbed the attention of pop music upon its release in 1999.
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