“Paul” (Skit) (performed by Paul Rosenberg) “Public Service Announcement” (Skit) (performed by Jeff Bass & Eminem) Well, I do, so fuck him and fuck you too! -Eminem, ‘The Real Slim Shady’ lyrics Track listing – Eminem: The Slim Shady LP No. Will Smith don’t gotta cuss in his raps to sell records (Nope) Marshall did not appreciate him berating him and the whole genre of music so dear to him, so he replied in his own way, the best he knows how, through the The Real Slim Shady lyrics: Will Smith, 1999 MTV Video Music Awards Best Male Video acceptance speech I never used no profanity in none of my records and I still managed to get up here. I never killed anybody in none of my records. After Smith’s “Miami” won over Eminem’s “My Name Is” for Best Male Video, Smith said: Fun storyĮminem was upset about Will Smith’s speech at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. Although many of the lyrics on the album are considered to be satirical, Eminem also depicts his frustrations of living in poverty. The Slim Shady LP contains cartoonish depictions of violence and heavy use of profanity, which Eminem described as horror film-esque, in that it is solely for entertainment purpose and not to be taken seriously. I can’t rap anymore, I just murdered the alphabet” - Eminem, ‘Still Don’t Give a Fuck’ lyricsįeaturing West Coast hip hop, G-funk and horrorcore musical styles, the majority of The Slim Shady LP’s lyrical content is written from the perspective of Eminem’s alter ego, Slim Shady, whom he created on the Slim Shady EP (1997) and has been known for ever since. Now, how in the fuck am I supposed to get out of debt? Spent a million a track and went over my budget (Oh shit) I wanted an album so rugged nobody could touch it The album was recorded in Ferndale, Michigan, following Eminem’s recruitment by Dr. It was released on February 23, 1999, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. 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 Slim Shady LP ( SSLP) is the second studio album by Eminem. 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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