I also like some of the early rhymes here, like Well, Eminem has found his voice now and it's a voice that others are going to be influenced by. "And if you hear a man that sounds like me smack him, and ask him where the *** did he get his damn raps from." says Eminem in the chorus. Remember how everyone was dismissing Infinite because it sounded like Nas or AZ? Well Eminem is fed up with that - even if it was true. I loved My Name Is back in the day, but Low Down and Dirty introduces us to a twisted man, without the poppy references to the Spice Girls. This album starts off with a true introduction to the Slim Shady persona. And that's what made songs like 'If I Had' so powerful. I didn't predict a huge producer coming across this and making Em his new project, so for a while this album was the diamond that I thought was doomed to remain in the dirt. I thought this stuff was too far out and that the world really wasn't ready for a guy like Eminem on the hip hop scene. Of course, I'd like to say that when I heard this in '97, I said to myself, "oh, yeah, Eminem will be HUGE, I can tell from his wicked rhymes here!" I didn't think that I thought he wouldn't make it and that it would be a tragedy. Why would I review this album instead of The Slim Shady LP, which had better production, more songs, and much more media attention? Because this album has sentimental value, because this was where I first heard Eminem. It's where he stopped trying to sound like other rappers and decided to blaze a new trail. The rest is history.Review Summary: Relentlessly dirty in a fresh style, this EP is where Eminem first developed the infamous Slim Shady persona. If you can kick it, I'm working with you," Dre recalled the moment. Jimmy Iovine, the CEO of Interscope, was mesmerized by the record and passed it to Dr.
Dean Geistlinger, a then-intern kid at Interscope Records at that time, was impressed by the sharp skill of the Detroit emcee, so he asked Em for a copy of his 1997's Slim Shady EP. 15Įminem lost the final round of the 1997 Rap Olympics to an underground rapper, Otherwize. Let's celebrate the sick mind of Slim Shady by bumping to the record and reading these 15 facts about The Slim Shady LP.
Dre.Įminem, then, spent the next couple of years of untouchable back-to-back classic albums run with The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2020). He didn't hold back to poke fun of pop stars, politicians, and even his very own mentor, Dr. When almost every rapper in the industry had to sound gangsta to sell records, Eminem, instead, boasted on self-loathe, weirdness, and jaw-droppingly perverse rhymes. The Slim Shady LP debuted the second on the Billboard 200 chart and remained on the table for over 100 weeks.Įminem was never a gangsta rapper in the first place. Singles like My Name Is, Role Model, and Guilty Conscience helped to propel the album to where it is now. Dre and Detroit-based Bass Brothers to produce the " made-up tales of trailer-park stuff" album. Eminem linked up with legendary producer Dr.
On February 23, 21 years ago, the world entered the dark, morbid, cartoon-ish world of Slim Shady with the release of The Slim Shady LP.
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